Baby name issue?

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Hi. My husband and I are struggling to agree on a baby name we both like. We narrowed it down to one,William. However I have 2 slight issues but not sure if I'm over thinking it.

1. Love the nickname will but hate willy. Do Williams tend to get called Willy?

1. Also as my surname is Dixon, am I reading too much into kids teasing and creating Willy Dixon with the surname also sounding a bit rude (if you get what I mean as not sure I can say it here haha).

Or am I thinking the worse of kids these days?

1. Not if you call him Will or Billy or Liam
2. See 1.

Will is the most common shortening of William. My daughter would have been Will(iam) Henry if we'd had a boy. Lovely name.

There may be one or two people in his school days who pick up on 'HA HA WILLIE DICK' but I can't imagine it will be a widespread issue! Not like calling him Chris Peacock.

And Williams rarely get called Willie these days. Always Will in my experience.

willy dicks.

Yeh I think a bunch of 13 year olds are going to reach that quite quickly whether you call him billy or liam.

I like Billy better than Willy.

Quintilla....... that made me laugh!

I like William. It is a name I would have considered if I had had a boy (I didn't, I had three girls).

Shortened version if you want on could be Will, Wills or perhaps Billy?

I don’t think I would use William, due to your sirname. I think teens will also make the link.

Nobody has ever called mine Willie. Wills, William, other nicknames coming from an amalgamation of first name and middle name when he was little but never Willie. He's at secondary school now and his school friends seem to have named him Willum which has stuck.

Hope his name is never read out surname first.

My William is Wills or Will or William. Never anything else. Love the name.

William and Dixon are fine separately but put them together and it's too penis-esque! Back to the drawing board 🙂

William and Dixon are fine separately but put them together and it's too penis-esque! Back to the drawing board 🙂

John Thomas Dixon for DS2?

William is a great name and you might be able to avoid the nn Willy mostly, but I'm afraid other kids won't miss it. Sorry, but with your surname I wouldn't take the risk.

Unfortunately, yes, I think other children will make the link and call him Willy Dick

I knew a W-i-l-l-i-a-m W-i-l-l-c-o-c-k-s a few years ago. He sometimes used to get called Willy Willy Cock.

Similar issue.

Oohhh no! As a pp said, both names are fine alone but far roo penis-y together!

The possibility of teasing around the nickname Willy was enough to stop me using the name William as a first name, even though I love it.
There is absolutely no way that I would consider it at all with the surname Dixon.
He is the one who has to live with the name, not you. Don’t be cruel.

No way! The willy dicks teasing potential is way too risky!

I don't like the sound of William (especially the Willi part).

William literally contains Willi. It's such an obvious teasing potential. But with Dixon I would definitely avoid the name.

I don't really like will as nickname as it's a verb (Will will you come...) or a noun (a will).

I guess Billy is cute but has little resemblance with William (Billiam ).

Hey, why not use Liam ? It's very close to the name you both like and it's got not teasing potential.

Or alternatively, why not William in another language ? Wilhelm, Guillaume, Guillermo...

I don't know any that get called Willy but Will Dixon is too penis like I think.

William’s in my DC’s school are just William, it doesn’t get shortened at all. I don’t think it ever gets shortened to Willy nowadays.

I don’t think it ever gets shortened to Willy nowadays.

Probably not by adults (given the penis association), but by silly kids in the playground!

In any case, I wouldn't combine Will(y) with Dixon.