Scottish Girl Names
Scottish girl names draw on Gaelic, Scots, literature, and the landscape. This collection distinguishes Gaelic forms such as Mairi from island names such as Iona and names with a strong Scottish history.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A Scottish and English feminine form of John. | 88#2,130 | Up 228 rank positions in five years | 1927 | ||
The Scots word for pretty, used as an affectionate given name. | 785#396 | Up 210 rank positions in five years | 1947 | ||
A familiar Scottish form of Jean. | 330#824 | Down 105 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
A long-established Scottish and English form of Alice. | 644#476 | Down 36 rank positions in five years | 1980 | ||
A classical name with a Scottish association through Flora MacDonald. | 483#607 | Up 318 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
A spelling used in Scotland and Ireland, related to Eileen. | 340#799 | Down 103 rank positions in five years | 2009 | ||
A literary name strongly associated with Scotland. | 654#470 | Down 175 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
A literary name inspired by the Scottish place name Lorne. | 56#2,980 | Up 68 rank positions in five years | 1957 | ||
The name of the Scottish island, used as a given name. | 569#532 | Down 66 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
A feminine name associated with Kenneth. | 357#759 | Down 75 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
A Scottish pet form of Margaret. | 1,328#233 | Up 177 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The name of the Scottish island with its early Christian monastery. | 65#2,667 | Up 407 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
A traditional Scottish spelling of Isabel. | 79#2,307 | Down 311 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
An anglicized form of the Gaelic Seonag, related to Joan. | —Unranked | — | 1970 | ||
A Scottish short form of Christina. | —Unranked | — | 1991 | ||
A Scottish form of Elizabeth. | 14#7,598 | Down 2,394 rank positions in five years | 1984 | ||
The Scottish Gaelic form of Katherine. | —Unranked | — | 1998 | ||
A place name from Ailsa Craig, the island off Scotland's west coast. | —Unranked | — | 2003 | ||
The Scottish Gaelic form of Mary, written Màiri in Gaelic. | 5#16,366 | Down 4,638 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
A Scottish Gaelic name related to Helen. | 12#8,501 | Down 1,192 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
A Scottish Gaelic feminine name, written Mòrag. | —Unranked | — | 1963 | ||
A Scottish Gaelic form of Isabel. | —Unranked | — | 2010 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.