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Daily Record
13-06-2025
- General
- Daily Record
16 'rare' Scottish baby names that were used only a few times in 2024
Hardly ever used in Scotland, these uncommon names all deserve a comeback. All over Scotland, you will come across people with all kinds of names. From classic picks to one-of-a-kind monikers, a name can tell you a lot about a person. When it comes to choosing a name for your own little one, the pressure can be overwhelming. While many people prefer traditional Scottish names, others want their baby to have a truly unique name. The National Records of Scotland previously shared a list of all of the baby names that were used in 2024. The non-ministerial department of the Scottish Government also revealed how many times each moniker was used during the year. The Daily Record has rounded up 16 names that were used just three times each in 2024. With the most popular picks last year—Noah and Olivia—being used hundreds of times last year, they offer a much more distinctive alternative. National Records of Scotland website. 1. Clyde Unlike many of the names on this list, Clyde actually has Scottish origins. The boys' name is derived from the River Clyde that flows through Glasgow, and was originally used to refer to those who lived on its banks. 2. Cece The beautiful girls' name Cece has both Latin and Italian roots, and is a shortened version of the name Cecelia. Coming from the Latin word 'caecus', it means 'blind' and is associated with virtue of faith. 3. Cash The boys' name Cash has both English and Irish origins, and was originally exclusively a surname. It derives from the Middle English word 'casche', and means 'maker of chests' or 'box maker'. 4. Sage There are multiple possible origins of the gender-neutral name Sage, with potential roots in France, England, and Germany. It also has a range of potential meanings, ranging from 'wise' and 'prophet' to 'safe'. 5. Gene Gene is another gender-neutral name, though it is more commonly used for boys. German and Greek in origin, it means 'well-born' or 'noble'. 6. Percy Percy is a masculine name with Norman roots, being brought over from Normandy to the United Kingdom. It means 'one who pierces the valley', although another possible meaning is 'spirit of battle'. 7. Dolcie Pronounced 'DOLL-see', Dolcie is a girls' name that is a modern variation of the Latin name Dulce. It means 'sweet', 'pleasant', or 'sweet one'. 8. Tallulah Tallulah is a lovely name of Native American heritage, and is usually used for girls. It is said to come from the Choctaw tribe, and means 'leaping water' or 'lady of abundance'. 9. Helena The feminine name Helena has a rich history, originating from Greek mythology. It means 'torch', 'bright one', or 'shining light'. 10. Briar Briar has English roots, and comes from the Middle English word for a thorny bush. Originally used to refer to people who lived near spiky plants, it has connotations of nature and resilience. 11. Keelan The boys' name Keelan comes from Ireland, and is an anglicised version of the traditional Gaelic name Caolán. It means 'slim', 'slender', and 'fair'. 12. Elowen Elowen is believed to have both Celtic and Cornish roots, and is usually used as a girls' name. It comes from 'elm', and means 'loved' or 'beautiful'. 13. Lawrie Lawrie is another traditional Scottish name, though was originally a surname. It is thought to come from the more common name Lawrence, and means 'crafty' or 'foxy'. 14. Roxy Roxy is a beautiful girls' name that is a shortened version of the name Roxanne. Persian in origin, it means 'dawn', 'bright', or 'star'. 15. Salma This is a feminine name that is believed to have Arabic and Hebrew roots, and is thought to be a version of the names Salāma or Salam. It means 'peaceful' or 'safe', and has connotations of harmony and tranquility. 16. Leland Leland is an English name that comes from the Middle English words 'lea' and 'land'. It means 'meadow land' or 'fallow land'.
CTV News
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
CHEO Telethon: Incredible care for Cece at CHEO
Ottawa Watch CTV's Kimberley Fowler shares the story of five-year-old Cece ahead of Saturday's CHEO Telethon on CTV.
CBS News
27-05-2025
- General
- CBS News
Memorial Day events in Sacramento honor those killed in battle
SACRAMENTO — Sacramento remembered those who died while fighting for our country with Memorial Day events across the region. "I love to see more people coming out here to just honor our fallen brothers and sisters that served," said Arthur Valdez, who served in the US Navy from 1979 to 1983. "I was lucky enough to come home." Valdez was one of the dozens of veterans who were out at Mount Vernon Memorial Day Park in Sacramento on Memorial Day to pay respects to his fellow service members. "I place a flag at Danny's grave," said Stan Lee Pollinger who served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. Pollinger is grateful he made it back home alive but is dedicated to now remembering all those who did not. There was also a program at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium where there was a tribute to those who died fighting in the Spanish-American and World Wars. "It's not just about hot dogs or hamburgers. It's all about paying tribute to our veterans, that's the main thing," said Jeffrey Wayne Sutherland, a John Wayne tribute artist. Sutherland paid his tribute Monday by performing "The Ragged Old Flag" at the Court of Honor. "I was in logistics," said Cece, who served in the Marine Corps. "Back in the '70s, the Marine Corps. The women's marine mission was to free a man to fight." Each veteran rose to the sound of their military branch anthems as a salute and thank you, but the focus was on not forgetting the fallen who fought for our country's freedom and paid the ultimate sacrifice. "This is why we celebrate Memorial Day," Pollinger said. "Because of this behind me."
