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Post by bessieb on Dec 31, 2018 22:01:12 GMT
toby=Boy Amelie= Amalams, Poppylops or Lolly Sylvie= baby bear (or baby or bear) although my son calls her Shrivelby. when she was little she could pronounce her name and used to tell everyone she was called Filthy.
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Post by KelleeM on Dec 31, 2018 22:05:41 GMT
My son is George Michael Lastname Junior and has been called GM for most of his life.
Dd is Meaghan and let’s people she likes call her Meg. I’m Kellee and the same way about being called Kel, if I don’t know your or don’t like you I don’t want you calling me Kel.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2018 22:06:11 GMT
We use the nickname Little Monkey for our daughter. We playfully called her that as a child and it stuck. She’s a teen now but we still call her little monkey.
Our teens boys usually get called Duuuuude for no apparent reason. 😄
One of our sons is named Nathan but everyone at school calls him Nate, I like it.
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Post by disneypal on Dec 31, 2018 22:07:19 GMT
My own nickname is nothing like my given name. My mom often calls me "Boo".
Funny enough, when I got my first office job, a co-worker also called me "Boo" and then the others started calling me that too - I don't know why since they never met my mom (and she'd only call me that when I was with her face-to-face).
One day I was at the dentist and my dentist called me "Boo" - I looked at him kind of puzzled and he said "Sorry, you just look like a 'Boo' to me" - I said, that's okay, my mom calls me that too so now he often calls me that.
I have no idea why - How do you look like a "Boo?"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2018 22:13:04 GMT
Matthew has been Matthewsaurus since he was born and it’s just naturally shortened to Saurus.
Nathaniel acts like a wild animal so his nickname is Diddy (as in Diddy Kong from the Donkey Kong video games). Everyone calls him that but I evolved it into Diddy Doo Dah, so I call him Doo Dah. But I’m the only one who calls him that.
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Post by leftturnonly on Dec 31, 2018 22:13:26 GMT
My nickname is my name (as far as I'm concerned) and you better be on a select list of older-than-me relatives to use my given name with me and get away with it. I'm unusual in that my given name is the more personal to me, much as a private nickname is to others. My mother was always called by her given name. No shortening or nicknames for her, as per my grandmother's orders. (Possibly why she gave me and encouraged my nickname!) My father's first name varied. It was spelled differently by the government than by his family & school, and then it was legally changed to the diminutive of his brother's common first name. They were mistakenly both referred to by the same diminutive on a regular basis. My mother and all her friends and family referred to my dad as yet an entirely different name throughout his life. Aren't you glad you asked?
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Post by SweetieBugs on Dec 31, 2018 22:14:44 GMT
My brother's name is Jeffery Scott (first and middle name) and was named after my dad who has the identical first and middle name. My dad always went by Scott so I think that is why my brother grew up with the name Scottie (instead of using Jeffrey or Jeff). However, we also called him Scooter and Skippy and Skippy-Dip-Lip. As he got older, we would refer to him as Scott Jr.
Now as an adult, he goes by Jeff but my Dad has always used Scott. I still call him Scottie.
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Post by leftturnonly on Dec 31, 2018 22:22:26 GMT
I wanted to call my son Sebastian, but I was overruled. I would have then called him Bash. I still feel a bit sad about that. My DD would have been names George (by my DH) if she had been a boy. I don't really like the name, but it's the name of my grandfather and uncle, so I agreed (and would have gotten used to fast enough.) I started calling her George out of the blue a couple of years ago & it made her laugh, so now, I call her George fairly frequently. (It makes her laugh every time.) It's not too late to call you boy Bash. Just sayin'.
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Dec 31, 2018 22:31:52 GMT
We purposely gave our kids names that have no diminutive form so that their full given names could be used...and they are, for the most part. A few close friends of each kid gave them their own nicknames (endearments? pet names?) over the years, but nothing that really stuck as an actual nickname used by anyone other than those close friends. And even then, those "nicknames" were very short-lived and went away once they were out of school.
I have a given name that can be a diminutive of a longer name I actively dislike. I grew up gently reminding people that my name wasn't and never had been XXXXX (the hated long form that was not my name) - it was just XXX. It helped that there were 3 others in my class with the same given name and none of us were actually named with the long form at birth.
DH likes his given name (so do I), which is a long form of a commonly shortened name, so he dislikes it when people automatically shorten it to the diminutive form. He sooooo not a XXX, he's a XXXXX, LOL!
