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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.
Ciarán (Irish spelling) or Ciaran (Scottish Gaelic spelling) [2][3] is a traditionally male given name of Irish origin. It means "little dark one" [4] or "little dark-haired one", produced by appending a diminutive suffix to ciar ("black", "dark"). [5] It is the masculine version of the name Ciara.
Cognate (s) Craig (surname) Craig is a Scottish, Irish and Welsh masculine given name, all variations derive from the same Celtic branch. The name has two origins. In some cases it can originate from a nickname, derived from the Scottish Gaelic word creag, meaning "rock," similar to Peter. In other cases, the given name originates from the ...
In the 2000s and 2010s, Lachlan was a common baby name in Australia and New Zealand, [6] ranking within the top ten masculine names registered in several Australian states. In 2008, Lachlan was ranked as the third most popular masculine baby name in New South Wales, with 581 registered that year. [32] The same year, the name was ranked as the ...
Rory. Rory is a given name of Gaelic origin. It is an anglicisation of the Irish: Ruairí / Ruaidhrí and Scottish Gaelic: Ruairidh / Ruaraidh[6] and is common to the Irish, Highland Scots and their diasporas. [7] The meaning of the name is "red king", composed of ruadh ("red") and rígh ("king"). [8] In Ireland and Scotland, it is generally ...
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.
The name means "fire" and was the name of a god in Irish mythology. [2] [3] The name features in the Irish surnames Mac Aodha (lit. "son of Aodh"; anglicized as McGee/McHugh/McKee) and Ó hAodha (lit. "descendant of Aodh"; anglicized as Hayes/Hughes/O'Hea), and the Scottish surname Mac Aoidh (lit. "son of Aodh"; anglicized McKay). The name has ...
Borrowing into English/Scots. A fair number of Gaelic names were borrowed into English or Scots at different periods (e.g. Kenneth, Duncan, Donald, Malcolm, Calum, Lachlan, Alasdair, Iain, Eilidh), although it can sometimes be difficult to tell if the donor language was Irish or Scottish Gaelic (e.g. Deirdre, Rory, Kennedy, Bridget/Bride, Aiden).