Scotland’s 2021 baby name data was published yesterday (!!), and I’m excitedly reading through it. You can read the report and the full lists yourself here - I’ve compiled some fun stuff that caught my eye.
Boys
Carson (up 42 places)
Struan (up 37 places) - I actually know a little Struan born 2021!
Myles - (up 35 places)
Elijah (up 34 places)
Double-barrelled with Blue/Blu/Bleu Boys
Liston-Blue
Patrick-Blue
Ronan-Blue
Zachary-Blue
Luca-Bleu
Riley-Blu
Zander-Blu
Girls
Ivy-Bleu
Ocean-Bleu
River-Bleu
There was also one Bluebell, one Bleubelle, and a Romi-Bluebell!
Other rarer names that caught my eye (fewer than 10 babies)
Girls
Juniper
Juno
Octavia
Runa
Sunday
Vivien
Colette
Dominika
Gwendolyn
Indigo
Ingrid
Ivory
Liliana
Matylda
Nirvana
Romilly
Sapphire
Summer-Rose
Autumn-Rose
Bloom
Dusty
Euphemia and Eufemia
Klaudia (one of my current name crushes )
Lake
Merryn
Millicent
Miracle
Saffron
Symphony (ooh, this could be a fun middle name)
Alva
Apostolia
Aquamarine
Artemis
Boudica
Boston
Constance-Jane
Doris
Elsebeth
Ellyjae
Enola
Munro - interesting on a girl!
Philomena
Romany
Romina
Rosabella
Salem
Silver
Silvia
Valkyrie
Boys
Fionn
Olivier
Hendrix
Lomond
Idris
Kasper
Knox
Leonidas
Sandy
Brooklyn - I quite like this on a boy
Drew
Edwin
Ivar
Kairo
Harper - I really like this on a boy too!
Loki
Orson
Ossian
Alvie
Antony
Aubrey
August
Boyd
Fox
Wilfred
Anton
Bear
Elvis
Harlow
Thorfinn
Konstantinos
Memphis
Montgomery
Orion
Ragnar
Sylvester
Wilbur
Wolfgang
Caspian
Elwood
Fenton
Konrad
Luthor
Morpheus
Oswin
Timofey
Wilhelmus
This is just from a quick browse - I’ll definitely be pouring over the lists some more in the coming months. Are there any names you particularly like? Anything fun catch your eye in the full lists / complied report?
Oh this is really interesting! I like [name_u]Rowan[/name_u] as a gender neutral name. [name_m]Struan[/name_m] intrigues me too. I like [name_f]Colette[/name_f], [name_f]Sapphire[/name_f], [name_f]Merryn[/name_f], [name_f]Euphemia[/name_f], [name_f]Aquamarine[/name_f] (a GP of mine as it’s my birthstone!), [name_u]Indigo[/name_u], [name_u]Romilly[/name_u] & [name_f]Silvia[/name_f], [name_m]Leonidas[/name_m], [name_m]Anton[/name_m], [name_m]Ivar[/name_m], [name_m]Olivier[/name_m], [name_m]Oswin[/name_m], [name_m]Wilbur[/name_m] & [name_u]Montgomery[/name_u]. I’ll look through all the data later…!
Me neither! I stumbled across them by accident (I like to check if there are any interesting hyphenated names) - I wonder if it’s a coincidence that there were multiple last year, or if it’s a small local trend, especially for boys.
@Luminen So great, thanks for sharing! I love the Scottish name data so much, it’s way more interesting than the E+W one. Mainly because we get to see all the totally unique/only used once names
This also means we get to see all the double barrelled names that were only used once too, which leads to some really interesting combos! A lot of common double barrels across the UK in general are Something-May, Something-Jay, Something-Lee etc so it’s really fun to see all different names being used too. Here are some unusual combinations I picked out from the [name_u]Scotland[/name_u] data:
Ooh how intriguing!! I’m surprised to see [name_f]Lara[/name_f] and [name_m]Struan[/name_m] climbing!! Romi-Bluebell is kinda cute and it’s nice to see [name_u]Indigo[/name_u], [name_u]Romilly[/name_u] and [name_f]Merryn[/name_f] in use- [name_u]Idris[/name_u], [name_m]Leonidas[/name_m], [name_m]Ivar[/name_m], [name_m]Orson[/name_m], [name_u]Sylvester[/name_u] and [name_m]Caspian[/name_m] too
I agree completely, the unique double-barrelled names are the best part - thank you for finding and sharing all of these! I find Amelia-Jupiter and Ember-Willow quite cool, and Milly-Sunday so sweet. I have to admit I am also intrigued by Elektra-Christine. Alexander-Jericho, while long, seems actually pretty approachable with the AJ nickname, and Justice-Quentin has a nice ring to it. Karl-Magnus is very Scandinavian royalty and sounds like it could be Norway’s answer to Wallace-Robert.
Princess-Victoria reminded me that I spotted a Prince-Junior on the boys’ list! I wonder if that’s in honour of the singer or a parent. Bowe-Duke sounds like it could be music inspired too.
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Are there any names you particularly like? Anything fun catch your eye in the full lists / complied report?
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