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Dec 31, 2018 22:32:26 GMT
No nicknames in our immediate family. We gave a DD a pretty (and long) name and discouraged nicknames from the get-go. I didn't want her given name to not be used. That was my reaction to having short name that I never liked (mom didn't believe in nicknames having lived with one her entire life). My oldest niece has a nickname I gave her when she was little (I didn't care for her name) that is still used by family 35 years later. The nickname actually suits her and is a diminutive of her actual name. you don't like nicknames, you actively discourage them for your immediate family, but you gave your niece a nickname because you don't care for her name? seems contradictory. Crazy, right? The niece came along years before I had my own, so woman's prerogative to change her mind and all that! No one else outside the family calls niece by the nickname so it's really just a family thing.
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Post by Really Red on Dec 31, 2018 22:32:31 GMT
I wanted to call my son Sebastian, but I was overruled. I would have then called him Bash. I still feel a bit sad about that. My DD would have been names George (by my DH) if she had been a boy. I don't really like the name, but it's the name of my grandfather and uncle, so I agreed (and would have gotten used to fast enough.) I started calling her George out of the blue a couple of years ago & it made her laugh, so now, I call her George fairly frequently. (It makes her laugh every time.) It's not too late to call you boy Bash. Just sayin'. Haha! I tried. My son is 6'5" with a SHOCK of red curly hair and the deepest voice. When I called him Bash, he did not like it. No, ma'am, not at all. I'm happy he doesn't complain about Boo and Baby.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Dec 31, 2018 22:33:07 GMT
No nicknames in our immediate family. We gave a DD a pretty (and long) name and discouraged nicknames from the get-go. I didn't want her given name to not be used. That was my reaction to having short name that I never liked (mom didn't believe in nicknames having lived with one her entire life). My oldest niece has a nickname I gave her when she was little (I didn't care for her name) that is still used by family 35 years later. The nickname actually suits her and is a diminutive of her actual name. you don't like nicknames, you actively discourage them for your immediate family, but you gave your niece a nickname because you don't care for her name? seems contradictory. I caught that too and thought it was odd! Classic do as I say but not as I do.
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Post by leftturnonly on Dec 31, 2018 22:41:16 GMT
Haha! I tried. My son is 6'5" with a SHOCK of red curly hair and the deepest voice. When I called him Bash, he did not like it. No, ma'am, not at all. I'm happy he doesn't complain about Boo and Baby. Out loud laughing ensued when I got to him being OK with Boo or Baby but not Bash.
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Post by leftturnonly on Dec 31, 2018 22:45:25 GMT
We purposely gave our kids names that have no diminutive form so that their full given names could be used...and they are, for the most part. My nickname is 2 letters long and is usually combined to one syllable or just the first letter by several groups of friends and family. "Leave no name unchanged!" - may as well have been the hallmark of my youth.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Dec 31, 2018 22:55:33 GMT
I caught that too and thought it was odd! Classic do as I say but not as I do. See my response above your comment.
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Post by gar on Dec 31, 2018 22:56:37 GMT
My DDs nicknames are Plops and Lolly Lou- nothung like either of their names 😀
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Post by Merge on Dec 31, 2018 23:22:46 GMT
Both of our girls have had a slew of nicknames over the years, almost none of which are related to their actual names. Younger DD also uses a shortened version of her real name as we intended her to do.
Off topic, but I use a shortened version of my name as I dislike my full name. My boss at this school insists on calling me by my full name anyway, despite a couple of gentle reminders. He only has about a dozen of us reporting to him, so it bothers me that he can't be bothered to learn my name.
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Post by psiluvu on Jan 1, 2019 1:29:11 GMT
DD has a unique first name. Her high school friends shortened her name to Shig, Her university friends have done the same with out knowing the others. We call her princess or Shaunjay.
DS is 6'3 with flaming red hair so he gets Big Red from his friends and Petebo from us.
When naming then I wasn't so fussed about nicknames as I was about definite male/female. Before DD was 1 I had heard her name used on a male. Surprisingly I have never heard Peter for a girl
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Post by fotos4u2 on Jan 2, 2019 18:49:11 GMT
Names are a fascinating thing. When I chose my oldest kids name I wanted something that didn't necessarily form a nickname so hopefully people would just call her by her full name. That being said having hated my first name (and my middle name is even worse) the majority of my childhood I was insistent that we give a middle name that had a lot of nickname options so if the kid didn't like her name she could have options. Thankfully she likes her name and is rarely called by the anything but the full version. She also likes the middle name enough that she may use it for her own kid.
