Opinions on the name Billy (William)?

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I love William, but prefer Will.

Billy is much better than Willy

Love William and the derivative Will. Billy is becoming more common as a stand alone name, but can still be associated with William. A fine choice I'm my opinion this may be my chosen name for soon to be PFB

I like it!

Where are you? I'm afraid to me (north west) and my DH (west Scotland) Billy is short for Billy-No-Mates and automatically makes us think of somebody with no friends....

I’m not keen on Bill or Billy either, but it’s nicer than Will (a verb) or Willy.

Or maybe not shorten William at all?

William/Will is great.

I don't like Billy.

Pipi really weird that you keep popping up on these threads talking about willies.

not together and dont ever let him read the Mr Gum books

Love the name Billy.

Love Billy. Wish I'd pushed for it more with DS, it would've suited him so much.

I really like it. William is a lovely name anyway and means he has options.

William is okay, Billy is horrible.

I have one! It really suits him and he chooses to be Billy himself now (5yo) and corrects anyone who calls him anything else.
He has another William in his year group who goes by his full name so it works from that point of view too.

Love William. DH loved Billy as a NN for William but I wasn't so keen. Ended up using William as one of DS's middle names.

Love Billy short for William!

I've got a William I love Will, and in practice use Billy Boy, Bilbo etc
At 15 he likes his name too, which I reckon is a win.

Billy is awesome! It's the best name in the world (I have a Billy).

I also have a Billy whose birth cert is William. But he's always been Billy. Always. Love it.

I have a William and I tried to make him a Billy but there was just me and one lovely friend who kept with it.

I gave in and William he is

I like Billy but William leaves me cold.

MonkeyJumping, I am from the same area! If you're on your own you are "on your bill".

Also, I have an uncle Billy. He had an unfortunate accident at Xmas - lost his willy on the motor way...hey!

@SpareChangedownthesofa - hah that has brought back happy memories of a Christmas carol concert our school had - the teachers had all thought the 6 yr olds knew the words but it turns out they mostly knew the "uncle billy" version!

Very nice

I really like it.

But idiots at school and the 'billy-no-mates' connotations give me reservations.

My Billy has never had the ‘no-mates’ thing. In fact, he’s very popular. Also funny, handsome, clever, sporty, charming, opinionated and argumentative. It’s a good name, and suits him.