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Thoughts on Billy?

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GingerLeaves · 05/04/2016 15:24

William on BC

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Itinerary · 05/04/2016 15:54

Fine as a nickname with William on the BC.

twinjocks · 05/04/2016 16:22

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

Sophronia · 05/04/2016 16:33

Love it with William on the bc

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pinkandstripey · 05/04/2016 18:00

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 · 05/04/2016 18:02

William is a wonderful name

Willy until about 2.5
William
Will.

I wanted Billy, but ds would only be Will

LizzieMacQueen · 05/04/2016 18:06

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

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GingerLeaves · 05/04/2016 18:22

I would only use it with William

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ThroughThickAndThin01 · 05/04/2016 18:25

Yes, with William

NewLife4Me · 05/04/2016 18:40

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 · 05/04/2016 18:47

What's wrong with Billy in Glasgow?

Jackiebrambles · 05/04/2016 18:48

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 · 06/04/2016 01:53

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.

ChickedyandChick · 06/04/2016 13:20

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SirChenjin · 06/04/2016 13:24

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 · 06/04/2016 13:27

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 · 06/04/2016 15:07

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 · 06/04/2016 17:12

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 · 08/04/2016 16:31

I like it

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