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Can I get away with DAMM initials?

91 replies

crimblecrumbles · 21/11/2021 08:32

DH and I have finally agreed on name for DD2 but realised initials will be DAMM! Is that really awful?

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Shasha17 · 21/11/2021 08:35

It's not ideal! Can you switch the middle names?

LoveComesQuickly · 21/11/2021 08:37

I think that would be fine.

Mintyt · 21/11/2021 08:39

Yes it's fabulous

Runnerduck34 · 21/11/2021 08:39

Not great, I would change middle names(s)

toastofthetown · 21/11/2021 08:39

I wouldn’t do that. Could you switch the middle names around? Or if it’s a double barrelled surname can you add a surname?

PanicBuyingSprouts · 21/11/2021 08:40

I wouldn't do it either.

InTheLabyrinth · 21/11/2021 08:42

I wouldnt do that.
Can you switch things to DMAM?

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 21/11/2021 08:43

I wouldn’t. Switch the names.

sluj · 21/11/2021 08:47

Is the first name Damien? I wouldn't do it, I think it's an "omen"

crimblecrumbles · 21/11/2021 08:48

The M's are surnames so can't change. I don't think I would mind DAMM personally as an adult now, but I don't know how a child would feel. And what will the judgemental relatives and friends think!!

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Bimblybomeyelash · 21/11/2021 08:49

I really don’t think it’s a big deal.

ThirdElephant · 21/11/2021 08:50

Depends. Is the M part of a double-barelled surname or a second middle name?

Onceuponatimethen · 21/11/2021 08:51

No - rearrange names

PinkertonRab · 21/11/2021 08:52

My son has unfortunate initials but we’ve never had cause to write them out in full. It really doesn’t matter. Plus DAMM is not that bad.

EileenGC · 21/11/2021 08:54

I’ve never had to use initials in my life

miltonj · 21/11/2021 08:55

It doesn't matter in the slightest. Go for it!

toastofthetown · 21/11/2021 08:57

Delilah Annabel Morgan-Matheson, could initial as DAM rather than DAMM, but that’s not great either. Honestly I’d change it. I wouldn’t want those to be my initials.

starrynight21 · 21/11/2021 08:59

I'd change the A name to a consonant name. Kids can be nasty to one another - why set your child up to be teased ?

ThirdElephant · 21/11/2021 08:59

Oh, cross post. As long as the A is a middle name, I think you'll get away with it.

Westfacing · 21/11/2021 09:00

Does anyone look at someone's initials?

If in the long-distant future your DD has to initial pages on a work document, for example, she would just put DM.

Maybe I'm missing something.

0verth1inker · 21/11/2021 09:01

Are you really religious? If wouldnt bother me at all. I doubt anyone will either pick up on it.

mnahmnah · 21/11/2021 09:05

It’s not often anyone looks at full name initials and I don’t think this one is that bad. I wouldn’t change it. I would if it was ASS or TIT Grin

Luredbyapomegranate · 21/11/2021 09:08

Just Chuck in a third forename - problem solved

celestebellman · 21/11/2021 09:08

I think it's fine - if it were DAMN might be different. Even then, who pays attention to initials anyway?

RhubarbFairy · 21/11/2021 09:11

I had a teacher called Peter Ian Gregory once. He told us all this so we could chuckle that his initials were PIG.

I can't remember the last time I used my middle initial. Probably 25 years ago in secondary school where I put mine and the boys I fancied in a heart.

It's fine. Could be worse. I know a T.Watts.