# Parents - what nicknames do you have for your kids? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 4, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208 "2011-02-04T22:29:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/21 "2011-02-05T14:38:53Z")
Oh, we have a lot. The most used is probably Caileigh Bean, but there’s also Beaner, Boo, Cailieigh Boo, Baby Boo, Schniklefritz (I’m not looking up the spelling, sorry), Hanyach (ditto), Little Bit, Caileigh Cat…really, any nonsense that leaps to mind when we’re feeling silly has the potential for great reuse. My son was Squirt until about age 7 when he finally asked how he got his nickname. I confessed that it was because he had, as an infant, peed in his dad’s mouth during a diaper change, and he wasn’t so fond of the nickname after that! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/22 "2011-02-05T15:31:40Z")
TheKid is Bug, Boo, Bugaboo, Monkeybutt, Goober, and Chickadee. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/23 "2011-02-05T15:57:51Z")
Oh, heavens. Nathaniel is Nat, Natpants, Captain Awesome, Natman. He’s three. Thomas is ten months old and he’s Kitten, Kittenpants, Mr. Squish, Tiny Baby, Little Person. We’ve got hundreds, most of them will be deeply embarrassing for them to remember when they’re older, and we’ll be very sad when we have to stop continually nicknaming. ---
**Author:** ![Charley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@Charley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charley)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/24 "2011-02-05T21:16:00Z")
My four year old daughter is Moo, Moomaloo, Moodle, Moodledoodle, Mooey, Little Moo, Mooish and variations. Pre-birth she was Skippy (husband is Australian, and we didn’t know the sex). Kid2, 16 weeks gestation so far, is currently Bean. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/25 "2011-02-05T22:22:16Z")
The nicknames we use the most are Schlomo and Glickstein or Mutt and Jeff, both when we’re referring to both at one time. Sometimes we call both their names as one - rickanddeirdre. Rick has also become Rickydoodle and Deirdre is Didiroo. ---
**Author:** ![seanchai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@seanchai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seanchai)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/26 "2011-02-05T22:49:36Z")
The Boy was nicknamed Pokey on account of, from the time I thought I was expecting until the time he arrived was 11.5 months. We waited a long time for him and he was a big baby. [Hey, I was cute, not smart]. And of course as soon as he was mobile he poked into EVERYthing! The Girl went by her real name until their Dad called the two of them Phobos and Deimos, Fear and Terror. I think it had something to do with the fact that nothing he owned was safe from their fingers. an seanchai ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/27 "2011-02-05T23:15:15Z")
\*\*Maggenkid \*\*is usually kiddo, or “My Little Pedant”. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/28 "2011-02-05T23:24:21Z")
Bunny Lechtor. ---
**Author:** ![LadyJane84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@LadyJane84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LadyJane84)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/29 "2011-02-06T00:33:48Z")
For some unknown reason in my culture you give your kids nicknames that aren’t exactly complimentary. I call my daughter “stink butt” “smelly monkey” and “big goose” Hey I’m nothing if not original! ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/30 "2011-02-06T00:45:26Z")
When he was little he was Diaperbutt, Austin Little Butt and Austintonio. (His name is Austin.) Also Boobear for a while. Since about kindergarten, he’s been The Boy when being referred to (Have you seen The Boy recently?) and Buddy when speaking to him. The Boy was because he seemed to have superhearing just for for his name - we found we could talk about The Boy but the minute we said “Austin” he’d turn up, even if we didn’t want him to. (Take The Boy to the doctor tomorrow for his immunisations, please.) So it just stuck. My own childhood nickname of Booger Bear is STILL in use by my much loved and aged Grandaddy. He calls me Boog. I’m 42 years old. He’s 80. I guess he’s allowed, but… geez. I put a stop to the full nickname when I was in highschool. ---
