Nicknames

fitzandgiggles · December 2017

For those of you that have names picked out with certainty: what nicknames have you found yourself drawn to for those names?

For those who don't have names yet, what nickname do you use to refer to your LO now?

fitzandgiggles · December 2017

We were calling baby Poppy, but ever since finding out the sex with the harmony test we've switched to her name Amélie. And this last week a nickname came in to existence while Christmas shopping: Améllamalie (it all started because of an UGLY Christmas sweater with a llama). I love it and can't stop calling her that now and she's probably stuck for life with it.

krash_ · December 2017

We have been calling LO Lil' Thing. Affectionate, I know. As far as actual nick names, I am partial to names that cannot be shortened. For example, if you named your kid Katherine and always call her Katie, why not just name her Katie.

But I'm sure once Lil' Thing is here they will have a lot of random fun nicknames given the extent of nicknames that I have for our dog and cat. Growing up my sister (the oldest) was Biggin', my brother was Buddy and I was Squirt.

fitzandgiggles · December 2017

@krashke Those are the types of nicknames I'm talking about

I love the silly names! My boys Brendan and Nikolai are Brendanator and Nikosaurus Rex for example >.>

sunshineandwhiskey · December 2017

DD is nicknamed Carter Bean - when she was in the infant room, the lead teacher came up with it and it just kinda stuck. Come to find out later, DH's late brother's nickname was "Bean/Beanie" so now it has so much more meaning.

We haven't nicknamed this LO yet. I'm not feeling super attached to it yet, and nothing seems to stick. Maybe when we find out the sex.

I do have a nickname question though - Is there a nick name for Kennedy?

MoonOverGoldsboro · December 2017

I feel so bad that we've just been calling this one "baby 2." So lame!!

No decisions yet on actual name, but I'm sure this kid will have 800 weird nicknames. I was worried my son would never learn his actual name because we call him so much random stuff: meatball, mutton chop, lil' mackerel, etc. I had to force myself to start saying "Max" more regularly.

MoonOverGoldsboro · December 2017

@sunshineandwhiskey Kennedy for a boy or a girl? I could see calling a girl DeeDee or something, but that's not so good for boy!

sunshineandwhiskey · December 2017

@MoonOverGoldsboro for a girl! lol I guess that would've been helpful information

I do like Dee Dee!

MoonOverGoldsboro · December 2017

@sunshineandwhiskey maybe Kendi? Or maybe that just sounds like you're a little drunk and slurring Kennedy?

krash_ · December 2017

@sunshineandwhiskey Kenny? Or just Ken? I have a friend who's daughter is Kendall and they call her Ken a lot.

sunshineandwhiskey · December 2017

@MoonOverGoldsboro @krashke you ladies are good!

TravelingCouple · December 2017

I've been calling this one Little Dot since it was the size of a pencil dot when we found out about the pregnancy.

No names picked yet, waiting until we find out the sex!

jsl82 · December 2017

@sunshineandwhiskey . Carter and Kennedy- very presidential names. We have a Reagan and didn't want to do a name theme so there are a few names we crossed off the list including Kennedy.

With DD my PGAL brain had me calling her fetus since around 9 weeks- but that was shortened to Fe... and when we got pregnant again with this LO "fe" made a reappearance too. Now that we know it's a boy, we often say little boy instead of fe.

doxiemoxie212 · December 2017

We called her Mogwai before we knew she was a she. Now she's Evelyn, and we call her Evelyn exclusively because it feels wrong to give her a nickname without knowing her personality lol. But DH is hopeful that Eve or Eva will stick, while I'm over here rooting for Eleven.

MissKittyDanger · December 2017

We refer to the baby as Baby LastName on fb, Little Shrimp when it's just us {7 week ultrasound it looked like a shrimp lmao} and Baby Kitten when with friends.

I think it may change once we know gender ... but probably not by much

catlady1215 · December 2017

i can see kennedy being shortened to ken

I don't think we're really nickname people. DS was always/is buddy or bubs if not his full name. his name can't be shortened, well I guess it can but eh.

this baby has just been just that.. little baby, baby or little boy. if we're talking to DS, its baby bruvver. cause its how he says it.

lrichhx05 · December 2017

No nicknames for this one yet, I've just been calling them the baby. Maybe it'll change once I find out if we're having a boy or girl. We had DD's name picked out since before we knew she was a girl and while I was pregnant we just called her Evelyn. Then after she was born my husband called her Evels one day and it just stuck, everyone calls her that now. It's funny because that nickname never even crossed my mind while I was pregnant, and now it just fits her.

kmurdock925 · December 2017

DD1, Scarlet doesnt' have any nicknames and I'm totally fine with that. Nothing has stuck. We have pretty much landed on Amelia for this little one and while I don't plan to implement a nick name I can see one developing from DD1 trying to say her name. I can see it becoming "Mela" or "Mia". We'll see.

sunshineandwhiskey · December 2017

jsl82 said:

@sunshineandwhiskey . Carter and Kennedy- very presidential names. We have a Reagan and didn't want to do a name theme so there are a few names we crossed off the list including Kennedy.

