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Scottish Masculine Names

The names listed here are used in Scotland. See also about Scottish names.

AIDAN   m   Irish, Scottish, English (Modern)
Anglicized form of AODHÁN... [more]

AILPEIN   m   Scottish
Scottish Gaelic form of ALPIN

AINDREA   m   Scottish
Scottish form of ANDREW

AINSLEY   f & m   Scottish, English (Modern)
From a surname which was from a place name: either Annesley in Nottinghamshire or Ansley in Warwickshire... [more]

ALAN   m   English, Scottish, Breton
The meaning of this name is not known for certain... [more]

ALASDAIR   m   Scottish
Scottish form of ALEXANDER

ALASTAIR   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of ALASDAIR

ALISTAIR   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of ALASDAIR

ALISTER   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of ALASDAIR

ALLAN   m   English, Scottish
Variant of ALAN... [more]

ALLEN   m   English, Scottish
Variant of ALAN... [more]

ALPIN   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Ailpein, possibly derived from a Pictish word meaning "white"... [more]

AMHLAIDH   m   Scottish
Scottish form of OLAF

ANGUS   m   Scottish, Irish, English
Anglicized form of AONGHUS

AODH   m   Irish, Scottish, Irish Mythology
From the old Irish name Áed, which meant "fire"... [more]

AODHÁN   m   Irish, Scottish, Irish Mythology
From the old Irish name Áedán, a diminutive of Áed (see AODH)... [more]

AONGHAS   m   Scottish
Scottish variant of AONGHUS

AONGHUS   m   Irish, Scottish, Irish Mythology
Possibly meaning "one strength" derived from Irish óen "one" and gus "force, strength, energy"... [more]

ARCHIBALD   m   Scottish, English
Derived from the Germanic elements ercan "genuine" and bald "bold"... [more]

ARCHIE   m   Scottish, English
Diminutive of ARCHIBALD... [more]

ARRAN   m   Scottish
From the name of an island off the west coast of Scotland in the Firth of Clyde.

ARTAIR   m   Scottish
Scottish form of ARTHUR

ATHOL   m & f   Scottish
From the name of a district in Scotland which was derived from Gaelic ath Fodhla "new Ireland".

AULAY   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of AMHLAIDH

BARCLAY   m   Scottish, English (Rare)
From a Scottish surname which was likely derived from the English place name Berkeley, meaning "birch wood" in Old English.

BEATHAN   m   Scottish
Derived from Scottish Gaelic beatha meaning "life".

BHALTAIR   m   Scottish
Scottish form of WALTER

BHÀTAIR   m   Scottish
Scottish form of WALTER

BLAIR   m & f   Scottish, English
From a Scottish surname meaning "plain, battlefield" in Gaelic.

BOYD   m   Scottish
From a surname which was derived either from Gaelic buidhe "blond" or else from the name of the island of Bute.

BRUCE   m   Scottish, English
From a Scottish surname, of Norman origin, which probably originally referred to the town of Brix in France... [more]

CAILEAN   m   Scottish
Means "whelp" in Gaelic... [more]

CAIRBRE   m   Irish, Scottish
Means "charioteer" in Gaelic.

CALLUM   m   Scottish
Variant of CALUM

CALUM   m   Scottish
Scottish form of COLUMBA

CAMERON   m & f   Scottish, English
From a Scottish surname meaning "crooked nose" from Gaelic cam "crooked" and sròn "nose".

CAMPBELL   m   Scottish
From a Scottish surname meaning "crooked mouth" from Gaelic cam "crooked" and béul "mouth".

CARBREY   m   Irish, Scottish
Anglicized form of CAIRBRE

CARBRY   m   Irish, Scottish
Anglicized form of CAIRBRE

CARSON   m & f   Scottish, Irish, English
From a Gaelic surname of unknown meaning... [more]

CHRISTIE (2)   m   Scottish, Irish
Scottish and Irish diminutive of CHRISTOPHER

CHRISTY (2)   m   Scottish, Irish
Scottish and Irish diminutive of CHRISTOPHER

CINÁED   m   Scottish, Irish
Means "born of fire" in Gaelic... [more]

COINNEACH   m   Scottish
Derived from Gaelic caoin "handsome"... [more]

COLIN (1)   m   Scottish, English
Anglicized form of CAILEAN

CONALL   m   Irish, Scottish, Irish Mythology
Means "strong wolf" in Gaelic... [more]