When #2 came along we did sort of the same only his middle name is his dad's name which does have a nickname that dad uses). Thankfully the boy seems content with his first name because I don't think I'd like calling him the same as his dad (who I have now divorced).
With #3 we struggled to find something that fit the parameters that we both agreed on. We almost went in an entirely different direction, but finally agreed on a first name that has a couple true nicknames, one of which myself and most of our family use for her. Her middle name is my mother's name which I admit to hating. This of course leads to the present where said child has somehow acquired the nickname of a diminutive of her middle name. Literally almost everyone (friends, coaches, teachers) call her this name. I refuse. I'm hoping when she goes away to college next year that she'll go back to going by her first name.
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Post by bdawnb on Jan 2, 2019 19:56:06 GMT
My daughter’s name is Summer and family calls her SummeronI, friends call her Sumsum.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Jan 2, 2019 20:16:41 GMT
I think most of us have endearments or cutesy names we call our children by - especially when they are little. And to me, shortened versions of your given name aren't really a nickname either. Nicknames that are used commonly outside the family are a whole different thing. No one calls me nor any of my children by a nickname. We use our names. Mine is a shortened version of my name; my children go by their full names. My husband is sometimes called by his initials, but no made-up nickname. ---- Side note: My husband plays Santa for the neighborhood each year. A little boy walked up this year and when Santa asked his name, replied "Tractor." Santa looked confused and the mama said, "His name is Ryland, but we call him Tractor." Now THAT'S a nickname.
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Post by rhhdk on Jan 2, 2019 21:13:24 GMT
Both my DDs use there given name, they don’t have middelnames and no nicknames. When youngest DD went to nursery one of the staff started to only use the last two syllabels of her name, and I asked her to stop it. I didn’t think it was her “job” to give my daugther a nickname, at that age, that should be a family thing
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Post by pierkiss on Jan 2, 2019 21:17:15 GMT
My oldest sons name is Luciano. We call him Lucky. When we named him that we had every intention of calling him Luc. But it didn’t fit. Lucky fits. And it’s awesome. And he uses it at school and his little friends love saying that they are “lucky because they are friends with Lucky”. 😄💕
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Post by leftturnonly on Jan 2, 2019 21:18:29 GMT
And to me, shortened versions of your given name aren't really a nickname either. I met a little boy once who was about to become a big brother. When asked what he wanted to name his new baby sister, he said "Bacon, because everybody likes bacon." I never saw them again, but I bet somewhere in the world, a little girl has grown up being called "Bacon" by her brother.
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Post by slicksister on Jan 2, 2019 21:18:34 GMT
No nicknames in this family. I don't even use terms of endearment like Honey or Sweetie
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Post by Anita on Jan 2, 2019 21:41:11 GMT
My nephew is officially named Charles, but everyone from his mother to his co-workers calls him Bear. He goes by that. At his graduation, no one knew who this Charles guy was they were announcing.
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Post by ashley on Jan 2, 2019 22:04:34 GMT
I’m a namer. I name things. I name people. Almost everyone in my life has multiple nicknames... the cats easily have a dozen each... I nickname my coworkers, friends. I never called my exhusband by his real name, to the point most people didn’t know his nickname wasn’t his real name. However, none of my children have ever had nicknames beyond babyhood! I even think it’s weird. Maybe because I gave them too many first names? Haha.
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Post by scorpeao on Jan 2, 2019 22:24:11 GMT
my daughter is a Naomi but I call her Nay and her friends call her Nermi
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Post by warrior1991 on Jan 2, 2019 22:31:06 GMT
My sister-in-law calls everyone Larry. Not sure why, but we all answer to it. So when my niece was born, Moriah, we figured she would be Mo and then we would have Mo and Larry. We never called her Mo. She has been Ria from day one. She is 17 now.
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Post by lesley on Jan 2, 2019 22:40:02 GMT
My DD's nickname increases every year. It started out as Tallulah, then became, Tallulah-belle, then Tallulah-bellita. Nowadays it's (hyphenated for ease of reading) Tallulah-belle-ita-pita-pocket-pie-like-thingummy-jig-aroony-hood. I’m the only one who calls her that...
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