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

[trueblueari]

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.

Before I got married my initials were VD, very unfortunate on office memos! I was glad to get rid of them when I got married

There's a study that looked into this, and found that negative initials seem to lead to negative outcomes (less success in relation to their counterparts) in men, but not in women. Not sure why.

My DBIL is called a name that begins with R, but it's his middle name, because otherwise his initials would spell RAT and now they spell ART. All I can think is why not just give him a middle name that didn't start with an A?!

I went to school with a girl whose initials spelled her first name. Deliberately. Her dad thought it was cool.

E.g. Mia Iris Adams. (Thats not the name obviously)

My brother is a "RED"
I worked with an "ARS" - the time sheet system we use just uses your initials, so yes, these things do follow you around if you work in an office :)

my friend's sister was WC - she used to be nicknamed Bogmella...

Ones like BJ are the worst - spelling words mostly depends on what the word is I think

Mine are DC. Which as a comic book fan I appreciate 😁

I know someone whose initials spell a shortened version of his first name

Also an R.Ash, which no one seems to comment on

DS was almost going to have his initials as ‘ASS’ but we realised in time and now he’s just ‘DJS’. That’s about as exciting as it gets for me, although mine and my sisters intitals were KAJ and KEJ before I was married and people called us that.

One of my cousins would have been DAM, but his parents swopped to ADM(known as D) to avoid it. He does have to keep explaining that his name is not A, even though the A comes first.

My initials spell out CAR

Surely most people never know what your middle initial is? My eldest's initials spell out her dad's name plus S. For example IANS if her dad's name was Ian So it looks like we named her because she belongs to him. It was unintentional and nobody except family notices it.

I don't think anyone I went to school with or anyone I know or have known knows my middle initial except my parents and husband.

If the first and last initials or first and surname spell something that might be more of a problem.

@Mollie85

I went to school with a girl whose initials spelled her first name. Deliberately. Her dad thought it was cool.

E.g. Mia Iris Adams. (Thats not the name obviously)

My brother is a "RED"
I worked with an "ARS" - the time sheet system we use just uses your initials, so yes, these things do follow you around if you work in an office :)

I know someone with a three letter name whose initials spelled it out too. She changed her surname on marriage so it no longer works.

Please avoid this! Mine is a very very well known abbreviation and was the bane of my life as a child. I got bullied and laughed at.

My uncle used to call me 'kid' when I was little. I never really thought about why he did it, I was a kid after all. It wasn't until I was older and could read that I realised my initials were KID. Now I am married they are KIS which is fine.

My ex had the initials PIS. He hated it.

I have ELA and LIA, I also didn't realise until they were a few years old that their initials spelled anything.
I think middle names are only ever really used when filling out forms unless it's a double barrel name. So full set of initials will rarely appear anywhere.