Initials? Do you worry?

[Zoo]

Hi Girls, I am interested to know if you think initials matter. To better explain myself, I love love love the name Jade. I love the sound of Jade Isabel but our last name starts with an M, so the initials would be JIM? Jade Amelia was another but again, JAM?

What do you think? I dont mind Jade Olivia and that makes JOM but atleast it isnt a name or food!!

Would love suggestions for middle names for Jade, and do you think girl when you see it? Another first girls name we love is Grace, Grace Amelia is my pick! Love opinions! If only our kids knew how hard it is to name them

Thank You

[~clover~]

DS's initials are JAW...& thats what some people call him! I don't mind.
Mine are SNO'S & dad used to call me that...I hated it! Sounded too much like snot! But that stopped years ago, lol.
I wouldn't worry too much. I think the only reason DS gets it (from 2, maybe 3 of DH's mates) is just coz he's a boy. It just works for some reason, lol.
I don't know anyone else who has problems with it. SIL is RAM.

I think girl when I see it too, but you could spell it Jayde/Jayd to girly it up if you like

[~Kim~]

I was going to say what Skye said. Jim and Jam make funky nn's if you're into them...and they'd be cool and inoffensive as number plates.

My cousin had to changed her chosen name for her little guy as she was going to Name him Brett Ulyssees M....
We also thought about it with Nate's name. We loved Liam, but DH was concerned that if he ever wanted personalised plates (yep we are a car family) that Liam Edward B....initials might be offensive.....so he's Nate instead.

[conchi]

HI there,
It's my first time posting. We had a similar problem when I was having my son. His intials would have been AAS (sounding too similar to ASS). So we resolved the problem by giving him two short middle names. So his intials are AIAS now- problem solved!

[Glamourcide]

Lol my mother was *obsessed* with initials when it came to me naming my kids (funnily enough mine are DLR, which makes no sense at all, so I don't see why she was so adamant about what my kids' initials would spell, if anything).
I think JAM or JIM are fine - initials I would have a problem with would be something like Fiona Amelia Thompson or Catherine Olivia Williams, kwim

'Jim' would be a pretty cool nickname for a girl I reckon, I'd give my child those initials *just* so I could call her Jim hahaha

I think the names you have chosen are beautiful. Go for it!!

[Trillian]

I had a school teacher many moons ago and he told us once that he and his wife chose their childrens names specifically for the initials - one was ELF I remember and I thought that was cool. It's never really been an issue for us so long as it was never offensive. The only thing we didn't want was a V name or otherwise they would have a VB initial LOL - and we didn't want anyone to think we were bogans hehe.

[NaeNae]

Its something that I think about. Jim and Jam aren't too bad though. DH suggested a name the other night for our little Beanie and her initials would have been GAS
I would hate for GAS to become a way of taunting my child when she is older I would feel so responsible for it.

[Rivlas]

My mum didn't say much when we had kids but said we should be careful of as her initials as a kid were MAD and she used to get teased.
All the best picking out the name for your baby.

[Kitt3n]

well - DD1 has now hypenated her surname to include her dad's and step dads, so her initials are KKK

[murraysmum]

my sons initals are maj lol which is ok i spose

this baby i need to think long and hard lol

[Muppity]

WE have a bit of a thing in my family to write initials instead of names - but the problem arises because in 9 grandkids there are three with exactly the same initials - it used to make Christmas interesting for them - was like a lucky dip!

This is sort of off topic but I was haing a conversation with someone the other day who is becoming obsessed with having the initials also spell out the name. So Zachary Andrew Clark would be Zac or James Ivan Murray is Jim and Rose Olivia Simone Evans

Not sure how I feel about it really - I suspect that it is trying to be a bit too clever - it cuts down the name choices a fair bit.

[Early Kids]

I do worry about it and it was a thought when selecting DS's names. I'm SAG and as you can imagine got teased quite a bit for it and I didnt want to put my kids through that.

[grub17]

i don't worry too much. I got married and became a HO, which really doesn't bother me some people like to point it out to me but I just sort of brush it aside. fortunately my middle initial is L so i just tell them it's actually Halo lol.

but my mother is also obsessed with initials. she told me i wasn't allowed to name the baby anything starting with B or it would be B.O as in body odour! hmmm.

our bubba is a boy but if it was a girl it would have been Emily or Elizabeth Grace = EGO. again dind't bother me.

so i reckon go for it

[Phteven]

Just as long as the initials aren't B.U.M or something I don't think it matters. Jim or Jam are fine IMO.

[HarveyBub'sMum]

I think Jade Amelia and Grace Amelia are both just gorgeous. To go with Jade you could try something else long like Elizabeth, which would make her initials JEM.... kind of pretty.

JAM is actually sweet, or a bit of a rock chick name ie: Jam with the band hmmmmm actually that may be taken two ways.

[Nai]

Yep - we worried about it as DD1 could have been GOB and DD2 could have been JAB - none of which are particularly nice so we made sure that their initials didn't spell anything. DP was only too happy to point out any playground teasing the kids might get from any name I picked!!

[butterfly_warrior]

Sam's initials are SAM... It was deliberate. But I realise we have pretty much snookered ourselves for other children!

I don't really see a problem, though. Middle names come up in conversation so rarely that people may never even know. JIM and JAM are completely inoffensive, too.

BW

[mrsmac]

I think Jade Amelia and Grace Amelia are both just gorgeous. To go with Jade you could try something else long like Elizabeth, which would make her initials JEM.... kind of pretty.

JAM is actually sweet, or a bit of a rock chick name ie: Jam with the band hmmmmm actually that may be taken two ways.

DD1's initials are JEM!!!