s/o nicknames

LIAngel · October 2011

Here is what I don't get. Why people name their child one thing and then call him or her something completely different. "This is our son Samuel David, but we call him Joey". ?????? If you are going to call him Joey, then name him Joseph for crying out loud.

Mouseygail · October 2011

yeah..that's mind boggling...then again, my MIL called my DH "Bubba" which then became "Bub" and pretty much no one calls him by his real name...except me, because I can't stand the name Bub...eww... So people should be wary of those sorts of nicknames too. so strange to me.

krissyh21 · October 2011

Yep. I can see nicknames as options, Like Sam or Sammy for Samuel or Jay or Jace for Jason but Bill for Lowell? huh?

I never got the we are going to call him by his middle name or a totally different name altogether thing. I am sure as a kid it must be confusing too.

charmcitygirl · October 2011

ITA! My friend has named all of her children and then called them all by their middle name. Why not just use that as their first name?

True story - my cousin named her son Charles William G___, III. They called him Trey. So, he goes to first grade and the teacher is calling roll on the first day. Charles? Charlie? Chuck? No answer. Finally they figured out that his given name was Charles and he went by Trey. So, what did my cousin do? She LEGALLY changed his name to Trey. So, now he's Trey Charles G___. Crazy.

OscarQ · October 2011

Yeah, you should have seen the WTF look I gave my FIL when he called Kevin "Joey". My gf is married to a Tony - not an Anthony just a Tony. His mom occasionally calls him George. Again, WTF? George isn't even in his name.

laura1 · October 2011

LOL. My grandfather's name was James. He went by the usual nicknames - Jim, Jimmy, but also by a few others, including Buddy and Pete. Why Pete? I guess when he was growing up, there were so many James/Jimmy/Jims in the neighborhood that he other kids decided to call him Pete. So I guess you never know what people will start calling your kid!!

Dragonfly1226 · October 2011

I don't get it either. We named DS Parker because we wanted to call him Parker. Hs middle name is Joseph, and so many people wanted to call him PJ (including FIL). At least they asked so that we could politely tell them that we love the name Parker and do not want to call him PJ.

TheSkimmy · October 2011

Lexie's real name is Alexandra Claire... we call her Lou 50% of the time. It came from Lexie Lou and we never knew we would call her that. We actually thought she would go by ACE which are her initials.

kimarino13 · October 2011

charmcitygirl:
ITA! My friend has named all of her children and then called them all by their middle name. Why not just use that as their first name?
True story - my cousin named her son Charles William G___, III. They called him Trey. So, he goes to first grade and the teacher is calling roll on the first day. Charles? Charlie? Chuck? No answer. Finally they figured out that his given name was Charles and he went by Trey. So, what did my cousin do? She LEGALLY changed his name to Trey. So, now he's Trey Charles G___. Crazy.

My CW's name is William and he goes by Tre. He's the third though, so that's why.

Fancy3Face · October 2011

kimarino13:
charmcitygirl:

ITA! My friend has named all of her children and then called them all by their middle name. Why not just use that as their first name?

True story - my cousin named her son Charles William G___, III. They called him Trey. So, he goes to first grade and the teacher is calling roll on the first day. Charles? Charlie? Chuck? No answer. Finally they figured out that his given name was Charles and he went by Trey. So, what did my cousin do? She LEGALLY changed his name to Trey. So, now he's Trey Charles G___. Crazy.

My CW's name is William and he goes by Tre. He's the third though, so that's why.

My BIL is Trae also. His given name is a family name, but he's a third also. I know a couple Quinn's and Quint's. They're the 5th in the family line for that name.

This is really common where I'm from.

krissybegs · October 2011

My brother is Andrew Scott K_____, Jr. and has been called Scott from the minute he was born. The reason, my Mom loves my Dad's name but did not want my brother called "Little Andy" his whole life.

browneyedgrl4282 · October 2011

my grandmother names is Kathleen, I did not know this until I was older though. I have never heard anyone call her this unless we were at doctor's appointments. She went by Helen by our family, which was not her middle name either. Apparently she looked just like her Aunt Helen who died who died shortly after my grandmother's 2nd birthday. Later as she got older her nephews called her Heinz because she always took her sweet time getting any where so they said she was like Heinz 57 glass kethcup bottles. When my grandmother go remarried when I was small her new husband called her Katherine. Fast forward to when she died, the priest was talking about her she said Kathleen and 90% of the room had NO idea that was her actual name.

It really was confusing add to the fact she had TWO last names which both were rather common and even her maiden name was very common too!

SeaSoul · October 2011

I don't know if I've ever encountered that...I have encountered people who go by nicknames derived from their middle name, e.g. Charles Richard who goes by Rick, Mary Elizabeth who goes by Betsy.

SeaSoul · October 2011

Mouseygail:
yeah..that's mind boggling...then again, my MIL called my DH "Bubba" which then became "Bub" and pretty much no one calls him by his real name...except me, because I can't stand the name Bub...eww... So people should be wary of those sorts of nicknames too. so strange to me.

Funny, my dad calls Cal "Bub." I do too sometimes. Cal loves it.

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