GTKY- Nicknames

HippoTooth · October 2014

I grew up in a small town and even now that I recently moved back after 17 yrs friends still call me "Elle Bee". It's a play on my initials (maiden name). What do your friends call you IRL? Why?

thewickedfairy · October 2014

In 3rd grade, I got the wonderful privilege of starting at a new school just after my mom and step dad got married. If you change one letter in my maiden name you get, monkey. In 3rd grade when I moved to this new school is when this was discovered. My life became a living hell because of that. In middle school, they got creative, Spanky [maiden name] Monkey. Seriously, I hate these people still this day because of this. When I go home, immediately, "Hey, monkey, how's it going?"

When I was overseas, my commander wanted to have a call sign naming ceremony. Thanks to my mouth and cursing, I got Sailor, because I curse like a sailor :-/

DH has for a very long time called me Messy Jessy and May May. Which he now calls DD Mo Mo.

mandy522 · October 2014

It's top secret. My screen name means nothing.

aztecash · October 2014

At this point in life, my only nickname is Ash. DH occasionally calls me Funny Face but that's a long story (and a great movie). As a kid I had a bunch that all had to do with my height and/or red hair. Giraffe, Jolly Red Giant, Red, etc. I had a teacher that call me Gilligan's Island because of my maiden name.

None of the childhood nicknames stuck because I moved in middle school (only 10 min away) and fell out of contact with everyone.

KingLED · October 2014

I go by Elly. It's way easier to pronounce/figure out than my real name and I don't have to deal with questions.

raelynn71109 · October 2014

When I was in college I had a co-worker who thought it was funny to call me Blair-Witch, because of my last name at the time.

LittleMrsW · October 2014

I've had the nickname Bee since I wasna kid. One of my friends started calling me Little Bee and it stuck.

Bee1112 · October 2014

My BFF calls me Sleazy Breezy. That kind of stuck. I am in no way sleepy, it just rhymed.

My BFFs son started calling me Bee when he learned how to talk, now a lot of people do it. (Hence the SN)

Everyone else calls me Bri.

mommacandi · October 2014

mandy522 said:
It's top secret. My screen name means nothing.

Same here. Given my nickname, depending on the season, I'm called Candi cane, Candi corn, so on and so on. My great grandpa used to call me gumdrop and my brothers can me Nan.

SwivelChair5 · October 2014

I'll just say that nobody in real life has ever called me 'Swivel' or 'Chair' or any combination of the two.

Ladymouse · October 2014

Nay, Mouse, Kammy, and Ren. My family calls me Nay. I was super quiet IRL until Army Basic, so some friends started calling me Mouse, and it stuck (I've had friends call me Lady Mouse IRL.) Kammy is a play on my maiden name, of course given in the Army. Ren... well, my first name is Renee, and one of my friends obsessively nicknames everyone.

RaeLynn81012 · October 2014

I am "Raylo" to my HS friends after JLO and "Rae" to my college friends.

My dad calls me "fish." Long story short, in 3rd grade everyone got a guppy to take home. All the other fish died within the first week and I kept mine alive for 3 years in a peanut butter jar.

anfranklin2 · October 2014

Typically it's just Allie, but a lot of the new people I work with call me alley cat(I hate that). A dr I work with calls me Lexi because he thought that's what people called me, and when I corrected him he said he likes it better.

holliberry28 · October 2014

Most just call me Holly or Holl. In the past I've been called Holly Berry, Hollister, and Hollywood. When I was little, my sis called me munchkin.

3houlagirl · October 2014

I was vehemently anti-nickname growing up so I never had one. After several years of actively trying to give me one, DH has given up. He agrees; there's no nickname that suits me as well as my whole name.

negritosmami · October 2014

jenn-aaayyyy (in their best forrest gump voice) and jenny from the block

elizabetheleven · October 2014

If I told you that I would reveal my true identity....

oxfordstreet · October 2014

I get called by my last name a lot. It started because I played sports in school, but it has continued well into adulthood. It made it really really difficult to consider changing my name when I got married. I am only informally hyphenating at this point.

bluepie19 · October 2014

My nickname is Kk. My name is Kaitlynne. When my little sister and niece were little they could not say my name. That's where I got my nickname. I still have people calling me Kk. Lol

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SammiC217 · October 2014

My grandpa would call me Sammi Jo.
Most friends call me Sam. My 7th grade English teacher called me Bewitched. If only I could wiggle my nose...

gsdtx81 · October 2014

Ever since we moved to Texas, I've been given the name "Jersey."

