ethelmary's little ladies

For a girl, we'd say Val-en-teen, though many would insist on pronouncing it like the holiday.

Wilhelmina was long burdened with the Old Dutch cleanser image of thick blond braids and clunky wooden clogs, but that started to be changed somewhat by the dynamic Vanessa Williams character on Ugly Betty, and even further by the choice of Wilhelmina by ace baby namers Natalie and Taylor Hanson. For the less adventurous, Willa is, for now, still a more user-friendly female equivalent of William.

The Old English word for a (male) wren, generally used as an elaboration of Wren.