Names that sound Canadian? (Scottish, percentage, between)
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My whole comment about Gordon has got me thinking, but names go around in waves... there are trendy names that were popular in certain decades which, due to overpopularity, fade away... and then eventually come back into popularity. Like the name "Jennifer". How many hundreds of Jennifers have you met in Canada? And some time in the last 10 years it became uber trendy and sophisticated to name your baby girl something old fashioned and English sounding, like Emma, or Victoria. Those hundreds of Jennifers will be replaced by the hundreds of Emmas and Victorias, until a new name trend shifts. Gordon may have been a name trend in Canada back in the 60's and 70's (or maybe I'm just thinking of Gordon Lightfoot or the Barenaked Ladie's album, Gordon).
I'm still trying to think of names that are in abundance in Canada but aren't elsewhere, and I can't think of any.
Cree, Ojibwa, and Inuit names would be uniquely Canadian (also those of other indigenous peoples)
Just blabbing here, but I don't think I've ever met a guy named Lorne in my life. Gordon? Do you think Gordon's still representative of the typical Canadian male name? Perhaps it was in 1970, but now? Aren't there more little boys being named "Jayden" and "Liam" and "Aiden" these days? I'd say Gordon's out of fashion - guys named Gordon are 40+. When was the last time you met a young guy named Gordon in Canada? I know more Mikes, Steves, James, and Jasons than Gordons. And more guys named Josh, Kyle, Luke, Greg, Brandon, Tyler, Ryan, Sean, Ian, Brian, and Patrick than Gordon. Gordon? I think it's a myth Canadians like to emphasize, but the reality is that there are so many more common names... they're just not "Canadian" - they're regular popular western names.
Guess I was thinking of it more from a "historical" perspective.
I would tend to agree with you that currently popular anglo names in Canada tend to be quite similar to what you find in the U.S., U.K., Australia, etc.
I guess this phenomenon is not dissimilar to the soap opera/pop culture influence that gave a meteoric rise to Ashley (Young and the Restless) and other character names in anglo North America.
Just blabbing here, but I don't think I've ever met a guy named Lorne in my life.
Lorne Greene was Canadian. But I have never actually met a Lorne either or heard the name outside the actor.
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Gordon? Do you think Gordon's still representative of the typical Canadian male name? Perhaps it was in 1970, but now? Aren't there more little boys being named "Jayden" and "Liam" and "Aiden" these days?
I didn't realize we had an age limit. I do know a Gordon. The one and only Gordon I have ever met. And yes, he would be in his 40s but that's old?! I didn't either realize that "Gordon" was part of our national myth. We have a myth about names?
I don't know a Jean-Guy but I know at least two Jean-Pauls and a couple of Rheals along with a handful of Raymonds (pronounced the French way - I don't know how to make the little marks over letters) and Andres. And a lot of Michelles and one Mireille.
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Personally? I don't really think there are any first names that are truly Canadian.
They sound Ukrainian, as do most names that end in "chuk" and "uik". There were a lot of Ukrainian immigrants to Canada in the early 1900's.
They are. My friend for Saskatchewan, her last name was Hrycuik. Michalchuk, well, I heard that from Paige Michalchuk(played by Lauren Collins), a Degrassi character.
Anyone with the last name McKenzie sounds Canadian to me..
It would make sense, but I hear that name in the USA too.
Another Canadian name, Mcleod
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I'd say Gordon's out of fashion - guys named Gordon are 40+. 
