Names like J.J, C.J., K.C., K.T., M.J., M.K., etc. on both sexes.*
[name]Do[/name] you like them? Or do you find them dated?*
I find that these nicknames leave you wondering what the persons full name is.
For the intials listed above what names would you pair them with?*
For example, M.J. could stand for something plain like [name]Mary[/name] [name]Jane[/name] (haha) or something less so like [name]Mirielle[/name] [name]June[/name].
Also what initials have you heard before?*
The only one I really like is M.K.*
I think initial nicknames can be pretty cool. I’ve known a couple of J.J.'s of both sexes (the girl was [name]Jacqueline[/name] [name]Jane[/name], don’t remember what the guy’s real name was), and a few others as well - P.H. ([name]Paul[/name] [name]Henry[/name]), P.J. ([name]Phillip[/name] something, maybe [name]John[/name]?) and J.T. ([name]Jenna[/name] Thi - her middle name’s Vietnamese).
I like ones with K or J, as [name]Kay[/name] and [name]Jay[/name] are names anyway. AJ and JT I like. I think it’s often used as a nickname when there is another family member with the same name.
I have never been a fan of them. They seem unfinished somehow. They always leave me wondering if you picked the name first, and then used the initials or picked the initials first and tried to match a name.
I know some wacky ones (my husband’s boss is H.B. and I met a guy once who went by F.G.). [name]One[/name] of the weirdest was a student named [name]Alan[/name] [name]Jay[/name] (or some other A name) who actually spelled his name AJay (or it may have been A. [name]Jay[/name] with the period, I don’t remember). I’ve seen some that were kind of cute-ish I guess like a [name]William[/name] [name]Bradley[/name] who went by B.B. (the first B stands for [name]Billy[/name]). I know a boy named [name]Joseph[/name] [name]Edward[/name] who goes by [name]Jed[/name] (get it – J. [name]Edward[/name]), which is neat because he’s named after his two grandfathers.
I guess I just like names, not letters, although I did once know a girl who really did have the first name of Y, and she went by it. Her story was that her dad thought it was funny.
I really can’t see any reason for them. Parents spend so much time and put so much consideration into finding a unique and special combo for their child and then obliterate all of their work by only using the initials? It’s beyond my comprehension on the appeal of reducing a child to his/her initials.
They’re fine. I wouldn’t use them, but I don’t dislike them and I feel like I know zillions. My sister uses her initials once in a while as a nickname (her double-barreled name begs for one, but she doesn’t like the first name.) Many _J’s I know are juniors and it’s to differentiate between them and their father, but some just prefer the initials to their real name. A lot of their parents don’t call them by their initials. I think it’s good to have as an option, but I wouldn’t plan on calling my child by their initials.
I’ve heard of writers doing this to disguise their gender, which I think is a brilliant idea. An author may not want people to know their gender, so they use the neutral C.J. or T.L. or J.K. instead.
[name]Love[/name] 'em. I’m not a fan of the X.J. type, though, since the J is usually “junior.” I like the more interesting ones. I used to work with a T.C. ([name]Thomas[/name] [name]Christian[/name]) and my father-in-law is L.W. ([name]Lee[/name] [name]Wilson[/name]). My high school principal was L.G. ([name]Lee[/name] [name]Grant[/name]) They’ve always struck me as rather elegant and noble.
I think in families with repeated names they’re great. My fiancee and I plan to name our first son after him and he’ll be [name]Jonathan[/name] junior, so he’ll be JJ. My cousin growing up had the same first name as our grandpa so to separate them everyone called my cousin GT. I think they’re cute.
I think that they can be cute, but not something I would ever use for my own kids. I’ve personally known a:
J.T ([name]James[/name] [name]Unknown[/name])
P.J ([name]Philip[/name] [name]John[/name])
A.J ([name]Ashton[/name] Jadda)
D.J ([name]David[/name] [name]Jonathan[/name])
J.R ([name]Unknown[/name])
I’m generally not a fan of them, but there are a few I don’t mind–JJ for a girl (or sort of for a boy), EJ for a boy, KJ for a girl, MJ for a boy… that’s about it, I suppose. 