CORMAG   m   Scottish
Scottish form of CORMAC

CRAIG   m   Scottish, English
From a Scottish surname which was derived from Gaelic creag meaning "crag" or "rocks"... [more]

DÀIBHIDH   m   Scottish
Scottish form of DAVID

DAIVIDH   m   Scottish (Rare)
Gaelic variant of DAVID

DAND   m   Scottish
Scottish diminutive of ANDREW

DEÒRSA   m   Scottish
Scottish form of GEORGE

DERMID   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of DIARMAD

DIARMAD   m   Scottish
Scottish form of DIARMAID

DOMHNALL   m   Scottish, Irish
Gaelic form of DONALD

DOMNALL   m   Scottish, Irish
Gaelic form of DONALD

DONALD   m   Scottish, English
From the Gaelic name Domhnall which means "ruler of the world", composed of the old Celtic elements dumno "world" and val "rule"... [more]

DONNCHAD   m   Scottish, Irish
Older Gaelic form of DUNCAN

DONNCHADH   m   Scottish, Irish
Gaelic form of DUNCAN

DOUGAL   m   Scottish, Irish
Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Dubhghall, which meant "dark stranger" from dubh "dark" and gall "stranger".

DOUGLAS   m   Scottish, English
Anglicized form of the Scottish surname Dubhghlas, which meant "dark river" from Gaelic dubh "dark" and glais "water, river"... [more]

DUBHGHALL   m   Irish, Scottish
Original Gaelic form of DOUGAL

DUBHGHLAS   m   Irish, Scottish
Original Gaelic form of DOUGLAS

DUFF   m   Scottish
Derived from Gaelic dubh meaning "dark".

DUGALD   m   Scottish
Scottish variant of DOUGAL

DUNCAN   m   Scottish, English
Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Donnchadh meaning "brown warrior", derived from Gaelic donn "brown" and cath "warrior"... [more]

EACHANN   m   Scottish, Irish
Means "brown horse" from Gaelic each "horse" and donn "brown"... [more]

EALLAIR   m   Scottish
From the older Gaelic byname Ceallair, which was derived from Latin cella meaning "cellar"... [more]

EANRAIG   m   Scottish
Scottish Gaelic form of HENRY

EDAN   m   Irish, Scottish
Variant of AIDAN

EIDEARD   m   Scottish
Scottish form of EDWARD

ELLAR   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of EALLAIR

EOGHAN   m   Irish, Scottish, Irish Mythology
Possibly means "born from the yew tree" in Irish, though it is possibly derived from EUGENE... [more]

EOIN   m   Irish, Scottish
Gaelic form of JOHN

ERSKINE   m   Scottish, Irish, English (Rare)
From a surname which was originally derived from the name of a Scottish town meaning "projecting height" in Gaelic... [more]

EUAN   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of EOGHAN

EVANDER (2)   m   Scottish, English
Anglicized form of IOMHAR

EWAN   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of EOGHAN

EWEN   m   Scottish
Variant of EWAN

FARQUHAR   m   Irish, Scottish
Anglicized form of FEARCHAR

FEARCHAR   m   Irish, Scottish
Means "dear man" from Gaelic fear "man" and char "dear".

FEARGHAS   m   Irish, Scottish, Irish Mythology
Means "man of vigour", derived from the Gaelic elements fear "man" and gus "vigour"... [more]

FERGIE   m & f   Scottish
Diminutive and feminine form of FERGUS

FERGUS   m   Irish, Scottish, Irish Mythology
Anglicized form of FEARGHAS

FIFE   m   Scottish
From a Scottish place name which was formerly the name of a kingdom in Scotland... [more]

FILIB   m   Scottish
Scottish form of PHILIP

FINDLAY   m   Scottish
From a Scottish surname which was derived from the given name FIONNLAGH.

FINGAL   m   Scottish
From Scottish Gaelic Fionnghall meaning "white stranger", derived from fionn "white, fair" and gall "stranger"... [more]

FINGALL   m   Scottish
Variant of FINGAL

FINLAY   m   Irish, Scottish
Anglicized form of FIONNLAGH

FINLEY   m   Irish, Scottish
Anglicized form of FIONNLAGH

FIONNGHALL   m   Scottish
Scottish Gaelic form of FINGAL

FIONNLAGH   m   Irish, Scottish
Means "white warrior" from Gaelic fionn "white, fair" and laogh "warrior".

