Initials VD??

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Is this a problem?? This has only just occurred to me re my current favourite girls name. We'd give her aisle name too so full initials would be VCD if that help...

Those are my initials nobody ever commented since I came to the UK more than 15 years ago.
I don't think any young people would know what it is, the meaning is obsolete. It would be STD nowadays.

My sister married and became VD but she just includes the middle name initial in her signature and then its fine - I only realised recently despite them being married for years as we were discussing baby names and thinking about initials. I dont think its a problem for her.

I had this problem when choosing my dd's name.

If it wasn't for my Mum, I'd never have known that 'VD' stood for an STD or w/e. Kids are only taught STD or STI nowadays As others have said, you can always include the middle initial.

Defo obsolete, dont worry!

I have a friend with VD initials, doesn't bother her at all, most definitely obsolete.

Kids are taught STI these days

Brilliant, many thanks. Will stop worrying. Love the name I we picked so glad we can use it.

Not obsolete in USA.

Still in use in many sex ed resources.

I wouldn't.

If the OP is not in the US it has very little significance that it is still used there (BTW I worked with americans they didn't sniggered at my initials).
Did you avoid MST or MV because they are the equivalent in some latin countries?

OP hasn't said where she is.

And if 'Latin' TV was ever likely to be shown in UK in the original language to the extent that US TV is, achieving the same penetration of terms and syntax as happens with US TV, then yes, I would indeed be concerned.

Wishing the phrase were obsolete does not make it so.

Of course, in RL (as opposed to on an Internet forum when views have been solicited) no-one with any manners would say anything. So overt sniggering from adults isn't perhaps the real pitfall.

We are in the UK with continental European family. The name is ideal as it suits all our languages... I would want her to be able to travel/work anywhere, but maybe the middle initial will help.

We may have a boy and not have the issue at all...

Thanks

I have never heard it on any US program (I don't watch Oprah and such though).
The generation using it (alive and adult during the war) is almost all gone. It is not wishing, it is obsolete on the old continent.
Initials are only "important" for teasing potential which should stop before school ends.
There is so many cultures and languages in the world, if you work internationally you will meet a lot of people with names or initials which will mean something in your language which is not nice, or "snigger worthy". You can't think of everything. And if people do they need to grow up.
I have met someone with a name meaning cunt in my language. Did I snigger? No, not one bit.
What is going to happen to a VD? Not being offered a job? being discriminated against promotion at work? being bullied in the office? Not having friends because people can't possibly be associated with you?

I was a VD, it has been a source of piss taking and derision my whole life. I was very glad to get married and stop using it. I live in the UK and work in a job where you use your initials the whole time. I had a middle initial too, didnt make a difference to the wags...

Just don't do it.

Oh no Sanji that sounds horrible

will she be vd as in vanessa dixon (forename surname)...or vanessa daisy dixon (where the d is the middle name). if the latter I don't think people will notice. if the former add a middle name

I don't think VD is a problem but to those saying use 3 initials I would say its not that easy! My married name gave me mildly amusing initials which are always used in minutes of meetings or transcripts of case conferences - I don't mind as I think insisting that 3 initials are used would just draw attention to it - but it's not something I've ever had any control over.

I think that VD would be an issue for our generation but I really don't think it will be for your dd. I doubt very much that my children would even recognise the phrase venereal disease.

We used to use initials for meetings (don't any more) and I had an Irish colleague whose initials were GO'D

I personally would avoid it, as it definitely screams "Venereal Disease" to me. Not an obsolete term as far as I'm concerned.

My tutor at school was a VD. So we were 9VD. Only for one term then it changed!!

It is obsolete. I knew a Victoria D at school. Never once was venereal disease mentioned. Must be an age thing.

I personally would avoid it. However, I don't think it will mean much to younger people.