Strange nicknames your family gave you

[Severen13]

Here are a few of the nicknames my family has called me at one time or another:

Beauty
Baby Beastie
Beastie Baby
Baby Thing
Frederica
Zelda
Rikki-Roo
Gargoylia
Nicholas (never mind that I'm female)
Snaggletooth (I had a horrendous overbite until I got braces at 18)


How about you?

[lordlundar]

The bottomless pit.:lol:

I got into the habit of calling my sister butthead (I'm her younger brother, I'm supposed to annoy her.:D ) and she got used to it. So much so that one time, I was calling her by her name and she didn't respond. I did this 3 times, no response. I then called her butthead and I got her to reply.:roll:

To this day, I don't let her live that down.

[MadMike]

I don't know if my dad ever actually called me "Bigfoot", but he did used to constantly crack jokes about my feet. Most of the people in his family had small feet, so maybe I got it from my mom's side, I don't know. I remember one time, he said something like, "Next time I go canoeing, can I borrow one of your shoes?"

It doesn't really bother me. After all, you know what they say: Big feet, big....





heart. :D


(What? What did you think I was going to say? :lol: )

[KuzcoLlama]

:: sniffle:: I was raised and they started me off with:
Kuzco Jo (shhh, if you remember my real name, fine. If not, hahaha I'm not sharing). Unlike everyone else here so far, there's a rhyme with my nickname that my uncle made up, which I'm torn between about being shared/not shared. That rhyme has survived all 22 years of my life. It will continue, so no. I'm not sharing.

Then it went to just:
Jo

And now it's:
Jo jo.

Poor Jo jo gets blamed for every damn thing. Okay they're kidding, but still, it's kind of obnoxious. I'd be standing upstairs, something small could have happened (ie milk running out), and I'll hear out of nowhere, "AW JO JO!" ::facepalm::

Thankfully I love my family. Otherwise I would have to lay down the serious llama-smackdown.

[TNT]

My main nickname arrived at birth: TNT.

When I was a kid, I got glasses that made me look very much like Sherman of Sherman and Peabody fame. My father called me "Shermy" for the rest of his life.

Other, less pleasant nicknames I acquired during my school days are best left forgotten.

[NightAngel]

My parents called me kiddo, kid, kidlet. Occasionally- brat. :devil:

They tell my children they are part of the Blackfoot Tribe because they run around barefoot and the bottoms of their feet are very dirty... but then so do I. So I guess we are. :lol:

Mostly they add a "y" to the end of everyone's names (except their own of course). Drives me nuts.

My friends have had many endearing nicknames for me over the years. I was called Jellybean for a very long time.
I had a couple of friends who called me either Morgana or Lizzy for awhile.

[Greenday]

I'm lucky, my family never gave me any silly nicknames. Though, I couldn't pronounce my stepdad's name, "Rufino", I just called him Nanno. Sad part is, I'm 18 years old and I still call him Nanno. It's stuck. I just feel wierd calling him Rufino.

[Broomjockey]

My family never really gave me a nickname. We'd all call each other bums or twits, but that was about it, until I started calling my mom Weasel. As long as I don't over use it, she's fine with it.

[Tanasi]

My paternal grandmother nick-named me at birth and it's stuck for my whole life. Folks that don't know me will call me by my real name but everyone else it's the nick-name. Believe it or not my wife didn't know my real name until we went to get our marriage license, then again I didn't know her first name was Margret either.

[Phoenix79]

Little PA (Gramps always said it meant "pretty angel", I found out later it meant "pain in the ass" :D

Cassiecatootskey - from my other Gramps, never really figured out what the heck it meant. My first name is Cassie, no idea where the catootskey came from!! :D

Phoenix

[CanadaGirl]

I hate my grandmother for calling me this past puberty... but.. "tarbottom". As a baby I had rather... well... tar-like excrement. Yeah, yeah, it's all good and funny when you're a baby and you can't talk back, but hearing it at around 16 is a little much. Glad she doesn't call me that as an adult now. Dad would call me random animal names, nothing mean, but I can't seem to recall any of them at the moment.

[PuckishOne]

I must be at a really weak moment here, because I don't tell this to just anybody, ya know...;)

Cookie (reasons unknown, I ate no more cookies than was healthy for a growing child)
Kislan (Hungarian for "little girl" - pronounced like "quiche-line")
Punkin
Tater
AJ (nothing to do with initials, more like the sound of the first part of my name)
Webster (given to me by former co-workers who were impressed/appalled by my large vocabulary and freakish spelling skills)
8 Ball (from former soccer teammates; I wore #8 and was the last person you had to get past before getting to goal)
Baby :love: (three guesses who gets to call me this)

[Kiwi]

my brother couldnt pronounce my real name (its a famous perfume) so he called me nellies and apprently he would SCREAM blue murder if anyone else called me that, it was HIS name for ME and NO ONE else was allowed to say it

my mum was finally given permission when I was like 6 and went into hospital

everyone calls me CJ because I perfer it to my regular name (my second name, the J is my grandmothers name, also a famous perfume) it suits my nature better and I like that I can remember her anytime anyone calls me that.

at work I was called nelly for a while until that stupid rapper came out.... and the 2IC of my department told me I was to much of a lady to be called the same thing as a horse so she called me Nell.

my work nametag said "Blamange" for a while (I refused to have my real name on it)

At school I got called all sorts of crappy shitty, nits (ive only ever had lice once) chantelephant were the two main ones, god I hated the early part of highschool.

