Initials? Do you worry?

[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!!!

[Taurean]

I think it's fine providing they don't spell out something stupid or offensive! Your options are great! My DH's initials spell out ASH and it's been super handy throughout his life for various things.

Friends of our have a hyphinated surname which is S-S and the middle name they had selected for their bubs started with R so thankfully one of their other friends pointed out that they should steer clear of 'A' names for the first name... ARSS. Yeah, not good!

[Saffi]

What the initials spelled (if anything) did come into our thinking when selecting names. My DH has two middle names only because without it his initials would have been a swear word (AR$ became ARJS).

I have two middle names for family tradition reasons so our children have 2 middle names to follow both of us but following my family tradition (and not his LOL).