Exceptions apply if there was a duplication of a given name.
In that case the practice was to skip to the next name on the list. If a child died, that name was to be recycled with a future child. One unique aspect of Scottish naming was that if two grandmothers or two grandfathers had the same given name, two children in the same family would end up with the same name. Another practice was to name daughters after the clergyman or other important male figure.