Message: "Names from the Hebrides"

Names from the Hebrides

by Pie

12/16/2014, 6:27 AM

Came across a list of school pupils from the 60s and 70s, from a school in the Hebrides:

Flora
Cathleen
Jean
Dolina
Elsa
Euna
Anne
Mairi
Morag
Kirsty
Rae
Murdina
Rhona
Isobel
Mairead
Donalda
Jessie
Catherine
Helen
Celia
Gina
Katie
Mary

Iain
Ewen
Angus
Hector
Alick
Gordon
Robert
Ruairidh
Norman
Graham
Finlay
Roddy
Alan
Kenneth
Duncan
Donald
Christopher
Archie
Lachie
Neil
Calum
Alastair & Alasdair

Likes? Dislikes?

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- VeKalvin (guest)

12/18/2014, 11:28 AM

Was quite common to add Ina onto the fathers name

Some others I can think of
Jamesina
Thomasina
Johnina
Alexandrina
Robertina
Hughina
Ronaldina
Erenestina
Adamina
Duncanina
Andrewina
Albertina
Williamina

Get the drift?

- Julia (JuliaF)

12/16/2014, 6:18 PM

Alick is a really unattractive spelling of Alec. Is it Scottish or were his parents early tryndees?

I like Anne, Catherine, Mairead, Mary, Graham, and Calum (though I much prefer Callum). Morag is one of the ugliest names I can think of. More rag. Yuck.

- Tassiegirl +1

12/16/2014, 12:08 PM

Dolina!! My father had a sister named Dolina.My aunt, she would have been, but she died as a child, before my father was born. I'd NEVER seen it before.

This girl was always called Dolly, and I'd assumed it was a nick name for Dorothy, but no.
Thanks for posting this.

I see my own name, Jean , is there also.

- Pie

12/16/2014, 4:45 PM

I'd never seen it before either and assumed it was a one-off, but now you've said that I've just had a look on ancestry, and it was a fairly well-used name in Scotland. Some more info here: http://www.behindthename.com/submit/name/dolina

- New_Chloe +4

12/16/2014, 8:21 AM

Murdina

Oh my god I think I might start playing the Sims again JUST to use that name. Amazing.

- Puck (BBH)

12/17/2014, 6:36 AM

She's never slight, that Murdina..

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- Pie +2

12/16/2014, 4:48 PM

Hee. I love the odder Scottish feminisations. I saw an Angusina while searching something else recently.

- New_Chloe +1

12/16/2014, 8:59 PM

There was a Hectorina on a documentary I was watching the other day! That's a fun one too.

- Pie

12/17/2014, 4:38 PM

Ahhh NEW FAVE. Awesome.

- Mireio (Anna21)

12/16/2014, 6:46 AM

I like...

Flora
Jean
Elsa
Mairi
Morag
Isobel
Catherine
Helen
Celia
Mary

Ewen - prefer Ewan or Euan
Angus
Hector
Alick - prefer Alec
Robert
Kenneth
Duncan
Christopher
Lachie - as a nn for Lachlan
Neil
Alastair

The only one I really dislike is Murdina, which I'm guessing is a feminine form of Murdo.

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