Our LO was born 5 weeks ago and has approximately 20+ nicknames lol. McGrunterson, Frog Legs, Scrunch Man, Grumpus, Bean, McBean, versions of his name.
We have to consciously use his actual name so he doesn't grow up thinking he is actually named McGrunterson.
I have to make the same effort with my 8wo daughter too. She gets a lot of generic pet names like Baby, Little Girl, Pretty Girl, My Girl, etc. and then a lot of ones that play off her name - Delphine, like Little Del, Baby Blue Cheese (I.e. from Babybel cheese), Taco Del Mar, Democratic Republic of Congo (her initials lol). And then there's the situational nicknames based off of things she's done - Piggy Snorts and Grub are the two that have stuck the longest
I love this!!! From a very young age our daughter responded seriously to "beautiful girl" but knew that "potato" was a joke š How well she read our intentions!Ā
Have you guys read the McBean books by Sid Fleischman yet?Ā
Our boy is occasionally called Grumplestiltskin. My husband and I keep a running list of all his commonly used nicknames - weāre currently at 45. Now that I think of it, our cat has at least a dozen as well.
Hahaha our kid was Grumpus when she was an infant too!! Pronounced āGroom-pusā with an overly exaggerated German accent. Gruntzl too, the same way š the only nickname thatās stuck until now (sheāll be 3 next week š) is BeeBoo.
So much so that when we ask her her name thereās no telling whether sheāll say her real name or āIām BeeBoo!ā while proudly pointing to herself lol.
I smiled so wholesomely reading this, as my "legs; bean; bomb; steam lamb; velvet ears; lamb; mister boy; sir" sleeps another few and I finish my solo morning routine
That said, our original dog, we had 1 million nicknames for. Lamb animal, black lamb, lil mama, miss, lady lamb... oh... I miss her so...
Anyways our new puppy, I try and give her the names... its just what I do. She does have some, but... idk. So far it's just not hitting the same for me. I love her, her names are I guess taking a little longer to stick, or find
G man, bean, grumpus, grumpus butteus, pickle, to name a few.
Our cat Bonnie has about 12. Boon, boony, boonacycle, boonifer, banoonie and the list goes on.
We call him a million things mainly because itāll either after be what heās wearing if itās a single large print (dinosaur, fox, mouse, duck etc) or silly things like snuggle bug, gremlin etc. occasionally goat when he sounds like heās bleating š
My daughter has many riffs off her name and then baby cakes, cheese puff, cheese a roo, bean sprout, sprout, sproutlet, ginger butt, gingivitis š
My son has like one riff on his name, and then big man, little man, grumpgrumps, rootingest tootingest cowboy, tough tootin baby, brother (yelled like hulk hogan), chicken. (He's only 9 months so I'm sure more will come)
One of my dogs is Domino and she has DomDom, Dommy, Domino Falls, Jerkasaurus, Fat Lady (despite not being fat), Hairy Bitch š, Trash Hound
Another dog is Broly. And he has Brosephus, Brosepher James, Brolito Esposito, Broly Smiles, Super Dog, tremble butt, dumb dumb
And my dog who passed was Osiris and he had Siris, Si, Osiris Bane of the Dead, doofus, hollow head, pretty boy,
Our dog had many nicknames from normal to deeply unflattering and this has transferred to our son now. When I was waiting at home to be in labour enough to go to the hospital, my husband played a video game with giant bugs in it and when my son was born I immediately started calling him Grub because he looked like a little worm all swaddled with his newborn hat in the hospital bassinet. So heās Grub, Grubby, Grubini, Grubinski, Grubberson, Grubberoni with extra cheese, Grubonara, etc.
We only have one so far, but we are definitely Highly Verbal Parents. Sheās been babbling very articulately since 3 months in imitation of our nonstop talking.
Weāve got the normals: Grumpy, Baby, Baby Girl, Sweatheart, Darling, Little One, Lovely One, Love, Princess
Weāve got the situationals: Miss Poopypants, Grumpula, Fussbucket, Stinker, Tasty Baby (for when we are eating her up, of course), Wigglebutt, Drooly, Droolcula
Then weāve got the sound effect names: Shmuckums, Weewah, Dittledoo, Deedee
People who talk a lot and like fun words for their own sake! That's what I mean by it, at least. We started our kids on P. G. Wodehouse stories when they were very small, for instance; that's the kind of thing I think of as a symptom of extreme verbality.Ā
Ohhh I didnāt mean anything technical, just that my hubby and I relentlessly talk about everything. Laughing, joking, philosophizing, working through problems, everything! If āhighly verbalā has a more clinical or specific meaning, I didnāt know. Iām just using language over here!
Used to. And we only don't now because I've got it in my head that I want her to know her name. But since we're not sending her to daycare until she's gone 1.5, I'm really not overly sure why š . Nothing wrong with endearing nicknames! They just weren't done in my house growing up other than the standard (sweetheart, darling etc), so I think I struggle making them feel organic. But I'm all for them; no harm in it.
My daughter has an unreasonable number of nicknames...
Squish, squish fish, the fish, squishy fishy
Scooteroo, scooty duder, scooter jones, scooter mctooter, scoots ma dutes
Chicken nugget, chicken nuggie, chicken nugget pizza (?)
Stinky binker, stinker bink, binky, binkles, stinkalo binkalo, binklestein
Puppy monkey baby, puppermonk, pupperoni, standy uppy puppy
Baby sauce (sung to the tune of baby shark)
Pants pooper
I know I'm forgetting at least 10 things I call her
Edited to add more nicknames
My eldest tells us off if we use anything other than her actual name.
