Is tord a good name for my baby?

[Maddimonster]

I wanted to name my newborn after My grandad and his name was tord but im not sure if thats a good name for a baby

Is it short for something? It's not one many people will have heard if in the UK I think, and sadly, it will cause a fair amount of teasing. Turd or Toad, not good either way!

You're right, it's not a good name for a baby, at least not in an English-speaking country.
Tor is nice.

Where did the op go? Hope you are ok. Hope this isn't a clever poo thread.

Todd? Would be better in the Uk

Wow some people on here are so rude!

Anthony, shortened to tor, Tony, tory/torie

I would definitely not go with tord, no offence but it doesn't sound like a name at all

Someone said its not a proper name and to think of something 'better'.

Pretty rude.

I vote Tor too FWIW

no. Sorry.

I think it's better to come up with a completely different name, rather than use something that's almost like Grandad's but that sounds slightly less like turd.

Asking someone if their Grandads name is a 'proper' name is rude. It just is. Introducing the negative 'it's not a proper name, is it' is a rude way of phrasing any question and implies the asker believes, quite firmly, no it's not.

It was rude.

Tord is a perfectly normal Norwegian name, but English speakers will find it hard to pronounce it properly. The R is supposed to be "hard", like in Spanish.

It's a good strong masculine name but unfortunately would give rise to teasing/misunderstanding I'm afraid. Certain accents may highlight that more too.

I do like Tor, which is unusual. Maybe you could go with Tord as a middle name to honour your grandfather?

What about Torode?

Yes, of course, you must use it.

Tor is good. You can also spell Tord as Torde which looks less like turd.

What about Torden? It's a Scandinavian word with the same meaning as Tord, then shorten it to Tord if you/he wants to.

Why don't you test out reactions by introducing yourself as Tord to strangers for a week and see what happens...

Perfectly lovely. Especially with the 'r' pronounced. Torrrd.

Anglicise it to Todd?

It means 'fart' in Thai...

Does it really, Atticus? Between farts and shit, let's hope op has the sense to drop this nonsense and call her child an actual name.

I quite like it though agree with pps that he might get the odd turd joke. For that reason I would probably go for Tor which I really like too.

But Tord IS a name. A foreign name, but still a name.

I still like Torden. Enough that I'm putting it on my list of names for my potential (but unfortunately
probably never) DS.