would it be very mean to give a child the initials ARS?

[hairymcleary]

is it too close to arse? Would they be teased at school?
I love the name Amon, DH is insisting his R name is the middle name and our surname begins with S.
I'm not so keen on spelling it Eamon, as it reminds me too much of that fella off the morning telly. Although we will shortly be moving to NZ, where no-one will know who he is, so I should probably get over that!
Anyway, thoughts on ARS please!

Not good, not good....

really not a good option. The amount of mickey taking he will get if his mates find out his initials will be awful.

Don't do it - really. They will be teased throughout their lives.
Use 'E' instead - it's only a letter and it sounds the same.

Use an additional middle name

DD3 would have been BAR had DP got his way but we stuck in another middle name (the one I liked to give her BAGR instead)

Why not Eamonn, which is gaelic for Edward and imo is a heck of a lot nicer than Amon. Which is probably a real name, I beg your pardon, but it looks like a cross between Amos and Eamonn anyway.

Tbh, ARS is a bad combo. You'd be bad to just blithely go ahead with that one. Ask a 13 yr old boy if he finds it funny.

didnt connect it at all with arse, rce is more arse

Yes it is a bad idea.
yes he will be teased

Not great - at my company people are known by their initials for EVERYTHING people even talk about each other using initials rather than names.

yes it would
don't do it

Not good, sorry!!

Oh dear.

can you just call him Kailon and have done with it?

we will not tear you to bits then.

really, don't
Eamonn is way nicer than Amon [which would prob get pronounced in a really weirdy way]

What a silly thread, would you like these intials?

If you give him them, make sure you start saving for the massive cost of therapy for all of the bullying he will get at school.

i really really think that would be incredibly harsh. sorry. the name is great but the initials are just not kind.

Oh good God in heaven DON'T!

Unless you want him to make himself a ward of court when he's older. It has been done before, over appalling naming.

I HAVE THE SOLUTION

call him R (ichard?) A(mon) S(mith?) but use Amon all the time

mind you I wouldn't go with Amon, too much like Amen

Um, I wouldn't if you can help it. The Eamon/Amon solution seems a good solution - it won't remind you of the telly presenter once it's your son's name. Or add another middle name.

Saying all that, DH has a name which includes a very rude name and he reckons it was the making of him!

Sorry, very rude name = very rude word.

Yes. We didn't give dd our original first choice of name because that's what her initials would have been.

stick John in there somewhere

look, ARJS

l@@k! AJRS

My initials before I married were B.O, dont do it.

Matthew = ARMS
Timothy= ARTS
Freddy=ARFS

thats a pretty crappy thing to do imo - really unnecessary - can't you add an extra initial in there or just spell it Eamon - Amon looks weird to me!

Well my intials are BJ and of course i get the piss taken a lot! Sometimes i join in and its funny, but it can be annoying! I do have a middle name but they all still like to call me BJ. So yes intials do matter and someone will pick it up one day and he will be teased for it but then i find ppl will always find something to tease you about, so maybe it doesnt matter if you really like the name.

My dd nearly had the initials GIT I only noticed on the way to register her and made a swift substitution.