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This list of Scottish Gaelic given names shows Scottish Gaelic given names beside their English language equivalent. In some cases, the equivalent can be a cognate , in other cases it may be an Anglicised spelling derived from the Gaelic name, or in other cases it can be an etymologically unrelated name.
An example is the article Raghnall (given name), which is about the given name Raghnall. This category is not for adding names that are derived from Scottish Gaelic, only names that are Scottish Gaelic. For example, the given name Ranald is an Anglicised form of the already mentioned Raghnall. Ranald is not Scottish Gaelic, it is English.
Due to the relative paucity of names and surnames in Gaelic, the official name of a person (i.e. first name plus a surname, in Gaelic or English/Scots) is rarely used in Gaelic speaking communities as, with a small number of surnames usually predominating in an area, there are usually several people who go by the same combination, for example ...
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This list of Scottish Gaelic surnames shows Scottish Gaelic surnames beside their English language equivalent. Unlike English surnames (but in the same way as Slavic, Lithuanian and Latvian surnames), all of these have male and female forms depending on the bearer, e.g. all Mac- names become Nic- if the person is female.
Some Scottish names are Anglicized forms of Gaelic names: Aonghas → (Angus), Dòmhnall → (Donald), for instance. Hamish , and the recently established Mhairi (pronounced [vaːri] ) come from the Gaelic for, respectively, James, and Mary, but derive from the form of the names as they appear in the vocative case : Seumas (James) (nom.) → ...
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