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I've really been warming up to Billy lately, especially as a nick for William! I think it helps that I had a crush in early middle school (sixth grade and half of seventh) named Billy. lol But yeah, classic! (I may be biased, though, because Uncle Jesse was one of my favorite FH characters lol)

I love old nicknames like this (but not as full, legal names -- just NNs). Billy, Jimmy, Jamie, Art, Bert, Bernie, etc. -- all good, classic, solid NNs for awesome names (William, James, Arthur, Robert, Bernard). Let's hope they come back.

You may be right, but I'm of the generation in which every William was a Billy as a child and (most of the time) Bill as an adult, so I can't help thinking it's incredibly boring. And there's something obnoxious about Billy. When my sisters learned that if I had a son, he'd be named William, they begged me not to call him Billy because they "didn't think they could stand it" lol.

So happy for John that he's finally a father and to a little boy too. I think it's lovely that they named him Billy after John's dad, they were very close. Billy is a name you hear time to time here in Australia, so it doesn't bother me at all. I do like nickname names though, it's not an issue for me.

Boring... William is okay. Even Willem as well. But Billy just loses all that appeal.

Ok, but does he know his father's name was William?

I actually really like the name Billy. (-: I love John Stamos too!

Yes, Kimmel's son is really a William. And his daughter is Jane! Super classic and refreshing for celebrity kids :)