Originally Posted by
Katia
That just sounds to me like another of those cases where a male name is feminized, usually because the father wants a child named after him even if it's a girl. Hence on occasion you get women named Johnette/Johna, Joshlyn, Ryanne, Jamesina, Ronette, Scottlyn, and the like (on top of your usuals like Roberta, Antoinette, Paula, Thomasina, etc.). I don't see it as exclusively a Scottish phenomenon.
That may be common over there but the only ones on your list I've ever seen over here are Roberta, Antoinette, Paula, and only one of those have I ever actually met.
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give"
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
Bookmarks