Torquil

[NickySummerbee]

DH keeps suggesting this

TORQUIL?!
Hahahahaha

Is that a real name?

love it!

Talk Will(y)

I hope that doesn't become popular, people will be calling their children Tor for short. I don't want people I meet to assume my name is Torquil!

LTB!

no no no no no no no no

Oh dear. OP you cannot call your poor child Torquil. Even if you're very posh indeed he will still be the butt of every joke going. Send your DH back to the drawing board immediately!

i'm sorry, it just reminds me of tarquin! no no no

Fight back - Torquemada

I just googled and apparently Torquil is a Norse/Scottish name meaning Thor's helmet or cauldron.

However to me it just sounds like a strange hybrid of Torvil and Tarquin.

With Dean as a middle name?

It sounds like a Pokemon.

It's a great name if you're going to be having a baby eagle.

Awful.

LOL at Gerund.

It's horrible. I'm not sure it is even a real name, is it?

I quite like it and know one. I am in Scotland. It is very posh Scottish though (there is a Billy Connolly routine about Torquil and Farquhar with over exaggerated posh voices...)

Ah DH has posh Scottish ancedents so that might be where he is getting it from. Your reactions haven't helped me warm to it!

It's a great name if you're going to be having a baby eagle.

I know a very posh and very lovely Scotsman called Torquil so it will always have positive associations for me - I like the name

I knew a Torquil and he was always called Tork for short. It isn't a name i would choose at all.

I know one and I actually quite like it.
He genuinely has a brother called Farquhar TheGirl

Yup, posh Scottish. We know one. Nice - if a little unhinged. Him, not the name. No, actually we know (knew) two - but the other was known as Will.

Think Scotland's answer to something like Peregrine or St. John and you're half way there.

Actually, it would totally work with Will as a nn - but then there's not much point to going all out for Torquil I suppose...