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[mandy-23.livejournal.com]

What does everyone think of the name Willem? It's dutch and means strong-willed warrior. What middle name would you put with it? I've had a lot of people say they didn't like it and I should just use the name William...thoughts?

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[krosp.livejournal.com]

I like it a lot better than William, but that is probably because I don't like the "yum" sound at the end of William. It makes my tongue feel tight to say "WILL-yum" (that's how we say it here anyway)

So Willem solves that, it's a bit different too. William seems very strong, Willem sounds like a wood elf or something, which seems cool to me anyway :p It might be annoying to live with a name that is an uncommon variant of a very common name though, everyone will ALWAYS assume it's William, although he might end up going by Will anyway.