Details for the forename Angus

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Angus (male)


Variants:	Aeneas (M) Aenghus (M) Aneas (M) Anghis (M) Aonghas (M) Eneas (M)
Pet Name(s):	Angie (M) Gus (M) Gussie (M)
Lesser Synonym(s):	Eighneachàn (M) Enos (M) Innes (M)
Can be spelt:	Anguish (M) Aonghus (M)
Feminine form:	Angusina (F)

Source(s):	English Parish Register freereg.rootsweb.com The Oxford Names Companion, OUP "Scottish Forenames" - Donald Whyte, FGH, FSG Private communication [GM]
Notes:	Scottish, equivalent to the Gaelic Aonghas or Aonghus, "unique choice" [possibly meaning "the chosen one"], originally from Pictish Hungus. Aeneas Aneas and Eneas, Anglicized as Angus all occur extremely rarely in the 1841 Census of Aberdeenshire. However Aeneas was used as a Latinised version of Angus in many old documents. Search on Aene* to take account of Latin case endings. A correspondent [GM] reports what we take to be Angus being recorded as Anguish in several early US Census records. This might not be found by Soundex searches.