Quote Originally Posted by string View Post
Make sure to check what the initals spell, . . .
My wife and I named our son "Timothy Ian" partly to make his initials spell his nickname. His college formed their network users' names by appending a three-digit serial number to the student's initials. Tim's friends thought it was "really cool" that his user name was "TIM001".

In my father-in-law's family the tradition of naming the first boy for his grandfathers was very strong, so he was rather annoyed that we didn't name Tim for him, and was only slightly mollified by our not naming Tim for my father either. My father-in-law's given names were "Grayson Hyman".

Anyone who remembers the TV sitcom "All in the Family" may remember that Archie wanted his grandson named "Archibald Stanislaus Stivik" but Gloria caught on to what the initials spelled.


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