We were going to name her Pearl Olive Owen, but then her initials would have been ‘POO’ so we went ahead and switched that around.
~ Singer Jake Owen, on rethinking his daughter’s name, as quoted by People, April 5
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Idk who he is but Olive is one name I think Id remove
Good call, Jake! :D
Well, that was interesting.
I’d rather have POO than BHO.
Initials can be tricky. :)
And nicknames.
You’re right, Carla. My former step-father had a brother whose initials spelled
A.S.S. !
At a certain point I think you can drive yourself crazy for no reason at all. Something like POO is pretty obvious and easy to avoid, but I knew a girl whose mom had changed her intended name around TWICE just to avoid any possible lol-worthy nicknames or initials. Imagine her dismay when, a few years after her daughter was born, a new syndrome began to get media and popular attention: PMS. Her daughter’s initials. ;)
I also went to school with a girl named Whitney Spears. I always thought that must have been crummy – to go, almost overnight, from normal/anonymous to your very own walking punchline, for basically the rest of your life. Kind of like how I have two friends born on 9/11 – total drag.
So yeah, basically, I’d avoid obvious things like POO but otherwise not worry too much!
One of my kids has the initials EEK. :P
My initials are AMP, which I think is cool because I often work with…amps – both amplifiers and amperes. :P
I tried to be careful with my kids’ names, because my first name can and has been used for about a billion stupid nicknames, nursery rhymes, songs, etc etc. some of them are quite gross lol. My kids’ names do not have that problem.
We WERE going to have a child with ASS for initials.
Quickly changed that.
My initials are LAF, which most of my friends growing up always thought was ironic, since for most of my life I’ve been pretty dour. :/
Lol X. At least your name isn’t a euphemism for masturbation or being a complete jerk. And there aren’t a gazillion songs with your name in it. I swear, if one more person tells me to “hit the road Jack, and don’t you come back no more no more”… And no, I did not fall down and break my crown shut up people!
I like my first name but not my middle
Nothing against Olive maybe its his mothers name or something . eh i just don’t care for it.
Well, I guess everyone here knows my initials don’t mean anything. It helps to not have any vowels in them. :)
JDC, your actual name is Jehoshaphat Dinglehopper Coolidge and nothing you say will ever change my mind.
My initials are AMP, which I think is cool because I often work with…amps – both amplifiers and amperes.
And I thought my sense of humor was dry. Come on, Alexandra, you can do better.
My initials work out to ELAL (yes, I have two middle names), which is the name of the Israeli airline, but that’s about the only interesting thing that I’ve got going on, initial-wise.
“JDC, your actual name is Jehoshaphat Dinglehopper Coolidge and nothing you say will ever change my mind.”
I’m going to go ahead and not confirm or deny that.
I went to school with someone named Jesse James (first and middle). Had the same personality too.
Jack jdc lol
I often sign off as HAJ. I’ve always liked that it’s pretty close to the name of Jonny Quest’s friend.