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As a child, I doubt anyone knew my initials. As an adult, if someone made fun of my initials I would have probably just rolled my eyes.

That being said, go for it! HEL isn't bad to me.

I definitely would not use it.

I don't think HEL is bad (I actually don't think Hell, I think Helen!), but I used my initials a lot professionally so I was very aware when we were picking LO's name.

I don't think HEL is terrible, but I also do think initials are important because mine have been used so much in my life. My university uses initials for emails, so it's something I use all the time (I went here for both undergrad and grad school, so so far it's been my email for almost a third of my life!). My parents actually use our full initials all the time--probably bc their first names start with the same letter, so they have to use the full initials to differentiate when writing in shorthand

@psw27: @.twist.: Y'all must not know many people who have been made fun of--literally on a daily basis--for their names/initials. Immature? Absolutely. But that won't stop it from happening. Repeatedly.

HEL doesn't bother me. I agree with a few other posters that it would be children who would immaturely tease about something like that and in most scenarios children will never know each other's initials.

I'm amused though because I just realized (because of this post!) that our girl's name initials are MEH, which in many ways I find more bothersome than HEL. Oops. Maybe we'll have to reconsider haha.

I think it's fine. If she hates her initials, she can just drop the middle name initial and use first/last for initialing things. Our daughter's initials spell "ASK". We love her name though and didn't want to change our decision, even once we figured out her initials spell a word. My dad teases us about it sometimes, but I'm under the opinion that this is not an issue that will scar her for life.

Initials aren't important, mine were MF (if I just used first and last)

Wouldn't it be funny if she got married to someone with a K last name and she would go from HEL to HEK lol.

Anyway, not a deal breaker. Wouldn't think twice about it. My brother and sister-in-law are having their baby sometime in the next 1-2 weeks (!) and her initials will be ELF

DH's initials were going to be KKK until his parents realized. They changed his first name. Living in elementary school land makes me realize that kids are aware of last names and will make fun of that. They generally don't know each other's middle names. I would still avoid offensive initials though. I don't think HEL is so bad. If you love it do it.

@MsLipGloss: well, that's unfortunate. I gotta say, I must run into more professional people than that!

I think HEL is fine and wouldn't think twice about it.

I grew up with a girl whose initials were KKK (I am really not kidding).....that would not be ok.

@erinpye: I agree. I am surprised so many people think it is fine.

I'm with those that said HEL isn't bad. I didn't think anything of it when I saw it.

I'll probably be making a similar poll at some point. Our current boy name (we're not sold on it yet, but it's all we've found) makes the initials ARS. I don't think anything of it when I first see it, but then I think arse when I look at it to see if I can find any issues. Can't decide if that's enough to be a concern.