Turquand?

[freyapoodle]

Just come across this, what do you think? For a boy of course. It's a bit like Tarquin but not so foppish I thought.

I tell you what, the baby names threads have been particularly brilliant today haven't they? PMSL

Oops, sorry Primula, you beat me to it.. But I got the right..

I know it's nice hence why I suggested it

I thought it'd be more likely to go down well with the OP than James / Jack / Edward / Thomas etc

Isambard?
Harper?
Fletcher?
Tiberius?

PM!

Oh dear surely it will be shortened to Turd??

I think it will be shortened to Wand - which might be unfortunate.

It really wouldn't be fair to use that name on a child.

or it may even be shortened to Turd.....

sorry - just saw Fimbo's post

The question is do you like it? And would you feel a twat shouting out the name when your son is playing football at school, as in "man on, Turquand!"

p.s. How do you pronounce it??

Yeah, bit too weird.

How about St John? (pronounced sin-jun)

I don't mind Tarquin, actually, it's certainly better than Turquand, imo.

But Kipling was Rudyard's surname MrsB.

It's not that bad, lots of inverse snobbery on here today (just seen on Octavia post too).

I don't think it's inverse snobbery. It's just a daft name IMO. I'd feel the same if it was a 'chavvy' name.

yes, exactly
see also Kingsley Amis

god, it's awful

please don't - agree sounds like turd, first thing I thought of

i just came across this when I googled my own name, my surname is "turquand".

I have registered to the site purely add my 2p and say that you should definately be calling ALL your children "Turquand".

Wow. Even I don't like it.
It's a good surname, though....so maybe I do like it............a bit
Sort of.

A joke, non?

That's the best yet.

Err, no. Awful.