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Two of my names are very Scottish. ALLAN/ALAN/ALLEN and my middle name COLLIN (Scottish) and Colin (Irish) are very Gaelic, yet missing???? Yet Collin/Colin has become a fairly popular in US and
Canada now. Very disappointing....Please understand my post is not meant to be egotistical, but generations of MacDonald, Clanranald, Sleet, Skye etc. has many Collin/Colin, Allan's, Agnus, Alexander, and especially Archibald, and Donald. Wonder why they are missing? Now those are real SCOTTISH names...

Surprised Jamie and Claire (Outlander) has not gained in popularity. I understand, just recently the Outlander Series has finally been release in Scotland on public TV, only available on pay TV, and not publicized, you might see a gain in popularity with those names this year.

May I just make a few spelling and other comments?
Allan in the Scottish surname spelling and Allen is the English surname spelling. The first name spelling is Alan.
Colin is always spelled with one "l" throughout the British Isles.
The district of Skye is Sleat (from the old Norse for smooth).
Of course, especially in days gone by, spelling was more idiosyncratic.
Nobody in Scotland watches the Outlander nonsense so I doubt if that will make a difference. Jamie is regarded as a posh affectation such as might be used by English gentry to imply a Scottish connection. Likewise Jock for John and Sandy for Alexander. You must remember that the names that you think of as SCOTTISH because of your ancestry came from a very small corner of Scotland and the passage of 200 years and fairly considerable in-migration has diluted the use of those first names.
I doubt if many Scots seek out specifically "Scottish" names for their children but simply follow the fashion of parents around them.
Even the use of names "handed down" in a family has disappeared.

Alan