[JuniorMintz]

My mom used to call me "Sarah Sunshine", and would sing "You Are My Sunshine" to me when I was sleepy or sad. :)

My husband calls me Bobo, and occasionally Bubbles. I guess I could be doing worse! :lol:

[Ringtail Z28]

I hate my real name (it's the same name as a former king of England and a US President), I would insist that my family refer to me by my nickname or don't bother talking to me at all, I would prefer "hey you!" rather than my real name.

[RavenStarr]

When I was little I used to think my name was *Damnit* due the trouble I always got into.

Some of my nicknames my family gave me growing up:

Pammy
Pamela-la-la
Petunia

and one more I am not saying. It's waaay to embarassing.

[Spiffy McMoron]

Dad used to call me slim-it's funny, cause I wasn't. Ha!

When me and my lettle sister wwere younger, my Grandpa used to call us a German word-he emigrated as a teen. We didn't know what it meant, but thought it was a term of enderment. Then my older sister went to Germany, and found out that he was actually calling us shitheads! :lol:

[Misanthropical]

My grandmother called me "Petunia"

My grandfather called me "Meathead".

My uncle calls me "Nanner"

My aunt calls me "Kiddo"

My great-aunt calls me "young lady" but means in an enduring way.

Not family, but my husband's friend calls me "Lady Di"

[Cia]

Cil
Cia
Syria - only my older brother calls me that

[DGoddessChardonnay]

My mom started calling me either "Pooh Bear" or "Josephine" when I was little. She still does this. Doesn't bother me a bit - I'm used to it.;)

My dad used to call me "Beeping Sleuty" when I was a baby (a word twist on Sleeping Beauty- he's always punned like that.)

Then there was my grandmother, whose favorite term was "Sassy Imp." Yes, I've got a mouth and I DO use it, as I've recently proven:lol:

[DGoddessChardonnay]

When I was little I used to think my name was *Damnit* due the trouble I always got into.

Did you have a sibling who was always called "Jesus Christ?":p

[NightAngel]

Did you have a sibling who was always called "Jesus Christ?":p

LOL! I wondered the same thing!
Gotta love that guy, huh?

[XCashier]

When me and my lettle sister wwere younger, my Grandpa used to call us a German word-he emigrated as a teen. We didn't know what it meant, but thought it was a term of enderment. Then my older sister went to Germany, and found out that he was actually calling us shitheads! :lol:
Was the term "Scheissekopf"? :o

My dad called me "Pee-Wee" (this was way before Pee-Wee Herman!). My brother called me "dumbsh**" :mad: I won't even go into the crap I got called in school, "frog" being the least objectionable.

My grandmother nicknamed my son "Johnnycake" (another term for cornbread, for those who don't know), and we still call him that, or "Sweetie" or "Crazy Kid". :love:

[Der Cute]

Heh.

I must have had it easy w/ nicknames.

Punkin or Punkinhead
Sweetie

But from my Godparents:

Hotrod.

They still call me that.
I think it has to do with the ride in the T Top Vette down a strip at 80 mph..I was 3. I kept yelling FASTER FASTER!!!!

Heh.

cute

[Spiffy McMoron]

Was the term "Scheissekopf"? :o

That was the one! He was right, of course, but that not the point! :lol:

[sportsmom]

I have a couple of weird ones, one of my brothers called me "Dinky" when I was little and in fact still calls me that sometimes today.

My grandfather never called any of his children or grandchildren by their given names, everyone of us had a nickname and it didn't neccessarily make any sense. Mine was "Olive Oyl" and he shortened it to "Ollie" most of the time. I don't know why he gave me that one, but I had it before I was born. My mom said he told her one time "this one's a girl" and started calling me by my nickname bafore I was even born. I have cousins called "Mole" and "Sweetpea" and "Punkin" and a brother called "Rat."


Not only do I get weird nicknames, though, I give them. My oldest brother is a Jr. and our grandmother always called him "Alton Jr." When I was little I couldn't sat that, and It came out "Appledooney." To this day most of our cousins still call him "Appledooney" and my girls refer to him as "Uncle Dooney."

My youngest daughter is "Bug." That has a logical progression though. Her name is Delaney, so that got shortened to "Laney" then it went to "Laneybug" but that got shortened to "Bug." When she's being particularly obnoxious she gets called "Boogerhead"

[Becks]

Aside from the usual nicknames of Becky and Becca, my sister calls me Graciella. :D

Nicknames for other family members--Patty Moo Moo, Bear, Paulonious, and my twin sister has a bunch, including Little Lizzie Sunshine, Little Lizzie Crabass, and Little Lizzie Needs A Nap, all of which I have called her in public. :D

[Misanthropical]

Nicknames my children have that they only allow me to call them. They won't let anyone else get away with it, even their father.

My oldest is BooBoo, his great grandma gave that to him seconds after he was born. He doesn't know she gave it to him because of the very hard and very long labor I had. She died when when he was three, so he doesn't remember her calling him that, so he only allows me to call him that.

My daughter is Monster, I gave that one to her after her first temper tantrum and it has stuck.

My little guy is Woobie, I gave that one to him when he was a year old and would drag a towel around with him everywhere. It started with me refering to the towel, but in his mind I was refering to him, so it stuck.