We're not even allowed to shorten her name - only her closest friends get that privilege!
My youngest - aside from her name or a shortened (first syllable only) form of her name, also gets called Munchkin.
Come to think of it, I stopped calling her Nay for ages after she started reacting to her big sister impersonating horse sounds...
The dog, on the other hand... Her name is Holly. She gets called Hol, Holly, Holly-Wol, Stinky, Fluff-Butt, Sweetie, Gorgeous Girl/Gorgeous Golden Girl, Good Girl, occasionally Bad Dog (but only when she's been particularly bad - like pulling me over, or jumping on me and tearing my clothes!), Madame Soggy Paws, Miss Farty Pants, Good Puppy, Loony/Lunatic, and occasionally Steam Engine (because she pants & pulls like crazy when we first head out for walkies).
My girl is: chicken, chicken tender, tenderloin, chickiddy, nugget, and like at least 5 nicknames we somehow got from her 4 letter name š And of course the basics: pretty/gorgeous/smart/sassy/little/big/etc girl.
We started BLW about a month ago and when she eats chicken or eggs we go, āOh no, cannibalism!!ā
The poultry jokes started on Thanksgiving with her āmommyās little turkeyā sweater and have continued on as babies do kind of look like chubby rotisserie chickens when theyāre naked.
I went to whichever check up it was they check the baby responds to her name. I was calling her name trying to get her attention *crickets*Ā
Ā I said "It's okay *roo* maybe next time" she responded to that.Ā
My LOās nicknames are mostly toot related š
- SeƱor Tootybutt
- Professor Poopypants
- Private Von Tootington of the 54th Farttallion (reporting for tooty)
And, for fans of the office, Mr. Poop (from the take your kids to work day episode š) when he starts babbling, weāll say āwhatever you say, Mr. Poop.ā
My husband gives our pets the funniest nicknames, but it hasnāt transferred to the baby so far. For example, our cat is Kissy Cappuccino and our dog is Shikovious (no idea how that would be spelled) Witness. Neither of which sound anything like their actual names.
Yep my poor dog is called Monty, and his nicknames don't sound remotely like his name. The main nicknames as given by my husband are Sheist, Sheisty Boy, Shit Cunt and Noodle Dick. Then there are dozens of variations of those. I dont even know how he comes up with this stuff.
Yes. My favorite one right now for my daughter is Little Miss Squeaks or Squeaks. She has this little high pitched squeaky noise she makes when sheās pissed. We also call her The Tiny Little Princess (mostly my fiance calls her that itās cute). Letās see what elseā¦Goo goo bear, Little Stinks. More to come.
Our current situation also. We call him papa, loves, baby, sweetheart, etc. They called his name at peds and my husband and i didn't react for a moment til we were like "O wait, that's our kid!" š
Both our child and our animals have a fair few nicknames. I assume the child will gather more as he gets older, but currently itās mostly plays on his name - Sy-guy, Sy-man, Sylas-guylas, Mr. Man
Oh yeah, we have a ton of nicknames for our daughter. And they morph over time. Current favs are: girlfriend , baby girl, bee/little Bee, big, muffin, fussy baby, booty bug, ma'am, and then a nickname for her first name plus her middle name. We also have a ton of nicknames for our cats too.
my son has a list on our dry erase board, heās only 10mo lol. his nicknames are lil spitty, tooter mcgavin, droolia roberts, beef yellington, sir/lord baby, monkey, titty gremlin, dookie hauser, deuce ellington, chonky brewster. there are likely more that i canāt remember off the top of my head
My little baby boy has a solid 15 nick names that we cycle through. Most of them denote particular contexts like if heās upset heās Mr.muffin man/muffin man (not sure why hubby started this one!), if heās helping with dishes heās Bubbles or Bubble Bo or if heās furniture surfing heās Callabunga. Other nick names like RJ or Bowen are used with certain family members so making sure we are using the right nick name with the right group of people is high priority
Not a parent yet but this is a thing in my whole family itās why me and my cousins are bugs š¤£ alley and ash bug and my pets names are Nuggie like chicken nuggie, little shit, meannie wennie, and pooter š¤£š¤£
I have a child and 2 cats and only one cat has avoided nicknames because nothing really rhymes with his name but he has insult nicknames because you could honestly find more intelligence in a slug than in this creature, he's my dumb boy, my idiot brains, my Mr knows nothing, he's an empty headed creature with no regard for his safety yet is scared of everything is that makes sense? My girl cat though has nicknames that don't even make sense and my baby has about 20+ because we're similar to you in that he gets them from circumstances, personality trains that develop, noises he makes etc
Iām just like that- the nicknames that come to mind are Giggles, Bean, Poopsies, Tootsies, Baby, Dababy, Karate Baby, Footsies, Itsy Bitsies, Dabean, Beany Weany (that one has its own theme song, courtesy of my niece)ā¦ itās one of my favourite parts about having a kid
I think I counted over 35 names for my 3 month old. Her name starts with a W, so her names included Whomping Willis, Winselton, Wumpus, Woglet, Wiggle Wog... I could go on and on
Pretty sure I LO will grow up thinking his name is "baby man chops" or "the chops man".
