{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox given name2 | name = Torquil | image = | image_size = | caption = | pronunciation = | gender = Masculine | nameday = | language = English | languageorigin = 1. Scottish Gaelic, from Old Norse <br />2. Norwegian, Swedish, from Old Norse | origin = 1. SG ''Torcall'', from ON ''Þorketill'' <br />2. Nr, Sw ''Torkel'', from ON ''Þorketill'' | derivation = ON ''Þorr'' + ''ketill'' | meaning = "Thor" + "(sacrificial) cauldron" | variant = | shortform = | petname = | cognate = 2. Thorkel; Torkil; Torkild; Torkjell | anglicisation = | derivative = | popularity = | seealso = | wikt = }}
'''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'', made up of the two elements: ''Þór'', meaning "Thor" the Norse god of thunder; and ''kell'' (in some variants ''ketill''), meaning "(sacrificial) cauldron".<ref name="H1">{{citation |last1=Hanks |first1=Patrick |last2=Hardcastle |authorlink1=Patrick Hanks |first2=Kate |last3=Hodges |first3=Flavia |title=A Dictionary of First Names |edition=2nd |series=Oxford Paperback Reference |year=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-861060-1 |pages=263, 397, 410 }}</ref>
A variant spelling of the Scottish Gaelic ''Torcall'' is ''Torcull''. A similar Scottish Gaelic given name is ''Torcadall'', which is also Anglicised as ''Torquil''.<ref>{{citation |last=MacFarlane |first=Malcolm |authorlink=Malcolm MacFarlane |title=The School Gaelic Dictionary prepared for the use of learners of the Gaelic language |publisher=Eneas Mackay |location=Stirling |year=1912 |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924026841043 |page=148 }}</ref>
==Torquil== *Torquil (priest), Archdeacon of Dublin in 1180 *Torquil MacLeod, 14th century Scottish clan chief *Torquil MacLeod (clan chief), 16th-century Scottish clan chief *Torquil MacNeill, 16th century Scottish clan chief *Torquil Neilson, Australian actor *Torquil Norman (1933–2025), British businessman *Torquil Riley-Smith (born 1962), founder of LBH, Britain's first gay radio station *Torquil Campbell (born 1972), co-lead singer and songwriter of the Canadian band Stars
==Torquhil== *Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll (born 1968), Scottish peer *Torquhil Matheson (1871–1963), senior British Army officer of the First World War
==See also== *Mac Torcaill
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