Times
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
This family saga is 100 pages too long — but who cares, the writing's great
I like it when a novel surprises me. So often, it's easy to slot literary narratives into a short list of categories: will-they-won't-they romance, journey to self-knowledge, sad girl millennial lit. By page 50, I can generally tell my thinly disguised autobiographies from my cosy crimes. But Dream State, the American writer Eric Puchner's second novel, went somewhere I wasn't expecting. We begin in the summer of 2004 in a gorgeous old house on a lakeshore in Montana. It belongs to Cece's future parents-in-law, and she's there to plan her wedding to Charlie. The house is a magical place, a romantic idyll with 'raspberry bushes, magically replenishing, like something in a fairy tale'. Keeping Cece company while Charlie toils away as a cardiac anaesthetist
The Guardian
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Dream State by Eric Puchner review – an epic tale of paradise lost
American author Eric Puchner's latest novel is a colossus: a vast, bright behemoth of a book, panoramic as the Montana skyline. Dream State opens in 2004 with the image of a young woman, a month before her wedding, diving into a perfect lake whose 'blue expanse of water' reflects the 'overlapping peaks of the Salish range'. From this Edenic outset, it traverses decades, barrelling through our present day into a projected future: dipping in and out of the lives of a tight cast of characters as they succeed and fail; love and fall out of love; change and stay the same. The young woman is Cece. She has stepped out of the lakeshore family home of Charlie Margolis, a cardiac anaesthesiologist to whom she's engaged. Route 30 traffic noise aside, the place is a bucolic idyll, marked by abundance and continuity: orchards filled with 'ancient apple trees', 'raspberry bushes, magically replenishing', mountain slopes 'bristling with pines'. Cece 'loves it more than any place on the earth'. She's come to Montana early to put the finishing touches to the wedding plans before the guests, or even Charlie, arrive. In his absence, Charlie has deputed his best friend, Garrett, to lend a hand. Garrett appears on the lakeshore as Cece is swimming – and from there, events unfold more or less as we'd expect. Cece and Garrett move rapidly through antagonism into fascination; the wedding looms; and decisions taken in the heat of the moment profoundly shape the lives of all three characters from that point on. Puchner carries off his novel's first act with aplomb, deploying the elements of the love triangle as the formula demands, but deftly, and with humour: light relief comes in the shape of a recalcitrant mountain goat, and a norovirus outbreak that topples the wedding party like dominoes. But it's in the second act – and all the acts thereafter – that Puchner really flexes his muscles. His interest, it turns out, is not in the resolution of his love triangle, but in the idea that any such resolution is a chimera. Cece, Charlie and Garrett become parents, move through careers that wax and wane, grow old. Far from being finalised in the first act, their feelings about and for one another continue to shift and complicate as the decades unfold. This absence of resolution is most visible in the lives of the trio's children, via whom Puchner presents us with a dichotomy: they're at once actors in their own right, and vessels carrying forward a queasy inheritance. The relationship between two of them, Jasper and Lana, is the subject of a perfectly formed chapter at the heart of the book, in which Puchner makes it clear that their own feelings are at once deeply personal, and at the same time inflected by their odd, slanting glimpses into the relationship between their parents. By following his characters over the course of years, Puchner shows us that we're not fixed at the point of early adulthood; that change remains not just possible but inevitable. Yet in revealing how profoundly the children's lives are shaped by the actions of their parents, he simultaneously calls the whole idea of free will into question. And free will means something different for those born in the 21st century. In its scope and plenitude, Dream State feels, at times, like a Victorian novel: an unhurried depiction of a rich, full world, in which actions have consequences that ripple across generations. But where the great novelists of the Victorian age tended to set their players' foibles and insecurities against stable, knowable landscapes, these characters' journeys take place amid a landscape that is slipping and changing, year by year, degree by terrifying degree. Puchner measures the passage of time by the disappearance of wildlife, the recession of the snowline and, most poignantly, by the retreat of the lake from the shore, leaving behind a 'dry lake bottom … bleached grey as the moon'. Lana and Jasper's summers are hotter and less bounteous than their parents', and their choices, as a result, are curtailed. As the years pass, the book itself evolves, from romantic drama into elegy: for the characters' lost youth, but more profoundly for the loss of a version of youth that is carefree and filled with potential. In his wrenching final chapter, Puchner takes us back to the beginning, and shows us the events that set his central characters' feet on the path to their endings. We feel, in an instant, both the loss of the promise their own lives contained and the collective loss of a steadily unfolding future that once we took for granted. In Dream State, Puchner seduces us with a familiar and deeply secure narrative structure, only to undermine that structure, to force it to tell a tale of profound and fatal insecurity. But he tells his tale so compellingly, so engagingly, with such warmth and humour, that it's not until you set the book down that you can appreciate the breadth and brilliance of what he's done. Dream State by Eric Puchner is published by Sceptre, £18.99. To support the Guardian, order your copy at Delivery charges may apply.