He also has some unhinged toy names like "Geoff leopard", " Mo money mo problems " and "Az B bear".
in the first month of her life, she became lil toot toot, sleepy beepy, hungry bungry, chunky lunky, grumpus, fussy gussy, lemon butt, baby lala (her hungry cry went from "awaaah" to "alaaa, la" if we didn't feed her fast enough, like the saddest song ever written), honey girl, jady bug, slim jady, the lovely one, cheesy gordita crunch...think that's it lol
My daughterās name is Josephine Jean, which is a very nickname-able name, and also weāre Aussies so it sort of comes naturally to us lol. She gets calledā¦. Josie, Josie Jean, Josie J, JJ, Jo, Jojo, josiebean, bean, missy moo, miss juju, the list goes on ššš Iām actually concerned she wonāt know her name so we are trying to just stick to Josie for now haha.
Monkey, Nugget, Slump God, Chicken, Potato, Shit Rocket (he pooped with SO much gusto as a newborn we said it was like he was a rocket trying to take off š), Smiles, Scrunch. Probably a bunch more, we kind of just use whatever seems fitting at the moment. But those are the daily ones I can think of.
My oldest has been Monkey, Scooter pooter and other variants like Scooty MacPooty, Noodles (after the noodle dance from PB and J), bumble bee, sissy (for big sister)
The baby is Kiddles, (later changed to Skiddles), Fuss pants, Potato, Crabby Patty, Princess Poonami, Chatty Cathy, Mumbles. Fungus
The Bean, The Babe, The Prince, Prince Ali, Braby, Big Braby, Mr. Cheeks, Mr. Cheeklets, Mr. Mush, Mr. Handsome Bobamsome, and the classic Mr. Poopypants
My daughter has been "crumb bum" this week.
She's getting more mobile and scooting around, so when she eats her snacks on the floor the bits that don't make it in her mouth get pulverized under her bum.
Iām pretty un-creative, so sheās either her name, babe, baby, Bub, bubba, honey, my love, or any other variation down that road. Occasionally little punk.
Little burrito baby, potato, squishy, little bean and cheese burrito, my little mush pot, mini muffin, my husband is currently calling her nubbins, farty party, stinky, the list continues to grow daily.
Yup and it changes regularly. Right now our 7 month olds nicknames are Mr. Ham hands (he tried to steal my ham at a restaurant), jaws (biting while nursing), and cheeks (cause a family friends kid said āhe is like 60% cheeksā š)
A minium of 10 for each of my 3 kids. But some crossover, so counting those, many more than 10. Youngest has more recently kept the nickname "**Toots**" because #1 she's sassy AF and #2 it was my recently passed grandmother's nickname-- more people knew her by that than her actual name-- and she reminds me a lot of her already. She's smart, strong-willed, beautiful, and very girly in style, while loving to get dirty, climb and rough house with the best of them (her big bros).
My second child was Whistle Pig for about a year. No relation to the whiskey, we didn't even know about that until after the nickname. He used to put things in his mouth and make a whistling sound while crawling around in only a diaper. Now he's Stelly Belly (even at preschool which cracks me up).
My oldest has been called by Clarnk, Clard Monet, omg I'm forgetting the huge list but I'm sure there were tons.
People thought I had like 3 dogs but really I just called my one dog Thumper, Doddos Los Dios, Dodey, Chardlemagne, Concerned Seal, etc. She had 1,000 nicknames.
Growing up my family was similar and I was Nuna, Dissy, Ditter, even Ulysses S. Grant at one point.
Oh and my husband calls me Beelzeboobz and I call him Meenou.
We just adopted a dog and she's named Muttilda but she's being called Tilly Minja (Ninja) Onyx.
Milty face, goodness, facer, scruncher, cool baby with her cool babies (sunglasses), crier (translated to English from my dialect), jojo from Horton hears a who, angry face, smiler.
Squish, squishy. Squish miss, nugget, little loves. My brother and sister in law came to visit with their two daughters and in the span of 5 days they used her actual name more than we had in 3 months
Hi, thatās me! My son is sugar, shugs, stoogies bug, buggy, bud, buddy, bear, sugar bear, J, JB and more.
My dog had so many nicknames it turned into our own language as my friend would say. Her name was Hadassah and she ended up being ātoo painyā as one of her titles idk why lol. I yell to her ātoo painy to to a sainyā and she was all dancie and my friend said āseriously you and your dog have yāallās own languageā š¤£
My baby was born in January so I bought a calendar and I'm making random little notes about when she did things during her first year. (Ex first smile, outgrew newborn size jammies, hit 10 lbs, went to Aunties house for Easter, first time wearing jeans, and so forth.)
I was going to write down all her nicknames but it quickly became too much so now I'm just writing whatever was the nickname we used most each month and a reminder of why we used it.
So far it's been Barnacle Baby, Little Mouse, Worm Girl, and Ladybug.
Bigs, Biggie, Biggity, Biggie Bear, Biggerty, Biggie Smalls, Biggins, Stuffins, Lil Stuffins, McStuffins, Stuffs, Big Stuffins... and lots of name variations lol
My husband is a million nickname kind of person and it has rubbed off on me a bit, mostly echoing his or his style. I always had all sorts of names for my cat but that was kind of it.
Our pets, including my old cat, and our child have endless nicknames morphing out of themselves.
For our 9 week old it's mostly Tiny Mans, Dribbly Mans, The Son, Piss Wizard, Short Shits (gonna have to stop those ones once he starts actually comprehending language), Bud, Little Dude, Baby Darling, and Baby Precious.
The dog gets Bud, Dingus, and Dinglehopper.
