# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Marc\_Xenos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Marc\_Xenos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marc_Xenos)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/21 "2011-04-15T18:04:50Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > 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. I remember some old movie with Ryan O’Neal and Ali McGraw where she referred to the kid as Bozo. I have to assume she meant Bozo the Clown, as opposed to the tribe of African Bozos. Me, I’d be more inclined to name it STD. I mean, children _are_ the most prevalent form of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/22 "2011-04-15T18:26:05Z")
Cletus the Fetus is standard in my family. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/23 "2011-04-15T19:57:27Z")
We alternated. Sometimes our unborn kids were The Alien; other times they were Excretia or Secretia. What? We were trying to figure out offensive names! To my mom, both were Little Peanut. ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/24 "2011-04-15T20:27:46Z")
Either parasite or fetus. No cutesie stuff for us. Plus it was kind of fun to see the horrified look on some peoples faces when I talked about my parasite. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/25 "2011-04-15T20:42:36Z")
My wife and I just called each fetus “Junior”, even though they were all girls. > [@pbbth](#): > > 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) Just wait until he starts bouncing a baseball around the walls of your uterus. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/26 "2011-04-15T21:01:27Z")
> [@Marc\_Xenos](#): > > I remember some old movie with Ryan O’Neal and Ali McGraw where she referred to the kid as Bozo. I have to assume she meant Bozo the Clown, as opposed to the tribe of African Bozos. _Love Story_ It was a good name for a hockey player, like ‘Bruiser’ or somesuch. We never nicknamed our, but I have a great niece and great nephew who were Poppy and Cletus, respectively. A friend has a granddaughter who was Tyke, and a nephew who was Nemo. I sort of wish the latter had stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/27 "2011-04-15T21:04:30Z")
> [@dawson](#): > > I liked Cletus but for some reason my wife wouldn’t go for it 😕 I’ve heard Cletus and Uternaut. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/28 "2011-04-15T21:13:26Z")
My niece-in-law, who’s currently pregnant, calls hers “McNugget.” ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/29 "2011-04-15T21:18:10Z")
Peter Framptonette. (We knew we were having a girl.) ---
**Author:** ![Baracus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@Baracus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baracus)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/30 "2011-04-15T23:27:26Z")
Ippy, short for ipecac, due to the effect she had on my wife for the first trimester. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/31 "2011-04-16T00:03:22Z")
Never been preggers myself, but I used to have a co-worker who referred to “Thumper.” In the later stages. When he kicked! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/32 "2011-04-16T00:34:01Z")
We referred to our daughter as The Alien because she was very active and her movements against my belly looked like the alien from the movie trying to break out. I was sure she was going to be a gymnast. I was wrong… ---
**Author:** ![BomTek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bomtek/32/21364_2.png) [@BomTek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BomTek)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/33 "2011-04-16T01:28:51Z")
Our son was Squirt, which came from _Finding Nemo_ (he’s the small turtle that Marlin meets), which was a result of my wife’s nickname for me. She calls me Squishy, from Dory’s line to the small jellyfish. We didn’t call him Squirt quite as much after we found out that he was a boy because we had already picked out names, but he still gets called by that name every once in a while. Our second was going to be Spud, but now we’re going the adoption route for #2, and we usually refer to our second as either #2 or Spud. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/34 "2011-04-16T02:55:03Z")
We are calling the current fellah The Noob. > [@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. Whelp, the one I miscarried in January we had been calling The Sprog. When we told people about the miscarriage, we either said “I had a miscarriage.” or “It didn’t take.” Didn’t seem that tacky to us. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/35 "2011-04-16T04:59:23Z")
“Crevette” which is French for ‘shrimp’. It seems to be pretty common amongst my friends and family. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/36 "2011-04-16T07:10:42Z")
Patsy, Eddie, and Saffie (from Absolutely Fabulous) ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/37 "2011-04-16T07:49:14Z")
Bubba, even though I knew she was a girl. I still call her Bubs sometimes, as well as Dribble Monster, Little Miss Farty Pants, “The Child”, Snuggles, and very occasionally Dakota 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/38 "2011-04-16T07:53:18Z")
I called mine “Cancer”. :o When he was born, I thought he looked like a turtle, so I called him “Turtle”. After awhile, he became “Jude” to him but not in company and then “Judah” all of the time and now he’s “Yehudah” unless he’s upset. Then it’s “Hey, Jude.” If I’m upset, it’s _I SWEAR TO GOD I’M GOING TO SELL YOU ON CRAIGSLIST!_ He’s only called Turtle when he’s asleep and can’t hear me. 😉 (I also called my little brother “Squirt” like the Hershey’s kind. When he got older, it was “Atilla.”) ---
**Author:** ![T.Slothrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@T.Slothrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Slothrop)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/39 "2011-04-16T08:37:10Z")
Tumor ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/40 "2011-04-16T10:13:40Z")
We called ours Peanut, as did the neighbours across the road who were 3 months further along. My sister’s bub was Bean, and my friend had Kickie. (2 of us in Australia, 2 in New Zealand for the poster who said this doesn’t happen in Australia). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489.md?page=3)