I know! That is my only hesitation. Esp since DH was a history teacher haha

ffw0617 · December 2017

@kmurdock925 that's how one of my sisters got her nick name "Ya." Her name is Briana, but our baby brother could never say it so he called her "Ya." So everyone started calling her "Ya." He's 16 years younger than me, so by the time he was talking I was already away at college so there was no need for him to make up a name for me.

AFM I'm calling him "Tre" because he's the third (III). My husband has no middle name and his first name is already short (4 letters) so there's no abbreviation to use.

dinodna3 · December 2017

We’ve always only referred to this LO as baby or little guy. (We don’t 100% know the sex yet, the tech just guessed boy at our NT scan at 14w.)

I started calling DD “Bug” after she was born, so that’s still her nickname. She gets “mama” a lot too but that’s just a hispanic thing and is super common.

DS’s nickname is Auggie or Aug becaue that’s what DD calls him.

katelynrae86 · December 2017

@MoonOverGoldsboro We call this one "#2" a lot, as well.

Or I lovingly refer to him/her as my little parasite when I'm feeling particularly drained (as I did with my first). All in good fun...don't hate me (I need the monkey covering eyes emoji!)

DS is Benjamin, but we had a hard time settling on it because our last name starts with an O and I didn't want him to get picked on for the initials B.O. So we picked a middle name starting with an O so his initials are BOO (I know this doesn't really solve the B.O. thing but for some reason it made it okay, and cute, in my head). So he's our little baby boo, booboo, bubba, benji. I think he responds more to booboo than his actual name.

Austenista · December 2017

We've called DS Bean since he was a little bean on the ultrasound, but he's got a gazillion affectionate little names - I call him Flower (think Bambi), Catywampus, Buddyroe, and The Sweetness just to name a few. We've been affectionately calling this one Bean² from the very beginning. If she's a girl, her name will be Lola. If he's a boy, we're still working on a name.

MissKittyDanger · December 2017

Austenista said:

We've called DS Bean since he was a little bean on the ultrasound, but he's got a gazillion affectionate little names - I call him Flower (think Bambi), Catywampus, Buddyroe, and The Sweetness just to name a few. We've been affectionately calling this one Bean² from the very beginning. If she's a girl, her name will be Lola. If he's a boy, we're still working on a name.

Giggling at bolded

Austenista · December 2017

@MissKittyDanger it fits him so well. He’s always doing something random.

May14th2011 · December 2017

Our two have classical, long names so both have nicknames- Maggie and Alex. I guess I have a theme going so the next one will have a long classical name with a nickname. If it's a girl, we're doing Charlotte with Charlie as a nickname. If it's a boy I have no idea...

mytinc · December 2017

The nicknames I gave during pregnancy with my first two never stuck after they were born (we didn't decide on names until they were born). DS1 was "Oscar" - a name suggested by my SIL that was not my style at all. Once born we never really referred to him as Oscar again. We were Team Green for DS2 so the nickname was "Sybil" as in Sibling. Again, the name disappeared once he was born. So far this one (DS#3) has been called "Trey" since he's the third child and also "Smalls" when pregnancy was feeling rough (You're killing me, Smalls!)

ramennoodlegif · December 2017

No names for #3 yet, but once we had our anatomy scan, we called DS Chuck Steak until we picked a name out (three weeks before he was born.) I still occasionally refer to him as Chuck Steak or Buddy Boy. His name is Jonathan, and that is what we call him. DD is Pheebs.

twelvetwosomeonenew · December 2017

Caleb - didn't have a nickname at all when he was younger, but now at 12, he gets called Cal more and more often.
Shelby - daddy calls her "Shelb". Big brother has called her "Shelburrito" since her swaddling days.
This pregnancy - "Newbaby" is used most often, but once we have our anatomy scan, we'll switch to Logan or Emma.

rnielsen321 · December 2017

Our last one was "Thunderbolt Jackson" in utero. TBJ for short. She is also known as Toots Magoots, Budda, but doesn't have a shortened version of her name just yet.

Number 2 is either Sprout, or Project X at the moment...

LukesMom16 · December 2017

Just after I got my BFP, I was texting my husband possible baby names. I was texting him Minka and it autocorrected to ninja. So now we call her Ninja. And my husband has said I can nam her whatever I want any because he is going to call her Ninja no matter what.

pupsicle23 · January 2018

MoonOverGoldsboro said:

I feel so bad that we've just been calling this one "baby 2." So lame!!

We are in the same boat! We had all kinds of cute nicknames for DD. This poor kid is just Kid 2 or Baby. My poor DH also hasn’t been to an ultrasound bc he has to pick up our daughter from daycare whenever I’ve been able to get an appt. He’s able to come to my 16 week, so it’ll be more real after that, maybe. But man, it’s different with the second!

pupsicle23 · January 2018

DD (now 2) was Little Bug, which turned into Bugaboo, and now we still call her Boo Boo. And pregnant me might have called a student that once or twice.

mama2littlehoot · January 2018

Both of ours have social media hashtags, Littlehoot and this one is littlesqueak. We do not call them that in real life. Our son gets called Macadoodle a lot, and it’s longer than his actual name. We find out gender this weekend, our girl name can really only go one way for a nickname but our boy can go many.

MissKittyDanger · January 2018

@Austenista hahaha .... that's perfect!

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