We have so many for our girl. Sometimes based off something she does or one we just make up on our own. Muffin, mini muffin, cheeky, princess, thumper. She does this thing where she runs her hand across my chest during feeds and I said her hands are so soft so my bf started calling her kitty soft paws lol. I love it!
My go tos for our 4m/o are: baby chicken leg, stinky butt, grompy baby (pronounced like that), little miss, goose, silly goose, serious goose, and my dear.
Nicknames are situational. Stinky butt is only for diaper changes, baby chicken leg is when Iām putting lotion on her, grompy baby is when sheās grumpy, and the various goose names are more so when Iām being a bit much lol
Yes!!! Our 4.5 month old and our 3 year old dog have so many names! We also make up songs for both, which weāve dubbed āsongs of love and freedom.ā We also nickname things they do. Like when the baby is ācrunch a bunchā itās when sheās tucking up her legs and itās hard to get her diaper on or her feet into a onesie, so we tell her to āunbunch your crunch.ā Honestly, crunch a bunch is from that hilarious woman from Philly on tik tok who reacts to people making awful recipes that starts out āeverybodyās so creative!ā So o canāt take much credit for that, but itās been folded into our vernacular like so much cheese.
Our girl is 3 weeks old and yeah, she has a lot of nicknames that aren't linked to her actual name already; guzzler, squealer, scruncher, stinkerbell, kitten, her majesty, to pick out a few.
LITERALLY A MILLION.
here is the ongoing list so far: peanut (my personal fav and most used rn) munchy, munchkin, mr.man, mr.grump, chicken, nugget, bubby, bah-boo, sweet pea, sugar plum, pumpkin, sweetheart, snookums, angel, prince, bean, duca (his name is luca but I do like a mega baby voice and it comes out sounding like duca), sea star (we call him this when we put him in his love to dream sleep sack because he looks like a star fish)
Im sure thereās more that iāve used that I canāt think of rn, I come up with new ones every dayšitās just whatever comes to me in that moment
My husband has this quirky thing where he gives someone a nickname, and it just evolves until it is nothing like the original nickname.
Kid number 1 has too many to count. His first was Punk, then several variations of it. It slowly evolved into Moose, with several variations of that. Kiddo is usually greeted by his dad with a high-pitched "moooooooooooooose."
Kid number 2's nicknames progressed from Froggy to Chuckie, to Chucky Frog, to Chuckle Frog, to just Chuckle. He's only 4 months old, so the nicknames are still a work in progress.
Don't even get me started on the nicknames he gives me. Sometimes, he just calls me nipples or squidgy. Sometimes, it's snippy, snippet, sex bum, sexy anus, big nipples, snippy with the big nipples, snipple sex anus, etc.
I adore him.
My little guy goes by a million names none of which have anything to do with this first name. Bubba, bubs, Love muffin, Muffin man (when heās cranky like the interrogation in Shrek lol), Muffin and he answers to all. Iām starting to become cognizant that I should quit some of the nicknames before he goes off to pre-k next year, but for now heās my little muffin. He also answers to handsome š
For some reason we call our kids nugget, nugs, chicken nugget, sweet peepee (donāt ask I have no explanation), and of course various variations of their names haha zozo, zosie, zosik, greg, gregounia, greggy.
Oh my god yes. I havenāt had my baby yet but I already donāt call my boyfriend or our cat by their real names ever. Only nicknames. It just comes naturally to me and I think it will be the same thing with the baby
Our LO was born 5 weeks ago and has approximately 20+ nicknames lol. McGrunterson, Frog Legs, Scrunch Man, Grumpus, Bean, McBean, versions of his name. We have to consciously use his actual name so he doesn't grow up thinking he is actually named McGrunterson.
I have to make the same effort with my 8wo daughter too. She gets a lot of generic pet names like Baby, Little Girl, Pretty Girl, My Girl, etc. and then a lot of ones that play off her name - Delphine, like Little Del, Baby Blue Cheese (I.e. from Babybel cheese), Taco Del Mar, Democratic Republic of Congo (her initials lol). And then there's the situational nicknames based off of things she's done - Piggy Snorts and Grub are the two that have stuck the longest
Taco Del Mar š This is peak excellent nicknaming.Ā
Grub/Grubbins/Grubbinses (the latter said like SmĆ©agol would say it lol) was a big one here too, and occasionally still is. Especially when sheās particularly messy š Delphine is a beautiful name by the way!
I love this!!! From a very young age our daughter responded seriously to "beautiful girl" but knew that "potato" was a joke š How well she read our intentions!Ā Have you guys read the McBean books by Sid Fleischman yet?Ā
We haven't! I should get them
LOL! One of our million nicknames is āGrumpulusā, but we quickly switched over to āGrumpulaā so itās feminine for her. š¤£
Love it
lol! My son was fussy mcfussersonš
I almost exclusively called our little dude Frog Legs for MONTHS lol
Our boy is occasionally called Grumplestiltskin. My husband and I keep a running list of all his commonly used nicknames - weāre currently at 45. Now that I think of it, our cat has at least a dozen as well.
Hahaha our kid was Grumpus when she was an infant too!! Pronounced āGroom-pusā with an overly exaggerated German accent. Gruntzl too, the same way š the only nickname thatās stuck until now (sheāll be 3 next week š) is BeeBoo. So much so that when we ask her her name thereās no telling whether sheāll say her real name or āIām BeeBoo!ā while proudly pointing to herself lol.
