Initials problem?

[Babyinitial]

We’ve found a name that we really love, but with the middle name (that can’t change, family name), the initials spell CUM. Is this a problem and should we go back to the drawing board? We’ve literally only got this one name that we love but the initials are worrying me

If your surname is Thompson, don't call your son Thomas William Anthony 😉😉

Is anyone else intrigued as to the middle name 🤔

Given my uni email address was ABC123@ as a format I’d advise against…I don’t even want to imagine…

Me?!

Ulwin?

Absolutely- I’m a teacher and we use initials all the time on communications . For example all tutor groups are known by the teachers first/middle/lastname initials. Can you imagine CUM in such a scenario?

Me too! Ulysses, Umberto?

Nope, absolutely cannot do that!
If you're dead set on that name then add a second middle name so it's something like crum or coun

I was told that it used to be convention for references on documents that the writer would have their full initials (First name, middle name, surname) and the person who typed it would be just first name, surname. Many of my older colleagues still get all three initials but us younger ones that do our own typing tend to just get the two initials.

To cut a long story short I would avoid CUM.

At work, by IT department, which maybe outsourced to a country where English isn't the first language and they won't pick up on an obvious language issue when assigning a username. Not only are you ever asked but you're then also stuck with it and it CANNOT change as it's assigned to everything from payroll to the scanner/photocopier.

Every name we looked at for our kids, went through the initials' check before it was even considered whether we like it/ not like it.

We are both with large scale (different) employers and in careers where we are unlikely to change. We have been lucky with our own names. Some of our colleagues not so much.

My old tutor at school had the initials VD. That was bad enough - being in 7VD at school.

But CUM just no.

My guess is Ursula or Umberto

Yeah don’t do that.

I'd try and avoid a combination that spells out anything, if you can. Whilst Charles Ullswater Montague might have the obvious issue already identified, Charles Henry Ullswater Montague is likely to have his pedigree questioned. Switching that to Henry Charles Ullswater Montague resolves the problem.

In a former school which used the initials of the teacher for naming classes, one class would have been MOO if the convention had been upheld. The kids all knew though and the poor teacher, who was not of British origin so their parents were entirely blameless, had an additional layer of aggravation to deal with.

Make sure you avoid BUM as well

Yeah! I'd lose the U middle name as it rules out loads of names.
BUM
CUM
DUM
GUM
HUM
MUM
NUM
RUM
SUM
TUM
YUM

Don't use any of these. 😄

Surely just adding another middle name would solve the issue if you love those names?

Stick another name in

Add another name - Stephen or Sophia perhaps then he or she can be SCUM

wow, that's mean.

At least, CUM is quite spunky!

omg absolutely not, pleaseeeee don’t do this 😳😳

Add a second middle name in -
CUKM
CUAM
CULM
CUBM
You get my drift you get to use the name you love and no Initial problem x

either add another middle name, or switch the first and middle names.

It's an absolute no-go in my opinion. It's just not fair on your child

No, I don't think you can stick to that name unfortunately!

My youngest Daughters initials were "IBJ" for a couple of weeks before I realised