FIONNTAN   m   Irish, Scottish
Modern Irish form of FINTAN

FORBES   m   Scottish
From a surname which was originally taken from a Scottish place name meaning "field" in Gaelic.

FRANG   m   Scottish
Scottish form of FRANCIS

FRASER   m   Scottish, English (Rare)
From a Scottish surname which is of unknown meaning... [more]

FRAZIER   m   Scottish, English
Variant of FRASER

FYFE   m   Scottish
Variant of FIFE

GARRY   m   English, Scottish
Either a variant of GARY or from the name of a Scottish river.

GAVIN   m   English, Scottish
Medieval form of GAWAIN... [more]

GILCHRIST   m   Scottish
Derived from the Gaelic phrase giolla Chríost meaning "servant of Christ".

GILLESPIE   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of Scottish Gille Easbaig or Irish Giolla Easpuig both meaning "servant of the bishop".

GILROY   m   Irish, Scottish
From an Irish surname, either Mac Giolla Ruaidh, which means "son of the red-haired servant", or Mac Giolla Rí, which means "son of the king's servant".

GLEN   m   Scottish, English
Variant of GLENN

GLENN   m   Scottish, English
From a Scottish surname which was derived from Gaelic gleann "valley"... [more]

GORAIDH   m   Scottish
Scottish form of GODFREY

GORDON   m   Scottish, English
From a Scottish surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "great hill"... [more]

GRAEME   m   Scottish, English (Rare)
From a surname which was a variant of GRAHAM.

GRAHAM   m   Scottish, English
From a Scottish surname which was originally derived from an English place name which probably meant "gravelly homestead" in Old English... [more]

GRAHAME   m   Scottish, English (Rare)
From a surname which was a variant of GRAHAM.

GRANT   m   English, Scottish
From a Scottish surname which was derived from Norman French grand meaning "great, large"... [more]

GREER   f & m   Scottish, English (Rare)
From a Scottish surname which was derived from the given name GREGOR.

GREGOR   m   German, Scottish, Slovene
German, Scottish and Slovene form of GREGORY... [more]

GREIG   m   Scottish
Scottish diminutive of GREGORY

GRIOGAIR   m   Scottish
Scottish form of GREGORY

GUS (1)   m   English, Scottish
Short form of AUGUSTUS, ANGUS or GUSTAV

HAMISH   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of Sheumais, vocative case of SEUMAS.

HECK   m   Scottish
Scottish short form of HECTOR

HECKIE   m   Scottish
Scottish diminutive of HECTOR

IAGAN   m   Scottish
Modern form of the Scottish name Aodhagán, a diminutive of AODH.

IAIN   m   Scottish
Scottish form of JOHN

IAN   m   Scottish, English
Modern Scottish form of JOHN

INNES   m & f   Scottish
Anglicized form of AONGHUS, also used as a feminine name.

IOMHAR   m   Scottish
Scottish form of IVOR

IRVIN   m   English, Scottish
From a surname which was a variant of either IRVING or IRWIN.

IRVINE   m   English, Scottish
Variant of IRVING

IRVING   m   English, Scottish
From a Scottish surname which was in turn derived from a Scottish place name... [more]

ISLAY   m   Scottish
From the name of the island Islay, which lies off of the west coast of Scotland.

IVOR   m   Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English (British)
From the Old Norse name Ívarr, which was derived from the elements yr "yew, bow" and arr "warrior"... [more]

JAMIE   m & f   Scottish, English
Originally a Lowland Scots diminutive of JAMES... [more]

JOCK   m   Scottish
Scottish form of JACK

JOCKIE   m   Scottish
Scottish diminutive of JACK

JOCKY   m   Scottish
Scottish diminutive of JACK

KEIR   m   Scottish, English (Rare)
From a surname which was a variant of KERR.

KEITH   m   English, Scottish
From a Scottish surname which was originally derived from a place name, itself probably derived from British cet meaning "wood"... [more]

KENNEDY   f & m   English, Irish, Scottish
From the Gaelic name Cinnéidigh meaning "armoured head" or "misshapen head"... [more]

KENNETH   m   Scottish, English
Anglicized form of both COINNEACH and CINÁED... [more]

KENNY   m   Scottish, English
Diminutive of KENNETH

KENTIGERN   m   Scottish
Possibly means "chief lord" in Gaelic... [more]

KERR   m   Scottish, English (Rare)
From a Scottish surname which was derived from a place name meaning "rough wet ground" in Old Norse.