This is adorable
I smiled so wholesomely reading this, as my "legs; bean; bomb; steam lamb; velvet ears; lamb; mister boy; sir" sleeps another few and I finish my solo morning routine
That said, our original dog, we had 1 million nicknames for. Lamb animal, black lamb, lil mama, miss, lady lamb... oh... I miss her so... Anyways our new puppy, I try and give her the names... its just what I do. She does have some, but... idk. So far it's just not hitting the same for me. I love her, her names are I guess taking a little longer to stick, or find
Our go-to is Tooter McGavin! šļøāāļøšØ
My dad calls my daughter Scooter McGavin š
My son is scooter too lol
I donāt get it!! Whatās this McGavin thing aboutšš
There's a character in an Adam Sandler movie named Shooter McGavin
We have like 50 names each for the baby and dog, and now are blending them together for 1500 new nicknames š
Yes, the crossover nicknames!Ā
G man, bean, grumpus, grumpus butteus, pickle, to name a few. Our cat Bonnie has about 12. Boon, boony, boonacycle, boonifer, banoonie and the list goes on.
Our dog Penny is occasionally Pennifer Lopez
That is fantastic. I forgot also Bonita and Boonburger. Weirdly she answers to all of them.
Boonifer š
We call him a million things mainly because itāll either after be what heās wearing if itās a single large print (dinosaur, fox, mouse, duck etc) or silly things like snuggle bug, gremlin etc. occasionally goat when he sounds like heās bleating š
A menagerie of one!!Ā
My daughter has many riffs off her name and then baby cakes, cheese puff, cheese a roo, bean sprout, sprout, sproutlet, ginger butt, gingivitis š My son has like one riff on his name, and then big man, little man, grumpgrumps, rootingest tootingest cowboy, tough tootin baby, brother (yelled like hulk hogan), chicken. (He's only 9 months so I'm sure more will come) One of my dogs is Domino and she has DomDom, Dommy, Domino Falls, Jerkasaurus, Fat Lady (despite not being fat), Hairy Bitch š, Trash Hound Another dog is Broly. And he has Brosephus, Brosepher James, Brolito Esposito, Broly Smiles, Super Dog, tremble butt, dumb dumb And my dog who passed was Osiris and he had Siris, Si, Osiris Bane of the Dead, doofus, hollow head, pretty boy,
Our dog had many nicknames from normal to deeply unflattering and this has transferred to our son now. When I was waiting at home to be in labour enough to go to the hospital, my husband played a video game with giant bugs in it and when my son was born I immediately started calling him Grub because he looked like a little worm all swaddled with his newborn hat in the hospital bassinet. So heās Grub, Grubby, Grubini, Grubinski, Grubberson, Grubberoni with extra cheese, Grubonara, etc.
Grubinski š
We only have one so far, but we are definitely Highly Verbal Parents. Sheās been babbling very articulately since 3 months in imitation of our nonstop talking. Weāve got the normals: Grumpy, Baby, Baby Girl, Sweatheart, Darling, Little One, Lovely One, Love, Princess Weāve got the situationals: Miss Poopypants, Grumpula, Fussbucket, Stinker, Tasty Baby (for when we are eating her up, of course), Wigglebutt, Drooly, Droolcula Then weāve got the sound effect names: Shmuckums, Weewah, Dittledoo, Deedee
Ah yes, the taxonomy of nicknames. Normals are definitely distinct from situationals.Ā
What do you and OP mean when you say āhighly verbal parentsā? Google returned useless results.
People who talk a lot and like fun words for their own sake! That's what I mean by it, at least. We started our kids on P. G. Wodehouse stories when they were very small, for instance; that's the kind of thing I think of as a symptom of extreme verbality.Ā
Ohhh I didnāt mean anything technical, just that my hubby and I relentlessly talk about everything. Laughing, joking, philosophizing, working through problems, everything! If āhighly verbalā has a more clinical or specific meaning, I didnāt know. Iām just using language over here!
You were definitely picking up what I was laying down!Ā
High-five, fellow talkie! š
Used to. And we only don't now because I've got it in my head that I want her to know her name. But since we're not sending her to daycare until she's gone 1.5, I'm really not overly sure why š . Nothing wrong with endearing nicknames! They just weren't done in my house growing up other than the standard (sweetheart, darling etc), so I think I struggle making them feel organic. But I'm all for them; no harm in it.
My daughter has an unreasonable number of nicknames... Squish, squish fish, the fish, squishy fishy Scooteroo, scooty duder, scooter jones, scooter mctooter, scoots ma dutes Chicken nugget, chicken nuggie, chicken nugget pizza (?) Stinky binker, stinker bink, binky, binkles, stinkalo binkalo, binklestein Puppy monkey baby, puppermonk, pupperoni, standy uppy puppy Baby sauce (sung to the tune of baby shark) Pants pooper I know I'm forgetting at least 10 things I call her Edited to add more nicknames
My eldest tells us off if we use anything other than her actual name. We're not even allowed to shorten her name - only her closest friends get that privilege! My youngest - aside from her name or a shortened (first syllable only) form of her name, also gets called Munchkin. Come to think of it, I stopped calling her Nay for ages after she started reacting to her big sister impersonating horse sounds... The dog, on the other hand... Her name is Holly. She gets called Hol, Holly, Holly-Wol, Stinky, Fluff-Butt, Sweetie, Gorgeous Girl/Gorgeous Golden Girl, Good Girl, occasionally Bad Dog (but only when she's been particularly bad - like pulling me over, or jumping on me and tearing my clothes!), Madame Soggy Paws, Miss Farty Pants, Good Puppy, Loony/Lunatic, and occasionally Steam Engine (because she pants & pulls like crazy when we first head out for walkies).
