Ask Mike: Nicknames
Hey Guys,
Some nicknames are obvious. Michael leads to Mike, Nathan leads to Nate, Katherine leads to Kate. Others, however, are a bit mysterious. Take Richard, for example. How in the heck did that moniker produce “Dick” as a popular nickname? And what about Jack (Jonathan), Hank (Henry), and Sally (Sarah)? Believe it or not, there’s a method to the madness. Here’s what I found out.
The Straight Dope explains that Dick became a nickname for Richard during the Middle Ages. In those days, abbreviations were common in names. (“Ric” for Richard, for example.) Eventually, Ric became Rick and rhyming nicknames evolved from that. Hence, Dick, as well as Hick. This also explains “Bob” from Robert, “Bill” from William, “Ted” from Eddie, etc.
My grandfather was named John, and I never understood why everybody called him Jack. An article from Associated Content explains that “during medieval times, the name John was altered slightly in the Germanic tongues to Jankin or Jackin. Out of that, we get the nickname Jack.” The same basic premise is true of Henry becoming Hank.
Of course, women can also have non-obvious nicknames. My wife’s grandmother was named Sarah, but she always went by Sally. The piece from Associated Content theorizes that this may have come from a mispronunciation way back in history. The nickname may have been “based on the medieval English attempt to pronounce the Norman trilled “r.” Apparently it can sound like an “l.” And out of that, a nickname was born
Those are just a few famous nicknames. What are some other unusual ones? Got any examples? And, even better, got any answers? Please leave a comment below.
Thanks for reading,
Mike (short of Michael)
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My name is Stephanie and my friends call me Annie. Why? Because if you look at the last four letters of Stephanie, they spell anie, so they added an extra n to make Annie.
Personally, I don’t like the nickname very much, but I’m used to it. ahaha
My mom named me Amanda after hearing the nick name Mandy.
I also have been called Manda which is an obvious nick name,
and once in summer camp Randy cuz it rhymed with Mandy – a boy was picking on me playfully
My name is Sarah, but ever since I was born my family and friends have always called me Shea (and its pronounced like Shay). Honestly I have no idea where the nickname came from either.
My name’s really unusual, but the nickname goes easily to “Sky”.
And my half-sister, of Spanish descent, her name is Mirenkaia. Goes to Mira for short.
And Mira has a friend named Castille, who gets called Cassy by her friends because of the first 3 letters.
Castille’s older twin sisters are named Theresa and Victoria. But they have the weirdest nicknames of all. Theresa goes to “Torri”, for reasons unknown to me. On the basketball court, she’s “Toxic” because of her skills and her reputation.
But Victoria will NOT answer to “Victoria”, “Vicky”, “Tory”, or any other cutesy variation of that. She goes by Anna, which comes from her middle name Anabella.
My longtime friend Sammy, her full name is Samantha. Everyone she knows calls her either “Sam”, or a variation of “Sammie”. Except her brother and cousin. Her brother calls her “Minth”, yet again for reasons I’ve never been able to figure out. And her cousin calls her “Ammie”, which is leaving the first letter off of Sammie.
Skyly -> Sky
Mirenkaia -> Mira
Castille -> Cassy
Theresa -> Toxic Torri
Victoria Anabella -> Anna
Samantha -> Sam, Sammy
I guess most nicknames come from personal relations and friends, or are chosen by ourselves.
my name is Amanda but my friends call me Mandy but it’s pretty obvious where that one comes from lol
My boyfriends sister is named Stephanie! They call her Fany. He says its cuz they’re unique like that. I say it comes from phanie. The last part of her name is practically Fany spelled wrong.
If you say Stephanie in spanish it would make even more sense why her nickname is Fany. [in case you didn't notice we speak spanish =]
lol richard.
you know what i’m talkin about ;]
A friend of mine is named Elizabeth, but everyone she grew up with calls her Betsy. She hates it. (I still call her by it. What are friends for, after all?) What she hates worse, though, is when people meet her for the first time and automatically start calling her Lizzie as if she’s okay with being called Lizzie.
There are so many nicknames for Elizabeth (Eliza, Beth, Lizzie, Liz, Betty, Betsy…). I assume that parents decide upon a nickname along with deciding the name when there are so many. It’s quite obvious where these nicknames originate, though, since all can be found within the name. (Except for the latter half of Betsy)
My name is Catherine and I am called Cat
I’ve always been ‘Zach’. Can’t remember too many people calling me Zachary, with exception of my Grandmother. It was always common sense to me that I should spell Zach with a ‘ch’, because that’s how Zachary was spelled. For some reason I’ve meet so many ‘ch’ Zachary’s shorten their name to Zack. Will never understand that one.
My name is Sierra. And people call me C, and/or CC. Why? i don’t really like it that much. What should be my nickname? Because I am craving a new one really bad!
I’ve been wondering about this for a long time.
I wonder what nickname there could possibly be for Lyle…
Here’s one I found interesting. The nickname “Spanky” is from the German name, “Spangler”.
My name is Erica, and my uncle always called me Eureka. I never really knew why, I just got used to it. I also get called Ricki alot from my husband and his family. That one I dont mind as much. Rica was what my family used mostly. I answer to anything now
Examples for Russian names.
Alexandr > Sasha
Alexandra > Sasha
Alexey > Losha
Evgeny > Zhenya
Vladimir > Vova
My name is Caroline, but when I was 12, a camp counselor insisted on calling me “Caro”. I don’t know why she liked that or how it stuck, but I’m still Caro to this day….
Margaret or Mary became Molly and later Polly which were later used as names in their own right.
Chuck for Charles is a bit unorthodox. There are numerous Hispanic-oriented names that sport some strange nicknames as well. For instance, Chuy is a common nickname for Jesus, and Alex is one for Alejandra.
my family calls me chel, instead of rach, it’s kind of an obvious nickname it’s just the opposite of rach
my name is Rachel and my family calls me chel, instead of rach, it’s kind of an obvious nickname it’s just the opposite of rach
My aunt’s name is Evelyn but everyone calls her Annie. I think this came out of just being easier for babies to say.
I’m surprised at how many people think my given name is actually a nickname. My full first name is Shelly and I always get “oh it’s not Michelle?” I can understand the association, but it’s still annoying.
They have some good ones in Spain – Francisco is Paco, Jose is Pepe and Enrique is Kike. They also add the beginning of the second Christian name to the end of the first, i.e. Juan Jose becomes Juanjo, and Juan Carlos becomes (amusingly to English speakers) Juanca.
My names whitney…
Why do people call me whit?! :\
I hate it , that’s not what my mom called me !
Black people don’t like abbreviations !
I’ve read that Elizabeth can have lots of strange nicknames.
Well, my name is Karl, however people often call me “Chuck”. Why? I honestly have no idea.
I guess I’ve grown to like this nickname, because every now and then, someone calls “Karl” and I don’t need to look back. Because they call me Chuck now.
My real name is Elyssa, but everyone calls me Ellie. My mum wanted to call me Ellie and have that as my real name but dad wanted something a little more ‘grown up sounding’ so thats why its Elyssa. They were also thinging of Ellen, Elena, Eleanor or Elynnara.
I know someone named Paolo but his nickname is Pado. Why? When he had his high school ID made, his bad handwriting caused the ID maker to misunderstand his name. The O was connected to the L making it look like a D. He’s been called Pado ever since.
Ive always been called
moni
monik
mon mon
uh, ive been called by my last bf, an angel, lol if that counts
he says i saved his life somehow, i still dont get it quite.
Imagine my surprise when — years ago — I learned that my friend Peggy’s real name was Margaret. How in the world does one get Peg or Peggy when Marge or Margie seems so obvious? Can anyone explain? Many thanks.
Interesting post, Mike. I, too, have always wondered about John-to-Jack. Now I know.
That was very interesting. I was always wondering why some nicknames were what they were. xD
My friend and I often wonder why we always seem to take nicknames from the first part of our names and not the last. Ly (as in “Lee”) would be an acceptable nickname for “Emily” I would think? His name is Jeremy, and he thought “Remy” would sound nice as well. This all started because his friend William goes by Liam instead of the common Will or Bill.
I have quite a few different nicknames, but most of my friends call me Tophy, short from Christopher, haha. I also don’t like it much, but ehh, what’re you gonna do?
My name is Hayley but all my friends call me Lee becuase at the end of my name (Hay-lee) its has Ley.
i have an uncle named Rosario, who everyone calls Jimmy. i’d love for anyone to explain this one.
or even how James becomes Jim
my sons are called liam and daniel but both get called skully we live in scotland we moved from liverpool there was a series on the tv called skully [about a man from liverpool] hence my boys nickname andrew schofield the actor who played skully my youngest son was his sons best friend in school which is weird
My name is Whitney, and I’ve had the common nickname “Whit”, but I’ve also gone by “Nini” (from the “ney” in Whitney).
I used to hate the nickname Whit, because it led to the nicknames Lackwit and Halfwit as a kid. I’ve grown to like it as an adult though, since the people who call me Whit are all good friends.
I go by Addie which is short for Addison & it originated from Madison but my parents chose to name me Addison due to the reason that is more unique.
I love it but hate the fact that so many mistakes it for Madison.
In Spanish, there’s this one name – or rather, nickname – Iker (name of Real Madrid’s goalkeeper Iker Casillas) and apparently it’s a diminutif of Visitacion. I don’t see the link.
I was named Margaret by my Mom, but Dad (ala the song “Peg of My Heart”) only agreed to Margaret if I would be called ‘Peggy’. Confused, I researched it when I was about 12. Simply, the English sent their prisoners to Australia. Many of the genteel ladies went along with their soldier, government official husbands. Margaret (altho Gerek in origin – meaning pearl) was a very popular name. The Australian translation/equivalent was ‘Peggeen’. So the ladies adopted ‘Peggy’ as a nickname for Margaret. I believe this is one of the most unusual name/nickname explanations, and happy for it.