KESTER   m   Scottish
Scottish form of CHRISTOPHER

LABHRAINN   m   Scottish
Scottish form of LAURENCE (1)

LACHIE   m   Scottish
Diminutive of LACHLAN

LACHLAN   m   Scottish
Originally a Scottish nickname for a person who was from Norway... [more]

LAUCHLAN   m   Scottish
Variant of LACHLAN

LENNON   m   Scottish, English (Rare)
Anglicized form of the Irish surname Ó Leannáin, which means "descendent of Leannán"... [more]

LENNOX   m   Scottish, English (Rare)
From a Scottish surname which was derived from the name of a district in Scotland, the Levenach.

LENOX   m   Scottish, English (Rare)
From a surname which was a variant of LENNOX.

LINDSAY   f & m   English, Scottish
From an English and Scottish surname which was originally derived from a place name in Lincolnshire meaning "island of Lincoln" in Old English... [more]

LINDSEY   f & m   English, Scottish
Variant of LINDSAY

LOGAN   m & f   Scottish, English
From a surname which was originally derived from a Scottish place name meaning "little hollow" in Scottish Gaelic.

MALCOLM   m   Scottish, English
From Scottish Mael Coluim which means "disciple of Saint COLUMBA"... [more]

MAOILIOS   m   Scottish
Means "servant of Jesus" in Scottish Gaelic.

MARCAS   m   Irish, Scottish
Irish and Scottish form of MARK

MÌCHEAL   m   Scottish
Scottish form of MICHAEL

MICHEIL   m   Scottish
Scottish Gaelic form of MICHAEL

MONROE   m   Scottish, English
From a Scottish surname meaning "the mouth of the Roe" in Gaelic... [more]

MORAY   m   Scottish
Scottish form of MURRAY

MUIR   m   Scottish
From a surname which was originally taken from a Scottish place name meaning "moor, fen"... [more]

MUIREADHACH   m   Irish, Scottish
Modern form of MUIREDACH

MUNGO   m   Scottish
Possibly derived from Welsh mwyn "gentle, kind"... [more]

MUNRO   m   Scottish
Variant of MONROE

MUNROE   m   Scottish
Variant of MONROE

MURCHADH   m   Irish, Scottish
Derived from Gaelic muir "sea" and cadh "warrior".

MURRAY   m   Scottish, English
From a Scottish surname which was derived from the region in Scotland called Moray.

NAOISE   m   Irish, Scottish, Irish Mythology
Meaning unknown, presumably of Gaelic origin... [more]

NAOMHÁN   m   Irish, Scottish
Means "little holy one", derived from Irish naomh "holy" combined with a diminutive suffix.

NEACEL   m   Scottish
Scottish form of NICHOLAS

NEIL   m   Irish, Scottish, English
From the Gaelic name Niall, which is of disputed origin, possibly meaning "champion" or "cloud"... [more]

NIALL   m   Irish, Scottish
Original Gaelic spelling of NEIL

NICHOL   m   Scottish
Variant of NICOL

NICOL   m   Scottish
Scottish form of NICHOLAS... [more]

NINIAN   m   Scottish, Irish
Meaning unknown, perhaps a Latinized form of the Welsh name Nynnyaw... [more]

NIVEN   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of NAOMHÁN

PÀDRAIG   m   Scottish
Scottish form of PATRICK

PÀL   m   Scottish
Scottish form of PAUL

PEADAR   m   Irish, Scottish
Irish and Scottish form of PETER

PÒL   m   Scottish
Scottish form of PAUL

RAB   m   Scottish
Scottish short form of ROBERT

RABBIE   m   Scottish
Scottish diminutive of ROBERT

RAGHNALL   m   Irish, Scottish
Gaelic form of RAGNVALD

RAIBEART   m   Scottish
Scottish form of ROBERT

RAMSAY   m   Scottish
Scottish form of RAMSEY

RANALD   m   Scottish
Scottish form of REYNOLD

RANULF   m   Scottish
Scottish form of the Old Norse name Randúlfr, a cognate of RANDOLF... [more]

