OXFORD 9000
📚 name • entry_id 18224

William

/ˈwɪl.i.əm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
Guillermo
A male given name from the Germanic languages popular since the Norman Conquest.
But we have known Williams and Richards, names not found in sacred story, but familiar to our country, prove as gracious saints as any Safe deliverance, Fight the good fight of fai…
This name hath been most common in England since King William the Conquerour, insomuch that upon a festival day in the Court of King Henry the Second, when Sir William Saint-John,…
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