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First names from Scottish Gaelic

54 names of Scottish Gaelic origin, the most used first: Cameron, Imogen, Ian and more.

NameForMeaningLatest rank
Cameron boys “crooked”, “bent” #216 (2025)
Imogen girls “girl”, “maiden” #69 (2025)
Ian boys #585 (2025)
Callum boys #251 (2025)
Kenneth boys “handsome” #1,007 (2025)
Donald boys “prince / chief of the world” #1,466 (2025)
Ronald boys “advice”, “power” #627 (2025)
Skye girls #219 (2025)
Finlay boys “fair warrior/hero” #175 (2025)
Roy boys “king”, “ruler” #728 (2025)
Keith boys “wood”, “from the battleground” #5,137 (2025)
Mackenzie girls “son”, “descendant” #1,093 (2025)
Malcolm boys “devotee of [saint] columba”, “tonsured” #1,307 (2025)
Ross boys “promontory”, “moor” #2,014 (2025)
Ewan boys #462 (2025)
Angus boys “one choice” #325 (2025)
Fiona girls “fair”, “white” #1,362 (2025)
Knox boys “round hill” #822 (2025)
Lachlan boys “land of the lochs”, “loch” #283 (2025)
Duncan boys “brown”, “battle” #1,538 (2025)
Alistair boys “to defend”, “man” #517 (2025)
Lochlan boys #257 (2025)
Hamish boys #484 (2025)
Euan boys #1,007 (2025)
Campbell either “crooked”, “mouth” #2,014 (2025)
Calum boys “dove” #3,256 (2025)
Fergus boys “true”, “man” #396 (2025)
Alastair boys “alexander” #1,153 (2025)
Muriel girls “sea”, “white” #3,318 (2024)
Selma girls “good vision” #2,278 (2025)
Lorna girls #2,605 (2025)
Blaire girls #1,512 (2025)
Kenna girls “descendant of cionaodh” #5,927 (2025)
Iain boys #3,990 (2021)
Arran boys “high place” #1,226 (2025)
Keir boys “dark”, “a fort” #4,107 (2023)
Alasdair boys #1,705 (2025)
Ewen boys #5,137 (2025)
Fenella girls #2,788 (2025)
Adair either #3,478 (2016)
Catriona girls #5,927 (2025)
Forbes boys #4,810 (2016)
Sina either #5,137 (2025)
Shona girls #5,927 (2025)
Sorcha girls “light”, “radiant” #5,927 (2025)
Sheena girls “god is gracious” #5,765 (2017)
Aleister boys “to defend”, “man” #5,119 (2024)
Dougal boys “dane”, “black-haired foreigner” #4,275 (2025)
Mungo boys “my dear (one)” #4,702 (2019)
Meryl girls #3,695 (2024)
Ishbel girls “isabel” #4,645 (2022)
Mhairi girls “mary” #3,705 (2025)
Morven girls “the sea gap”, “the big gap” #4,709 (2023)
Torquil boys “thor”, “(sacrificial) cauldron”