My name is obviously translated to Mel and always has been tho my mom sometimes called me Meddy. I have a sister named Raydene who is called NeeNee and a sister named June who is just Nee. Don’t know why. And how about all the names from Margaret? Peggy, Meg, Meggie, Maggie, Pegeen, Margie, Marge, Marg.
My name is Aspen, but my mom and sister call me Abby, for some reason unknown. My mom said that my little sister couldnt say “Aspen”, so when she tried it came out “Abben”, which changed into “Abby”. I love that nickname. To bad nobody else will call me that.
I have a friend called Margaret and everyone calls her Peggy. I have NO idea why.
My mum is called Elaine, but people call her Ellie. A bit obvious, although it makes the name seem younger. People just started calling her it one day out of the blue and it stuck. (:
My name is Ricki, but people call me Ria. (:
My name is Josh, and everybody calls me Juice. It may have originated from my parents pronouncing my name as ‘Ja-uh-sh’ three syllables, and they just added the snake hiss sound to the end of it.
Knew a kid growing up named Christopher that they always called “Topher”, which is pretty obvious but I always thought, “Why that and not Chris?” Well…I belatedly figured it out that his last name was Wren and he did not want to be called Christopher Wren as it was too close to Winnie the Pooh’s friend Christopher Robin…Topher it is!
What about “Peg” for Margaret?
i just want to know..what would my nickname would be?
I have a friend who is Ann but anyone who grew up with her calls her Nancy. That’s what her mom wanted to name her but the priest wouldn’t baptize her Nancy because it wasn’t a saint’s name. So, she was baptized Ann but they call her Nancy. (I think Nancy is now considered a form of Ann.)
My dad is James but the guys he grew up with, to this day (He’s 82.), call him Murph. Apparently when he was in the third grade, the Irish cop crossing guard asked my dad if he were going to the local parish school. My dad told him he was going to the public school because he wasn’t Catholic, but the Irish cop said he needed a good Irish name (My dad’s parents are from Scotland.), so he named him “Murphy.” My dad’s friends thought it was funny, so they’ve called him Murph ever since. They’d better not knock for him and call him Murph or even Jim or Jimmy with my grandmother who she’s say no one by that name lived there and close the door. They had to ask for James.
my name is brandon, and people call me Bran…..yeah it ovbiuos lol.
I’m Amelia but my friends shorten it to Amy, which my dad hates because, as he always says, if he wanted people to call me Amy he’d have named me Amy. But I like Amy because it means “beloved.”
My sister calls me Mia because when I was born she could not pronounce Amelia properly, she kind of slurred it all together and it stuck.
Hi, My name is Savannah- although friends of mine call me Ana, Banana, and Beth. I can understand Ana and Banana, but I don’t get “Beth”. Any explanations? Please?
My name is Elizabeth, so I get tons of nick names. For some reason people think they can’t call me plain old Elizabeth! I’ve been called Beth, Liz, Lizzy, Elly, Ebeth, and others.
I’m from Italy and my name is Jonica. When I went to Malaysia, they call me Nic or sometimes Jo. Tee hee.
I always wondered why jimmy is short for James.?
My name is Celia, and all of my friends call me CC. I’m not sure if that is because my last name also starts with a C, or if it is the “Ce” in my first name.
Tom here, from Thomas.
What I could never get is why Peggy from Margaret. Closest I’ve found is:
In search from A to Z they passed,
And “Marguerita” chose at last;
But thought it sound far more sweet
To call the baby “Marguerite.”
When grandma saw the little pet,
She called her “darling Margaret.”
Next uncle Jack and cousin Aggie
Sent cup and spoon to “little Maggie.”
And grandpapa the right must beg
To call the lassie “bonnie Meg.”
From “Marguerita” down to “Meg,”
And now she’s simply “little Peg.”
Any chance you can tell me how William becomes Billy or Bill. It seems pretty obvious to me that this is just the way it works for it is my name, but I get asked all the time why that is. Just curious..
My baby brother (now 8 years old) is named Zachary. As people often do we all started calling him cute little nicknames. Zackaroo was the one that stuck. As he got older and we all got lazier we somehow started just calling him Roo. It doesn’t occur to everyone how bizarre it is until we refer to him as Roo to someone outside the family.
I dont have a nickname cause it sound weird when you shorten them. haayz, I sometimes wonder whats the feeling of having a nickname. but my name has a weird extra letter to it that people ALWAYS ask how do you prounounce this? and I am kinda used to it.
My name is Janice. My family calls me tee-tee. My little brother couldn’t pronounce Sissy when he started talking so I became tee-tee instead. Now that he’s older it’s become Tee.
my daughters name is amelia and we call her mia or mimi its just shorter
We named our son Benjamin, but hated the nickname Ben. So we always called him Jamie (the last bit of Benjamin). It got to the point where we would do a double take when people spoke of Ben, so we finally just legally changed his name to Jamie when he was 3 years old.
A funny side note: I have a tattoo of “Benjamin” that I got when he was 6 months old.
One nickname that doesn’t make sense is Rachel. Well, my name is Rebekah or Bekah and so many people call me Rachel. I’m not the only rebekah who’s gotten called that. The names must be connected in some way?
I could never figure out why women named Margaret are called Peggy.
My name is Laura but a lot of people call me Flora. I guess it’s kind of obvious why, but I like it because it’s different (:
My dog’s name is Bella. That was her name before we got her. We’ve given her lots of nicknames, since: Bells, Bellifer, Booper, Boppity, Bippers, and a few names that aren’t appropriate for general audiences.
I’m erin and I get called lots including
Ez
Ezzie
and Ellie, mostly Ellie
I don’t even know how ellie happened?! But I’m not bothered, when I’m not listening my friend say Erington mostly because I hate it and they know I will start listening.
One of my friends is Annabelle and we call Ell coz it rymes with belle, I like Belle better personally.
There’s also the name Margaret “Peggy”, which fits your explanation of names rhyming with the more obvious nickname (Meg). “Sadie” can also be a nickname for Sarah.
My name is Jacob, but my friends call me Christoff. Why? Because I was finding odd words in my friend Christopher’s name, and he didn’t like it very much. I picked the spelling though.
I had a great aunt named Elizabeth that went by Cassie, and another one named Margaret that went by Peggy. I know Peggy is often short for Margaret, but I’m not sure why. I don’t know how you get Cassie from Elizabeth.
I’ve got a friend who’s name is Harriet but everyone calls her Hattie. That doesn’t make sense but it works.
I knew of someone named Elizabeth but would often be called Lisa or Betty. Quite unusual. My cousin is named Antonia but has always been called Toni.
My name is Jennifer but I’m known as Jenny or Jen. Not very unsual but it’s still a nickname.
My friends often call me by my middle name, Skye, instead of my first.
I don’t mind, but my parents do…
Richard & Dick I can understand.
The one that I’ve never understood is Margaret …. how the heck do you get “Peggy” out of that?
I’m a happy Dick. No complaints.
Pardon the pun.
I don’t like it when people automatically assume that you go by one of the common nicknames if you have one of those names. I have always been Samantha, never Sam. I do not call someone by a nickname unless they have said “please call me _____” I know a few males that are never Tony but Anthony.
My names Serena, ANy nicknames for that?
I know its short but like, i want a nickknameee ;’(
ty
My name is Sophia and my nick name used to be tortilla…. then it got changed to Soap…
My great-grandmother’s name was Mary Ann, but everyone called her Molly. I didn’t find out her real name until I was 12.
Also, a friend of mine named Rebecca is called Beatrice. I’m not sure if that’s really a nickname, or whether she just made it up for the sake of it though.
Hey,
My name is Priscilla, but everybody calls me Tilla. I don’t know how that came out of Priscilla. Any ideas? I always just thought it was cause little children couldn’t say my name.(I’m a nanny so that happens alot.)
My nicknames are as follows: Ali, Baby, Sasha, Alligator, Bazza.
Ali is short for my first name
Baby is because I’m the youngest in my close family.
Sasha comes from Sacha Baron Cohen who played
Ali G and Ali is my nickname
Alligator begins with Ali.
I don’t even know where Bazza comes from…
Oddly, I don’t go by my given name of Richard, which when I was young was shortened to Rich. I go by Steve. My father, Everett, goes by Steve, and my grand father, George also went by Steve. In my case I gradually picked it up when new aquaintences would call me Steve, and eventually it just stuck. And now I rather like it! My father says he hates his given name, and when he was in the military he picked up Steve as his nick name, probably the same way I did. For my G-Pa I don’t know why he used Steve, but I have uncles that also use Steve. I will say this though, if you call me Rich or Richard I won’t answer, or even realise you are speaking to me most of the time.
SS
i think nicknames are stupid… and i have a nickname already which is FERN… and i am so chubby i cannot think… straightly……………
Being of a Dutch family the eldest son in my family is always called Hendrik (Henry) but this name is given to the adult and the son is called Henk and if he has a son then the child will be called Henkie even if they are all baptised Hendrik (a bit like William, Will, Willie – no pun intended).
The name Hank comes from the Dutch name Henk due to american Dutch colonial past.
My name is Stephanie too! But my nickname is Steve or Stevie. Have no clue why. The nun on Father Dowling was also nicknamed Steve.
I know a woman named “Christine” . She’s much shorter than I am, so I call he “Tiny” . One time, I told her “Tiny” is short for “Christine”, since the sixth, seventh, and eighth letters in “Christine” are “t”,”i”, and “n” . At one point, a fellow I knew was talking about getting custody of his daughter named “Anastasia” . I said “We could call he ‘Teasy’ for short !” .
I know Russian name Aleksandra, but everybody says Sasha xDD I think that is really weird
Cool… if I said my best friends name was Laura- what could I call her for a nickname?
