Hellobee Boards Topic: How important are initials to you?

Hellobee Boards Topic: How important are initials to you? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:22:36 +0000 Andrea on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you/page/2#post-1993160 Sat, 20 Dec 2014 22:28:48 +0000 Andrea 1993160@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Important. I worked at many companies that used the same order management software and your initials were recorded next to all of your actions so yeah...everyone saw them constantly! cait on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you/page/2#post-1993021 Sat, 20 Dec 2014 17:23:10 +0000 cait 1993021@https://boards.hellobee.com/ They don't really matter to me but I went to school with someone with the initials PMS and his sibling's were ASS! travellingbee on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you/page/2#post-1993010 Sat, 20 Dec 2014 16:53:11 +0000 travellingbee 1993010@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My maiden initials were BED. Lol! My sons are LPB which I like. If we have a daughter they will be HEB, like the store (grocery). LaughLines on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1992935 Sat, 20 Dec 2014 14:16:51 +0000 LaughLines 1992935@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My maiden last name started with a "Z" and my mom really wanted to name me Elizabeth, but she thought "EZ" would be bad for a girl (sounds like "easy", which is good to associate to a girl). Even though the middle initial would have broken that up... still a no-go Mrs.Pinecone316 on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1992815 Sat, 20 Dec 2014 10:39:51 +0000 Mrs.Pinecone316 1992815@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Mrs. J: You would think that would be a common "avoid" initials but my DH and all his brothers had "BJ" initials and it never was an issue surprisingly! Mrs.Pinecone316 on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1992813 Sat, 20 Dec 2014 10:38:20 +0000 Mrs.Pinecone316 1992813@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I would let me kids have initials that spell something bad or that could get teased but other than that I give it no thought and it wouldnt guide my name deciding in any way. Mrs. J on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1992645 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:55:58 +0000 Mrs. J 1992645@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @lawbee11: our last name starts with J, so we have avoided BJ lol Anagram on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991694 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:52:12 +0000 Anagram 1991694@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My parents almost named me something that would've made my initials RAT until a lady at the hospital pointed it out. So they changed it to AMT, which became ATM after marriage, haha. So it did cross my mind. LO is MVM. Mrs. Chocolate on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991686 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:49:40 +0000 Mrs. Chocolate 1991686@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I think about it and try to make sure it doesnt spell out anything totally inappropriate or crazy but if I loved a name I might try to make it work somehow Bubbles on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991672 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:43:57 +0000 Bubbles 1991672@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My initials before I got married were SHT - not that bad but still got my fair share of comments at school! pinkcupcake on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991660 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:41:14 +0000 pinkcupcake 1991660@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Important. I used my initials a lot when I was working. My daughter has two middle names and I purposefully arranged them as JH instead of HJ :P blackbird on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991645 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:35:02 +0000 blackbird 1991645@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Well, i considered it in that I don't think ESS is a bad set of initials. It's not FUK or ASS or SEX or BUT or a million other awkward things. Sure, last names could change, but still! I sign my initials a lot! .twist. on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991525 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:23:00 +0000 .twist. 1991525@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @lawbee11: LOL. WTF would make great initials!!! :P They're pretty unimportant to me. I didn't go searching for anything ridiculous, but there wasn't anything we actively avoided either. I guess it would have depended if I noticed something weird, then I might have tried to change it, but we never ran into the problem. NeekieRose on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991510 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:13:20 +0000 NeekieRose 1991510@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Not important, but DD#1 nn is Regs, and this baby's initials will be REG. Which I think is a cute coincidence. Mrs. Sunshine on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991477 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:55:28 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 1991477@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Not that important. My niece's middle name was going to be Olivia but that would give her the initials POS so they spell it Alivia instead. Mamasig on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991459 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:44:22 +0000 Mamasig 1991459@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Not very important but I just made sure if I monogrammed something it wouldn't spell something crazy out. I have a niece whose initials spell ASS. I can't believe her parents didn't catch that. Especially living in the South where we love having things monogrammed! MaryM on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991451 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:41:49 +0000 MaryM 1991451@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I would say somewhat important. I'd always thought I'd use the name Virginia after my favorite aunt (Gigi), and then I thought I'd use Jane after DH's favorite aunt...but I couldn't imagine giving a girl both a name that's similar to vagina, and having the initials VJ (which could easily become vajaja) My new favorite name would give a daughter the same initials as me, which I think would be kind of neat since all the males in DH's family have the same initials. mediagirl on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991407 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:18:19 +0000 mediagirl 1991407@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My brother's initials are DEB and I know he always hated that. A friend of mine had KEG as her initials and that was cool in college. :) Honestly, I tried to go with initials that didn't spell anything to make it easy. We don't do the monogramming thing so that isn't a problem in our house. LuLu Mom on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991405 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:15:23 +0000 LuLu Mom 1991405@https://boards.hellobee.com/ As long as it's not an "embarrassing word" I'm good. Our last name starts with a W and most middle names we come up with are not a vowel so we don't really come across this. dagret on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991399 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:13:09 +0000 dagret 1991399@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Our last name starts with G so there are a lot of things I wouldn't want to spell out especially in conjunction with our last name, which is easy for kids to make fun of. Mrs. Lemon-Lime on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991374 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:50:42 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1991374@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Somewhat. With our last name it's really hard to go wrong unless the initials are spelled backwards. looch on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991370 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:47:58 +0000 looch 1991370@https://boards.hellobee.com/ It was very important to me. lawbee11 on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991367 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:45:22 +0000 lawbee11 1991367@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Our last name starts with an "F" and I think the only initials we actively avoided were WTF. Oh, and BJ. namaste on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991366 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:44:39 +0000 namaste 1991366@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Somewhat but not really. Right now our daughter's initials are ANY lol lovehoneybee on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991331 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:19:38 +0000 lovehoneybee 1991331@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Mrs. Pen: If E had been a girl there's a really good chance she would have been GEM (Grace Evans McK, after D's grandmother). birdofafeather on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991168 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 01:06:38 +0000 birdofafeather 1991168@https://boards.hellobee.com/ i just didn't want it to spell something totally weird or crass! i don't know that's possible with our last name though! lamariniere on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991167 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 01:05:25 +0000 lamariniere 1991167@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Not at all. I'm not into monogramming either. SugarplumsMom on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991165 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:56:11 +0000 SugarplumsMom 1991165@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I didn't worry too much about it since traditional monograms are first-last-middle name anyway. Saying that, my LO's initials are EOG, which is eGo traditionally. I don't plan to monogram ... :silly: coopsmama on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991157 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:43:05 +0000 coopsmama 1991157@https://boards.hellobee.com/ As long as it doesn't spell something vulgar, I don't care about initials. Rainbow Sprinkles on "How important are initials to you?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-important-are-initials-to-you#post-1991143 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:27:58 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1991143@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Totally doesn't matter to me unless the initials spelled ASS (totally possible with our last name). I guess FUK wouldn't be great, either.