BJ?

BS would be a bit of an unfortunate abbreviation round here - have heard my teenage sons and their friends using it (when not actually wanting to swear in front of me)!

Don't tell people his middle name, then he will just be BS.

Our surname begins with J so I'm avoiding any first names beginning with B for DC2 as knowing my luck it would lead them to get teased at school!

I think people get far too bothered about what a childs initials spell.
In reality, how often does this ever come to anyone attention in life? Especially a middle initial.

Op, don't worry, your neighbour is obviously a bit immature and silly.

I know a guy who's actually called BJ for Brian Jr, and it's never bothered him.

My best friend's due in a few weeks and if their baby's a girl her initials will be GAG. :)

But he does not have to tell people his mn so how will anyone pick up on this? I don't think its compulsory to put middle name on school register is it? so if you feel that will help just put him fn + ln, then bj is avoided. If he went by BJ then yes I see the point but here i think there may not be such a need to panic

Sorry what I meant there was that FAB were the initials of the girl's names we had in mind.

I think it's a non issue as it's first and second names.

Tho I did go to school with a girl called Wendy Collinson (WC, loo y'see) and that's the only reason I can remember her name. Sorry. But it's different if it's your whole name.

DS2 was nearly FAB (but then he was a boy).

Well, I suppose it must be liveable-with, as evidenced by Ben Jonson, Bianca Jagger, Bridget Jones and Boris Johnson.

I wouldn't have noticed that in a million years.

Then again, I had never heard the term BJ until I was about seventeen. I knew the term blow job, but didn't realise it had a coy abbreviation.

Most people write their initials with just two letters, first and last name, don't they? If it's an issue he needn't advertise his middle initial. But I don't think you did wrong in naming him that.

It's not as if you call him BJ or by his first amd mn together. It's a non-issue. Your neighbour is a twonk.

I'm afraid I woud never, ever consider names that formed BJ as partial initials and I find it hard to understand why anyone would. It's just too great a hostage to fortune. Sorry, but I do think it was a mistake.

I taught a young lad with the initials bj. He was a really nice, popular lad, played on rugby team etc and didnt take any stick at all. Tbh this did surprise me because as soon as I heard it it was the first thing that came to my mind. But only because I had expected the kids to take the Mick when they didn't.

I knew a BJ at school...I can't remember his actual name as that was what he was known as, he was one of the most popular boys!

I used to know a lovely little BJ! He was the youngest of 4 DSs, and was actually called James - BJ was short for Baby James/Jim, which is what they had all called him. Was completely ignorant of the other conntations at the time (was a long time ago...) and didn't really think anything of it once I did know about them - he was a sweetie, he was called BJ. Not a big deal or faux pas imo.

Goodness knows why they didn't use Blue at least, I mean, what the hell is Blew there for anyway. The new name craze of using verb forms?

And she is Girls-name Blew Surname, we think "xxxx Blew the football team" or "xxxxx Blew the Maths teacher" will soon be variations of her name.

We put an extra middle name into DSs name so his initials weren't BJ.

I'm with SOH.

Blew..... oh dear God. Even Blue would be better because it makes you think of the colour and if it's a girls name blue sur name it is going to sound like Madison Blew Carter.

omg

I remember reading that the Beckhams wanted to call their son BJ as a nickname but soon realised the error of their ways. I must be weird as I was careful to check that the initials didn't spell anything they shouldn't and the names couldn't be shortened at all.

My dad's initials are BJP, and he's been known as "Beej", never BJ, and as far as I know no one has ever mentioned the link.

However DS1's middle names will start with a B and a J, and I must admit he will be xJBy rather than xBJy. I couldn't quite bring myself to do it the other way around.

Anyway, 'tis not so bad: DSIL's niece has just been born in the USA and given the middle name Blew. So she's xxxx Blew yyyyy. Imagine how much fun the other children will have once she gets to High School!

I think just make sure that he never gives his initials in the form of only BJ. So either he says "BJS", or he says "I'm Bob JS/ Bob J Smith". Hypothetical names supplied. And he should also avoid writing it on his exercise books at school.

My parents gave me initials which I saw laughed at on here once, and I can see why. But nobody every knew my middle name, so it was never an issue for me. I can't remember one single time somebody teased me about this.

When does Richard ever have the NN Dick@? Know a few Richards and none of them goes by 'dick'. That's like saying charles is chuck which rhymes with Fuck! better not use Charles! Henry is Hank which rhymes with Wank, better not use Henry so.

A friend of mine had a son with those initials for his first and middle name and she actually used to nn him 'BJ'!!! This was some years back, but even so!!

I used to cringe, and had to bite my tongue not to say something, but she seemed oblivious. It's not a combination I would choose, though if you don't make a big deal of it yourself it'll probably be fine.

fivecrazymonekeys... I think she means that they called the baby Richard. as in "richard head" and with richard having the nickname Dick... you can guess the rest!

We liked a name with the initials BJ had DD2 been a boy but we decided not to for this reason. My grandad was teased over his initials. However, I know one teenage girl who has BJB and she doesn't get teased.

Enlightenment! I am not known for having lived a reticent life, but have never heard that before (perhaps due to an excessively frank vocab anyhow)