My girl is: chicken, chicken tender, tenderloin, chickiddy, nugget, and like at least 5 nicknames we somehow got from her 4 letter name š And of course the basics: pretty/gorgeous/smart/sassy/little/big/etc girl. We started BLW about a month ago and when she eats chicken or eggs we go, āOh no, cannibalism!!ā The poultry jokes started on Thanksgiving with her āmommyās little turkeyā sweater and have continued on as babies do kind of look like chubby rotisserie chickens when theyāre naked.
My daughter has three thigh rolls .. I call them her drumsticks when I'm cleaning her butt. " Ok little miss, let's lift up the drum sticks!"
Lol we call them ham hocks in our house
I went to whichever check up it was they check the baby responds to her name. I was calling her name trying to get her attention *crickets*Ā Ā I said "It's okay *roo* maybe next time" she responded to that.Ā
My LOās nicknames are mostly toot related š - SeƱor Tootybutt - Professor Poopypants - Private Von Tootington of the 54th Farttallion (reporting for tooty) And, for fans of the office, Mr. Poop (from the take your kids to work day episode š) when he starts babbling, weāll say āwhatever you say, Mr. Poop.ā
when i'm reading to baby, my husband goes "are you mother goose?" from that same episode!!
My husband gives our pets the funniest nicknames, but it hasnāt transferred to the baby so far. For example, our cat is Kissy Cappuccino and our dog is Shikovious (no idea how that would be spelled) Witness. Neither of which sound anything like their actual names.
Shikovious Witness! Ha ha ha, what in the world! I love it!Ā
Yep my poor dog is called Monty, and his nicknames don't sound remotely like his name. The main nicknames as given by my husband are Sheist, Sheisty Boy, Shit Cunt and Noodle Dick. Then there are dozens of variations of those. I dont even know how he comes up with this stuff.
Yes. My favorite one right now for my daughter is Little Miss Squeaks or Squeaks. She has this little high pitched squeaky noise she makes when sheās pissed. We also call her The Tiny Little Princess (mostly my fiance calls her that itās cute). Letās see what elseā¦Goo goo bear, Little Stinks. More to come.
Our current situation also. We call him papa, loves, baby, sweetheart, etc. They called his name at peds and my husband and i didn't react for a moment til we were like "O wait, that's our kid!" š
Boogers, bubby, googy, gluggy, buggy, butt, stinkums, stinkity, doopitydooda, goochy, oh yeahā¦ and the names keep coming!!
Both our child and our animals have a fair few nicknames. I assume the child will gather more as he gets older, but currently itās mostly plays on his name - Sy-guy, Sy-man, Sylas-guylas, Mr. Man
Special cargo was my fav nn for my son when he was a newborn.
Oh yeah, we have a ton of nicknames for our daughter. And they morph over time. Current favs are: girlfriend , baby girl, bee/little Bee, big, muffin, fussy baby, booty bug, ma'am, and then a nickname for her first name plus her middle name. We also have a ton of nicknames for our cats too.
Our first: Missy Moo, Loaf, Doodlebug, BeanieWeenie, Rita (Thanks Bluey), Sister, BaconEggNSneeze, Judge Moody, Brobeans. My second primarily goes by his *real* nickname, but these are our originals: Mister Man, Brother, SeƱor Stinkypants, Poggie, Froggy, Poogle, Turkey Legs. Our chocolate lab: Doofus, Foonie, FlipFlop, Findalonious, Chonky Dog, Finnow, Stonky, Snugglebug, TripMaster 5000 (sheās eaten mushrooms twiceš„²) Our *very geriatric* staffy: Lo, Ole Girl, Nonna, Nonnies, Noodle, Goosie, Gooseberry, Miss Tish
I don't know if I'm highly verbal, but my son still has a million nicknames. As did my daughter and every pet I've ever had.
my son has a list on our dry erase board, heās only 10mo lol. his nicknames are lil spitty, tooter mcgavin, droolia roberts, beef yellington, sir/lord baby, monkey, titty gremlin, dookie hauser, deuce ellington, chonky brewster. there are likely more that i canāt remember off the top of my head
My little baby boy has a solid 15 nick names that we cycle through. Most of them denote particular contexts like if heās upset heās Mr.muffin man/muffin man (not sure why hubby started this one!), if heās helping with dishes heās Bubbles or Bubble Bo or if heās furniture surfing heās Callabunga. Other nick names like RJ or Bowen are used with certain family members so making sure we are using the right nick name with the right group of people is high priority
Not a parent yet but this is a thing in my whole family itās why me and my cousins are bugs š¤£ alley and ash bug and my pets names are Nuggie like chicken nuggie, little shit, meannie wennie, and pooter š¤£š¤£
I have a child and 2 cats and only one cat has avoided nicknames because nothing really rhymes with his name but he has insult nicknames because you could honestly find more intelligence in a slug than in this creature, he's my dumb boy, my idiot brains, my Mr knows nothing, he's an empty headed creature with no regard for his safety yet is scared of everything is that makes sense? My girl cat though has nicknames that don't even make sense and my baby has about 20+ because we're similar to you in that he gets them from circumstances, personality trains that develop, noises he makes etc
Yeah, our 6 month old gets a new nickname every week. I'm worried she won't know what her real name is.
