We've finally narrowed it down to 3 names for our girl, due September 2nd. Our last name is Patrick, so try to keep that in mind where her initials are concerned. Are initials a big deal? My brother-in-law has really freaked us out! Help!!!
That's what I was afraid of. Several people say it's not a big deal, but the few that do really scare me. It is the only name that my husband and I really agree on, but the initials may be a deal breaker. (
Awesome. In order, for my husband, it is 1. Penelope 2. Ivy 3. Daphne.
For myself, I just can't decide. I like Penelope the best, as long as I get comfortable with her initials, then Ivy and Daphne equally. Naming a human is such a huge responsibility!
I don't dislike any of them, though. I don't think the initials PEP or PP are bad either. IEP is an abbreviation for something in my line of work, but I'm sure that wouldn't be known by many people.
Yes, IEPs are used for both gifted ed as well as special ed, but I don't even think the kids with IEPs of their own will think about it enough to use it as a jab. I'm not worried about those initials at all. (I assume you are talking about Individualized Education Programs...)
Penelope Patrick is way too many "p's" for me, even without the "PP" initials; it just sounds choppy to me. I've never really liked the sound of Daphne. It's all right. Ivy is my favorite. I'm not wild about the IEP initials but not bad.
Before I married and changed my last name, my initials were P.P. I did get some teasing in elementary school but it was very mild. It was a few times from maybe one or two boys. I was pretty shy and overweight as a kid (so theoretically an easy target) but really I hardly got teased for anything. All this to say I am not scarred for life for having the initials P.P.
However I'll be honest and say I did find it mildly annoying when I would write my initials for paperwork. So I guess it did bother me a tiny bit. I was very happy to change my name when I got married, but that was mostly because besides starting with a "P" my last name was kind of weird.
I voted for Daphne for your poll though. Like another poster said above, I find Penelope Patrick to be just too many "p"s.
Well, it looks as though Penelope/Penny is out anyway. We were planning on keeping her name a secret until she was born, but somehow my husband's brother's gf just posted that we were going to name her Penelope ON FACEBOOK! Turns out he told a bunch of people when he was back for graduation a few weeks ago that Penelope was THE NAME, meanwhile I've been telling everyone that we won't even tell them the names we're thinking about... I asked the girlfriend to take the post down, but she's suddenly ignoring me. Now it's just between Ivy Elizabeth and Daphne something. Husband has now decided he doesn't like Rose...
(I just finally told my friends back home that I was pregnant at all, yesterday, at 28 weeks, so I'm pretty upset. We live 700+ miles from most of our family and friends, and my husband is basically a less social Sheldon Cooper. How did this happen?!)
My daughters name is Ivy, so I am partial to that. I will say, I've never got a nasty comment or side-eyed when I told someone her name. The only thing people say sometimes is "what is Ivy short for"... Uh, nothing... It's just Ivy.
I like Daphne best. Penelope is a great name too, but Penelope Patrick sounds a little too much like a fictional character. Though I'd prefer Daphne Elizabeth to Daphne Rose and Penelope Rose to Penelope Elizabeth.
When I said what our son's name was, friends and family kept going "ahhhh!" "What?" "His initials. It's what they spell." His initials are AHH. I didn't get why they constantly pointed that out. I'd stay away from PP, and Penelope Elizabeth is also rather long. Good taste in names overall, though.
Re: Which girl name do you prefer? *QUICK POLL* Please help!
My DH has a P last name so I pretty much ruled out all P names for initial reasons. If it was the only name I truly loved though, I would use it.
I adore Ivy Elizabeth.
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