Does it matter if initials spell out a word?

[iWILLdothis]

Only have one first name that we both like. Want middle name to be from the family. Only one that sounds right leaves the 3 initials spelling out a word. Does that matter?

OAK was oine of the 'strong' initial groupinngs on the psych study if I remember rightly

BVA beaver another baddun

BMA - another airline

BP - petrolly

BRJA?

thats British Retail jewellery assoc

you could have BTA

thomas as a middle name

or BSA Sam/ Saul

SV no, DH is not BRA. His names are R and J...hence the options BR or BJ.
activate...that's a good idea to go through the alphabet like that. Lots ruled out this way.
musttidyup... I wanted to avoid 2 middle names, my bro has 2 and he gets slagged for being greedy and needing 2! Silly, really.
whipme that's interesting about the psychology study.

We really like the B name....so just gotta think of a more suitable middle name now if R and J are out :(

My daughter's intials would have been SAD, so I popped 'Rose' in as a second middle name. Could you do something like that?

I agree that BRA is not good.

I think BRA would be terrible. BJA would also be out for me. There were a few kids at school called by their initials, so he could easily end up with the nickname BJ if you went with that.

Research also shows that it's important to get this right:

From this page:
www.quirkology.com/UK/Experiment_name.shtml
An analysis of Californian death certificates has shown that people with positive initials (such as H.U.G. and J.O.Y.) live around four years longer than average, whereas those with negative initials (P.I.G. and D.I.E.) die about three years early.

"How many times do you use all three initials?"

They used to be used as part of our email addresses where I work, until we changed to a new system.

"Yes it matters if the word it spells out can be used to pick on the child, and BRA for a boy is a no way for me. Initials turn up at school in the unlikeliest of places -
ask yourself would it cause a classroom or 8, 13 or 16 year olds to laugh and if it would don't do it"

Absolutely. I think it would be cruel to invite ridicule towards your child.

There are some obvious ones it would be too cruel to inflict, BRA would be one of those.

I am having a bit of a similar issue in that the initials of our next child would be the same as the shortened form of his name, this isn't it, but for example, Dan, and his initials spell out DAN. Is that too much, I really really love the middle name too.

As long as it's not cunt you'll be fine.

My uncle was going to be ARM, but GPs thought that was a bit silly, so they changed him to RAM .

My brothers name is *Benjamin and his initials are BEN he was told of constantly at school for writing his name on work instead of his initials he got fed up of pointing out they were his initials.

Mum and dad say they didn't even realise for a long time after he was born.

Initials are used quite a bit at school, all of DD's work is initialed when it's sent home

*changed the name so not to identify myself.

thanks for all the replies. I think T as a middle name is also out, although I like Thomas/Tom for a middle name..... as Ben is the 1st name we want, don't want him getting letters addressed to Mr Ben T. Anderson*
(*changed surname)

Primary school children are always experimenting with their names, seeing what they sound like backwards and so on. BRA would be a disaster. honestly.
Probably the only time you regularly use your full name is in Primary school!

My best friend was pregnant with a dd and was going to use the middle name Allison after her sister. Last name started with G. We had lots of fun thinking of names...my favorite was Violet Allison G but she said no. :o

Her DD's initials ended up being GAG.

DD initials ABO, we deliberately left out an S so she didn't have her first ASBO at birth (though we were part tempted too as I had been working in partnership with the criminal justice system ). I think initials do need to be thought through... it is not just through primary school that being made fun of happens... it is in wedding speeches, in an office etc.
But maybe adding an initial is the answer.

Our first choice of names for DD would have left her with ASS or SAS? Neither is good although one is clearly worse! I think BRA is a bad idea. We went through various middle names to end up with ALS

My dds are LEB and DEB :)
I think BRA is fine, don't remember ever ribbing someone because of initials.

I should add, my sister's initials were something like DVR, and she was nicknamed DVD throughout school - not an obvious link, but some boys in her class discovered it and exploited it. So sometimes, you can't win - but it's obviously best to avoid ridiculous initials if you can!! (we had a name for a girl which would have given her the initials KKK, which would have been very bad indeed!!).

This was something we had to be careful of. We have a double barrelled last name (E-E) so we couldn't have any names beginning with P or W (Pee or Wee)

Kids can be cruel.

Can I just ask, is anyone who thinks that BRA is OK as a set of initials the parent of an 8/9/10 year old boy?

I'd avoid BRA and BJA for the reasons about but could you perhaps combine and have BRJA?

Or keep the R or J and add in another middle name, maybe from your side of the family?

So Ben Robert William Anderson or Ben Charles Joseph Anderson (guessing at names obviously).

That way you get the first name, the family middle name, an additional middle name and no unfortunate initials!