My name is shayne, but I always went by ess, it started because teachers always had a hard time remembering my name (I was always calles sean) so we got the idea to call me by my initials, but my last name starts with an s too, so we shortened it to one initial. My dad is emery, but he always went by m, for the first sound his name makes. I really do not carewhat anybody calls me, as I cannot control what they say about me, as long as they don’t defame me they can call me what they want
Bethany – Annie
Elizabeth – Lily
Jessamyn – Amy
i heard the nickname stevie from stephanie… i guess stephanie is the female equivalent for steve somehow…
My name is Mackenzie, but I’m called Z-Z, or Zeze by my family. See, when my little brother was born, he couldn’t pronounce my name so he called me G-G. It then got changed to Z-Z.
My name is Alexis and I like to go by Ella, cause if you turn Alexis around it spells sixela, and… well, you can figure it out from there.
My full name is Kate, pure and simple. It’s not short for anything, but I have different nicknames, like Katie, Katrina, Katherine, etc. Oddly enough, my nicknames are longer than my actual full name. I never understood it.
I hate my name. One whole syllable. :/
My name is Nenny.. But I don’t come from any of English speaking countries.. It’s usual to have that name in my country, but because I now stay in English speaking country, it becomes weird because my name is pronounced the same way as nanny.. lol..
i’m considering to give a nickname to myself using my middle name.. haha
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey quote, “Sally, or rather Sarah, (for what young lady of common gentility will reach the age of sixteen without altering her name as far as she can)…”. Maybe some nicknames were just brought about by fashions.
btw, i haven’t memorised the book, i was reading it yesterday.
my freind, what would his name be. adam?
my name is Genevieve ( jeh-nuh-VEEV) but every one calls me geny pronounce like jenny. don’t know why they chose that one. if i had a choice i probably would have went with Gene or Gen or even gena or eve but i’m used to it. also my sister sometimes calls me vieve but usually to tease me.
lots of lindsey’s have the nickname “lou” or “loo” including me, but i have no idea why..
or the nickname peggy for the name margaret
I dont have a nickname. My name is Alecia. (Said like A Leesh A) lol. I have a Friend and I call Him B for short of Brandon. lol
I agree with littledreamerla, I’ve wondered about the nickname Peggy from the name Margaret myself.
I had a grandpa named John Thomas, which might explain why he prefered to be called Jack
My name is Kayla and it is short enough that i don’t normally get a nickname from it. My last name is Fish though and that leads to a lot of “Fishy”… but oddly thats mostly from people i don’t know very well! I have been asked what kayla is short for but thats just a stupid question.
I learned that Peg came from Meg.
Thought you’d like my grandkids names:
Izac and Cazi
(each others spelled backwards)
and I love them!!!!!
what does my name stand for??
Abigail is Abbie…
my cousin nickname is actually her last name sosa cause her first name alejandriana is just too much!! only her friends and i call her sosa though. the rest of the fam call her ali and she oftens shortens her name to ali sosa. i call her sosa to pretty much tease her cause she has a different last name the rest of us and we all hang out together.
My name is Abigail. My nickname is Abby. Or Abi. Or Abbey. I never knew there were so many ways to spell my name. ex. Abigeal or Abigale. For some reason my dad calls me Bibi. And my friend calls me Abigirl. I don’t know… they’re just weird people.
my names shelby, my family and close friends randomly call me belb hahah? and i get shelbs, shelb, shel, and shelbster allot to hahahah
I honestly felt that the nickname Dick from Richard was given to one individual who could bargain well or Dicker as it was said by the past generations. Hence other richards were called Dick from that first nick name. It was great to see the real reason this occured and I learned again today and that is a wonderful thing. Thanks Mike.
Sliz is a polish family name. Slizzard, not so much.
My friend Caitlin has been called everything cat-related – Cat, Kit, Kitty, Kitten, etc. Even ‘Fuzzer’ and various fuzz-and-fur related names.
Qatar is an African name, pretty uncommon. People keep calling him Quatre – cat-tre – which is apparently a more common French name? And again with the cat derivatives, until now he is called ‘Tom.’
Personally, I went from Casey to Case to Cases to Isis and Dectective. And then, through my love of Stargate, the Isis led to various character names, like Eregoria and Jolinar.
My Mama’s (grandmother) name was Hannah and everyone called her Nan. Sort of the parts of her name I suppose just mixed up I guess? And my name is Danielle and people call me Dano – not sure where that one came from! I also get Dan and Danny from a few people but I don’t like that one very much!
my nick name is kem kemmy and goerge. kemmy by lil sisters. kem by some friends and some friends call me goerge!
I have three sons. One is called Mark Davis and his workmates called him Mavis on the first day and it stuck. Another is called Ashley but all his mates call him Dave (presumably short for Davis). Weird to answer the phone and some one says “is Dave there?”. The eldest is called Lewis and when predictive texting came out, it always changed his name to Jewish, so that stuck there too. I just call ‘em 1,2 and 3.
My name is Sabrina but im called sub by my cousin and nani by my little sis and bulls eye by my parents…..long story.
I think the girl who is named Rebekah but gets called Rachel is just the victim of other people’s confusion. In Genesis, Rebekah is Jacob’s mother and Rachel is one of his wives. In the past, twin girls were often given those two names, and they seem to be linked in people’s minds.
Many names beginning with M have nicknames beginning with P–especially, it seems, women’s names. Peg or Peggy for Margaret may be the only one still current, but at one time Polly (as well as Molly) was a nickname for Mary, and, well before Patricia was a popular name in English-speaking countries, Patty and Patsy were nicknames for Martha. George Washington called his wife Patsy (and also her daughter, who was also named Martha). Thomas Jefferson’s daughters, Martha and Maria, were nicknamed Patsy and Polly. I’m not sure how this practice came about, but it probably wasn’t froma a baby’s mispronunciation, since the M sound i’s easier to say than the P.
A similar phenomenion is the additon of N before names beginning with vowels–Nancy for Ann (and I actually know an Ann today who is called Nancy), Ned for Edward (or Edgar, Edmund, or Edwin), Nell for Helen or Eleanor, and Noll for Oliver.
Another curiosity is the way a nickname may be short for one name at one time and for another later. Hal and Harry were once both nicknames for Henry (and Prince Harry is actually named Henry) but are now more likely to be for Harold. And Jenny was once a nickname for Jane, then more recently for Virginia, and now usually for Jennifer. I also knew a Janet, who would now be over 100, who was called Jenny.
One last paragraph: where my husband grew up, men’s nicknames usually had absolutely nothing to do with their actual names. His grandfather, whose name was Raymond, was generally known as Uncle Bill, When, years ago, my hsuband was trying to find out what had become of a neighbor called Bob, it occurred to us that the man’s name could have been almost anything but Robert.
my names meagan my uncle calles me maria cus my middle names marie,my cousins cal me mimi because im the oldest and when they were little they couldnt say my name right, my older friends call me hyperfish cuz im hyper and a freshman, my main friends i hang out with call me megnut or nutmeg for reasons that id rather not say and my guy calls me thexthy again for reasons id rather not say but never once have i been called meg lol
So meagan changes to=
megnut
nutmeg
mimi
maria
thexthy
hyperfish
but never has it changed to meg again lol
My sister’s name is Jessica.
people call her Jess, Jesse, Jessie,
But I never called her that, I call her “Snow” or “Esther” …
I’ve always been called DeeDee.
My dad is Duane and is nicknamed Dewey.
My brother is Jeremy and is called Jer, Jerm, Jay, and sometimes Remy. I have always called him “Beej” short for BJ, which is short for Brother Jeremy. People would always say, “Your brother jeremy…” and I thought that his name was “Brother Jeremy”
I have a cousin named Maynard and we have always called him Buddy, for obvious reasons.
I had an aunt called “Lolly”, her real name was Deloris. I had no idea her real name wasn’t Lolly til she passed away.
I have never really understood Chuck as a nick name for Charles.
My nickname is Nollie and my name is Katie. Yeah…dare you to figure that one out!
I know the answer 
My name’s Erica. Any one have a nickname(s) for Erica?
My best friend calls me Ipps or Ippers which come from the word Ipecac. Why does she call me that? Because we were reading this book in Communications class that had to do with Ipecac. I thought it was a funny word and laughed so hard at the idea of taking the medicine that made you throw up, so she calls me that.
My mom calls me Cookie. I don’t really know why, she just does. My dad calls me whatever he feels like.
One of my guy friends calls me E, which is totally obvious – it’s the first letter of my name.
But those are the only people who give me nicknames and I only like them to call me that.
I want a nickname that anyone can call me, unlike my other nicknames which are reserved for those people only.
Obviously for Jessica, it’s always Jess or Jessie. But I just wanted to say that I think my friend has an unusual name. Her name is Bernice but she goes by Birdie.
i always get called Kenzie, Kennel, Kenith, Ken, eiznek, aKenzie, Z Z, Zee, Lorraine(middle name), Silly(from last name), or “Mac n’ Cheese”. most of them are pretty common. My sister Miranda is Randi, my mom Oralia is Lollie, and my aunt Patricia is patti? why patti? oh and my cuz Nathan is Natedog
My name is Jamie Hord I have many nicknames by my family but the one I am most known by is Zhan Haoran my Chinese nickname I got for 3 reasons
1) My love for China & the Chinese people.
2) My love for writing
3) In Mandarin Chinese my nickname “Zhan Haoran” sounds like my real name “Jamie Hord” and “Haoran” means “Grandly” and Zhan is just a common family name.
my mother named me Madeline but the first day i came to my new school people called me mary for like a day why? because my teacher thought my name was marilyn instead of madeline so its just like the origins of henry to hank of sarah to sally
my first name is helen and as I was growing up my mom used to call me nellie or nel and i have no idea why. but the most common nickname i have had and some people still call it me is jamie cos my maiden name was bond and jamie is the female version of james. I also used to get called brook (as in brook bond tea bags) basildon (as in basildon bond the stationary) oh and cos my initials are h b I used to get called pencil. (as in the name of the lad inside a pencil.) i still get called hb as my initials even though i am married are still h b. my married name is beese (pronounced bees) so people call me honey or bumble or stinger.
my name is Jamie Michelle but everyone calls me mimi because my nephew couldn’t pronounce Jamie, also my sister calls me Gangy Hichelle
Yeah, my name is Joanna, and i am called Jojo and Jo and Doe-doe so yeah i see what you mean. But can you get this:
My Uncle is named Cheyne, and his brothers called him neigh-no. out of the blue, just his younger brother called him that before he could talk.