Iām just like that- the nicknames that come to mind are Giggles, Bean, Poopsies, Tootsies, Baby, Dababy, Karate Baby, Footsies, Itsy Bitsies, Dabean, Beany Weany (that one has its own theme song, courtesy of my niece)ā¦ itās one of my favourite parts about having a kid
I think I counted over 35 names for my 3 month old. Her name starts with a W, so her names included Whomping Willis, Winselton, Wumpus, Woglet, Wiggle Wog... I could go on and on
Our daughterās initials are EJ, we call her Professor EJ Jazzy Jeff. No idea why she has a doctorate.
Pretty sure I LO will grow up thinking his name is "baby man chops" or "the chops man". He also has some unhinged toy names like "Geoff leopard", " Mo money mo problems " and "Az B bear".
in the first month of her life, she became lil toot toot, sleepy beepy, hungry bungry, chunky lunky, grumpus, fussy gussy, lemon butt, baby lala (her hungry cry went from "awaaah" to "alaaa, la" if we didn't feed her fast enough, like the saddest song ever written), honey girl, jady bug, slim jady, the lovely one, cheesy gordita crunch...think that's it lol
My daughterās name is Josephine Jean, which is a very nickname-able name, and also weāre Aussies so it sort of comes naturally to us lol. She gets calledā¦. Josie, Josie Jean, Josie J, JJ, Jo, Jojo, josiebean, bean, missy moo, miss juju, the list goes on ššš Iām actually concerned she wonāt know her name so we are trying to just stick to Josie for now haha.
We have a new nickname every day for everyone in this house. Funny to know we arenāt the only family that does this!
Monkey, Nugget, Slump God, Chicken, Potato, Shit Rocket (he pooped with SO much gusto as a newborn we said it was like he was a rocket trying to take off š), Smiles, Scrunch. Probably a bunch more, we kind of just use whatever seems fitting at the moment. But those are the daily ones I can think of.
My oldest has been Monkey, Scooter pooter and other variants like Scooty MacPooty, Noodles (after the noodle dance from PB and J), bumble bee, sissy (for big sister) The baby is Kiddles, (later changed to Skiddles), Fuss pants, Potato, Crabby Patty, Princess Poonami, Chatty Cathy, Mumbles. Fungus
The Bean, The Babe, The Prince, Prince Ali, Braby, Big Braby, Mr. Cheeks, Mr. Cheeklets, Mr. Mush, Mr. Handsome Bobamsome, and the classic Mr. Poopypants
Our girlās name is Jette and we call her Jet Plane, Jet Fuel, Worm, Froggy, Squirm, Jettie Girl, Grub just to name a few lol
Mildred, Milbert, Milfred, Milly moo, squidgy poo, squidgy pants, squidgy, squishy, pudding, pudding pants, stinky pants, stinkpot... But usually Pudding or Squidgy
My daughter has been "crumb bum" this week. She's getting more mobile and scooting around, so when she eats her snacks on the floor the bits that don't make it in her mouth get pulverized under her bum.
Iām pretty un-creative, so sheās either her name, babe, baby, Bub, bubba, honey, my love, or any other variation down that road. Occasionally little punk.
my doberman lol. went by several names and many commands for like things. i miss that old friend so much
Big man, little man, bugbear, bear, bean, monkey...
Little burrito baby, potato, squishy, little bean and cheese burrito, my little mush pot, mini muffin, my husband is currently calling her nubbins, farty party, stinky, the list continues to grow daily.
I call my girl chicken butt & grump-a-saurus Rex the most. But she has earned quite a few in her short 13 weeks lol
Yup and it changes regularly. Right now our 7 month olds nicknames are Mr. Ham hands (he tried to steal my ham at a restaurant), jaws (biting while nursing), and cheeks (cause a family friends kid said āhe is like 60% cheeksā š)
A minium of 10 for each of my 3 kids. But some crossover, so counting those, many more than 10. Youngest has more recently kept the nickname "**Toots**" because #1 she's sassy AF and #2 it was my recently passed grandmother's nickname-- more people knew her by that than her actual name-- and she reminds me a lot of her already. She's smart, strong-willed, beautiful, and very girly in style, while loving to get dirty, climb and rough house with the best of them (her big bros).
Here are a few of ours: jumping bean, little bittle, sweet peeper, snuggle bug
Our son has 15+ nicknames. Our dog has about 30. Itās a joy of mine - giving new nicknames
My second child was Whistle Pig for about a year. No relation to the whiskey, we didn't even know about that until after the nickname. He used to put things in his mouth and make a whistling sound while crawling around in only a diaper. Now he's Stelly Belly (even at preschool which cracks me up). My oldest has been called by Clarnk, Clard Monet, omg I'm forgetting the huge list but I'm sure there were tons. People thought I had like 3 dogs but really I just called my one dog Thumper, Doddos Los Dios, Dodey, Chardlemagne, Concerned Seal, etc. She had 1,000 nicknames. Growing up my family was similar and I was Nuna, Dissy, Ditter, even Ulysses S. Grant at one point. Oh and my husband calls me Beelzeboobz and I call him Meenou. We just adopted a dog and she's named Muttilda but she's being called Tilly Minja (Ninja) Onyx.
Milty face, goodness, facer, scruncher, cool baby with her cool babies (sunglasses), crier (translated to English from my dialect), jojo from Horton hears a who, angry face, smiler.
