Feminine form of John.
Scottish boy names from the 1800s. Adoption of these boy names reached its highest in the 1880s ADOPTION OF 66 and has become significantly diminished since ADOPTION 22 67 with names such as Oscar becoming somewhat outmodedThe trendier baby names among these are Julian 36 Wesley 105 Owen 25 Boone 669 and Solomon. A Scottish surname coming from the Gaelic word for headland. This name is pronounced EYE-la.
Going back to the root of Celtic legends Aodh means fire and represents the Celtic sun god. Obviously a Gaelic boy name Aodh just looks cool. No other name was in the Top Five in more than one decade.
Scottish name for Alan Ailein. Scottish name a person from green pastures Aillig. A famous bearer was the Russian-American songwriter and lyricist Irving Berlin 1888-1989 whose birth name was Israel.
Name of a Scottish island. Most Popular Scottish Last Names on FamilyEducation. From a Scottish surname that was in turn derived from a Scottish place name meaning green water.
1520 1 Marione 1. Another big trend is the -ina feminised names for girls. Alister Protector of mankind Defender Helper.
For girls the similarity is less striking though the top three names are the same albeit in a different order. The top eight names are the same. This very popular unisex name actually means yellow.