This question was asked on Answers some time ago and you are in agreement with my answer which got BA.
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I would think it would be a short leap to go from Margaret to Maggie to Peggy.
My names Vanessa, and I’ve been called Nessa, Nessie, Vaness, Ness-Ness, and V. They’re all pretty obvious. My friend Charlotte is usually Charlie but some people called her Lock for some reason.
My full first name is Emmalin (the lin is pronounced like Lynn). My friends call me either Emma, Emmy, Em, or Rose (my middle name).
I have an aunt who is named Fina, but everyone calls her Fay. I also have another aunt named Cordellia, but everyone calls her either Cory or Dell.
I think most nicknames come from family and friends.
My name is Christina, and my family called me Nina. Because my brother could not say Christina, and came out with Nina. It’s stuck ever since.
My name is Claudes, but for some reason I have alwasy been Callan. I don’t quite know why a one syllable name got ‘shortened to a two syllable name, but hey ho. My brother is James, but goes by Jimmy, which is another one I’ve never really understood.
I always get random nicknames! For example:
1.] T-Tay
2.] Butter-t (because i used to eat butter like it was candy!)
3.] Girl (given to me by my crush! hahaha i have never understood why he calls me that! i mean its obvious!)
4.] T-T/Tee-Tee
5.] Tay
6.] Tay-Tay
7.] Tay-Tay Shanay-Nay Nonagon (hahaha by far my fav! cause its sooo stupid! given to me by my best friend!)
hmmmm i cant think of any others…But there ARE more!
yah my BFFF is amanda, nicknames: manda, panda, manda bear (like panda bear) mandy, mandie (same thing), maddie, ammie (like sammie with out s) and yah, but mostly amanda, mandy or manda
My name is Christian, which easily turns to Chris. I’m changing it to Christopher when I’m older since Christian is a popular girl’s name where I live.
My neighbor’s name is Alex, and to tell her apart from another neighbor named Alex, we call her Albert. My sister, MaKayla, goes by Kake, Kayla, Kay-Kay, and variations.
My boyfriend’s name is Clayne- but he goes by Tra as a short form of his middle name, Trawick.
my best freind’s nick name is duh. why? because her name is amanda- we always used to say, when introducing her, she’s a-man-da (duh)… and it stuck.
my good freind’s nickname is beach. her name is bethany. she always used to tell me “my name is a beach, a bay, a road, and a church” well, i remembered the beach part, and that one just kind of stuck as well.
i don’t have a really good nickname, other than rhay- and my name is rachel. i think you can see where that comes from.
my cousins name is chelsea, but we all call her juicey, sometimes even just juice…
I’ve never understood mine:
Theresa >>> Tess
Tess is what I *like* to go by, but I’ve never figured out how it comes from Theresa.
Tell ya what I was told about ‘Richard’ winding up with ‘Dck’ for a nickname. Story I was told went some folks would say ‘Ichard’ back in the old, OLD days. Nuns and such took it the wrong way. As a result, ‘Richard’ went from ‘Ichard’ to either ‘Rick’ or ‘Dick’. Obviously, I went to Catholic school.
thats pretty neat!
my nickname is Mials. the first two letters come from the first letters in my first name and the last three from the first letters in my middle names.
kinda confusing
i think nicknames nowadays also come from what your family chooses to call you, not necessarily a short form of your name. for example:
my friend Lynelle is called Lyla cause thats what she used to call herself when she was little and coudnt pronounce her name.
and my cousin’s nickname is Lisa even though her name is Elizabeth…i dont know where that came from.
but i do know a lot of ppl who take the short form of there names. like my sister Evangelina goes by Eva, my brother Nicolai goes by Nic and my niece Tamiko goes by Kiko
this was really interesting!
This kid from school’s name is Sunny. We call him Tiffany though… lol…
but it isnt very unusual, my name is Madalyn but i go by Maddie.
My dad’s name is Marshall but i call him Marshmellow….hehe or Marshall the Marshen for mars. (i know i probably misspelled marshen)
My nanny’s name is Margaret but she is called Peggy, dunno why
You see my name (Dolores), which is Spanish, and the nickname for that is Lola. The diminutive of that is Lolita. My mom used to call me Lolis, which is also a diminutive of Lola.
My mom’s family always called me Dee Dee, but I changed the spelling and made it my own … Didi.
I like them all… Lola, Lolita, Lolis, Didi.
My sister is Barbara, so of course some of her friends call her Barbie, and one of them calls her Babs.
My webname is Phally, which is phalaenopsis shortened, which is a type of orchid. I like orchids, so I fitted. ^^
my dad works with an annie, short for christian. i guess annie comes from the last two letters “an” in christian.
my names sheridan but everyone in my family or that has known me since i was little calls me dani. I guess its because sheriDAN and DANi. idk but apparently its a popular nickname for sheridan in some areas but basically everyone other nickname from sheridan sucks. aka sher sheri shersher sherbear. death.
My name is Gabrielle Nicole. The most popular nickname is Gabby, but i prefer to spell it Gabbie. (My friend also named Gabrielle prefers Gabi) and my boyfriend calls me Nico, which is short for Nicole.
Other names I’ve found from Gabrielle are:
Ariel, Arielle, Aubrie, Aubrielle, Bree, Brielle, and Elle
My name is Emmeline and they call me Em for short, I know its obvious but I think its weird, don’t they call people named Emily Em?
Sometimes I wish my name WAS Emily, but other times I don’t.
My name is Emmalee. I hate being called Emma or Lee or anything like that. It just really bugs me. My friends call me Eelamme (eel-u-may) because its my name backwards. My dad used to call me Pooh Bear because I used to be obsessed with Pooh Bear when I was little but now he calls me Gator Bait because when we went to Florida we went on a air boat ride and there was a gator right next to me and when we got off my dad’s like ‘You were gonna be gator bait!” so now he calls me that. Only my teachers call me Emmalee. My mom calls me Emme most of the time and so does my Grandma. That’s because when my little brothers were born they couldnt say my name so they said “Emme” and it stuck. So I got by lots of names: Emmalee, Gator Bait, Pooh Bear, Eelamme, Emme and a LOT more.
I have a friend who’s name is Victoria, and for some reason people call her Rikki, which is also my name.
My fathers nick name was Dick. Tell me how you get that from Alvin. The story goes that he was friends with two guys named Tom and Harry
I’m Melissa, but I have one friend who calls me Mel-ennium Falcon.
My first name is Audrey, and my middle name is Elizabeth. My Mamaw has always called me Audrey Beth, shortening my middle name. When my younger siblings came along, the tried to use Mamaw’s name for me. They couldn’t quite say it correctly, though, and I became Aubeth (pronounced ah-beth).
My fathers name is Richard but no one calls him that. They don’t call him Dick either (thank god) When he was dating my mom he said his name was Dan. (after a movie star of the time) It stuck and everybody knows him as Dan now.
why is it called a “nick” name
my name’s abida and sometimes people call me abby, bida or bb. I HATE THAT. i dont want a nickname because my name’s short enough. 5 LETTERS!!!
My friend is named Jake, but his nickname is Colby. No, his middle name is not Colby. His last name is not Colby. He doesn’t love some celeb named Colby. We just call him Colby. IDK why tho…
My name is Kathryn so I have been called Katie, Katy, Kathy (which I hate), Kat, Kay, KD/KT (because of the way katie sounds)…it seems that everyone has heard a different nickname for this spelling and if I don’t tell them what my nickname actually is (Katie) they’ll just pick the one they have heard used in their life.
I also get KP which is my initials because it sounds so close to Katie
my name is shelby, and my nickname is bobbie-dawn. because my middle name is dawn and my little bnrother couldnt pronounce “shelby” so he called me bobbie..
and my uncle, jeff, is nicknamed fluffy. because my little cousin coudnt pronounce jeff, so jeff turned into jeffie. but she couldnt say that, either, so he just became fluffy. we have been calling him that ever since…
My name is practically nickname proof, except for a one syllable name which I have never been called; it is pronounced E as someone I know is called. (and sorry I’m no good at phonetics but I think it is obvious enough)
However I have been given many unnamely nicknames scoot, bug, Mr. technical, fishbutt and Mr. Tights to name a few.
There is a nickname tangent that I am getting at, sorry to be so roundabout, the name Ian was shortened from the original Scottish Iain. I figure it changed due to pronunciation in other countries. ( It is awkward to say eeyayn as opposed to the two syllable E-N pronunciation)
My name is James. People keep trying to call me Jim or Jimmy but I don’t answer to it. My grandmother was named Carnation, everyone called her Carrie. My great aunt was named Eva, but everyone pronounced it Evie. And my grandfather was named Ira, but for reasons I could never fathom, his name was always pronounced Ari.
Caroline—>Carrie… I used to think that was weird, but now I can see that it’s a rather obvious one.
My name’s Fiona, and I’m usually called Fi or Fifi.
However, somehow my dad has come up with several unusual nicknames. He calls me Fiffer, Doodle, and Spunky Noodle. He’s… strange.
And my brother’s name is Jonathan, but we always call him Jambo. I don’t know where that came from.
my name is devon (pronounced dev*i*n) and i got the nickname dev (Ahh i hate it, only my family and mostly guys call me tthat) then all my close friends call me deyy or deyy deyy .. cuz little kids cant pronounce devon soo its always dey. and my friends are just weird. ahaha.