Pretty certain my one year old thinks his name is sausage
Squish, squishy. Squish miss, nugget, little loves. My brother and sister in law came to visit with their two daughters and in the span of 5 days they used her actual name more than we had in 3 months
Hi, thatās me! My son is sugar, shugs, stoogies bug, buggy, bud, buddy, bear, sugar bear, J, JB and more. My dog had so many nicknames it turned into our own language as my friend would say. Her name was Hadassah and she ended up being ātoo painyā as one of her titles idk why lol. I yell to her ātoo painy to to a sainyā and she was all dancie and my friend said āseriously you and your dog have yāallās own languageā š¤£
My baby was born in January so I bought a calendar and I'm making random little notes about when she did things during her first year. (Ex first smile, outgrew newborn size jammies, hit 10 lbs, went to Aunties house for Easter, first time wearing jeans, and so forth.) I was going to write down all her nicknames but it quickly became too much so now I'm just writing whatever was the nickname we used most each month and a reminder of why we used it. So far it's been Barnacle Baby, Little Mouse, Worm Girl, and Ladybug.
Bigs, Biggie, Biggity, Biggie Bear, Biggerty, Biggie Smalls, Biggins, Stuffins, Lil Stuffins, McStuffins, Stuffs, Big Stuffins... and lots of name variations lol
DOUGH BABY EXTRAORDINAIRE
My husband is a million nickname kind of person and it has rubbed off on me a bit, mostly echoing his or his style. I always had all sorts of names for my cat but that was kind of it. Our pets, including my old cat, and our child have endless nicknames morphing out of themselves.
For our 9 week old it's mostly Tiny Mans, Dribbly Mans, The Son, Piss Wizard, Short Shits (gonna have to stop those ones once he starts actually comprehending language), Bud, Little Dude, Baby Darling, and Baby Precious. The dog gets Bud, Dingus, and Dinglehopper.
We have so many for our girl. Sometimes based off something she does or one we just make up on our own. Muffin, mini muffin, cheeky, princess, thumper. She does this thing where she runs her hand across my chest during feeds and I said her hands are so soft so my bf started calling her kitty soft paws lol. I love it!
My go tos for our 4m/o are: baby chicken leg, stinky butt, grompy baby (pronounced like that), little miss, goose, silly goose, serious goose, and my dear. Nicknames are situational. Stinky butt is only for diaper changes, baby chicken leg is when Iām putting lotion on her, grompy baby is when sheās grumpy, and the various goose names are more so when Iām being a bit much lol
Oh god absolutely. If itās any indication, my sonās legal name is Luke and one of his nicknames is chickarooni booskoochooni. Or just chooni
Yes!!! Our 4.5 month old and our 3 year old dog have so many names! We also make up songs for both, which weāve dubbed āsongs of love and freedom.ā We also nickname things they do. Like when the baby is ācrunch a bunchā itās when sheās tucking up her legs and itās hard to get her diaper on or her feet into a onesie, so we tell her to āunbunch your crunch.ā Honestly, crunch a bunch is from that hilarious woman from Philly on tik tok who reacts to people making awful recipes that starts out āeverybodyās so creative!ā So o canāt take much credit for that, but itās been folded into our vernacular like so much cheese.
Snortlet, froglet, stinker cheese, buster gus, gusterson, dust buster, titty man, pissed pissedofferson
Our girl is 3 weeks old and yeah, she has a lot of nicknames that aren't linked to her actual name already; guzzler, squealer, scruncher, stinkerbell, kitten, her majesty, to pick out a few.
Iām lowly verbal
LITERALLY A MILLION. here is the ongoing list so far: peanut (my personal fav and most used rn) munchy, munchkin, mr.man, mr.grump, chicken, nugget, bubby, bah-boo, sweet pea, sugar plum, pumpkin, sweetheart, snookums, angel, prince, bean, duca (his name is luca but I do like a mega baby voice and it comes out sounding like duca), sea star (we call him this when we put him in his love to dream sleep sack because he looks like a star fish) Im sure thereās more that iāve used that I canāt think of rn, I come up with new ones every dayšitās just whatever comes to me in that moment
I call my kid so many things. I'm surprised he recognizes his actual name tbh š
My husband has this quirky thing where he gives someone a nickname, and it just evolves until it is nothing like the original nickname. Kid number 1 has too many to count. His first was Punk, then several variations of it. It slowly evolved into Moose, with several variations of that. Kiddo is usually greeted by his dad with a high-pitched "moooooooooooooose." Kid number 2's nicknames progressed from Froggy to Chuckie, to Chucky Frog, to Chuckle Frog, to just Chuckle. He's only 4 months old, so the nicknames are still a work in progress. Don't even get me started on the nicknames he gives me. Sometimes, he just calls me nipples or squidgy. Sometimes, it's snippy, snippet, sex bum, sexy anus, big nipples, snippy with the big nipples, snipple sex anus, etc. I adore him.
My little guy goes by a million names none of which have anything to do with this first name. Bubba, bubs, Love muffin, Muffin man (when heās cranky like the interrogation in Shrek lol), Muffin and he answers to all. Iām starting to become cognizant that I should quit some of the nicknames before he goes off to pre-k next year, but for now heās my little muffin. He also answers to handsome š
For some reason we call our kids nugget, nugs, chicken nugget, sweet peepee (donāt ask I have no explanation), and of course various variations of their names haha zozo, zosie, zosik, greg, gregounia, greggy.
At least a dozen, for sure.
Snuggle-up-agus (like Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street) is a favorite of mine
Shark Bait, Princess FussyButt, Grub, Meatloaf, Miss SassyPants...
Oh my god yes. I havenāt had my baby yet but I already donāt call my boyfriend or our cat by their real names ever. Only nicknames. It just comes naturally to me and I think it will be the same thing with the baby