[name]Errol[/name]/Erol/[name]Erroll[/name]: Has anyone ever met anyone with this name? WDYT of it??
I like it! I’m not sure I like it enough to use it, but I do like it a lot. Although, I just saw it’s a variation of [name]Earl[/name], which I like much better as just [name]Earl[/name] (probably because [name]Earl[/name] as it is is a family name for me). I always assumed it was [name]AIR[/name]-ohl, but now I’m thinking it’s probably closer to ERR-uhl/Ehrl, just like [name]Earl[/name]?
I haven’t met anyone with the name, but I have met several Earls.
@ash–[name]Errol[/name] is pronounced [name]Air[/name]-ohl.
Never met one. [name]Just[/name] [name]Errol[/name] [name]Flynn[/name] for me.
I’ve never met one, but I really like the name. I keep getting caught up on its similarity to [name]Eros[/name] and erotic though, so I don’t think I could use it.
I’ll be the voice against the tide here. I don’t like [name]Errol[/name]. Always sounded like error to me.
I have two friends named [name]Errol[/name]. [name]One[/name] is in his early 20s, the other one is thirty something.
I also saw it in of [name]Guy[/name] [name]Ritchie[/name]'s movie, so I always think of it as very Scottish name. I don’t really like the sound of it, but it’s not one of those names that straightly makes me cringe when mentioned.
I have a crusty old neighbor named [name]Errol[/name], so for me I don’t like it. But it isn’t common and I could see it being a nice boy’s name.
I go to uni with one, but before that I’d always thought it an old man name. He goes by the nn Elz sometimes if you’re considering using a nn for it.
Unfortunately it’s also tied to the actor for me, too, as is the more popular [name]Flynn[/name]. But I am into vintage actors and looked him up. The whole anti-Semitic thing and the suspected/alleged Nazi sympathies sort of ruined the previous appeal for me.
Same for me. I wouldn’t mind meeting one though
I used to be into [name]Errol[/name] [name]Flynn[/name] and that could have kind of worked for me at that time. But in my film-geekery I looked him up too much, turns out he was a fairly sucky person in real life and took the shine off it and [name]Flynn[/name] too for me.
I don’t think I could ever disassociate either enough to use them. 
All I can think of is the decrepit old Weasley owl in the [name]Harry[/name] [name]Potter[/name] series named [name]Errol[/name].
I like the name; it’s been on our long list in the past. The only association I have with it is the owl from [name]Harry[/name] [name]Potter[/name].
Known one guy with it (an older guy) and had never heard of it before then.
I don’t really like it, sorry. Looks/sounds too much like error to me.
First thing I thought of too!
First thing I thought of too!
I think of the actor, and tend to associate his on-screen persona with the name. I actually quite like, but I don’t think I’d use it myself…but I’d be beyond pleased to see someone else use it.
Until I started working at my current school I’d never met an [name]Errol[/name] but I now know of a 5 year old named [name]Errol[/name] and it took a bit of getting used to because it just seems like an old man’s name!
[name]Errol[/name] is a generational family name on my husbands side. Thankfully its in the mn spot. No one likes it in the family, but it keeps being used anyway. We arent fans of it and I wouldnt recommend it.