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Re: Scottish/English Names -boys 2
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I like Davy. Fingal is to me a dog's name. Harry, Willie and Ned are abbreviations and I would give the child their Sunday name formally. Hugh is passable. I have an issue with Roger for some reason. DO not like Clyde as a first name (it is a river). And although Kyle is better, to me it makes me think of the Kyles of ... somewhere (Bute, Lochalsh). Malcolm, servant of Colm... I prefer Calum, or Gilliespie, Gillies, Gillian.
I like Angus well enough as a name.
Odhran is not something anyone in Scotland that I know would name their child - artificial and post-hoc. Walter is not particularly Scottish - though Wattie is a common enough shortened form of a certain generation, now in their 90s.
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