How Important Are Initials? Quick Poll Needed...

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Finally decided on girls first name, and now moved on to middle name. The problem is all the names we seem to like, and 'flow' with first and and surname, start with 'E'. This would make the initials G.E.L. Do you think this should be avoided on the basis that it forms a word?
Many thanks in advance for your opinion!

No, not an issue
Mum to W.A.M

I think Gel would be quite a cool nickname.

Important if they are bad or rude. GEL is fine.

My sister was P A L.

Better than LSD, which I have come across.

Or ARS.

i know someone with the initials STD.

I think GEL is fine.

Initials matter but only if they amount to something terrible. My sister is J.A.M. and as a child it only ever got her positive attention.

Agree that GEL is absolutely fine.

My daughter's initials would have been SAD, which I didn't like so added a 'Rose' to make SARD.

GEL is fine. Nothing to worry about.

mine might end up being SAW (still deciding though)

GEL is fine.

DH's suggestion of TIT was not....

Gel is ok.

Manshape is STD, and i wonder to myself often WTF his mother was thinking. Mind, seeing the size of him, he doesn't get many people pointing it out to him..

std,, wow. bad

I know somebody who is GBH but grevious bodily harm wasn't a charge back when he was born I wouldn't imagine.

the woman I know who is std is in her 60s, and I think it was VD back then!

Thanks everyone for your opinions. Agree now that GEL is not too bad, especially in light of your other examples! Think we have it sorted now, at long last. Names are so hard!

I wonder how many adults there are with WTF, PMSL, ROFL, etc initials whose parents though they were perfectly safe choices?

Good thread! we might end up with a HAM but I'm just not sure. JAM and GEL are quite cute but HAM...

I'm a SAF soon to be a SAW when I change my name by deedpoll later in the year. Having second baby with a PAW.

Imo the initials are no biggie unless they spell something truly awful.

Charlie Robert Andrew Peters (went to school with him- changed his actual names) would be truly cruel

Felicity Ann Gregory- equally so

Peter Owen O'neal- you see where I'm going with this?

The initials GEL are nothing to be worried about imo.

my mother's initials: MAD

GEL is fine!

I have a DAM, never gave it a thought then, he has never once expressed an opinion about it.

My cousin was FO!

Some of these are hilarious! Keep them coming!! If it's a boy (5 days overdue) we'll have a BEL, hope there is nothing offensive about this that we've missed?

no unless it' really rude or silly
vey rarely see initials any way
ds is tcp
amd dd is bse
have a friend sr gibbs nn toothpaste

Mine were NET before I got married, it wasn't a problem at all for me. GEL would be similar, I think.

In answer to the OP, no, I think GEL is fine - as you can see it could be worse!

A friend of mine's nephew is WAR.

We have to be a little careful of acronyms as our surname begins with O (so taking care to avoid NATO, WHO etc) - but one of the boy's name combinations I suggested the other day would have been CEO. Not a bad thing to aim for...

I think GEL is fine too.

My mum was born a PAD and got called sanitary pad at school. Then she got married... Her married name also starts with D so she has always been PAD :).