Initials BJ

[coastergirl]

I've read other threads recently about initials, but still really torn about this.

I'm going to have a little boy in the next few months. My three year old is called Callum. His name fit my criteria of being: easy to pronounce and spell; not so common that he'd be one of six in the same class, not so unusual that people would laugh at him, only nickname I could think of is Cal which I think is pretty cool. Plus I just love the sound of Callum. So I'm looking for something that fits the same criteria for this baby. We love Benjamin. Benji for a baby, Ben when he gets older. But my surname starts with J so his initials would be BJ. Does it matter?

Yes

I’m not sure that it’s easy to spell.p

Not if you love the name, it's not as if it is his first and second name to make a BJ moniker he would be known by. How often do we just use out first and last name initial - vary rarely when you think about it.
I love the name Caleb but understand if it is too 'matchy'.

Can you give him a middle name so it's BAJ for instance.

Tbh I would notice initials spelling BJ and I think most classmates would when he is a school. We had a nephew whose name was going to spell FAG and they changed it round to avoid this.

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Ask Boris?

Urban dictionary do inform me that a Boris Johnson is now a term for blow job but they make lots of shit up

I was talking to someone recently about initials and he said his were 'BJS' and they called him ' Blowjob Stephens' throughout school.

We laughed about it but, in reality that wouldn't have been great for the kid.

I had to write my initials on a lot of things, and your child would write 'BJ' on a lot of things.... personally I wouldn't!

I think its fine with a middle name in between. Young kids won't understand the meaning and to be honest I can't see it would be a massive problem unless he is unlucky and someone notices as a teen! If you really love that name though I don't think it would stop me from using it.

I think its fine with a middle name in between. Young kids won't understand the meaning and to be honest I can't see it would be a massive problem unless he is unlucky and someone notices as a teen! If you really love that name though I don't think it would stop me from using it.

Outing but my initials are BEJS, half my family call me BJ as a nickname the others call me Bessie. All my school/uni emails are addressed to bs....@gmail.ac.uk. All my initials and nicknames get a snigger or two still and I'm in my 20's, and people were always amused during secondary school but after a laugh or two they got over it and it was all good.

Just a warning about the middle initial thing - schools and workplaces will often use just the first and last intitial, for example on minutes, on the board, or in user names, the football team will print tops unthinkingly with just the first and last initial. There are only so many times you can ask people to use your middle initial and this just draws attention to the issue (affects my name on marriage and dds but not too much of a bad one).

Ta work we use initials as log in and you often have to initial things to state you have seen them (like we used to do for mistakes on cheques).
We have to initial each page of contracts. It is used a lot professionally.

My surname begins with G and a lot of three letter words end in G so deliberately chose initials for my son that didn’t make a word. Eg didn’t go for PIG etc.

I really wouldn’t do this.

My initials are BJ. Literally never even realised until just now.

Nc for this.
My husband plays sport with a man called Allcock. His initials are BJ.

He's an obnoxious bastard but I can't help but think that his parents set him up for a lifetime of teasing.
Why would you want that for your child?

Don’t do it. As someone who’s intials spelled something and had the mick taken mercilessly at school. Don’t do it. Even now I’m married when I go to initial something I have a momentary panic until I realise my initials have changed.

I know a girl whose first name is Beejay. Her actual first name. I've always wondered what her parents were thinking.

BJ initials? I really don't think it'll matter, and Benjamin is a lovely name.

Don’t do it!

Don't.
Yes it will matter.

no

adding a middle name will make no difference.

just no.

No. Please don't.

Don't do it.
One of DS's primary friends was known as BJ by all his mates. I have no idea what his parents were thinking.

I wouldn't.
At dd's school all pe kit has to have the child's initials on it. No middle initial though, just first name and surname. Your kid won't thank you if they have to spend their teenage years with BJ written on their back.

My initials are BJ and I was known as that my entire childhood. I think my parents are very sheltered. But I was too so I didn't notice until university, which was a handy time to drop the nickname anyway. The J is my middle name though so I don't get it written down at work when minutes are taken etc.