<p>A couple of posters in the political threads like to refer to Barack Obama by his initials which unfortunately are BO. Which made me think how I am surprised that people don’t think about whether a certain name might cause an unfortunate initial combination (we did think about it when we named our kids). So anyone care to share unfortunate intials they or their loved ones/friends/aquaintences are stuck with. I’ll go first. I have a friend whose son’s initials are </p>
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<p>I have a relative who was going to name her daughter Arlene Sandra. But then she realized that her initials would be ASS.</p>
<p>Growing up I had a friend whose initials, AMY, were also her first name! Kind of cool for monogramming.</p>
<p>I had two friends in elementary school with the initials of BM. We use to play a game during indoors recess called The Eraser Game. One person would write the initials of a classmate on the blackboard and then that person would have to race to the board and eraser their initials. There was some running around the room with an chalkboard erase on ones head, but I can’t remember which student did that. The point is, everyone loved to write BM on the board; I guess it was a way to say/write something dirty without getting in trouble!</p>
<p>I did indeed think about my girls initials. BJ University anyone?</p>
<p>My sister prior to marriage was SAD. :(</p>
<p>My dad is MAD, collegemom! Those #AD initials are tough: LAD, BAD, DAD, CAD…</p>
<p>LOL, poor guy! Now she is SAM.</p>
<p>a friend of mine was had a first name Katherine, middle name Karen…you can guess what the last name/initial was.</p>
<p>Suffice it to say, monograms were out for her, until she got married.</p>
<p>When my daughter was much younger she once wrote KKK on the top of each foot at a swim meet to remind herself to Kick Kick Kick. In permanent marker.</p>
<p>oops.</p>
<p>all my kids were swimmers, too. I know all about the sharpie messages on their exposed skin before meets.</p>
<p>Good thing to remember before dances and strappy dresses.</p>
<p>The family’s last name began with “T”. First name was Thomas, middle name Irving. </p>
<p>Same names for both father and son. They never used “junior” to tell them apart. The family called them big and little.</p>
<p>^^^ Ha Ha Ha</p>
<p>We had relatives who named their son Matthew. I pointed out that it didn’t go well with their last name, which began with F. They didn’t “get it” and decided I was warped or something. Don’t know if it’s a more common abbreviation in some parts of the country (or just in my neighborhood?) Anyway, I noticed that when he went to daycare, they marked all of his belongings with all 3 initials.</p>
<p>My second grade teacher had the initials, CAB (that’s about as tame as you can get, especially compared to others on this thread), and she had it monogrammed on everything. She said if your initials spelled something, it was good luck.</p>
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Oh, he loves it. I have the same middle and last names, but thankfully my initials don’t spell BAD, DAD, or similar.</p>
<p>How about disease initials? I’ve known an ALS and TB. Imagine if someone’s initials were HPV or HIV!</p>
<p>^or VD, STD.</p>
<p>My siblings-in-law gave their children initials that spell PRO and CEO 
And you know, both kids are winners (and very nice besides.)</p>
<p>My initials before marriage were MF. Which is why I gladly switched to my husband’s last name.</p>
<p>Luckily, when I was pregnant, I read a baby name book that cautioned about using a middle name with a vowel when the first and last name are consonants. Our last name starts with a consonant and I had wanted to use a middle name that started with “o” but after reading this book, we fortunately avoided some uncomfortable problems for our kids. But it isn’t as if my kids like their middle names or use their middle initials anyway.</p>
<p>Cousins with last name beginning with “S” were about to name their son “Andrew Steven” when someone pointed out what the initials would spell. He’s “Steven Andrew” on the birth certificate, even though everyone calls him “Andy”.</p>