um....Talisker?

[GirlWithTheMouseyHair]

playing a ridiculous game with DH naming DC2 after favourite tipples, single malts came up and after the hilarity of Glenmorangie and Glenliddich, Talisker came up

I really like it!

AM I being pregnant and weird? Apparently it is a bona fide scottish name

Apparently Tal is a name in itself (for a girl or boy), its of Hebrew origin and means rain, dew. It has 2 varient forms Tahl and Talor

Erskine is my son's middle name - it was a much-loved great-uncle's first name.

Re Talisker - I like it as a general name, but it is one of the really popular malts, and I also know someone who has a cat called Talisker...

I guess it really depends whereabouts you are and whether it would be synonomous with whisky...and where your ds ends up in later life!

Oh, and no,no, no, to Troon!!!!

I know a 5 year old Talisker. I assumed it was a place name like Isla.

It would be funny on his 12th birthday, you could say he was now Aged and could be taken seriously

Ok so that's two mumsnetters who know real children with the name, so I can't be THAT mad!

Sounds like the name of an elephant to me.

No. Whisky connection is too strong - and so well known that even if he were to live abroad, people would still make the connection.

I'm all for place names as names (as is one of my middle names), but maybe not when that particular place name has very strong connections to something else, you old lush.

Bikerunski
Yes, I would assume it was the parent's favourite drink. Like naming a child Jack Daniel.

If you like Tal for short and have Welsh origins what about Taliesin?

I had a friend who named his cat Talisker... she is a cutie.

YY Taliesin. Great name! Although I haven't met one other than my DS and I quite like it that way.

ooooh ok I like that suggestion - is it pronounced as it's spelt?

I think that is a major problem - it's DH's favourite whisky!

Buckie
short for Buckfast

We actually have a kid at the school where I work called Tekeila. Yes, she really does spell it like that!

I think it's a lovely name it was on the short list...for the cat but dh thinks it's to peaty so we went for Oban instead which is his favourite whiskey now wish we hadn't as I now love the name Oban and would have been tempted to use it for a future dc.
I think Tallisker would make a lovely name for a little boy although dh thinks it would be nice for a girl.

What about Taliesin?

Sorry, just seen it's been suggested already.

It is pronounced Tal-yes-in.

When choosing a coffin for my late father, we happened upon one called Islay. He would have loved it and we had to get it for him!

i use a computer system in work called Talisker so its a no no for me.

Taliesin is much better imho