# Fetus Nicknames **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 15, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489 "2011-04-15T15:08:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/1 "2011-04-15T15:08:46Z")
I am currently about 9 weeks pregnant and, as it turns out, so is a good friend of mine who lives across the country. Since we got pregnant a couple of days apart we’ve been emailing back and forth about all of the pregnancy related hoopla going on in our lives and we’ve each given our fetus a nickname until we can find out genders and come up with legitimate baby names. She has nicknamed her fetus Squiggle due to the shape on the ultrasound. I have nicknamed my fetus Steve McQueen (from the 1963 movie The Great Escape) because the fetus is in there planning it’s very own great escape and because it reminds me of [Eddie Izzard.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YExetXLMPQY) After thinking about it I realized that most of the people I know who’ve had a baby have nicknamed their fetus in some way, whether it was referred to as Tiny Pirate (as it had boarded her ship without her permission) or Parasite or any number of things in between. This got me wondering what other hilarious nicknames people have given to their unborn. Did you give your fetus a nickname and, if so, what was it? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/2 "2011-04-15T15:19:05Z")
Since you have no details I don’t know where you are from but I have never heard of anything like this in Australia. What happens when someone miscarries? “Ahoy, Tiny Pirate was scuttled.” or “At last I am Parasite free.” Sounds tacky almost beyond belief to me. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/3 "2011-04-15T15:20:02Z")
Bump. No, not the thread, the fetus. She was Bump, for obvious reasons when you consider the waistline. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/4 "2011-04-15T15:21:14Z")
Festus would be a good one. Beats Ms. Kitty. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/5 "2011-04-15T15:24:25Z")
We called my first one “Enrique”. I don’t remember how it started, but it made me giggle. I was hormonal, after all. It’s better than “it”. And of course, were I to have miscarried, no one would be making stupid jokes about the name. Why would we? ---
**Author:** ![maisoui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@maisoui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maisoui)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/6 "2011-04-15T15:25:36Z")
Ah, hell, who’s going to bother to look me up?.. Our last name is McFarland, so our baby was "Spanky, " for Spanky McFarland from the Little Rascals. Our second one was “the littlest McFarland.” ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/7 "2011-04-15T15:33:27Z")
We called one The Whippersnapper. I don’t remember exactly how that came about. My favorite, though, was a friend who called hers Otis, as in Otis the Foetus. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/8 "2011-04-15T15:38:59Z")
First, I called her Basmati, because she was about the size of a grain of rice. When she got bigger, we started calling her Peanut. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/9 "2011-04-15T15:43:19Z")
I drove a friend to her ultrasound, and she had nicknamed her fetus “Sprog”. The technician said nicknames were pretty common, and lots of people, like the Torques, used “Peanut”. ---
**Author:** ![DivineComedienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c67d28/32.png) [@DivineComedienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DivineComedienne)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/10 "2011-04-15T15:51:09Z")
My first son was nicknamed in utero as “Elvis”. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/11 "2011-04-15T15:52:03Z")
My sister’s due in June, and she’s calling him The Skipper. ---
**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/12 "2011-04-15T15:57:08Z")
Tadpole, due to similarity of appearance. Fortunately the resemblance faded. ---
**Author:** ![Sudo\_Intellectual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sudo\_Intellectual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudo_Intellectual)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/13 "2011-04-15T16:13:15Z")
For my nephew we called him Itsy - because at the time we didn’t know whether he was a boy or a girl. My good friend jokingly referred to his unborn son as Thor, now we all won’t let that go! (Much to his mom’s dismay). ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/14 "2011-04-15T16:15:35Z")
Before he was born, our first son was “Hermione”. Well, we had to give him a name, we didn’t know if he was a boy or a girl, and we gave him a name that we knew we wouldn’t use after he/she was born. However, we didn’t bother with our other three children. ---
**Author:** ![Elysium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Elysium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysium)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/15 "2011-04-15T16:52:38Z")
We called ours Bean, even after we found out the gender and settled on a name. There was a lot of “Geez, Bean, stop punching my hipbone!” I want to get him a Bean Bunny plush from the Muppets. Now that he’s out in the world we’ve moved to calling him Butt, as in "well then don’t hit yourself in the face with your mallet toy, Butt! ---
**Author:** ![dawson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@dawson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dawson)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/16 "2011-04-15T17:34:52Z")
I liked Cletus but for some reason my wife wouldn’t go for it 😕 ---
**Author:** ![QuarkChild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c5a1d2/32.png) [@QuarkChild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuarkChild)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/17 "2011-04-15T17:37:55Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Since you have no details I don’t know where you are from but I have never heard of anything like this in Australia. > > What happens when someone miscarries? > > “Ahoy, Tiny Pirate was scuttled.” > > or > > “At last I am Parasite free.” > > Sounds tacky almost beyond belief to me. This happened to couple who named their fetus “Pudding.” They miscarried and wrote a book about it called “An Exact Replica of a Figment of my Imagination.” Everything in the book was Pudding-this and Pudding-that. It does seem a bit weird to me, but to each his own. ---
**Author:** ![Boggette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@Boggette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boggette)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/18 "2011-04-15T17:38:35Z")
Mine was Zy. Short for Zygote. ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/19 "2011-04-15T17:48:16Z")
A friend of mine called hers Alien. Which was cute enough while he was inside, but the kid is now almost three and everyone in their family still calls him that. I find that annoying - you gave him a real name, why don’t you use it? I swear this kid doesn’t even know what his name actually is. ---
**Author:** ![Soliloquy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Soliloquy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soliloquy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/20 "2011-04-15T17:54:01Z")
We called our son “Um”, short for “Uterus Monster”, which I stole from a friend, who did the same thing. As soon as he was born, he became the BubbySaurus. (BubbySaurus Rex when he cried.) Now he’s the Saurus, or some variation thereof. SnuggleSaurus. TurboSaurus. Yeah, that makes me MamaSaurus. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489.md?page=2)