Not William Robert or any other variant. It says Bill Bob on the birth certificate. It’s a family name on her husband’s side, being Kelley’s uncle. Kelley and his father, Gus, got along well enough but were carved from different stones. Kelley was more like his uncle Bill Bob: observant of the world around him, but by no means bound to interpret or interact with it in terms as limited as reason.
Gone Fishin!
With Kelley with the additional E and being a dude, I instantly think Irish. So maybe she used a more Irish name for the child, in remembrance. I also agree with the idea of it being a one syllable name for the sake of prosody.
The first such name I saw when googling was “Finn.”
Yeah, sorry. I didn’t read through the whole thread. I had the idea about halfway through, and posted it before I forgot or got it sullied with another idea.
My only problem with Finn for a kid of this decade is the association with AdventureTime and Finn the human. I’m sensing these parent characters would avoid names with contemporaneous cultural references. FWIW. I’m a reader not a writer.
Eh. Kid #3 is seven, and **Adventure Time **came out in 2010. The mom had two toddlers to look after on her own at the time he was born too, so she probably didn’t have her finger on the pulse of what was newly popular on the Cartoon Network that wasn’t aimed at two-year-olds.