Thoughts on Billy?

[GingerLeaves]

William on BC

[Itinerary]

Fine as a nickname with William on the BC.

[twinjocks]

Love it. I probably wouldn't even bother with William on birth cert.

[Sophronia]

Love it with William on the bc

[Olbersparadox]

Billy goat comes to mind. No offence meant, I am not keen personally. Definitely go with William on the birth certificate as others say.

[pinkandstripey]

I have a Billy with William on bc, and wish we'd been brave enough to just call him Billy. Confuses elderly relatives and me in the doctors!

[NewLife4Me]

William is a wonderful name

Willy until about 2.5
William
Will.

I wanted Billy, but ds would only be Will

[LizzieMacQueen]

I wouldn't use Billy if I lived in Glasgow, other than that it is quite cute.

[GingerLeaves]

I would only use it with William

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

Yes, with William

[NewLife4Me]

The problem is though if you want them to be called Billy, William is no use because they may find/ their friends may find Bill, or Will.
No matter how many times I tried to use Billy mine just wasn't having it.

[Itinerary]

What's wrong with Billy in Glasgow?

[Jackiebrambles]

We've got a William and my husband always wanted him to be billy but it never stuck! He's just William right now. Great name.

[Mclaren37]

I normally prefer the longer form of a name on the BC to give a kid options, but in this case I think Billy and William are actually quite different names. William will just end up as 'Will'. Nothing wrong with that but I much prefer Billy, it's fab name. You should just call him that.

[SirChenjin]

Up here (Central Belt Scotland) it's the name that's passed down through the generations of families to swear their allegiance to King William of Orange and is associated with sectarianism - not keen for that reason

[momb]

Nice. By using the full name on BC youi can pick Billy as a boy and he can pick Bill as a man if he wants.

[00100001]

If you put Billy on BC, he will get called William by all and sundry anyway - even if you only ever introduce him as Billy. I have a colleague called Jamie (on BC) and adults always call him James.

Boys names like Billy, are "babyish" and they will probably adopt a more "grown up" version later on in life. No doubt the BC Billy will be known as Bill when he's 43!

[Babylove2015]

I know a lovely William called Bill.

I don't like Billy, however. I think Wills is much cuter for a little William.

Every William I have meet has been really sweet.

[Flowerrr]

I like it