# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/41 "2011-04-16T10:30:30Z")
The first one was Alien and the second one Parasite. Not after they were born, though, since they then stopped resembling those namesakes. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/42 "2011-04-16T10:43:35Z")
My first was Neep (Scottish for Turnip, which was my nickname in high school as inspired by my surname). One of my co-workers thought she looked like a duck on my scan and so we also called her The Duck. My second is Speck, although it is waaaaay past being a speck now and is the most enormous freaking lump. I look like I’m carrying multiples. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/43 "2011-04-16T12:22:22Z")
Either Jellybean or Nameless, depending on my mood. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/44 "2011-04-16T13:09:48Z")
My nephew was Uncle Bill, from my then 3 1/2-year-old niece’s naming suggestion. I was dissapointed they didn’t use William as one of his middle names. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/45 "2011-04-16T14:16:55Z")
I’ve heard peanut and jellybean used a lot. A friend was recently using “the critter”. I started using “[Krang](http://www.notthatkindofgirl.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/krang.jpg)” for a friend’s unborn baby, because he was a little creature sitting in her abdomen and controlling her whole body. I bought her [this T-shirt](http://www.shirt80.com/images/large/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_Brain-T.jpg) to wear, and she loved it. My sister-in-law doesn’t want to use the name they’ve picked out until _after_ their son is born, so they’re using “Derald” to refer to him for now, so they don’t slip and use the real name. “Derald” is some sort of inside joke I’m not sure I understand. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/46 "2011-04-16T15:34:19Z")
> [@BomTek](#): > > 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. That made me do a double-take - I call my husband Squishy. When we spend time together, we squish. This happened long before _Finding Nemo_. They must have stolen it from me. I’ve never heard of this fetus-naming thing before. I think it’s fantastic. > [@](#): > > 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. Love it. We have no babies but Grouchasauruses roam our apartment from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/47 "2011-04-16T15:38:46Z")
Squirt, Tadpole, Franky are our top choices right now. Tadpole came from the first ultrasound, and now we are at 21 weeks and Taddy has stuck around. We are also not finding out so it makes it important to stick with one for all the relatives! 🙂 I loved the Steve McQueen one! ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/48 "2011-04-16T15:50:52Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#): > > Squirt, Tadpole, Franky are our top choices right now. Tadpole came from the first ultrasound, and now we are at 21 weeks and Taddy has stuck around. We are also not finding out so it makes it important to stick with one for all the relatives! 🙂 > > I loved the Steve McQueen one! So happy for you! Wonderful news! Congratulations! :D:)🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Driver8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Driver8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driver8)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/49 "2011-04-16T16:55:08Z")
We’re having our first child in about a month, and have been calling him or her “Kiddo” for now. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/50 "2011-04-16T17:36:21Z")
My wife named our daughter to be **Cletus** as in **Cletus the Fetus** Recently my friend’s step daughter kept referring to hers as **Jack**. She knew she was having a boy, so we all foolishly assumed she’d already named him. Alas, she named him something else entirely. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/51 "2011-04-16T18:09:31Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > My wife and I just called each fetus “Junior”, even though they were all girls. I have always wondered why girls cannot be the “junior” of the mother…as in Tiffany Jr. or Kathy Jr. etc. Is there a law or somethin’? ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/52 "2011-04-16T18:12:40Z")
My niece was “Stanley Hilarious” before she was born. The reasoning behind this is that my sister is weird. ---
**Author:** ![Charley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@Charley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charley)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/53 "2011-04-17T12:05:12Z")
Our first was Skippy - we didn’t find out the gender until she was born. With the current resident, we know she’s a girl, which we’ve told people. We have also decided on her names, but we haven’t told anyone those. She started out as Bean, but she’s been Junior pretty consistently for the last couple of months. We never refer to her by her “real” name, I don’t even do it when it’s just her and me having a private chat! I was talking to a friend about this very subject the other day, and she agreed that she never used her childrens’ real names before they were born either. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/54 "2011-04-17T14:50:42Z")
> [@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. Eh? Have you never had any pregnant friends or relatives? What’s this “…in Australia” bullshit? My favourites so far have been “Egg” and “Big Bird” (named by the then 3-year-old) ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/55 "2011-04-17T15:06:27Z")
A friend of mine called hers Toby after baby-to-be. He is now 38 and has had two Tobys of his own. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/56 "2011-04-17T15:10:38Z")
I have no idea on the name thing but I did want to send you my congratulations. ---
**Author:** ![Silvorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Silvorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvorange)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/57 "2011-04-17T17:52:04Z")
> [@Sudo\_Intellectual](#): > > 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). Did Thor turn out to be named Simon, by any chance? I also have a friend whose unborn son was called Thor, and we have also not let it go (also much to the mom’s dismay). ---
**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 17, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/58 "2011-04-17T23:06:35Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > Did you give your fetus a nickname and, if so, what was it? It’s been so long ago (1978), I didn’t remember it until now. It was “Peckerhead,” although I don’t recall it being an editorial comment at the time. ---
**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 18, 2011, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/59 "2011-04-18T15:02:59Z")
> [@BomTek](#): > > 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. My wife wouldn’t let me call ours Squirt, because I showed her [this shirt](http://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/daddys-lil-squirt/). She didn’t think it was as funny as I did. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/60 "2011-04-18T17:23:38Z")
We called our first “Trigger” after a character in _Mork & Mindy_ said she was naming her baby that “because it works for either a boy or a girl.” The second time, after we found out my wife was carrying twin boys, we just called them “the guys.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489.md?page=4)