Argyll

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discoveryisland · 15/10/2020 15:41

Honest thoughts on this as a name for either gender. We have a very lovely association to Argyll and I recently met a girl named this and I thought it was so sweet. I feel it could work on a male too.

If it doesn't work as a first, perhaps as a middle?

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Kenworthington · 15/10/2020 16:25

I just think of ‘Plymouth argyle’ 😬

florascotia2 · 15/10/2020 16:22

Would make a good and unusual middle name, as previous poster suggests.

As a first name, I suppose it depends on how you feel about place names as personal names. If you'd call a baby 'Cornwall' or 'Yorkshire' then why not Argyll?
Parts of Argyll are very scenic and historic, but I'm sure you already know that.
www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/home

If it helps, in 2019, there were three boys named 'Argyll' or 'Argyle' in Scotland, and one girl named 'Argyle'.

But obviously, your baby, you choice of name.

JemimaTiggywinkle · 15/10/2020 15:54

I’d be more inclined to use it as a middle name

JemimaTiggywinkle · 15/10/2020 15:53

My first assumption would that it would be a boys name.

Speaking as a non-Scottish person, I know how to pronounce this as a place name, but when I saw it out of context (e.g. here as a baby name) it took me a couple of seconds to work out what it was, so you could get some weird pronunciations.
But that could just be my baby brain!

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