s/o Nicknames for your children?

I'm from a family of nickname-givers. My kids still get called by theirs, but only at home.

My pets each have numerous nicknames. My dog would answer to at least a dozen, though her actual name was reserved for when I really needed her attention.

My family doesn't do nicknames. DH's mom calls the kids variations on their names, similar to the kardashjans (we all start with K).

Yes - they will still answer to them but I'm not sure they like it when called those names in public Oldest (who is 31) is Emily, we call her Em, Emmy. Middle daughter is Stacy (who is 30), we call her Stac, Staceface. Youngest Patricia (who is 28) goes by Tricia, we call her T and she hates it when someone calls her Patty lol.

Grandson Brian goes by Boogie and Rock, Grandson Gabe goes by Monkey and Pebble.

All my children have 2 syllable names. I've taken their first syllable and attached 'bie to the end. I would be Jigbie. If I had a Brian, he would be Bribie, etc. I don't do that anymore now that they are all adults, but I've heard them mention the others by their nickname!

Somehow we began calling my oldest son Smoogie-Muffin as a baby. It was so weird that it stuck for years. He's 24 now. About the only time it's used anymore is on his birthday.

The other three had variations of their actual names as is more commonly done by people.

Yep, in order - Bud, Bit and Boo. My DD's has evolved from Baby Bit to Lil Bit to Bit. They are 24, 21 and 18. They all still answer to them.

The oldest is just a shortened version of his "real" name which is not his real name. He is a IV. Which none are those names were gonna work so we settled on what we call him now. DD's name is Elizabeth and Bit was just easier to her big brother and later her younger brother. And heck we are from the south, so Elizabeth being shortened to Bit was just going to happen at some point. Better than Bitsy, IMO. I don't really remember how the third one's came about. It wasnn't short for anything. It just worked in the call out of all three names as we were headed out the door.

Boy, Bamb, Belle

Only the last has any relation to their name -and she only ended up with it because it worked with the others (all B's)

My oldest's name doesn't shorten in the States and while it does in England, none of us like the diminutive.

My middle child's name has a gazillion diminutives but she always went by her full name until quite recently when she started using Cat at school

The little one goes by her full name except at home

Son usually goes by full name, but often gets called by the standard shortened version.

Daughter (Katherine) named herself KK when she was a toddler, and that stuck when she went to preschool. By the 3rd year of preschool, she decided she wanted to be called Kate. Well, there was already a Kate in the class of 12 kids. OK, she said, I'll be Katherine. Oh, there's already a Kathryn in the same class of 12. Fine, I'll stay KK. Then one of the preschool teachers was a mom at the small school she attended for the first few years of elementary, and said mom coached the soccer team that DD was on. And yep, there was a Katherine and a Kat on the team, so KK became her "sports name." She's now in 4th grade, and kind of pushing to be Kat, but I can't ever remember that. I do just call her K sometimes, and she says she kind of likes when I do it but not other people.

DD has a variety of nicknames that have been given to her by us and others, most notably Sweetpea and Peanut. We use a cute variation of her given name and always have. About half of the time she will use her given name and the other half of the time the variation depending on her mood. I had a couple nicknames growing up that no one uses now but I don't think DH ever had one.

DS is Liam. We call him Scooter a lot. A few years ago we were at the 50s Prime Time Café at Disney World, and our waitress called him that, and it just stuck.

We also call him Saunders... when he was a babe we would call him L - then Ellis (just kind of expanded) - then Ellisaundro - then Saunders. It doesn't even really make sense, now that I type that out!

DD is Mallory and the weirdest we get with her is Mallycakes.

Oldest dd is Boo (from Monsters Inc when I was pregnant), 2nd dd is Pip(squeak) because she snorted and squeaked a lot when she was first born, DS is Sprout and my youngest DS is Smurf, May May or Buddy. Except for May May (my other kids started that one) I am the only one who calls them any of these names and almost never outside of the house.

I don't have kids, but my dad called me Princess. I strongly dislike that nickname for anyone. He also called me pumpkin.

DH calls me Kiki. I call my brother Bubbs and he calls me sis. We call DH's sister...sister.

I have a Bug

My dd is named Naomi and her dad and I call her Nay. She had various nicknames growing up, NayNay, ShaNayNay, NayNomi, and Nomi, but only Nay has seemed to stick.