It started with my coworkers. There are three of us with the same first name, and since I moved from NJ, calling me Jersey just kind of stuck. The name has since made it's way to my email signature, business cards, and voicemail. I have clients who honestly think that is my real name since no one at my job ever refers to me as anything else.

I honestly don't mind it at all. I have a heavy Jersey accent, which obviously stands out in Texas, so it cuts down on the interrogation about where I'm from when I meet people.

kelley72 · October 2014

@bluepie19 I'm a KK too. My brother and cousins call me KK and my middle school/highschool friends did as well. If I am in a crowd and hear someone say KK, I know it is someone I haven't seen in a while; unless I'm with family. I love it as a nickname and hope my grandchildren call me that!

KatzKiss · October 2014

My friends call me Pee-Wee. It's started off because of my obsession with the Pee-Wee Herman movies by a friend. People heard her call me that and it just spread. Everyone else thinks she gave me that nickname because I'm petite but it's really just from my bad taste in movies.

divinemsbee · October 2014

I don't really have one that everyone calls me. My name has a NN, but my parents never really used it, so I never grew up with one.

My dad calls me sweetie pie.

H calls me a variety of hilarious pet names, sugar buns being at the top of that pile. To me, he's honey bear or sweet pea.

cateyes543 · October 2014

During high school and in the army I was called Cat or cateyes (shocker, right) because I have pupils that bleed down and look like a cat's. I was also called Wa as that is how a lot of my younger siblings would first say my name.

HippoTooth · October 2014

LDW176 said:

I get called by my last name a lot. It started because I played sports in school, but it has continued well into adulthood. It made it really really difficult to consider changing my name when I got married. I am only informally hyphenating at this point.

I get the exact same thing for the same reason. Played a lot of sports in school and even now that I'm married I still get called by my last name.

HippoTooth · October 2014

kariann12 said:

I have never had a nickname. It makes me a little sad, but not much I can do about

----quote box fail----

Not having a nickname isn't necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes nicknames can be terrible!

ramaholic · October 2014

kariann12 said:

I have never had a nickname. It makes me a little sad, but not much I can do about it.

@kariann12 You have a nickname now, Kari.

I'm a serial nicknamer, so I give more nicknames than I get. Most of mine directly stem from my first name, which is one of nine billion derivations from a certain religious figure.

My favorite for my husband are Shubba the Hubba and Humphrey.

Squirrel2012 · October 2014

Thanks to Girl Scout camp my nickname with my family is Squirrel and occassionally Small Mammal. Now I get all the squirrel paraphernalia my family can find. I've decided to embrace it, hence my screen name.

Others in my extended family call me Emmy, and if you're not part of my extended family and use that name you get the death stare.

HippoTooth · October 2014

JustinsLovo said:

I grew up being called Hannah Banana, which I HATED! For a while I got Hannah Montana, thank God that is over.

The last 3 letters of my maiden name are sex and for a while after my middle school made us wear gym shirts with our last name on the back I got called Hannah Sex. That was humiliating.

And now, not nickname related but, I no longer have the word sex in my last name, I have the word urine. How bizarre. And with that information about me, if you thought you might know who I am you definitely do now!

My future kids will always have names that can be shortened for nicknames.

I'm the opposite. I made sure when we named DS that his name couldn't be shortened. But I do call him by NN's that are in no way related to his given name.

fmf5 · October 2014

The nicknames I've had are flea and fefe because of my real name. When I was real young my aunt started calling me peanut. R.I.H D.P

CaveWmnInBrit · October 2014

HippoTooth said:

I grew up in a small town and even now that I recently moved back after 17 yrs friends still call me "Elle Bee". It's a play on my initials (maiden name). What do your friends call you IRL? Why?

I like you more now because of My Drunk Kitchen....

And I am known as Boston... when I moved to the UK in one suitcase most my rugby stuff was from my former team... so the name stuck

nikiz628 · October 2014

H used to call me Hoss. I never really knew why, but it was funny. He hasn't called me that in a long time though.

KingLED · October 2014

nikiz628 said:

H used to call me Hoss. I never really knew why, but it was funny. He hasn't called me that in a long time though.

I think I would be pissed if anyone called me Hoss.

nikiz628 · October 2014

KingLED said:

nikiz628 said:

H used to call me Hoss. I never really knew why, but it was funny. He hasn't called me that in a long time though.

I think I would be pissed if anyone called me Hoss.

Nah, it was more of a sarcastic nickname. Like "okay, whatever you say "HOSS"" If i thought he was being mean about it, I wouldn't have let him call me that

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