Unrelated Nicknames

[beebear]

I know how everybody loves to plan out great nicknames for their favorite names- I do the same thing. But I was thinking about how sometimes the kid grows up and ends up with a totally unrelated nickname. Like, you put all this thought into nicknaming Margaret Meg- not Maggie- but it all goes to naught when everybody starts calling her something like Birdie for some completely random reason. Stories?

I'll start. My name is Tara and nobody has ever called me Terry. The (ridiculous) nickname Tarabara was quickly changed into the odd shortened version, Bear. So, that's my unrelated nickname- even harder to find on customized keychains than its original. My sister's name is Amber and we always called her Bambi. My brother Jordan- George. My cat Mia- Skinny (until she got fat).

[sunniva]

My father very rarely called my brother and I by our actual names, preferring to use nicknames, that only he called us by: I got Tiger, and my younger brother, Buddy. My mother often called me Lily, which is in no way connected to my given names.

[thetxbelle]

I had a family friend who used to call me Lola, aside from my name starting with an L, lola is completely unrelated to my name. I didn't really mind but I thought it was weird since ive never been too sure as to what kind of person a Lola would be. I've been called Lilou too again based only on the L.

[nat108]

I prefer names that have nothing to do with the real name, it's more personalized

I went to high school with a boy called Bird. I don't know where the name came from, when he first transferred to our school he was just Louis. Somehow his buddies named him Bird and it's stuck ever since

I used to work at a daycare and had sibs Gracen (boy) and Hayden (girl). I always got them mixed up because Hayden seems the more masculine of the two. Plus we had little girls named Grace, Gracie, and Gracen, a boy name Grayton, a boy Hayden, and boys Aidan and Aiden. Gracen would get so annoyed with me for calling him a "girl" name so one day I said "Look buddy, your name is Walter." It stuck. When his mom heard me call for him one day, she started calling him Walter too

[chelseamae]

i don't really like them, but sometimes they just happen! i know a person named Sharon who goes by Moosie to a lot of her family and a woman named Melissa that goes by Tutu/Aunt Tutu by her nieces and nephews. it seem like a lot of unrelated nicknames come from family members.

i went to school with a boy named Andrew and i don't know how it happened but around 7th grade everyone started calling him Fred and it stuck as his nickname until we graduated high school.

[k8d]

My sister Caroline ended up as Marita Burrito somehow. My other sister Elizabeth was Annie Oakley. I ended up going as Doodlebug or Katydid. My son's name is Asher, but we call him Buggy or Buggyboo or Bubby.

[strawberry shortcake]

My name is Grace..My friends have called my Graceface for as long as I remember. Its a totally redundant nickname, but it stuck and I kind of like it now.

[moonbeampie]

Well, I know a Claudia who gets called 'Coggie', an Elizabeth that is only called 'Bunty' and an Alexander who is always called 'Dave'.

[tiara selena karleigh]

LOL at the Alexander who is called Dave! That's really different! I went to Elementary school with a girl named Anastasia, and she hated it. But she was called Anastasia from birth, and was up until grade 7. On the first day of grade 7, she came to school, with her bookbag, lunchbag, and pencil case marked with "Leia" on them. She stopped answering to Anastasia, and only answered to Leia! When we graduated high school, she switched to Lee. She legally changed her name to Lee Anastasia when she turned 20.

[whit32]

My son's name is Everett, but I mostly just call him Bug, Buggy, or Stink Bug ;-) My college nn was the strangest one I've heard. I had a close guy friend that was annoyed at me at the moment and came up with the nn Whit-sh**, but since I don't cuss and he knows it, he changed it to Whitpoop. It cracked my roommates up so much that they all started calling me that (and they still do). Of course it spread to all my friends and eventually got shortened to just Poop. So I was called Poop or Whitpoop for most of college. I thought it was funny, and I still like when they call me that. It brings back good memories ;-)