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A couple of posts I made suggesting Nevis and Tiree got me thinking about Scottish place names as given names. There's already many well used, particularly island names like Iona, Isla and Skye, but I started thinking of others that are either less well known, or completely unused as names. So wdyt of these? Do you like any? Are any actually usable?

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I've starred the ones I like, but there's only a couple that I personally would consider using.

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Female:

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Tiree
Kerrera
Jura*
Alva
Lorne (this has gained some popularity in Scotland but at far as I know, not really elsewhere)
Shuna*
Doune*
Sanna
Sanda
Morven / Morvern

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Male:

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Lanark* (I actually really like this one, its the name of the title character in a well known surreal Scottish novel)
Oban*
Carrick
Harris
Nairn
Arran*
Girvan
Annan
Leven
Lomond (like Raymond?)
Ruthven
Loudon
Crinan
Duart*
Leith* (I would actually consider this as a middle name)
Lothian
Struan (STROO-an. I've known a couple, but it's little known elsewhere)

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?

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Nevis* (Nelly Furtado's daughter is called this, but as a variant of Nieves and hence pronounced neevis)
Melrose* (I think I prefer it on a boy, but on the other hand the rose seems to make it feminine. I had a male teddy bear called Melrose, but that's where he was from lol, it wasn't a great flash of creativity on my part)

This message was edited 3/23/2008, 8:48 AM