Would it be cruel to bestow this acronym on a baby boy.....

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who will one day become a teenage boy but then one day become a man with no control over the format of his name appearance on bank cards and letters etc....?

BJ Surname....

Once again I live in a different universe from most people here- I hardly know anyone's middle names and so that acronym wouldn't occur to me let alone bother me.
I suppose it's been sheer hell for billy Joel, Brian jones, Betty Jackson etc etc.

My DP is a BJ Surname.

He vetoed my giving DD a middle name with J (she would have been BJ surname too)

double post in the geek thread! :)

We had this with DS - J-name was a non-negotiable family name and B-name was our favourite boys' name. I insisted on the J-name not coming directly after the B name, so we added another middle name. DH still doesn't see what the problem was despite being on the receiving end of years of playground teasing for something similar, as was I, hence my insistence on the extra name (which is a family name anyway). DH's complaint was then that it'll be a PITA for DS to fill in forms if he uses all his middle names!

My husband is a BJ. It isn't an issue at all. He gets called BJ by some of his friends but only as an innocent nickname, there is no sexual ridicule or anything like that.

I wouldn't. And it really isn't just MN baby names that it's a problem, there are many circumstances in the real world where it could be embarrassing at some point in his life.

We are in same situation having a J surname and really liking a B forename for ds2.

I have said to my DH absolutely no way, my maiden name was something that is related to a sexual term and I was teased mercilessly and constantly all through secondary school. It was horrid and I wouldn't do it to my child. Even people who didn't really know me that well used it as a nickname for me and would just shout it out in corridors.

I know they all get picked on for some reason or another and I'm quite strong now as a result and I don't suffer fools gladly and am confident but personally it's not something I would knowingly bestow on my child as there are so many other names out there.

I wouldn't.

I'm usually in agreement that the MN world of baby names is different to the real world.

However, I went to school with a B J Surname and despite hating it, people did call him BJ and people did snigger. It's ridiculous, immature and bullying. However, it happened.

I still know him btw. He swapped his first and middle names round between college and uni and is now known as JB to everybody.

My DH is BJSurname - very occasionally raises a titter but really not a big deal - certainly not worth switching name choices for if BJ is your preferred first name middle name combo

I think a B then J-surname is much better than BJ surname. I don't think it's a huge problem but I wouldn't use it myself.

We are currently considering a bmmr initial set. Is that tolerable?

"Bummer"

Wouldn't do it.

If your surname is Seaman I would really reconsider