William & Lillian

[Anonymous]

You will be saying them both together a lot

[Anonymous]

They’re fine for siblings, but I don’t like William or any of it’s diminutives (Will, Bill, Billy, etc.). It really doesn’t matter what someone’s siblings are named as soon as they become an older child/teenager. It especially doesn’t matter in adulthood. I don’t know what 99% of my friends’ siblings’ names are as an adult. Parents overthink these things way too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too similar for siblings?

We have a Lillian that goes by Lillie. We like William for baby #2. I imagine he’d mostly be called William but maybe Will. We’d avoid Willie.

Are these too similar? Both are very important family names.

Billy and Lillie?

Very few Billys these days

Bring Billy back!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP. I don't like the name Liam. It seems a bit poser-Celtic. Like Maeve and Siobhan. People pick it without any connection to the ethnic background.

If OP used William they better have royal ancestry.

Ridiculous. Very common name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They’re fine for siblings, but I don’t like William or any of it’s diminutives (Will, Bill, Billy, etc.). It really doesn’t matter what someone’s siblings are named as soon as they become an older child/teenager. It especially doesn’t matter in adulthood. I don’t know what 99% of my friends’ siblings’ names are as an adult. Parents overthink these things way too much.

+1

I can’t stand William and any nickname that comes from it.

[Anonymous]

I think imagine yelling them across a park and they're going to sound a bit too similar.

[Anonymous]

I think they’re beautiful names but too similar.

[Anonymous]

Personally I think they sound too close. It sounds like a tongue twister when you say them together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too similar for siblings?

We have a Lillian that goes by Lillie. We like William for baby #2. I imagine he’d mostly be called William but maybe Will. We’d avoid Willie.

Are these too similar? Both are very important family names.

Children like to rhyme Lillie and Willie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too similar for siblings?

We have a Lillian that goes by Lillie. We like William for baby #2. I imagine he’d mostly be called William but maybe Will. We’d avoid Willie.

Are these too similar? Both are very important family names.

too similar

[Anonymous]

I’ll be the contrarian. I think they’re both nice names and if I met a family with kids named Will and Lillian I wouldn’t think twice. It’s not like naming your kids Dolly and Holly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I personally find them too similar, yes.

In addition to encouraging people to call them Lillie and Willie, they will also get Lil and Will.

I also just think visually, it's so many "L"s. Are there any Ls in your last name? If so, it's just overkill.

Willy and Lilly is overkilly.

[Anonymous]

I would call them Lilly and Willy Nilly

[Anonymous]

Lillie and Liam is also pretty cutesy but I kinda like it. I'd avoid William/Will. I also don't like Lillie and Oliver together - hard to say.