Willem or Miles

[twizzlesss]

Stuck on Willem or Miles. Nn for Willem would be Bill. Anybody know any? Thoughts welcome!

… although I have to say if you don’t have Dutch heritage using Willem rather than William seems a bit pointlessly difficult - like spelling Hannah Hana or Nicholas Nicolas

Never heard of a dog called Bill. Dave seems to be a popular doggie name these days, have also met a canine Steve, but no Bills.

Miles

As pp’s have said - if you don’t have Dutch heritage, you’re making life unnecessarily difficult with Willem rather than William.

I like Miles.

I love Willem. Please could you give him a brother called Jude?

Willem is beautiful - strong, elegant, familiar sounding but unusual, like Maxim. Probably my favourite boys names. Miles just seems a bit less special.

People will get on board with Willem just as they’re doing with other currently used choices which have traditional variants (like Matteo from Matthew). Id definitely do Willem.

Miles is nice.
Willem sounds like a toddler trying to pronounce William to me.
Wilfred?

I like Bill. I would use William.
Willem is fine enough though and people would easily adjust.

Then I also like ..
Jim for James
Tim for Timothy
Mike for Michael
Bob for Robert

are you in the UK or an other majority English country?
I do suspect that there will be a lot of William/Will.
But I actually really like the name!