Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Original poster

Timon? Tristram?

21 replies

LetThemEatCake · 08/04/2009 17:18

I like Tristram but is it awful that it means sorrowful??

As for Timon - ow would you pronounce it? Like Tim-on, or rhyming with simon?

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Bonneville · 11/04/2009 18:02

Is Timon a name?!!!!!!

MadamDeathstare · 11/04/2009 17:54

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

MadamDeathstare · 11/04/2009 17:54

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

janeite · 11/04/2009 17:54

Timon is terrible imho.

Tristan is lovely.

Tristram - I'm another one who failed to finish reading the book as part of my degree!

BunnyLebowski · 11/04/2009 17:51

Lol at hotcrosspurepurple - my mind went straight there too

Tristram is a wee bit Little Lord Fauntleroy for me....not keen

Simplysally · 10/04/2009 17:03

I have to say that Tristan does bring to mind Peter Davison and Tristram reminds me of the book Tristram Shandy (which I haven't actually managed to finish about 10 years I began studying it).

I'm not quite sure what that says about my viewing or literary tastes .

StealthPolarBear · 10/04/2009 17:00

I have a Tristan WHen I was reading up about it I later read it meant sorrow but also that it means noisy- and it does!

Simplysally · 10/04/2009 16:57

Tristram is nice but I'd prefer Tristan myself.

EdwardCullensWife · 10/04/2009 16:55

Timon from Lion King? No, no, no, no, no.

diedandgonetodevon · 10/04/2009 16:54

Love Tristram. Sod what it means- who looks up meanings of names except expectant parents?

Timon just makes me think of Timon & Pumba and start to sing

peanutbutterkid · 10/04/2009 16:48

Tristram has nothing to do with sadness, says this website.

I thought Tristam was old Cornish for Tristan, and Tristan is Cornish for Thomas.

Tristram is a mouthful, though. That would put me off it. I have a Tristan, he's nearly 5 and can't even say his own name clearly yet, never mind if it had an extra r in it.

Timon is okay but it's a particular character in Lion King (the one with flatulence problem?).

Original poster
LetThemEatCake · 08/04/2009 18:18

Hmm, PullMyFinger. French, and many other European languages, are derived from Latin.

not denying that Triste is French but think you may find it is Latin too Smile

OP posts:
PullMyFinger · 08/04/2009 17:41

Triste is french ackshewerly

But Tritram/Tristan is derived from an ancient pict name IIRC so ner

hotcrosspurepurple · 08/04/2009 17:33

Timon and Pumba anyone?

everGreensleeves · 08/04/2009 17:32

I know a Timo, pronounced tee-mow

southeastastra · 08/04/2009 17:25

wasn't tristram the boy next door in george and mildred?

Original poster
LetThemEatCake · 08/04/2009 17:24

prefer Tristram to Tristan. Just do.

It just does mean sorrowful!! derives from the latin for sad which is triste or tristes or summat

OP posts:
MadreInglese · 08/04/2009 17:22

Tristram might be a bit of a mouthful for kids to pronouce though, what about Tristan?

PullMyFinger · 08/04/2009 17:22

Why does Tristram mean sorrowful ? It's a v historical and romantic story

TImon - yeuch no

screamingabdab · 08/04/2009 17:20

Timon - Tim-on

Tristram - no comment (sorry)

MadreInglese · 08/04/2009 17:19

I would have thought Timon was pronounced Tea-monn