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To give DD the initials SSS?

35 replies

Skiil · 15/09/2016 01:41

Is it too much? What if she has a lisp?

I love the names so bloody much! Always have done, I always thought I could get away with SS, but then I married a man that has a surname beginning with S!

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BaffledMummy · 15/09/2016 08:50

As an SS from birth with an SSS mother I'd say do it. Has not caused any problems whatsoever. I loved my aliterated name!

Drogon · 15/09/2016 08:57

My initials are SS and I didn't know about the Nazi connection, and no one has ever mentioned it Hmm

Unfortunately I DO have a slight lisp so I do regret not being called Holly like I was meant to be. Sorry, not helpful Grin

MrsReiver · 15/09/2016 09:05

My mum was born in 1948, and her initials were SS.

You can imagine how well that went down.

LikeDylanInTheMovies · 15/09/2016 09:09

MrsReiver

About as well as the friend of a friend whose surname was Powell. Like a lot of Jamaican immigrants to Britain in the 1950s his parents were deeply religious and favoured biblical names for their children. Yep you guessed it, a few years before the infamous rivers of blood speech his parents saddled him with the name Enoch Powell.

sisterignatius · 15/09/2016 09:38

My daughter's full initials are SESS. Both my surname and my ex-husband's names begin with S. S is her first name, E is her middle name.

On a daily basis she just uses his surname so she's basically SS.

It's just NOT a problem, not in any way, not SS, not SESS or SSS.

KungFuPandaWorksOut · 15/09/2016 09:50

Back when I was younger I remember another member of staff was pregnant and she was toying with name ideas and a customer said " just don't do what I did"
We all asked her for the story, her and DH has chosen a name for their daughter and after they registered her they realised her initials meant something not nice.
Her daughters initials spelt STD!
Does your DH think it will be a problem or? I can't see anything wrong with SSS or maybe I'm missing something Blush

Hygellig · 15/09/2016 09:54

My initials prior to getting married were SS. My dad is Jewish and it obviously didn't bother him. I never really thought about it at all until I had one job when we had rotas with our initials on, and another when our email addresses were [email protected] (my poor colleague's initials were BO).

EssentialHummus · 15/09/2016 09:57

I'm an SS and Jewish (thanks, parents). Please re-think. I'm aware of it, friends have (jokingly) mentioned it, and I'm now jumping through naming hoops to make sure our LO doesn't end up with an alliterative name.

sisterignatius · 15/09/2016 09:58

BTW I'm also Jewish, my grandparents and mother were Holocaust survivors. The SS thing didn't bother my mum one jot. Just give your DD the name you love. I love my daughter's name and like I say, alliteration is rather nice.

Thelastusername · 15/09/2016 09:58

My first and last initials were SS before I got married. My middle name also has an "s" sound in it. My parents couldn't have known this when I was born, but I also have a lisp (it's quite mild now but was worse as a child). Quite unfortunate really, although comedic I suppose.

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