Billie or Phoebe?

[Depoisthedevil]

His choice and mine. Which do you like?

Pheobe

Billie

Have you been watching Charmed OP? 😄 Two main characters in the last season are Billie and Phoebe. Anyway I prefer Billie.

Phoebe! I love it

How very 90s! I like both :)

Of the two, Billie.

Billie

I really dislike Phoebe

I like both

Phoebe

Phoebe is lovely. Billie is a nn

Phoebe. Really like it.

Phoebe.

Billie is a nickname

Phoebe by a mile.

Wilhelmina. Stand alone fabulous, & can be Billie, Mina, Wilma, Ellie if you want a shortened form.

Phoebe is lovely, but it doesn't shorten well (except Fob in the Antonia Forest novels!) & is irritatingly prone to being Pheobe'd.

I've an otherwise lovely friend who called her horse Pheobe & it annoys me & prejudices me against Phoebe. Although I'm sure a) OP wouldn't & b) Pheobe is a happy horse.

Still, I'm Team Wilhelmina nn Billie.

Wilhelmina? This is a modern day child we’re talking about, not a Stone Age cartoon character.

@Wouldloveanother I think you are conflating Wilhelmina with Wilma from the Flintstones. Actually Wilma's quite nice.

The association is still there 😂 it’s a ridiculous name, one of those suggestions where you know the person suggesting it would never use it themselves 😂

I really like both and Billie Phoebe works as does Phoebe Billie

No I wouldn't have used Wilhelmina but if we had a simpler surname I'd have used:

Cordelia
Persephone
Araminta
Christabel
Madeline
Genevieve
Mirabel
Xanthe

Phoebe

I would actually have used it quite happily for dd2, who does have a polysyllabic name & choice of diminutives.

It didn't make the cut because an older brother had a 'Wil' name as a middle name, but I do like it.

If I wanted to call a dd Billie, I'd give her a full name with a tad more gravitas.

Lots of people are fine with diminutives as official names, but I would always veer towards old fashioned longer names with a choice of nicknames for everyday, rather than start with a name that's already a shortened form.

I work in a culture where polysyllabic names are standard, so no one would blink at a little Wilhelmina any more than a tiny AbdelRahman.

Phoebe definitely Billie is a nn

Phoebe

Phoebe

I really dislike pheobe sounds weird and a girl I knew at school was called pheobe everyone called her phobia