# Nicknames you've had over the years, and their origins

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**Created:** [October 12, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-youve-had-over-the-years-and-their-origins/973138 "2022-10-12T19:03:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2023, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-youve-had-over-the-years-and-their-origins/973138/46 "2023-03-25T12:15:19Z")

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As I was reliving old times, I came across [this old nickname thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-nicknames/92430). Reading my post from then, I realized I’ve gained quite a few in the last 22 years. I was going to start a new thread but, being a good Doper, I decided to check for something more recent and came across this thread. So here I bring back my old names and freshen them up with some new ones.

> [@What are your nicknames?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-nicknames/92430/9):
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> Many, many nicknames over the years.
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> **Amber Bamber** and **Ambird Zebra** - Back in High School. They were plays on my real name, so they were relatively common.
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> **Anastasia** and **Stasia** - When I started writing my pathetic attempts at poetry, I would use Anastasia as a nom de plum. When I got online, it would be my screen name almost everywhere I went. So as people started to get to know me, they’d know me as Anastasia, or just shortening it, Stasia.
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> **Am** - a shortening of my real name, which I actually hear a lot more than Amber any more.
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> **Amboo** - that, like **hardygrrl’s** , was because my nephew couldn’t say my name. It’s been far too long since I’ve heard it. ☹
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> and last but not least - **TruePisces** or **TP** - It started here on the board, and a lot of people don’t call me by anything more - though they may (or may not) know my real name.

**Miss Amburger** - I was a Parents Day Out teacher for a few years and one of my kids thought my name was Amburger. So Miss Amburger I became.

**Sevti** or **Sev** - I was in an online role playing game called Tazlure many, many years ago. Sevti was the character I played and, even knowing my real name, most of them still call me Sev.

**Honeybunny** - **Verrain** called me this when we were engaged. (I called him Snugglebunny.) The names were shared during our wedding because I didn’t realize that our priest was going to read directly from the “why I love him” thing he asked me to write. Yeah, we were getting bunnies for many, many years.

**Shorty** - Various friends over the years, because they think because they have a few inches on me that Shorty is funny.

**Sweets** - Verrain’s nickname for me, even now.

**Amber Patient** - This was more in someone’s phone than actually called it. He knew a lot of Ambers and since he met me when he was valet at hospital and could never remember my last name, I became “Amber Patient” (even though I should have been "Amber Visitor ".)

There are probably a lot more, but im getting old and my memory isn’t what it used to be.

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