Initials extractor
Paste a list of names, one per line: get everyone's initials instantly, in dotted (J.D.) or compact (JD) format, ready to copy.
What are monograms and initials good for?
Initials come in handy more often than you'd think: initialing contract pages and meeting minutes, filling in attendance sheets, preparing monograms for embroidery, engraving, or stamps, creating placeholder avatars for an app or an org chart, or quickly relabeling columns in a spreadsheet. Doing it by hand for a long list is tedious and error-prone: paste the names here and the job is done in a second, even for hundreds of rows.
J.D. or JD: which format should you pick?
The dotted form (J.D.) is the traditional choice for formal documents and margin initials; the form without periods (JD) is the go-to style for monograms, logos, avatars, and internal codes. The tool takes the first letter of every word in the name, so "Mary Anne Parker" becomes M.A.P.: if you'd rather ignore middle names or particles like "van" or "de", just remove them from the line before extracting. Empty lines are skipped automatically.