I think my love for JJ stems from Criminal Minds, though, lol. And maybe JJ Abrams. I’m about 99% sure there’s not a show he’s developed that I haven’t loved… lol.
But still, I would use the full name (or a common nn for the name) more often than the initials nn. Unless I purposely used the initials to come up with a nn I love, like [name]Ella[/name] [name]Violet[/name], nn [name]Evie[/name], or [name]Grace[/name] [name]Gabriella[/name], nn [name]Gigi[/name], or [name]Monet[/name] [name]Evangeline[/name], nn [name]Emmy[/name]. etc. The whole _J has always seemed like a wasted opportunity for a perfectly wonderful FN, to me. 
My daughter knows someone named H.J. It is a Korean name. Her full name …was…something I am not sure how to spell.
I really, really don’t like initials being used for nn’s. Not at all.
No, I think it’s silly most times.
Very very few times do I like it.
I only know one person who goes exclusively by this, a CJ, I’m not sure of his real first name but I know he absolutely hates it and has gone by CJ for years. I think it was his choice, not his parents, and the J’s not a junior either, it’s his middle initial. My boyfriend sometimes calls my by my initials, SJ, but I don’t go by it at all apart from that except sometimes as an online nickname. My first daughter will have an XJ name too, because the J’s a family middle name I want to continue, but I know I won’t ever be calling her XJ. If she chooses to go by it when she’s older I’ll accept it, but it’s something I’m not going to enforce.
I do know a [name]Katy[/name] whose initials (fn and ln) were KT and she always thought that was quite a cool thing, that her initials and name were the same when you said them.
Yes, I wouldn’t use initials on a perfectly nice fn either.
I’ve been hearing good things about Criminal Minds…maybe I should give it a try 
I was called L.C. (like the real name [name]Elsie[/name]) growing up. Those are the initials of my first and middle names.
My son is named after my Dad ([name]John[/name]) and my mom [name]Danielle[/name] (of course we used the boy version [name]Daniel[/name]) and we call him JD. [name]John[/name] seemed like such a serious, masculine name for such a little baby boy so we gave him the nickname and it stuck (he’s now 3). I think initial nicknames can be a good thing and sound rather distinguished (think ts elliot, cs lewis, jd rockefeller, etc).
I go by my initials. But, I didn’t start it until I became an adult. As a writer, I realized that it added a certain gender anonymity that I preferred on the page. Most of my family and close friends still use my first name, however. But professionally, acquaintances, publicly, etc. I use my initials. Also, if we have a boy, I would most likely call him by his initials some of the time.
My initials are MK (first name and last name) and I love them. I really only use them when signing off on things at work, at the end of e-mails to people I know really well, writing quick notes to people, etc. I had never thought of using MK as a nickname for myself, but I just might start after reading this post.
As far as the other “usual suspects” among the initial nicknames, I’m not a huge fan of the second initial “J” names (CJ, RJ, TJ, EJ, JJ) as I think they are so common. The more unique combos appeal to me more.
Names like J.J, C.J., K.C., K.T., M.J., M.K., etc. on both sexes.*
[name]Do[/name] you like them? Or do you find them dated?* -
I don’t find them very appealing on either sex. not dated, just not interesting. As someone else said, you spent time choosing a name, and then don’t even use it. - kind of disappointing (unless the name is horrible!).
I find that these nicknames leave you wondering what the persons full name is.
Me too.
For the intials listed above what names would you pair them with?*
J.J, C.J., K.C., K.T., M.J., M.K.
[name]Jessica[/name] [name]Jane[/name]
[name]Christopher[/name] [name]Joseph[/name]
[name]Katherine[/name] [name]Cecilia[/name].
[name]Michael[/name] [name]James[/name]
[name]Maria[/name] [name]Josephine[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Kathleen[/name]
We have a JP in the family. He’s a [name]Joseph[/name] [name]Paul[/name]. I know his dad’s name was [name]Joseph[/name], not sure what his dad’s middle name was.
He was called JP so as to not get mixed up with his dad… which I think was a big reason why many boys were called by initial names.