Does Troy sound chavvy?

[bananamom]

Cool or just plain chav?

No.

People will snigger.

Sorry, but it is a bit chavvy.

Achilles much better.

it's awful - porn name

Troy is the name of a made-for-tv american movie star who ends up many times divorced and living in a trailer reliving the heady heights of his fame when he starred in 'She Had No Body: A Medical Miracle' as the dashing body transplant surgeon .

Yep

"Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from..."

Sort of desperate sounding.

I dont think so at all!

I don't like "chavvy" - but I must say it was the name of the youngest son of the roughest family on our estate. You could always hear the mum - nicknamed "hatchet face," charmingly, - bellowing "Troyyyyyyyy" plus various obscenities, at all hours of the day. So it would be a no-no for me. It's hard to seperate the name from such a strong memory!

What about Travis?

I love the name Troy
The only association I have is with HSM, and I am by no means a Zac Efron fan, but that hasn't affected my opinion either way.
I've never heard of a Troy in real life, apart from one little boy on a documentary, but he was part of a perfectly respectable, if large, family. It didn't really suit him =/

I think it has chav potential, but at the moment it's fine.

As a 'Far from the Madding Crowd' reference it's ok but, sorry, really chavvy. Gabriel would be a much better reference as he was the hero and Sgt Troy the villain.

No

I've only ever known one and he's 40ish so it's not a recently popular name. It's not a sleb baby name is it?

so long as it's not a name from hollyoaks or neighbours (and I wouldn't know) then I think it's fine. I like it.

Re-reading the posts now, I realise how clueless I am about HSM and so on.

chav :)