From Angusina to Zepherina: a Scottish Female Naming Custom

Glasgow Electoral Roll, Ancestry.co.uk I’ve often said that Scots parents never met a male name they couldn’t tack "-ina" onto the end of, and the names I've encountered in the records over the years have only served to confirm this. I first encountered th is phenomenon – if it can be called that – in my Glasgow childhood. When I was g rowing up in a sandstone tenement building comprised of eight…