Celebrity Baby Names: Bill Hader

First name origin: English and German

First name meaning: from a Germanic personal name, either a short form of compound names such as Billard, or else a byname Bill(a), from Old English bil ‘sword’, ‘halberd’ (or a Continental cognate). (Bill as a short form of William was not used until the 17th century.)

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Last name origin: German and Jewish (Ashkenazic)

Last name meaning: nickname for a quarrelsome person, from Middle High German hader ‘discord’, ‘argument’, ‘quarrel’, German Hader.

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