My nickname is well Nick. I find it weird. Is my name the perfect standard example of a nickname? Hence the “nick”name. When people’s legal names are actually the nickname of what should be their full name that really gets under my skin. Sometimes we lose track of the heritage of our names and mothers out there need to honor the name herti
My name is Jaimie, and I commonly get called JJ (even though my middle name is Rose) and less commonly James or Jaim by friends, as a joke I guess since I’m a girl… haha.
My friend’s name is Alexandria but she is called Allie by everybody. And my other friend’s name is Anel but everyone knows her as Ane (pronounced like Ana).
My name is Leslie but everybody always called me giggy, Why? Because my little brother couldn’t say Leslie so he tried sissy which sounded like giggy.
Also I had a friend name Emory and everyone called him Elmo, I have no idea why?
My name is Sejad.
I really, really hate people mispronouncing my name. From my experience, people get my name right the first time, or never get it at all/get it after a lot of practice. So I usually give them a little test:
“what’s your name?”
Sejad.
“sej..john?”
Just call me Cj.
I got this nickname in 5th grade and a lot of my non arab friends call me that.
My name is Brianna but my family has always called me Breezy
My name is Karen but my friends call me : Rin, Wren, RenRen, RinRin
My name real name is Lillian, but then people call me Kimberley because that’s what my dad preffered, and then by the time I was 4, I met some new friends and some called me Ann, and some called me Emily, which probably came off “kimberley” and it just got stuck with them. and most teachers just call me kim, which for me is just really annoying. but then again, I can see how that comes off.
My name is Amanda but Im sometimes called Amie pronounced like(Amy) Dunno why
My name is Crystal and I became Crissy, I’m not sure when it happened but hardly anyone calls me Crystal anymore. People have even said to me that they thought my name WAS Crissy.
I get a lot of questions as to why and I just shrug it off. When I’m asked why I spell it without an ‘h’ I say it’s because I have no ‘h’ in Crystal lol
Haha!! I’ve always wondered that! thanks
my name is andre, what nickname can you get out of that. lol. i like my name.
My name is Anna and you can’t really shorten it.
My family calls me Ania, which is my name in Polish.
Others calls me Annie or Ann.
I don’t really like to be called Annie or Ann.
If I’m to be called anything other than Anna, then it might as well be Ania.
My name is just Anna and its not short for Annabel or Anastasia.
I like nicknames though, but not for myself because its short and you can’t really shorten it.
I call my boyfriend Brad, not Bradley.
I call my best friend Richie, not Richard.
I’m one of those people who uses nicknames a lot.
They are usually either just shortened names or made up from events by myself or friends.
Nicolette – Nicki
Emily – Emmie
Eleanor – Nelly
And one I’ve never understood is Charles to Chip.
my name is mai,
but people call me maitai.
nicknames are suppose to be a short quick thing for the real name. but mine..is longer? hah
I never understood how Peg derived from Margaret.
I have always wondered why some people named Margaret go by Peggy? Anyone know?
My name is Rebecca but I have always been Becca. Some other nicknames: Becky (which I hate), Beck, and Bug (I have no idea)
I know someone whose nickname is derived from her given name. Her nickname’s ‘Willy’
she is a tool anyway
my name is lydia, but my friends call me lyd, lyds, lyddiebug or even Ferrett, which rhymes with my last name (not to mention i look like one). so while some are obvious (lyds and lyd) most nicknames just come from inside jokes or random attributes a person might have. it doesn’t really make sense to try to dissect all these nicknames because they seem to just be random things that stuck
My names Eileen and all my freinds call me eiei or ei its pronounced like you would say the letter I yea i dint make it up people just started calling me that… ROFL :0
I have several nicknames, most of which have nothing to do with my name – Jane. My oldest nickname is Bebe because when I was a baby my brother wouldn’t say “baby”, but he would call me “bebe” instead. My aunt calls me Lucy Cat, my grandmother calls me Floosie Lou, my uncle calls me Janie Raney (his last name), and my mom has called me Tina at times.
My cousin’s name is Michael Andrew, but everyone has always called him Drew (which makes since), but his mom calls him Richard sometimes.
My mom’s name is Debra, but she has only ever been called Debbie. I have never understood that…
My name is Emanuela and my nicknames include emma, em, emi, E., eminem (don’t ask why), ems, baby spice (she was name Emma) and so on
My family and friends are full of fun nicknames. Some of my friend’s nicknames, like mine, neo and neko (which I refuse to capitalise for some reason), have no correlation to our real names, but some make sense; for example, my best friend is Megan and we all call her Meggle.
Some fun family nicknames:
Monica: Mon, Monky
Sherry: Sher, Sher Bear, Hair Bear, Scary Hairy Sherry (I can’t remember the origin of these, though they’ve been explained to me)
Alison: Al-ees-see-on, Ally Oop, Scoop (sadly, I believe that comes from Super Dooper Pooper Scooper; I guess that’s what happens when your siblings are all at least fourteen years older than you XD)
Kristin (me): Krissy, Kris, Kris Miss (Instant Cocoa) –don’t tell my mum, but I love that one; my grandma also used to always call me Bird Turd for some reason that I’d love to have explained
Randy: Randall, Panalope, Randella<–that was thanks to our fifth grade teacher, who had a tendency to call boys by the female version of their names XD
Ashley: Ash, (Super) Smashley
Andrew: Andy, Droop (or, Drewp, so you can see where it came from)
My name’s Claire, but my friend Zoe calls me Clairey. My boyfriend calls me ClaireBear.
Zoe, though having a short name, is called: Zo, ZooZoo, ZoiZoi, Zooey, etc.
I call my boyfriend, Max, Maxie.
My best friend, Danielle, is Danie, and my other friend, Jackson, is Jax. Gabriel is Gabe. Milena goes only by Mia. Patrick goes by Pat. Most are kind of obvious, except for the personal ones. (Jackson goes by Jax because he hates his first name, and I gave it to him.)
because no one liked richard…
my name is Kristin my fam calls me Kris which I can accept but why would random people think I want to be called that its actually my ex’s name so I kinda hate it lol
Very interesting blog! Thanks. You can tell by all the responses that this is an interesting subject.
My name is David, but since I was a baby 60 years ago, everyone calls me “Danny”. My initials are D.A.N. and the song “Danny Bay” was extremely popular in America at the end of WWII. Now, a lot of people call me “Danny-David” to keep down the confusion!
Mom and dad gave all my siblings middle names starting with the letter “A”, but no one else has a nickname, except my brother Robert! He has never been called “Bob” or anything like that. We are Cajun French from South Louisiana and everyone calls him by the French pronunciation of “Robert”! Some family members called me by the French pronunciation of “David”, but “Danny” stuck!
my real name is edward, but coming from an asian family, my parents and relatives would pronounce my name as eh-doo-wah-du, so they just shortened it to eddie. my friends call me grasshopper, but for some reason i never asked why. my orchestra friends call me edvard (notice the v instead of a w) because of a peice we played by edvard humperdinck. some of my friends call me eddie but some call me ed.
My name’s amy and most of my friends resort to the nickname of Aims. I believe and know it’s because of the first syllable of my name, which just so happens to be pronounced Aim with the end as ‘e’. But i really want a different nickname because Aims kind of sounds lame and like I’m a target.
If anyone can I’d love help.
Also I have a friend called Felicity and we call her Flick. I’m not sure why we call her that, but it just sticks.
My name is Virginia which is nice and long so I am prone to nicknames. I have so many of them it isn’t funny but my main one is Ginny which I spose comes from the ‘gin’ in Vir’gin’ia
I was named Stanley Jr. The Polish side of the family called me “Little Stashu” which infuriated the German side who would only call me “Junior”.
Been called a lot since… Stanley, Stan, Stash, Junior, Jay, JR, etc. Some years later, I found myself very uncomfortable when a female friend, in an intimate moment, would moan “Ooooh, Stashu” or “Ooooh, Junior”.
I’ve since come to prefer being called “Jay”, or as I would prefer, just “J”. Easier for all, especially me.
my names Jonathan, but everyone calls me Jonas, I’m guessing they got the first four letters of my name Jona- and randomly added an S
My name is Arsen, so I get the nickname Sen. There is another nickname that comes from this which I don’t care to type, but I’m sure you all can figure it out.
I knew a girl in HS whose name was Whitney but everyone called her Wink.
My names Samantha but I get called Sam, Sammi, Betty, Bowlesy (Last name) And Julie (middle name). I personally like being called Betty and Sammi the most but I get sam alot I hate people calling me Samantha. I like being called Betty as its unusual and it was my grandmothers name and she passed away not long after I was born and a lot of people say I look like her. I also get called my cousins name and aunties Fiona, Fee, Stephanie, Emmily for some unknown reason i think its just because of bad memory and terrible eyesight haha. My friend Kataraina gets Katt and my friends Jessice all get Jess, Jessi but thats pretty normal.
We deliberately named our daughter Kate — NOT Katherine, Kathleen, Caitlin or any other “derivative”. We wanted a name that couldn’t be shortened. So, of course, my mother calls her “Katie”!
Husband Robert has always gone by his full first name; I’ve always used a nickname. And Kate really likes her name…fortunately!
(My dad called my mom “Duchess”, she calls herself “Scotty” (ancestral “roots” in Scotland) & her given name is Elisabeth (aka Betty).
As a Melissa, I get the obvious Mel, which I hate, and Issa from my family. I also get called Em, which I like (M =Em, just to clarify!).
My uncle is a Santo, and gets Sandy or Tony.
My cousin Stephanie gets Pip, Pippy and Pippa.
My bestfriend Priscilla gets Prisca and Pru.
My name is Vanessa and my mom and her relatives are from MS. So, they call me Nelsa, not Nessa which is the proper way to shorten my name. Just imagine being asked if your actual name is Nelson and you are a female horror!!!!
Well, one of the kids in my school is named Nikki, but people call her Patches, for some unknown reason.
Another kid I know is called Tree. I don’t even know her real name.
The kids in my Chinese class call Alastair Alaska, but I’m not quite sure why, since he’s Australian.
My brother is Giorgio, but I just call him G. I never could think up a good name for that.