RANULPH   m   Scottish
Variant of RANULF

RODDY   m   English, Scottish
Diminutive of RODERICK or RODNEY

RODERICK   m   English, Scottish, Welsh
Means "famous power" from the Germanic elements hrod "fame" and ric "power"... [more]

RONALD   m   Scottish, English
Scottish form of RAGNVALDR, a name introduced to Scotland by Scandinavian settlers and invaders... [more]

RORIE   m   Irish, Scottish
Variant of RORY

RORY   m   Irish, Scottish
Anglicized form of RUAIDHRÍ

ROSS   m   Scottish, English
From a Scottish and English surname which meant "promontory" in Gaelic, originally belonging to someone who lived on a headland... [more]

ROY   m   Scottish, English
Derived from Gaelic ruadh meaning "red"... [more]

RUAIRI   m   Scottish
Scottish cognate of RUAIDHRÍ

RUAIRIDH   m   Scottish
Scottish cognate of RUAIDHRÍ

RUARAIDH   m   Scottish
Scottish cognate of RUAIDHRÍ

RUARIDH   m   Scottish
Scottish cognate of RUAIDHRÍ

SACHAIRI   m   Scottish
Scottish form of ZECHARIAH

SAWNEY   m   Scottish
Scottish form of SANDY

SCOT   m   English, Scottish
Variant form of SCOTT

SCOTT   m   English, Scottish
From an English and Scottish surname which meant "a Scotsman"... [more]

SCOTTIE   m   English, Scottish
Diminutive of SCOTT

SCOTTY   m   English, Scottish
Diminutive of SCOTT

SEAGHDH   m   Scottish
Scottish form of SÉAGHDHA

SEOC   m   Scottish
Scottish Gaelic form of JACK

SEÒRAS   m   Scottish
Scottish form of GEORGE

SEÒSAIDH   m   Scottish
Scottish form of JOSEPH

SEUMAS   m   Scottish
Scottish form of JAMES

SHAW (2)   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of SEAGHDH

SHOLTO   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of SÌOLTACH

SHUG   m   Scottish
Scottish diminutive of HUGH

SÌOLTACH   m   Scottish
Means "sower" in Scottish Gaelic.

SOMERLED   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of the Old Norse name Somarliðr meaning "summer traveller"... [more]

SOMHAIRLE   m   Scottish, Irish
Gaelic form of Somarliðr (see SOMERLED).

SORLEY   m   Scottish, Irish
Anglicized form of SOMHAIRLE

STEAFAN   m   Scottish
Scottish form of STEPHEN

STEAPHAN   m   Scottish
Scottish form of STEPHEN

STEENIE   m   Scottish
Scottish diminutive of STEPHEN

STUART   m   English, Scottish
From an occupational surname originally belong to a person who was a steward... [more]

SUIBHNE   m   Irish, Scottish
Means "well-going" in Gaelic... [more]

SWEENEY   m   Irish, Scottish
Anglicized form of SUIBHNE

TADG   m   Irish, Scottish
Old Irish form of TADHG

TADHG   m   Irish, Scottish
Means "poet" in Irish. This was the name of an 11th-century king of Connacht.

TAM   m   Scottish
Scottish short form of THOMAS

TÀMHAS   m   Scottish
Scottish form of THOMAS

TASGALL   m   Scottish
Scottish form of the Old Norse name Ásketill, meaning "cauldron of the gods" from Old Norse áss "god" and ketill "cauldron".

TASKILL   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of TASGALL

TAVISH   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of Thàmhais, vocative case of TÀMHAS... [more]

TEÀRLACH   m   Scottish
Scottish form of TOIRDHEALBHACH... [more]

TÒMAS   m   Scottish
Scottish form of THOMAS

TORCUIL   m   Scottish
Scottish form of Þórketill (see TORKEL).

TORQUIL   m   Scottish
Anglicized form of TORCUIL

UALAN   m   Scottish
Scottish form of VALENTINE (1)

UILLEAM   m   Scottish
Scottish form of WILLIAM

ÙISDEAN   m   Scottish
Scottish Gaelic form of the Old Norse name EYSTEINN.

WALLACE   m   English, Scottish
From a Scottish surname which originally meant "Welsh" or "foreigner" in Norman French... [more]

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