**Author:** ![FrancisCastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@FrancisCastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrancisCastle)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/31 "2011-02-06T01:36:55Z")
My oldest son Justice we call Crust…can’t remember where that came from. My daughter Kali is either Boogs or Kalifornia. My youngest son DJ (Dan Jr.) is Leedo Lee…some variant form of little Dan. Or Witto Weedo because he still uses the W sound for the L sound. ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/32 "2011-02-06T02:06:10Z")
The girl is “Cricket” - as a baby she chattered and made noise constantly. Now that she talks, she chatters and makes noise constantly. The boy is “Bugman” “Pooman” “Stinky” or “Grayson the Destructor” ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/33 "2011-02-06T02:55:11Z")
My father seems to be incapable of using anyone’s actual names. Thus the four of us, at least at one point, have been Special, Precious, Treasure/T/O&O (one and only), and Cool Boy/Cool/C. The cats are Squeaky and Tickles, and nothing will convince him otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/34 "2011-02-06T03:45:53Z")
My son is Poodle Pants, Matthewloboboolo, The Baby (he’s 12 but looks and acts 16)Thewie Thewstein,Mattiola. Yes, it’s all one kid. ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/35 "2011-02-07T01:45:52Z")
My oldest, George, was “Squirtlet” as a baby and then “Bunkins” as he got older. “Bunks” for short. Next to oldest, only girl Kate, is “Pinkie” or “Pinkie-Poo” (when she needed a diaper, “Stinky-Poo”) “Pinks” for short. Next to youngest, James, is “Peanut”. Youngest, Charles, is “Charlie-Bucket” (ala Willy Wonka)“Chuck-Bucket” (when he’s spitting up, which is frequent) or “Bucket-Head” Also just plain “Bucket”. Now that he’s down on the floor creeping (6 months old) we remind the other kids playing nearby to be careful not to kick the Bucket. So yea, we’ve got Bunkins, Pinkie, Peanut, and Bucket. A nice assortment of bizarre nicknames. Sounds like a group of trained elephants at the circus. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/36 "2011-02-07T02:48:05Z")
My son is Monkey, Pagzalicious, Toots or Super Man. My daughter is known as Up and About or Alakazam. She’s Up and About because of an off-hand comment I made about her one day to my son. “When Evelyn is up and about, we can take off.” From then on, she was Up and About. But she’s been Alakazam even longer, which is short for Evelyn-Bevelyn-Alakazam. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/37 "2011-02-07T08:35:24Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > We started calling our daughter Boo when she was just a few weeks old, and I have no idea how we started. We still refer to her as Boo or The Boo more often than we refer to her by name. Same here. Boo is often appended to her name, too. She’s also sweetypie, honeybun, sugarplum, snook, snooky-wook, stinkybum, poobum (in an affectionate way - don’t know where that one comes from), horror, monster, Tiger (online), or a combination of all the above. It’s only in the last year or so that I’ve started using her name with any regularity, because she’d be embarrassed about being called sugarplummywumkin in front of her friends; TBH I’m surprised that I ever use such a cutesy term myself. She now uses all the same nicknames for the puppy. ---
**Author:** ![Blisters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Blisters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blisters)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/38 "2011-02-07T08:55:11Z")
The Boy is called Lil’ Pooh…often shortened to Lil’ occasionally he is called Beetle, due to a game of his own invention involving an orphaned beetle showing up in our home. ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/39 "2011-02-07T09:39:21Z")
My husband called our daughter Cupcake or Pumpkin Pie. I called her Sweetness on her good days & Dragon Queen on the not so good ones. I still do call her Sweetness on occasion. My son was Buddha as a baby. Recently its been Blondie. When hes with his best mate we call them Blonde & Blonder. There’s a reason for that. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208/40 "2011-02-07T16:14:33Z")
My son is “D-Man” or “Dom-inator”. My daughter is “Shorty” or "Shortness’. (I used to call my son “Scooter McGurk”, although I have no idea where I came up with that). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-what-nicknames-do-you-have-for-your-kids/570208.md?page=3)