I’m Anne. I’d prefer it if people would just call me that, it’s only four letters, how much shorter do you want? However, by now I’ve learned to respond to Anabel (I’m named after someone named Anabel, but my parents just named me Anne instead.), Anita, Anna, and Annie. And Ice Queen, but that’s a whole different story.
In Australia, nicknames are a way of life. A general method of producing one is the ‘zza’ rule. My name is Jaime – I will be Jazza. Hannah is Hazza. Others are harder like Nicole becomes Nazza instead of Nizza.
Also, I have had over 15 nicknames over the past years and they’ve included Jameega, Jamima, Jumma, Jumby, Jimby, Jimie…
Go figure.
Oh yeah, I forgot Jessica. Apparently her dad’s family calls her Jekka. Her mom hates it, though. I’m not sure why. It’s cute and more unique than Jess.
PS: Anyone have suggestions for a new nickname for a friend, Dasha?
My name is Haroon, which is the Asian version of Aaron. Yet my cousin always calls me Harry (the letters h-a-r, of course), and it’s a name I go by sometimes because I like it.
My daughters name is Serena but I often call her ‘Rene – short for Serene.
I also knew a Dorothy named Dot, a Stephanie and a Phoebe named ‘phee.
I have an Uncle Jim, Bill and Bob.
Also a cousin named Sharon that is shortened to Shazz.
My full name is Susan but often I am called Suze by those whom know me well. Only some get away with this lol!
I have one for you :]
my names heather – nickname: Heath? no… i dont think so.
get back to me x
my bf’s name is sandy
but hes scottish and i think it might be short for andrew… he wont tell me, and keeps teasing me about it playfully
hehhehehhehehe
My name is Mathew. Yeah, with one T. So I used Mat as my nickname before. But I changed it to Matt recently, since it’s more common, and it doesn’t really change the way you pronounce it..
my name is Phoebe and they call me Phoebe. i’m jealous.
My cousin’s name is Sohara, but we call her Africa. It’s because her name sounds like Sahara, like the desert in Africa.
well, my full name is probably the weirdest:Terentiy.Believe me or not-I am Russian.For some reason people (I mean people in the US) call me Terry. I dont understand, I mean you can also shorten my name to Terence or Tori.
I guess Terry is really easy to pronounce…
My name is Melisa…My nickname is Mel… My family called me Encha…i don’t know why, but i really like my nickname…
My birth-given name is Carson, but my family and friends in Florida always called me “Rocco” for some unknown reason. Then, as I moved to my new high school in West Virginia, classmates began to refer to me as “Boston” even after I insisted that I be called “Rocco.” All I can say is that nicknames are an unusual concept, and why is it called a ‘nick’name anyway? I’m clueless.
There’s a girl in my geometry class, and her name is Mary but we all call her Molly. I wonder how she got that nickname…?
I really liked the article. 5 stars! I’d always wondered about some nicknames.
Actually they call Johns Jack because Jack is French for John. I would know, my brothers name is John, and so is his best friend. But so they wouldn’t get confused John#2 started calling himself Jack because he’s part french.
My name is Tara, but I get Tarawr mostly, sometimes TALA due to asians who can’t pronounce the “R” and i have got Taro.
Queen Elizabeth II was known as Lillibet growing up. According to Alan Michie’s “God Save The Queen,” the nickname was the result of her first effort to pronounce her name.
Her father, King George VI, was known as Bertie within the family. His full name was Albert Frederick Arthur George. When he became King in 1936, he adopted the name George. He felt that if he became King Albert, the association with Victoria’s husband would be too strong. Also, he wished to emphasize the continuity with the reign of his father, King George V, following the abdication of his brother, King Edward VIII (the Duke of Windsor).
The Queen Mother (wife of King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II) was known as Peta within the family, which, it is said, was a nickname she invented for herself when she was a child.
Of course, for all us mortal folk, the proper way to address them is “Your Majesty” the first name, and either “Sir” or “Ma’am” thereafter, as the case may be.
My middle name, McKinley, supplied my nickname. I was named after my grandfathers. Mac or McKinley was Scot-Irish so, originally. it was supposed to be spelled MacKinley after the Scots. However, being Scot-Irish they spelled it in the Irish manner, McKinley. My mother hated the nickname Mac so, she usurped it and called me Mick, which is the Irish version of Mac. This suited me well because having inherited Irish on both sides of the family, I was half Irish. Hailing from both S.W. Ireland (Black Irish) and N.W. Ireland (Scot-Irish). Two peoples that hate one another to this day.
My actual name is Tasha. I’m called by my initials, ‘TL’ so now at school, i get away with writing Tielle, or even Ti.
And my first name (Tasha), sounds like a nickname for Natasha, but Tasha is my whole name
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Elizabeth again -
My sisters name is Anne Elizabeth so I call her Analyzer…
My mother in law is Sherrie, she goes by Shed to her family. Her sister is Carol Ann, she goes by Tutty.
My full name is Isabella, but I’ve been called Belle for years. It started when I was a child & has stuck. It’s fine & works. A few close friends think it’s funny to call me Tink cuz of my love of Tinkerbell from Disney’s Peter Pan. Depending on my mood, I let it go. If I’m in a bad mood, they get corrected to call me Belle. I have a sister named Brenda & her nicknames range from Bren, Brenna, Brendie, Brindie, Bree or B. She’ll answer to Bren or Brenna but not the others. My best friend is Charlotte, but goes by Charby for family & close friends. Another best friend is Jennifer who’s gone by Jen for years. Now for some reason, she prefers Jenna, but spells it Jhenna on occasion.
The answer to how Peggy cane from Margaret is not through ‘Meg’….It is explained through my other post above….
A lot of those names which started out as nicknames, such as Jack, Hank, Sally, or Ted have been pretty common as given names.
How about some nicknames which didn’t come from someone’s real name? Emmy is short for my AIM user name, and I use it as a pen name online. I knew a kid in school who was nicknamed “Potato” because he mispronounced the word potato in an oral report, and someone else decided that he looked “kind of like a potato” so it stuck. A lot of people I know use their middle or last name, or a nick name from that (such as “Smitty” for Smith), for various reasons.
what do you think my friends nicknames would be? they are called
cerys
milly
harriet
molly
matilda
kira
shannon
we made some nick names up like ceza and tilly but if you come up with better ones plz tell me
My daughter’s name is Gwendolyn, but we call her Winnie. She’s 3 and she refuses to recognize Gwendolyn as her actual name
My name is Alisa, but I’ve had many different nicknames. I’ve been called Al, Ali (like ally), isa, and even my middle name. I’ve also been lisa. Most of the time when people try to read my name it comes out as a-lee-sa. But you say my name like Alyssa. Now my nickname is Alli which is a combo of letters from my first and last names.
People keep calling me Skywalker or Anakin because of my name sounds like Anakin from Star Wars- Aniket. O.O Though my name is Indian I myself am only half-indian, have a light skin-tone and a ‘Slavic’ appearance so that’s why they keep having this association.
ROFL I’m Anakin Skywalker.
xD
Most people just call me Jess… but my family all call me lou lou because of my middle name… apparently my mum regrets giving me this name instead
this very good to my liking thank you.
One of my daughters name is Laura. We call her La. Her nephews and neices call her Aunt LaLa.
Another daughter is Christina, nickname since a babe Christie. Her baby brother called her Chee Chee, and her baby sister called her Tee Tee. I sometimes call her T.
Again for Margaret/Peggy does not come from Meg…see posting above regarding the English and the Australians….
My name is Heather so I don’t really think there is a nickname for that can someone get a nickname out of Heather? lol. Anyway people call me “Carly”.. Short for my middle name “Carlotta” I don’t like either and sometimes people call me “Lottie” or “Arla” I don’t really understand how they got those nicknames from Carlotta.. :/
My name is Abigail… i go by Abby to mostly everyone… but my bff calls me stitch… and here’s how
1- there is a book out entitled Abby Cadabby
2- my friend read the title and was reminded of witches
3- since it is not really nice to call someone a witch… she just changed it to Stitch….. so yeah!
Whenever someone hears her call me that… they think of Lilo and Stitch but they never really make the connection that she is talking to me b/c they dont understand the nickname!! lol…..
I love the nickname and she is the only one i let call me that…. lol…
~ Abby/Stitch
carolina is my name, my mother calls me carito. others say carlo, carlola, caroline, lina, and it goes on and on why? idk
My wife hates when people thinks that her name real name is Elizabeth because her first name is Betty,even me i asked her this question on our first date.funny.
heyhey…x
I’m Chloe and I go by…
Clo
Clodge
Loubie Lou
Lucie Lou
Lou Lou
Loulabelle
Lucie
Luc(loos)
and Lou
xxx
love you all lots and lots
My name’s Kendra and I get a lot of weird nick names. Kenj, Kenji, Candy, Ken and Ken-As-In-Ken-The-Barbie-Doll (A joke, haha). Once, someone thought my name was Virginia, which they heard when I said Kendra? I’ve been called Cassandra, Kandra…and lots of other things
My full name is Katie, and people always shorten it to Kate, which is just annoying. I had an ex-boyfriend, James, who went by Jamie, which seems somewhat strange to me, as Jamie seems feminine, or at least juvenile.
My name is Kristina, which is how I always introduce myself. My closest friends mostly call me Kris. My immediate family mostly calls me Tina. My grandma and mom sometimes call me Tina B because I guess that was my nickname as a baby. I really don’t know what the B stands for because my middle and last name both start with M and neither contain a B. Also my cousin Ashley frequently calls me Teen like Tina without the A. I think she does this just to annoy me. Nobody calls me Kristy though, thank God because I truly hate that name. I’m sure if I told anyone I hated it they would start calling me that.
my name is michaela and i don’t have a nick name i thought you can make one up for me
p.s
make
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quick
My names Dearbhla and noone knows how to spell it so the all call me devs or dee-dee or even midjitd cause i’m small i don’t like devs but i now look at them now so i can’t change my mind
My name is Eric. I’ve been called by a variety of nicknames variously.
