Do your initials spell anything? Do you care/have others commented?

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More importantly, would you be put off using a name if the initials spelled a negative word?

The word in question is "LESS" - so nothing vulgar, just not something you'd necessarily want your name to spell.

Bikerunski.. whoops! Not wanting to out myself but I know a little girl who's initials are FGM. It wasn't a 'thing' when she was born -and she might be my daughter-

My DD's name spells EMU

Pre marriage mine spelt an Irish swear word. My parents are Irish.

An ex-colleague was SOS. It suited him.

Do you think it would be awful to have HAM as your initials? Asking for a friend...

One of my kid's initials spells FRAG. No one has ever commented. My spouse did stop me from giving one of my other children's names which would have spelled out MOG or MEG as he thought it was weird and due to comments he had as a kid with similar initials.

It took me until one of my other kids was 3 or so before I realized their first three initials were ASL. Thankfully they won't be in chatrooms in the '90s...

I'm not sure about LESS, I don't think I would change it if the names were important to me but I can certainly see why someone would want to avoid that. In my experience, though, middle names after the first one often get dropped by automated mailing services and such. Whether LES is better for someone to have is another question.

Mine spell RAW it has never once been brought up in my 30 years of life!

If I have a boy the names I have chosen will spell out JAM I love it but OH doesn't lol.

If it is a girl it will spell out ELS which is sort of an abbreviation of the first name anyway

Before I got married my initials were VHF. Very High Frequency. My parents did it deliberately. They're odd like that..

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I personally really wouldn't give a child initials that spelt LESS.

Others clearly think it's fine - I think it's pretty grim. It's a negative word - why set them up for teasing (which yes, may or may not happen depending on if their school used full initials etc, but it's always going to be a risk)? Many of the other mentioned here aren't as actively negative.

One of my sons would have been GBH if we hadn't noticed in time.

One of my nieces is FAO. Never remarked upon, I think it’s not used as an abbreviation so much any more.

I knew a woman who’s initials after she married and changed her name were OK

Mine are ET and despite my parents assuring me that everyone had forgotten about the movie when they named me, nobody has forgotten the movie yet and it’s 30+ years later! I had one manager who couldn’t write them (in meetings when assigning actions etc) without sniggering

I also know a couple of ITs and a RAT

and someone who for example first name Robert known as Rob, middle names Oliver Bernard Surname so letters came addresses to Mr ROB Surname (not his actual names)

My friends DS is JEW and only realised two or so years after he was born. She now would rather she hadn’t chosen it but no one else seems to have noticed either.

I had a teacher who was EEP.

Yes and I’ve had people snigger at least until I got married and changed my surname. Don’t do it.

Mine dont, but the kids are TLC and MAC which we didnt think about til after they were named abd quite like!

my given names produce TFS which some have interpreted as 'thanks for sharing'

a friend realised that her daughter's initials would spell BEEP but decided she didn't care. I don't think others have realised.

hotstepper4 I'm afraid I'm one of those parents too.
Nothing weird or odd but recogniseable.

I really don't think it's a big deal unless they actually spell something like TIT or NOB. Most people never know people's middle names anyway - I don't know those of any of my colleagues or any of the children I work with and would only notice if they actually chose to put their full initials on something and it did spell a word.

One of mine has initials that spell out a herb which is fine I think. The other I couldn't give the middle name I wanted because it would have been a type of fighting.

The intials-login thing has been three letters in every instance I've encountered it (work and school) so any potential logins are more likely to be LES or LSS.

I honestly think unless it spells TWAT or ANAL or ASS or something, the initials thing is something people worry about unnecessarily.

My DD is HAT. We call her Hats too so that works!

@GlumGlowWorm I was ET as well and it made my time at primary school an absolute misery! In my parents' defence I was born a few years before the film came out, but I still blamed them for their careless initialling (as I considered it), and have never watched the film as an act of benign protest!!

My daughter has FAB as her initials. It suits her because she really is.