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!

I worked somewhere where they used initials (just firstname lastname) when taking the minutes. It always made me laugh to hear what GO'D had to say

Hi, I'm TOT

TOT is fine.

GOD are good initials in my opinion! I used to work with a girl in London and she and her husband to be had their initials engraved into two wedding rings, when they came back they properly looked at their initials, both sets, next to each other for the first time

s o'c & k o'c

cue much humour and expensive wedding ring being passed around for all to chuckle over. She was a good sport.

valium, that's so funny. I've got tears in my eyes at that one. An old (and elderly) neighbour of mine had the initials IMP which I thought was lovely as she really suited it. Ivy May something beginning with P (can't remember).

I've been thinking about this recently, if this baby is a boy, his middle name will begin with A and our surname begins with R, so there's a fairly high possibility of him having initials that spell something. I've decided I'm not too bothered, although might draw the line at W names (not too much of a challenge, there aren't any I would consider!).
GEL is definitely fine :)

i'm an AHD.
i spent my whole childhood wishing i was a HAD.

words out of initials are cool

WillieWaggledagger - i know a VD - she's in her late 40s, i think

I was oh so nearly SLAG. Fortunately my parents dropped the second middle name. Even more fortunately, when the primary school kids picked up on my remaining initials, I became 'slug' which was so much better

These are funny. I'm mum to an AMP and if DS was a girl he would of been RIP.

There is a chapter about it in the book freakanomics I think. Based on research. Very interesting.

Don't know about anyone else but whenever I'm asked to sign my initials on something I only write my first and last initials, and miss out the middle one altogether.

I wouldn't worry about GEL. Don't forget to look at how the combination looks when the whole first name, middle initial/s and surname are written down. The last letters of the first name and the initials can spell out some undesirable words that aren't seen with all names being initials. Will try and think of some examples. I've noticed more companies do this on bills.

sunshineoutdoors, I don't always write my middle initials either, unless it's for something official. Reduces the risk of fraud.

I think GEL is fine. Originally I liked Bethany Jayne, but that was quickly scrapped!!

I know a woman who seriously considered a double barrel surname despite the fact it made her initials C.L.I-T.

I used to be a HER

My uncle is an ASS

My parents were thinking of giving me a middle name beginning with an A, but decided not to, as none of my brothers & sisters has a middle name.
If they had, I would have been JAM, but when I married I would have become JAR....

One thing you might want to consider is how it looks in an email address. I had an email from someone called Lee Rather which does not look good all run together in lower case....

GEL is fine. I am very careful with initials. I discounted lovely names so I didn't get a PIG or FOG.

GEL is fine

My 3 week old is JCB, dh wants to call him digger as a nickname!

Digger's not a bad nickname pootle !

We named our boys using family names that meant something to us. Although their initials don't spell anything, we kinda missed the fact they came with ready-made (obvious) nicknames - Spud and Duck. If that's the worst they get called I shall be a very happy mummy

Also bear in mind how the initials sound (rather like RustyBears point) I had a colleague who was Roger Clive (he was known as Clive) the reason? He'd spent his early life at school being known as 'Arsey Brown'....RC Brown... tragic ;)