About scottish names
Current playground favorites sit beside heritage surnames, so the results run from "Maggie Connor" and "Noah Hamilton" to newer arrivals like "Ayaan McArthur". That spread matches an actual Glasgow class register better than tartan stereotypes would. Reach for these when writing contemporary Scottish fiction, soap-style ensembles, or believable NPCs in a present-day Edinburgh setting.
How scottish names are built
A name pairs a gender-tagged given name with a surname from a 283-entry pool. The male bank holds 264 forenames and the female bank 281, so a male pull joins a male forename to a surname (Angus Johnston, Odhran Caylor) and a female pull does the same with a female forename (Maria Barr).
Angus Johnston
Angus + Johnston
male forename plus surname
Maria Barr
Maria + Barr
female forename plus surname
Odhran Caylor
Odhran + Caylor
male forename plus surname
Naming notes
Both gendered forename banks feed the same shared surname slot, drawn independently. The two given-name banks are nearly balanced at 264 male and 281 female, so mixed casts come out even. The surname pool of 283 is sampled separately from the forename, so any forename can land on any surname.
Questions about scottish names
- How is a full name built?
- A forename is drawn from the 264-entry male bank or the 281-entry female bank, then a surname is drawn from the shared 283-entry pool, giving pairings like Angus Johnston or Maria Barr.
- Are the male and female banks balanced?
- Nearly. The male forename bank holds 264 entries and the female bank 281, so a mixed cast comes out roughly even rather than skewed to one gender.
- How does this differ from the Celtic Scottish set?
- This set splits forenames into separate 264-entry male and 281-entry female banks; the Celtic Scottish set uses one combined 1,964-entry forename bank and is gender-neutral.