Comments on: What’s in a (Nick)Name?

By: TIFFY

TIFFY — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:24:58 +0000

I GO BY MANY NICKNAMES. MY MOM HAS FOUR FOR ME: TIFFY, PUMPKA, MOMMA, AND CAT. MY BEST PAL CALLS

ME TIFF, AND MY COUSIN CALLS ME POOF. I USE TO GET EMBARASS BY HIS NICKNAME FOR ME, BUT NOW, SINCE

I’M OLDER AND WISER, IT MAKES ME SMILES. THIS GUY I USE TO LIKE, I NICKNAMED HIM DC, BECAUSE THAT’S

INITIALS TO HIS FIRST AND LAST NAME, AND TO THIS DAY, HE STILL ANSWERS BY THAT NICKNAME. I CALL MY

STEPDAD ICEMAN, CAUSE HE’S ALWAYS COMPLAINS HOW THE HOUSE STAYS SO HOT IN THE WINTERTIME. I

CALL MY OLDER BROTHER BLOCKHEAD, CAUSE HE IS A BLOCKHEAD (SMILE).

By: Cathi O

Cathi O — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:58:30 +0000

My uncle used to call me Cookie.

I had a HS teacher who referred to all of us by nicknames, and it made class fun.

I call my cat “my angel” sometimes because she found me by falling through my ceiling. Kismet!

I think one of the worst – that I can repeat here, anyway! – is Bubba.

By: E.R.

E.R. — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:27:20 +0000

Also, my bro tease C-Maine by calling her “Chow mein” because it nearly sounds like her name.

Just wanted to add that.

By: sue hieber

sue hieber — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:55:20 +0000

i was a fat kid and my grandfather called me BUSTER, because he said i kept busying my seams. wasnt that mean?

By: Diane McMahon

Diane McMahon — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:38:14 +0000

My nick name was “Run DMC’ due to my name and how I am always running here and there. It kind of stuck with me for the past several years.

By: Beygirl

Beygirl — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:01:01 +0000

I call my son Napoleon, because he has to be the first. Very competitive, some times I call him Yankee Doodle it’s funny.. My daughter is Suzik, her name is Susanna but my favorite nick name for her is Winnie Pooh she loves honey. My husband likes calling me Magushki, my name is Margarita my family calls me Maggie but my husband and his mom, sister, and dad like to call me their little Magushki.

By: E.R.

E.R. — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:55:18 +0000

Do you go by any nicknames — and do they have any significance? Do you have nicknames for other people or pets? What’s the best and worst nicknames you’ve ever heard (please remember to keep it clean or Zeus will zap me

My family has nns. There is nns my sibs and I call each other if we are bad, in our native language and which nn I don’t like at all. I am usually called by my real name, which is short and to the point. My parents do have nns that they are known, but “Olet” and “Nene” can be very confusing sometimes when I hear them mention their friends who have the same nns like them. My aunt is sometimes called Ampy, a short version of her name. One of my bro is called “Phil” because his first name can’t be pronounced by others; he also answers to his middle name. My sil is called Dimple. I call my cuz C-Maine; her bro is called C-Lo by us cuzs.

By: Tanya Campbell

Tanya Campbell — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:26:09 +0000

As a child my father nicknamed me “the Fonz” for a reason only he knows and probably doesn’t remember. Maybe because I was such a tomboy and one with attitude at that. My husband now calls me t-girl or just T. My kids get lumped in to the names bear, honey, hun, and any animal name that comes to mind to get then laughing like girrafes, caribou, or turtles. The boys get Blue to themselves. And our dog, who passed away this passed summer, was very affectionaly refered to as Old Man.

By: Lorraine Larose

Lorraine Larose — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:18:46 +0000

I always called my grandson Lovey but now he’s eighteen and does not like it too much.

By: Kristen Eby

Kristen Eby — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:32:38 +0000

My nickname is Doobee….or Doob for short. This is due to my obsession with Romper Room as a child and my love for the Big Bee on there!

My dad still at age 34, calls me that all the time!