Scottish Names
Scottish names can come from the Gaelic language, the islands and glens, a royal family, or a surname used up front. This mixed collection offers a starting point across those traditions; the separate boy and girl lists go further.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A Scottish place name, river name, and historic family name. | 308#807 | Down 70 rank positions in five years | 1957 | ||
A Scottish and English feminine form of John. | 88#2,130 | Up 228 rank positions in five years | 1927 | ||
The royal surname associated with Robert the Bruce. | 558#536 | Down 38 rank positions in five years | 1956 | ||
The Scots word for pretty, used as an affectionate given name. | 785#396 | Up 210 rank positions in five years | 1947 | ||
A Scottish surname that became a given name. | 4,348#76 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
A Scottish surname and word associated with a crag or rock. | 102#1,644 | Down 399 rank positions in five years | 1960 | ||
A familiar Scottish form of Jean. | 330#824 | Down 105 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
A Scottish name connected with the Gaelic Cailean. | 950#343 | Down 56 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
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 | ||
An anglicized Gaelic name borne by medieval Scottish kings. | 190#1,124 | Down 142 rank positions in five years | 1997 | ||
An anglicized form of the Gaelic Calum. | 2,995#118 | Up 218 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
A Scottish surname and place name used as a first name. | 70#2,094 | Up 494 rank positions in five years | 1963 | ||
A feminine name associated with Kenneth. | 357#759 | Down 75 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
The name of the Scottish island with its early Christian monastery. | 65#2,667 | Up 407 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
A Scottish and Irish name with an ancient Gaelic history. | 58#2,363 | Down 337 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
A Scottish clan surname used as a first name. | 337#764 | Up 402 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
A familiar Scottish spelling related to Alasdair. | 265#897 | Up 64 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
A Germanic name long established in Scotland. | 184#1,145 | Up 512 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
A traditional Scottish spelling of Isabel. | 79#2,307 | Down 311 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
An anglicized spelling of the Scottish Gaelic Eoghan. | 120#1,479 | Up 35 rank positions in five years | 2013 | ||
An anglicized spelling of Alasdair. | 67#2,147 | Up 832 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
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 Alexander. | 28#3,849 | Up 692 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
A Scottish Gaelic name related to Helen. | 12#8,501 | Down 1,192 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
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.