Errol

Errol comes from a Scottish surname connected with the village of Errol in Perthshire. The place association is clearer than a precise translation of the village's oldest name. This makes from Errol the most useful explanation of the given name, which followed a familiar path from a location to a family name and then to a first name.

Actor Errol Flynn helped bring the spelling to wider attention through film. Jazz pianist Erroll Garner provides another cultural association, using the closely related double-l form. Those bearers give Errol a recognizable twentieth-century history alongside its Scottish geographical roots. A family may choose it for an ancestral surname, a Scottish connection, or an interest in film and music, with each association adding to the story of this compact place-derived name.