Liam

Liam started as a short form of William and has, in recent decades, become common as a name in its own right — one of the more notable cases in modern naming of a nickname outgrowing its original full name and topping baby-name charts under its own identity. Because it derives from William, its documented meaning traces back to the same Germanic root, "resolute protection," even though most parents choosing Liam today are picking it as a complete name rather than as shorthand for the longer one. Its ordinal value of 35 reduces to Eight, a number tied to ambition that has no particular link to either its short or full form's traditional meaning.