Erica
Derek
E-ric
E-rock
E-rike
Broph (from my last name of Brophy)
Bro-fresh (see above)
My name in Chinese is “ai li ke” (eye lee kuh) and interestingly my last name is “bu lou fei” (boo low fay). I just may have to insist on being called boo.
I have a friend named Nicole and instead of being called the usual “Nicks” or “Nikki”,
~Which she hates!~ We call her Kiki.
Sounds like the end sound of the nickname NiKKY…
I think it’s a way cooler and a more interesting way to nickname her. It’s unexpected!
My name is Julia, my nickname used most is Jools, but also i have been called, Jules/Joules, JC and Juju.
my brother, is called thomas but he is called, Tom, Tommo (by me), Tommy, Naan Bread
( im not sure why) and Blaize (his middle name)
My daughter’s name is Michaela. We prounce it Mickayla, Kayla for short.
My name is Kimberlee. I get called Kim, Kimmy, Kimbie (which I absolutely hate), Kimber, Kimmer, Kimbo, Ber….the list goes on. I don’t mind, just don’t call me Kimbie.
what a bunch of rubbish. does anyone actually buy this
My name is Edward but I’ve always been called Ted (Teddy as a kid). All the time I get people saying “I thought your name was Ted…how do you get Ted from Edward?”
Well my great grandfather’s name was Herve’ Byng (think it was spelt that way)…. and his nickname was………………..BILL!!!
Someone tell me how he got that nickname!!!!
I already posted one…but here are a couple more.
My husband’s friend “Goof” is actually Brad (he looks like Goofy from Disney because his glasses magnify his eyes so much and he is long and lanky that Goofy. I knew Goof for three years before asking my husband, “What IS Goof’s real name anyway?”
My niece is Brittany called Boo Boo.
Other niece Alaina called Nae or Lainy all of which she hates.
Tried calling my son Micheal Mick or Mie (an Irish variation of Michael) but that never took.
A lady I used to work with was called “Megha” (MEE-gah) by her family; don’t know why because her name was Linda.
The man who raised me used to call me “BRA-BRA” but Babs I hate (German variation); Barbie is a no-no for anyone but my mother; and my grandma used to call me Gertrude or Mergathrode because by the time she named off everyone else in the family to call me, she just gave up!
I knew an Elizabeth called “Bitsy” and she was anything BUT!
My name is Jessilyn, but people call me Jo or Josie. Only my close friends of course, but still those nicknames really dont correspond to my name at all. :/
my grandpa’s name is james, but everyone calls him jim or jimmy. why?
also my dad’s name is james, but everyone calls him sam. don’t ask me where that came from though lol.
i cannot stand the nicknames that are derived out of my name. seems everyone and their brother wants to call me desi or dez. ive even been call ree. i am constantly correcting people. i have a sister raquel that we call kelly cause of the ‘quel’ part. and a friend bree whos real name is gabriella.
“The nickname may have been “based on the medieval English attempt to pronounce the Norman trilled “r.” Apparently it can sound like an “l.””
Like the Chinese.
My names Ravleen and people call me Reva… I have no idea where they get that from lolz
melvin = mouch
winston = stoney
alessandra = sadie
maureen = reenie
kathleen = kiki
patrick = taty
Omg so my best guy friends name is John his family and teachers call him Jack and everybody else calls him…
Muffin!
So he was in music class (first day) and the teacher took attendence and when he pretended he wasnt called she asked him what his name was and he said “My name is Ima Muffin.”
My grandfather named me Clancy Shannon, after his best friend and the river he lived near in Ireland. My mother thought this was great! She said that no one could make up a weird nickname for me. Well my brother was 11 at the time and his response was “what if she’s fat! Then we can call her “Clank the Tank!” Well I arrived. I was a skinny baby and a skinny kid but to this day my brother has always called me either Clank or Tank! My father on the other hand has called my by my given name only a handfull of times. He either calls me “Bird” or ‘Charlie” The Bird is because of my birdlegs. The Charlie part…who knows. But I remember being on vacation when I was around 12 yrs old and people thinking I was a boy. Im 45 now and I have a grandaughter named Charlie, after her Grandmama! Life is funny isnt it?
I have a sister named McKenna and my family always calls her Minnie. I don’t remember exactly how we came up with it, but it’s pretty interesting I guess.
My first name is Ashley but I go by Ashby. My nickname started out in grade school when one of my friends combined my first and last name and got Ashby. To this day (i’m a grown adult) everyone calls me Ashby, even my family!
hi my name is Shanice but my mom calls me niecey and brothers call me shoy shoy
Ahhh, nicknames…
My name is Ellena, which people can’t spell or pronounce, and my nicknames are Ellz or Ellie.
My sister’s name is Melanie, but she’s nicknamed Mellie cause when I was 2, I couldn’t say Melanie, it ended up as Mellie.
I give my friends nicknames, like I’m friends with 2 Sophie’s. One of them is ‘Sophie’ or ‘Stalker’ and one is Fishy. That way, I don’t get mixed up
And Tia’s nickname is T or TT. And there’s Catherine, who goes by Cat, and would probably kill anyone who dares call her that [Cept the art teacher, lmaoo]
Not to mention, my friend Michaela, who is now nicknamed Maelee.
That’s probably all…And the story behind Maelee is…
She was annoyed with people getting her name wrong, so I suggested she should be Maelee.
My brother’s name is Charles, but his nickname that all of us in the family call him is “Cary.” I know the nickname is of British origin, but I have no idea how they got Cary out of Charles.
i go by liza(pronounced lies-uh) but my name is elizabeth.
not to crazy but i dont find to many people with the same name
oh in addition to what i just said…
elizabeth can have:
eliza, liza, liz, lisa, betsy, beth, eliz, and i even had a friend that called me zabeth.
My name is Mary Therese, but I”ve been called Tess Trueheart, Tess, EM-TEE Mary and many, many other nicknames my whole life. I just let it go…..
hannah and nancy?
what the…..
My name is Angela. I’ve been called Angie, Ang, G, Anna Banana (have no clue on that one). My husband is from another country. His name is Adedamola but everyone calls him Tony. I think one doesn’t have anything to do with the other. I think it was picked for simplicity sake.
My name is Vandana (VAN-da-na, stress the first syllable), but when people first see my name they have an annoying tendency to say it as though it rhymes with bandanna. I don’t have a lot of nicknames, only Vandie, which my best friend calls me, and V (or Vee or Vi–however it’s spelled), which my music teacher and my roommate call me. I like my name because it’s not very common, but I like V as a nickname.
My name is Christopher, and when people shorten it “on their own”, it ticks me off……
I LIKE my name, and don’t need a nickname……just a personal preference……
What’s REALLY infuriating is when I introduce myself as “Hi, my name is Christopher”, and the person responds, “Nice to meet you Chris………” Talk about starting off on a “bad foot”………… ;((
My name’s Atiqa. I have been given many weird nicknames since my birth like Tickey, Tiks, Axee, ZB, tiki, tikkay, ouchlaa. But out of the entire list, I just like AZ.
My name’s erin, and everyone calls me Earon (Like ear, what u hear with, plus on, like not off) I got this one when my friend spelled my name this way (her cousin spells it that way) and it got missed pronounced. I hated it at first, but after four years, and even moving across the country TWICE, it still hung on. So ive embraced it lolz. i also get called fishie alot. dunno why, i just do lolz.
My friend is called Alexandra, but we call her Ola. Her cousins are from Poland, so shorten it like that (although they would write her full name Aleksandra).
It seemed more fun and girly than Alex, which I think of more as a boy’s name.
my name is alexis but everyone calls me lexie and my best friend calls me sam, no idea why. lol
My name is Shaquanda, but I have always been called Quan…but, others have given me other nick names…
Shaq
Chaka-Quan
Quanye
Qtip
My full name is Alexis, but I’ve always gone by Lexie or just Lex.
I got it from aLEXis, I guess, and just added the “ie” to sound awesome.
My nicknames are pretty easy to follow. Amanda into Manda, Mandy, Randy, and Amada (and once, Armada) Randy is from my cousin who didn’t like the sound of Mandy and Amada from someone forgetting to put an N in my name. Another one is Redrum. From that movie, where they spell Murder backwords. I was a very angry little kid, haha.
Not really related, but our cats name is Cyrus, and we call him a LOT of names. Sci Fi, Russell Crowe, Russell Stover, Crowlin (like Rolling, rolling, rolling from that song), Treaty of Versaille, Rusty, Soy Sauce, Soylent Green… One of our other cats is Tootsie, and we call her Tutenkahmen. One of our dogs is Barkley, and we call him Beagle, Beggle, Beggle leggle leggle, Berkley, Bar Collie, Colin, Collar
We have way too much time on our hands in this family, haha.
My name is Hannah, but I was called Hanny, Hanner, Hann, and hazzy, But i absolutely hate Hannah Montana or Hannah Banana, therefore- some call me banana…
My Grandpa’s name is Fred, but everyone calls him Butch. I don’t know if this is a masculine thing or if it is indeed a variation on his name.
My husbands name is Charles but he goes by Chuck, his friends have called him Chaz as well, not sure where that comes from.
I had a friend named Micheal but he went by Mick. Kinda of runs along with Richard and Rick, Dick ect….
My name is Priscilla and my teacher calls me prisqy, and middle name is Christine and my whole family calls me “titi”,”titina”,”Christina”. No one calls me Christine.
Also my neice name is Janissa and they call her either “pony” or “Janice”.
My cousin Laura = wawa
My cousin Marissa = chi cha
My aunt is Maria Guadalupe, and everyone calls her yolli. That one is just a mystery to me.
