Aodh (given name) Aodh (given name) Aodh (; ) is an Irish and Scottish Gaelic male given name, originally meaning "fire". Feminine forms of the name include Aodhnait and Aodhamair. It appears in even more variants as a surname. As a surname, the root or a variant may be prefixed by "O", "Ó", or "Ui" (meaning "from" or "descendant of"), "Mac" or "Mc" (meaning "son of"), or "Nic" (meaning "daughter of"). The name was originally related to an Irish god of the underworld. The masculine given name Hugh is a common anglicization, although the names are not etymologically linked (see Hughes (surname), Hughes
Beaton (surname) Beaton (surname) Beaton is a Scottish surname in the English language, which has multiple origins. One origin of the name is from the placename of Béthune, in Pas-de-Calais, France. Another derivation is from the mediaeval personal name "Beaton", "Beton", which is pet form of a short form of the names "Bartholomew" or "Beatrice". "Bartholomew" is a masculine name, while "Beatrice" is a feminine name; the names are not etymologically related to each other. Another derivation of the surname "Beaton" is that it is an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic "Mac Beath". The surname "Beaton" can be represented in Scottish Gaelic