Names that sound like the person's initials

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Jael
Kacey
Teal
Essie

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Ellen
Arte

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Abie
Bibi
Edie
Ellie
Elsie
Evie
Gigi
Petey

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Nate (N8) do numbers count (get it? nuimbers? count? I’ll go away forever now.)

5

Ahem.

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Emily

7

Arby

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Does a single initial count?

Bea
Dee
Em
Jay
Kaye
Zee

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Owen

10

NE1

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KT (Sagal)
LZ (my late grandfather, spelled Elsie)
LX&R (Solzhenitsyn)
RV (Dent)
NRE (the XIII, I am, I am)

(I’ll just join snfaulkner under the bleachers for some cheap wine.)

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Ian (E-N)

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Casey
Emmy

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Beth

(Second letter of the Hebrew alphabet)

15

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Vijay, as in Vijay Singh.

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That reminds me of the famous trio of Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow whose names happen to sound like the first three letters of the Greek alphabet.

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Ellis = L-S

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Étienne (ATN)

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Hubie (UB)

Ariel (three letters, really REL)

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MNX

(What you may have eaten for breakfast)