My mom’s name was Roberta (after her dad Robert, better known as Bob) but her whole life, everybody called he Robin. She hates her name being Roberta so she changed it at about 20 when she realized that was her name. For me, my nickname is Smalls. They get from the movie The Sandlot. In the movie that guy is called Smalls because that’s his last name but I’m called it for no apparent reason.
my name is tiya its actually supposed to be spelled Tiye after the Queen Tiye of Egpyt. Tiya is a hard name get a nickname from since its so short some people call me T, they used to call me TiTi my nickname could also be YaYa.
No one can think of a nickname for me!
My name is Aidan.
My name is Roksana. But I go by Roxanne but everyone calls me Roxi.
I love my name.
my names nathan =P~
i dont get called nate
nicknames are different in different countries :-”
cant think of much to say =))
My great grandma was always called Grammy Tini and I never understood that considering her name was Mary Alice. I asked my mom, and turns out, it’s because her last name is Santini, and when we were little no one could say Grammy Santini.
My name is Diane and I’ve been called Diney from childhood. The “older” family shortened it to Dine when I became a teenager, but my nieces & nephew call me Aunt Diney & I love it, it sounds so sweet when they say it.
The name Brenda can also be a Spanish variant of Brittany.
There are many Hispanics named Brenda.
My name is Michelle and they call me Michi pronounced like Mishi
wait…some people are named dick? lol..anyway yea my name is Elliana but everone calls me Ellie so thats kinda my just my name not my nickname..others are like
Ellbell(sometimes by my mom/best friend?)
Elldog(soccer coach)
Ell(sometimes friends/cusins)
Ana(spanish teacher..?)
I can almost get why people are stunned when they find that my name is Ronnie, not Ronald. I hate Ronald, but what really gets me is when people try to spell it. I’ve seen everything from Ronny to Rony to Rone. LOL just one of those things.
People mainly call me Carolyn, although sometimes, my parents or brother will call me CAS (my initials). I didn’t like them referring to me as CAS and for a while, I tried to get people to call me Car, but it didn’t stick. When I was 12, I tried to get my family to call me Carrie, although now, only my grandma and aunt call me that. My aunt is hispanic and will call me carolina (the spanish version), carito, or caro (I love the last two and it’s ironic that she calls me caro as carro in spanish means “car” and I never told her how I tried to get people to call me car). My grandpa calls me carol or ann (my middle name) or anna. People also call me Caroline by mistake and I hate it.
In my family, my aunt is sometimes referred to as A.J. or aj (pronounced like age) which I created which is short for aunt judy.
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My aunt’s name is lorena and we all call her tia (aunt in spanish)
My grandpa’s name is edward and he goes by Pa (short for grandpa, although my parents call him that too) or Tuck (I’m not sure where that came from)
my mom’s name is susan and my three year old cousin is in her class. He calls her Aunt Suzie (which she hates) and now the rest of the class calls her Aunt Suzie as well.
And my favorite…my little cousin, Kyle, I call mosquita, because when he was learning how to work, his older brother would say watch out for the fly. Mosca is spanish for fly, and mosquita is the diminutive form of mosca.
my name is joice sum ppl call mi joy joicy jdog i realli hate it WHY!! rofl
My name is Marni, not short for anything, that’s how it is on my birth certificate.
And of course, I was born in the ’90s.
Damn that purple dinosaur.
My cousins name is Charlotte but everyone calls her Charlie. Her mom is names Tulula and her friends call her Lall.
My name is Marissa, some of my friends gave me the nickname Issa a couple years ago
My name is Leaira. It’s very unusual! My parents couldn’t decide whether to name me Leah or Sarah, so they combined them into one. Not sure how they came up with the spelling, though.
My Name is moh and my nickname is kufti(kua-f-ti) Dont ask
I’ve always been called Olive, or Livi. Sometimes people call me Olive Juice, Olivio, Livia (by my 2 year old cousin), and sometimes Liver and Onions.
Some are just insults from my sister though
My grandmother was named Elizabeth & was always called Mamie, don’t know why!
my name is anirudh and everyone call me as bunty
I would like to be called Ty, not because my name is Tyson but because my nick name is Tony, which I dislike. Ty is a unique and shorter version of Tony. Most people call me Anthony which is my real name but I think that is too long. If a friend were to quickly call my name it’d be too hard. So I prefer Ty.
Hmmm…. My name is Cole… that’s my full name… what would my nickname be?
Mike, it’s very strange, my step Grandmother is called Sally, real name being Sarah too, and we have liberal amounts of John/Jacks….
My name is Leanne, often called Lee by my sister/family/selected friends, called Lan by other friends and Ann by the little girl I babysit for…..
My sister is called Edel, often changed to Del or Dely. Or Ed if we’re teasing.
My brother is David, called Dave by his friends and simply ‘D’ by my parents.
My ex-wife’s name is Elizabeth, and she grew up with the nickname “Lilibet” which apparently has an English origin.
My nickname growing up was “Hap” because I was apparently a happy kid! Only my Dad and my uncle, his brother, called me Hap, however.
I’m always called Mitz, Titzi, Bitz or Moo. Especially Moo actually, i guess it just flows?
My name is Daisy, and I dont really have a nickname that sticks. afterall my name already sounds like a nickname!
my brothers call me “daze” but i dont like it since it makes me feel like im lost in thought lol
my name is nerys and i get called ner and nezzah but one boy calls me nessa for some reason. my friends name is anastazia and everyone calls her zia (pronounced zaya) beacuse she hates annie or anna
My parents always called me boo… even before it became a popular nickname for a guy’s girlfriend.
I guess Rebecca became Becca and then came Boo?
Also Rezz. I get called Rezz a lot XP
We call my friend Marissa Rissa
My name is Lawrence and my friends call me larry. I hate it. Also I’ve been called porcupine too, Larry from the three stooges was called porcupine! I hate my name, Larry. I wished I was never called that.
Very interesting article. I enjoyed it very much, and there were so many comments, I couldn’t read them all! Obviously, a subject everyone was interested in!
In naming my grandson, we started with the nickname his mom and dad wanted him to have, Z, and found a suitable real name from that, Zaccheaus (and I never know if I spelled it right!). LOL It was so good of them to let me help in his naming! I was allowed to help with my granddaughter, too, she’s older, and named something none of us have ever heard before, a very unusual and unique name that suits her perfectly. I don’t want to put it here and start a flood of babies with this name!
Also, not all names require a nickname (Lyle).
Thanks for reading my comment among so many.
Hi. My name is Sara and I got the nickname Tata from my youngest brother who was about 3 at the time. I think he couldn’t make the “Sss” sound and he just said Tata…and that nickname went from Tata to Tati…I don’t know how but oh well…lol oh and Tati is pronounces Tuh Tee…incase you didn’t know…
I know a girl named Sarah who’s nicknamed Say-Say,
And a girl named Rachel nicknamed Rae-Rae, and a girl named Karolyn nicknamed Karli.
My nickname was Pippy, but then my sister combined it with Stephanie and created “Pippanie.”
Lots of people just call me Pip.
BTW: “Pippo” is a nickname for Phillip.
My boss’ sister is nick named Sheila Monster
haha my name is jennifer but my sisters call me jenny, but then my friend calls me jenni and my teachers call me jen my sisters name is marcella and we call her marcy. my older sister is carolina but we call her caro. and my brothers name is adrian and we call him baby
my name is annie, but because I got some pudding for a dollar less than usual, and I told everybody, I am now known as “the pudding girl.”
Margaret > Peggy
Margerate > Margerine (LOL!) > Meggy > Peggy
My name’s Imogen but everyone calls me Imo. See why?
My Mom calls me Mog -_- People who THINK they’re my friends call me Im or Immy. I don’t mind my friend Eleanor do it, but others like Ann or Linda it’s really annoying D:
My names Alicia but growing up I was called Ali or Ray Ray ( I have my father middle name Ray)
Thank goodness Ray or Ray Ray didnt stick, that would have been werid for my bf’s-lol
My name is Gwyneth and everyone calls me Wyn for short which is pretty obvious. But I was wondering if anyone had a nickname for Sheridan
sera
eloise
eliana
isadore
ali
netti
My name is Indiana, so i get Indi from most people, but my friends call me Tilly for some reason.
My friends last named is Kelly, so we call her Ned, Neddie, or Neddison, because of Ned Kelly =)
what about “Peggy” from “Margaret”?
i’ve never ever understood that one.
obviously, i didn’t check to see of anyone had posted anything about the “Peggy from Margaret” deal.. soo many have!! thanks @Peggie Brunett! very insightful!
well my name is rojina, people call me roji and also rose. well some i’ll give that might interest u
BEBO
GUPPY
LOLO
PICHU
BHUNTU
GOLMOL
MUNNI
MUNNA
MUNNU
FUCHHI
DALLI
My name is Peter, but most of my friends call me Petrus Son of God!!! My twin brother is (obviously) Paul but everyone calls him Mario!
The reason why Elizabeth, Oliver, Edward etc have nicknames beginning with N is rather interesting. It stems from the fact people used to refer to their loved ones as ‘Mine’ (rather than ‘my’). Hence, Mine Ellie, Mine Oll, Mine Ed. From here, it doesn’t take much imagination to see how the nicknames Nellie, Noll or Ned came into being.
My middle name is shane & I go by sasha { I’m female by the way}
my name is babita but my frdz calls me bavi …………… i like it
I’m Elizabeth. Everyone shortens it before asking me what I like, so I get called by names which I don’t like. So I think I’m just going to introduce myself as Lily from now on.
My grandson’s name is Garrett, but we’ve always called him Chalk
I have had a nickname all my life , another name for part of my life, and another and another. It seems while convience,resonance, geographical desirability,or relocating seem to be a factor.
Now, I for some strange reason i have been dishing out nicknames. I designated my coworker’s only Daughter Pauline into “Puddin Pop” it just fit so well, so there it goes, a reason to give nick-names.
It is a term of endearment aquired by a special few, just ask “Lucky”(that can’t be his real name).
Sincerly “Sissy” “Mommy”, “Baby”, currently (due to relocating) “Vegas”, with a tatoo to match.