...And UK Names, as well 1

[SantaMufasa]

Dimandja's thread ("UK Speak", thread1256-1060767) compelled me to go back to my journal and address book from my life in the UK. It is interesting to me how many names in my UK life are strictly UK names. I list below the names I found in my papers that I've never encountered in the U.S. (Although there are exceptions I'm not particularly looking for anecdotal information like, "Yeah, but my cousin's sister's first husband from Dallas was named 'Aidan'," I believe the names I list below are given names that you predominantly encounter from the British Isles.) Have I forgotten any? Can you add more to my list? Of course, we have American names you would never give a child in the U.K. like, "Randy", right?

UK Male Given Names:
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Adair
Adrian
Aidan
Ainsley
Alastair/Allistair
Alden
Alfred
Archibald
Ashleigh
Aubrey
Ballard
Barclay
Basil
Beresford
Berkeley
Bernard
Bertram
Burgess
Callum
Carleton
Cecil
Cedric
Cian
Clive
Collin
Colm
Cosmo
Creighton
Crispen
Cyril
Damian
Damon
Darby
Declan
Denholm
Derek
Derrick
Desmond
Devlin
Devon
Dexter
Donovan
Duncan
Dunstan
Eamonn
Eaton
Edgar
Elgin
Elton
Erskine
Ewan
Fergus
Finley
Gareth
Garrick
Gavin
Geoffrey
Gilchrist
Giles
Godfrey
Graeme
Graham
Guy
Haddon
Hamilton
Harcourt
Hargrave
Heath
Hollis
Iain
Ian
Jarvis
Julian
Julien
Keir
Langston
Lennox
Liam
Lionel
Magnus
Malcolm
Manning
Montgomery
Neville
Nigel
Noel
Oswald
Pembroke
Percival
Piers
Prescott
Quillan
Raleigh
Randolph
Reginald
Remington
Rhys
Riordan
Rupert
Seamus
Sebastian
Selwyn
Severin
Seymour
Simon
Sinclair
Talbot
Thorley
Thornton
Tilden
Trevor
Tristram
Upton
Wilfred
Willoughby
Wyndham
Yardley

UK Female Given Names:
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Adelaide
Eithne
Elspeth
Emlyn
Esme
Fiona
Gemma
Gillian
Glynis
Gwyneth
Hermione
Keira
Moira
Shelagh
Sinnead
Siobhan
Trudie
Winifred

Mufasa
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[AngelB]

You don't have my name - Geraint. It's Welsh, and probably not found outside of the UK, although it's possibile it's used in Patagonia.

Geraint



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[HarleyQuinn]

In addition to the OP, Emlyn is also used as a male name in the UK.

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[Thadeus]

Hello all,
There is a site that uses US Social Security Administration (SSA) records and a Java engine to display the number of people registered with the SSA since 1900.

Enter in a name like Malcolm and you'll see that it isn't as rare as "I had an uncle who married a Eunice". Same goes for quite a few of the names Dave provided.

Thadeus (father of Damian Patrick)

 

[TheRambler]

>There is a site that uses US Social Security Administration (SSA) records and a Java engine to display the number of people registered with the SSA since 1900.

Name Voyager?

 

[Thadeus]

Yes Rambler, that's it... I'm sorry all, my PC is very unhappy this morning regarding anything Java. I had intended to post the link, but I couldn't get to the page to verify if it was the link I wanted.

Thanks Rambler for handling my omission.

~Thadeus

 

[sha76]

These are all definitely first names? Certainly a lot of them are not common in the UK, there are several I've either never heard of or only heard used as a surname.

"Your rock is eroding wrong." -Dogbert

 

[Chacalinc]

I'm sorry for post this question here, but
AngelB: whre is Patagonia?

coming back to the thread, I guess several names are used only in a particular country by the origin of the name, e.g. Zyanya is not commonly used (BTW, it is not english) out of Mexico (I guess) because it is Nahuatl, and some names are very nordics since they are from their native language.

 

[AngelB]

Patagonia is in South America, south of Argentina. Welsh immigrants settled there after leaving Britain during the industrial revolution. Welsh is still spoken there.

Gez



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[Chacalinc]

AngelB: ok, We were talking about the same Patagonia then (Chilean and Argentinian ;P ). I didn't know that people form Welsh settled there... that's good to know.

Cheers.

 

[jwenting]

hmm
Berkeley university
Lee Harvey Oswald
Adelaide is a city in Australia
Gwyneth isn't English, it's Welsh
Sinnead is Irish
Remington is a well known American firearms manufacturer
Malcolm X

There're without doubt many more

 

[KenCunningham]

But I imagine neither Berkeley or Remington were named for their originators' first names. Apparently Adelaide originated from Hebrew/Latin:

http://www.babynamesworld.com/meaning_of_Adelaide.html

 

[tsdragon]

Gwyneth isn't English, it's Welsh
Sinnead is Irish

Dave's OP doesn't say anything about "English", it says UK. Doesn't that cover Wales and Ireland?


Tracy Dryden

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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[LesleyW]

UK covers Scotland as well!
(only Northern Ireland, not Ireland as a whole)

 

[tsdragon]

Yeah, I knew that, but there wasn't a "Xxx is Scottish" part that I could copy.


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[KenCunningham]

Malcolm is Scottish! Or he was in Macbeth anyway ;-)

 

[SantaMufasa]

Although there are exceptions I'm not particularly looking for anecdotal information like, "Yeah, but my cousin's sister's first husband from Dallas was named 'Aidan'," I believe the names I list below are given names that you predominantly encounter from the British Isles.

1) Correct, there are a few names in my list that are Irish, Welsh, Scottish, but Ireland, Wales, and Scotland are generally still part of The British Isles.

2) And, yes, while you will find the occasional name-bearer outside the British Isles proper, I am speaking in wild generalities (to which it is virtually illegal not to have exceptions).

3) There are many names from my list that appear often outside the British Isles as surnames, we are speaking here of Given names, which I still contend are sparsely non-British.

So, read more closely and have fun with this threadful of generalities and exceptions.


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[Lightning]

Can you add more to my list?

Bleys
Corwyn

Both (I believe) from the gaelic areas of the British Isles.

Lightning

 

[tsdragon]

Also both from the book "Nine Princes in Amber" by Roger Zelazny.


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[Lightning]

Bingo!