I need middle names to go with billy

[tweeni]

It will be hyphenated though.

So far I have come up with

Billy-Ray
Billy-Guy
Billy-Owen
Billy-Martin
Billy-Anthony/Billy-Anton
Billy-Peter
Bill y-Gareth

19th century i think. Quite a few generations anyway. I don't mind keeping the tradition cos I quite like them. Billy Bob and now possibly Billy Ray although I didn't know this are a bit hillbilly. Are people not liking it cos its Billy-hyphen something and its got hillbilly connotations or would you react the same if it was John-hypen something or Robert-hyphen something?

Names with a hyphen just dont do it for me either. For girls or boys.

It sounds a bit twee and hillbilly-ish for me.

Billy is a lovely name.

DN is William Daniel.

Billy-Bob

Billy-Max

Billy-Rex

Billy-Ben

just sounds daft! would you use it as a hyphenated name all the time?

Would a teenage boy really want to be called Billy-Bob?

John-James or John-Jack or John-Joe don't sound so bad and can be shortened to JJ which isn't bad?

Or Christopher-James to CJ

or Adam-John (for example) to AJ?

(wouldn't recommend BJ though!!!!!!!!!!)

As i have said I wouldn't ever use Billy-Bob. That does sound very hillbilly.

Other hyphenated names we have are Holly-Anne, Lucianne (although not technically hyphenated), Marie-Claire, Jo-Marie, Ann-Marie, Katie-Jayne, Kirsty-Jayne, Jean-Paul, Joshua-James, Jayden-James, Jamie-Lee, Jackson-Lee, Paul-James, Thomas-Jack, Jean-Luc

Some I think sound a bit "common" but others I think are fine and not hillbilly at all.

I don't really like shortening names to letters so it doesn't matter if they go together like JP, JT, CJ, TJ, JJ etc

Sorry - was just trying to give you another option if you hadn't already thought about it.
Good luck with the name search. Hope you get something you and your family are happy with in the end.

My mistake. I thought I had said no to that earlier when someone else mentioned but i didn't.

if it's hyphenated, then surely it isn't a middle name but part of the first name? and i don't know if you can shorten willliam-ray to billy-ray - i would say it ought to be billy-ray on the birth certificate? not that there are any rules, you can call him whatever you like after all!

billy-ray, billy-bob and billy-jo(e) are all names with connotations for our generation (well, anyone aged late 20s and up)

do you like jarvis cocker? he had a song called billy jack. it's quite funny!

would you mind if it was shortened to initials? eg john-david to JD, anton-john to AJ...?

btw i really really like the name billy by itself!

Anton-John .... oooh i like that.

You said that you liked the name Anton.
What about Anton-Dec?

hence my 19:38 post

What about Anton-Bee?
I used to love the Ant and Bee books.

like Billy by itself, but the hyphen bit just dosent work in my opinion sorry
if you are set on it out of all of them billy jack sounds the least chavtastic
anton john, not so good

Billy-Jack sounds quite good. And also as William-Jack

Can't use Jack. That is part of DS' name. Even if it wasn't I wouldn't want him to have the initials BJ.

Wallace - BJ, really? Nice!

That would be fun for the poor soul in the playground

Never even noticed the BJ

my little boys name is william on his birth certificate, but other than at doctors appointments and things like that he is known as billy. i wanted him to be named just billy but i had the same middle name trouble as yourself. whenever someone asks myself or parter our sons name we say billy and he known to everyone we know as billy and as he is only 14 months old if anyone does call him william he ignores them as he doesnt understand that, that is his full name. so good look finding a middle name for your billy but if all else fails william is just the same.

Billy-whatever is not a name that passes easily from boy to man, in my opinion. By itself, although I prefer William, it's fine. Do you have a French background? Hyphenated boys names of French origin are quite common here in Canada ... Jean-Luc, Paul-Rene, Jean-Marc, Pierre-Louis ... etc.

gosh, in a spirit of facetiousness I will type in that the first thing I thought of was Billy-Thekid - but I see you have some better suggestions.

I have a friend called Robert-John, does that help? How about John-Toby? Anton-Edward works for me too.

I like Jean-Luc and Jean-Paul if you are French, not if you are not.

Jayden-James is awful unless you want to call him Jay-Jay. Thomas-Jack doesn't sit well but Thomas-John would = only then it runs the risk of being reversed to John-Thomas which would be just mean.

The others are ok. The girl's ones are ok too.

Billy is a nice name on its own, but hyphenated with anything it sounds like someone who lives in a trailer park.

(Incidentally, I have a cousin Billy who looks just like Cletus the slack-jawed yokel.)

It may sounds nobbish, but I just can't imagine a high court judge or CEO called Billy-Jay or Billy-Ben, or Billy-Whatever.

I would just buck the family trend and go with William. Or choose another name that sounds more reasonable when hyphenated.