How important are initials

j9griff723

So my DH and I are talking baby names for fun and I love Elizabeth Grace.  They are both family names, 1 from each side of the family.  But that would give our future potential baby girl the initials EGG.  He is against this.  As a girl, I have barely ever used my initials and now that I'm married I have new initials.  I just think it is such a beautiful and classic name.  What do you ladies think?  Do I keep working on him to accept the family importance over the initials?  My husband is the 4th so our first son will be the 5th so obviously family names mean a lot to him.

Brandyjean30

Initials can be important and you don't want to make things harder on your kid (for instance my initials were BJ...that made high school fun). But like you said she will get married and they wont be EGG forever. Most people probably wont even notice unless you point it out. I also know when I initial things I don't put my middle initial, I just use first and last.

geauxfrogs

I don't think EGG is that bad. There are some combos I would avoid, like PMS. My parents wouldn't name me anything that started with an E b/c my initials would have been EZ.

bethj516

What if you named her Grace Elizabeth instead? Then she would be GEG instead of EGG. I don't think it's huge deal but that might be a compromise your husband would be okay with.

OO cupcakes OO

If you like the middle name I say go for it.  Honestly, if kids are going to make fun of your kid they'll do it whether or not her initials spell EGG.  I wouldn't let that be a determining factor.  BJ is bad, but EGG... not that big of a deal.

vjmc21

I don't think it's too big of a deal.  Like PP said, there are some initials that should be avoided, but EGG isn't bad.  If you can't convince DH, Grace Elizabeth is pretty, too

GracieBlue

My mom and aunts used names with the same letters for each of their respective children, so siblings all have the same initials (I am not sure what they were smoking back then).  I can tell you I never used all three of my initials - I never found a reason I had to.  EGG should be fine.  If anything she will probably use just EG.

HuskerBabyB

I agree with the PP's. There are some out there that are bad, but EGG isn't one of them. She'll eventually get married anyway...lol!

 

lavenderflow

Throwing my 2 cents in and agreeing that EGG isn't awful.  I do however consider what the initials would be for my kids whether boys or girls.  I have crossed out names because our kids would have ended up with the initals MSG or PIG

On a side note my DHs initials are HCG which didn't stick out to me until we started TTC

cjpreuss

I say no big deal. Almost everyone's initials could be made into something awful if you tried hard enough.

jen812

How about adding a second middle name? Elizabeth Grace ____ G.

chusum

While EGG isn't horrible just consider middle school, it's hard enough. I love the name Elizabeth Grace, and unless you live in the south her middle initials might never be used.

naflmj

I wouldn't be concerned with those initials...like PP said, if it were BJ or ASS I may rethink it.

pinotgirl

My brother's initials are "CRAP" - Christopher Ryan Anthony P***

Much worse than EGG  

ellesmama

I think it depends...

#1- on whether or not you're going to use the initials a lot or not. I am from the south and lots of people here have EVERYTHING monogrammed for their children (and even themselves... ex- car monograms) so you would see the initals a lot. If you're not someone who would have things monogrammed or use the initals often, of course they wouldn't matter nearly as much.

#2- on what the gender of the baby is... IF you are going to monogram. I sell a children's clothing line and we've had some issues this season with monogramming. A girl's initials are usually arranged FLM and a boy's are FML, but one customer had a little boy with the initials "HAM" so she wanted them put on the garment in the FLM order (usually girl's style) in order to prevent an issue.

I think EGG for a girl is fine, because even if you did monogram it, the middle inital is usually larger. No one is going to read a monogram like a normal word.

miblue

My son's initials are RAZ everyone joked how this was dumb and people would call him raspberry, etc. but no one does. Besides on most things the last initial is in the middle so it looks like rZa instead. 

m&t+1

IMO, no big deal.  If he's worried about teasing as a kid, ask him to think back and try to remember how many of his friends' middle names and initials he knew as a child (or even current - I can't tell you most of my good friends' middle names).  I'm not sure kids make associations like that unless someone goes by thier initials (AJ, TJ, etc.)