Torquil

Torquil
Gender	Masculine
Language(s)	English
Origin
Language(s)	1. Scottish Gaelic, from Old Norse ; 2. Norwegian, Swedish, from Old Norse
Word/name	1. SG Torcall, from ON Þorketill ; 2. Nr, Sw Torkel, from ON Þorketill
Derivation	ON Þorr + ketill
Meaning	"Thor" + "(sacrificial) cauldron"
Other names
Cognate(s)	2. Thorkel; Torkil; Torkild; Torkjell
See also	Torcadall, Torcall

Torquil is an Anglicised form of the Norwegian and Swedish masculine name Torkel, and the Scottish Gaelic name Torcall. The Scottish Gaelic name Torcall is a Gaelicised form of the Old Norse name Þorkell. The Scandinavian Torkel is a contracted form of the Old Norse Þorkell. This Old Norse name is made up of the two elements: Þór, meaning "Thor" the Norse god of thunder; and kell (in some variants ketill), meaning "(sacrificial) cauldron".[1]

Scandinavian variants of the Torkel include: the Icelandic, Þorkell; Norwegian and Swedish Torkil, Thorkel; the Norwegian Torkjell; and the Danish Torkil, Torkild, Terkel.[1][2]

A variant spelling of the Scottish Gaelic Torcall is Torcull.

A similar Scottish Gaelic given name is Torcadall, which is also Anglicised as Torquil.[3]

Torquil

Torquil Archdeacon of Dublin in 1180.
Charles Torquil de Montalt Fraser, (born 1960), an English High Sheriff of West Sussex, England.
Torquil Campbell, (born 1972), a lead singer and songwriter of the Canadian band Stars.
Torquil MacLeod, (fl.14th century), a Scottish clan chief.
Torquil MacLeod (clan chief), a 16th-century Scottish clan chief.
Torquil MacNeill, 16th century Scottish clan chief.
Torquil Neilson, an Australian actor.
Torquil Norman, (born 1933), an English businessman.
Torquil Riley-Smith (born 1962), founder of the British radio station LBH, Britain's first gay radio station
Torquil Mooketsi, (born 1993), founder of Quil Group in Botswana, Afrika.

Torquhil

Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll, (born 1968), a Scottish peer.
Torquhil Matheson, (1871–1963), a senior British Army officer of the First World War.

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References

Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 263, 397, 410, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1
"Terkel - Nordic Names Wiki - Name Origin, Meaning and Statistics". www.nordicnames.de. Retrieved 2016-11-22.
MacFarlane, Malcolm (1912), The School Gaelic Dictionary prepared for the use of learners of the Gaelic language, Stirling: Eneas Mackay, p. 148

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[H1-1] Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 263, 397, 410, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1

[2] "Terkel - Nordic Names Wiki - Name Origin, Meaning and Statistics". www.nordicnames.de. Retrieved 2016-11-22.

[3] MacFarlane, Malcolm (1912), The School Gaelic Dictionary prepared for the use of learners of the Gaelic language, Stirling: Eneas Mackay, p. 148