# Your SDMB family name **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 15, 2005, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138 "2005-11-15T07:59:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/21 "2005-11-15T13:40:10Z")
Husband = Mr. Ujest Kids= never came up with anything clever. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/22 "2005-11-15T13:50:46Z")
I’m married to VunderWife; my teenaged son is the VunderKind; the new puppy is Maddy the VunderDog. Breaking the theme, there’s Booger the Worthless Tomcat, and Audrey the Pile of Hair (a calico Maine Coon cat) ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/23 "2005-11-15T14:50:51Z")
I’m DeVena. My husband is DeHusband. Etc. Works for us. Don’t really care what others think. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/24 "2005-11-15T15:01:34Z")
Well, since the names **Dweezil** and **Moon Unit** were in use long before I became a Doper, I derived my username from their nicknames, rather than the other way around. However my name for my spouse, **Papa Zappa** , came about by default. If he ever gets around to joining the Dope, he’s even insisted he wants to continue using that as his username. I’d actually rather he picked something a bit less lame 😛 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/25 "2005-11-15T15:12:59Z")
The wife is actually a Charter Member, but hasn’t posted more than about 4 times in the last few years. So I usually refer to her as The Wife." Or “My Reason For Living” if I think she might read the thread. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/26 "2005-11-15T15:14:49Z")
Oh, BTW, I sometimes call the SO by **Mighty\_Guy**. When I was pregnant he was often “That idiot”. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/27 "2005-11-15T15:15:17Z")
My wife was briefly a member of the SDMB under the name **Pepper Mill**. She got it by one of those “Stripper Name Generator” things by taking the name of her first pet and the street she once lived on. The combination was unexpexcedlyb fortuitous. I named our daughter **MilliCal** both as a sort of Mini-Me (_milli_ + _Cal_), but also because it blended elements of both our names ( **Pepper _Mill_** + **_Cal_Meacham** ) I haven’t changed our cats’ names. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/28 "2005-11-15T15:18:21Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > How do you call your Significant Other (or Insignificant Other as the case may be) on the SDMB? Hypothetical ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/29 "2005-11-15T15:32:14Z")
> [@Normal Saline](#): > > I don’t have a name yet for my son. Maybe 2/3 1/3? Or little Salty? Call him **Distilled**. I have no idea what to call them. Mr. \*\*Anaamika \*\* is stupid because in Hindi \*\*Anaamika \*\* is a very feminine name, and I can’t get that out of my head. Usually I just call him the SO. Of course, \*\*Anaamika \*\* means “The Girl With No Name” so I suppose I could call him Clint. I love him, but Clint, he’s not. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/30 "2005-11-15T15:33:32Z")
We are the Cherry family, of course! Baby Cherry, Cherry Girl and Cherry Boy are my offspring. I generally call my husband “my husband,” though. Not sure why. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/31 "2005-11-15T15:34:40Z")
The height of predictability: my wife is the lovely and talented **Mrs. Bricker** , and our son is **Bricker Jr.**. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/32 "2005-11-15T16:15:55Z")
Haven’t really had a chance to refer to any family member, but I suppose they’d all certainly be **Special** \ – like **Special Teenager** for my eldest daughter 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/33 "2005-11-15T16:17:47Z")
I occasionally refer to my wife as “Mrs. Chuck.” My daughter is always “my daughter.” ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/34 "2005-11-15T16:58:58Z")
I refer to my husband as ElzaHub, only because I realized it nearly rhymes with Beelzebub, and I think I was pissed at him the day I came up with it. Yes, he knows that’s his nickname and why. Now if I could just get him to sign up on the Dope. E. ---
**Author:** ![DogMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DogMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogMom)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/35 "2005-11-15T17:01:50Z")
I’m married to **DogDad**. We have no kids, but we have **CurrentDog**. We used to have a Siberian Husky and a Greyhound, they are referred to collectively as **FormerDogs** or individually either by name (Lobo & Houdini, respectively) or **FormerDog1** and **FormerDog2**. We live in the DogHouse, and drive the ChuckWagon, or the DogMobile. Hm. My parents are either **TheDogParents** or, when I’m in the mood to type it out, my mom is **I-Ain’t-No-Gramma-To-A-Stupid-Dog**. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/36 "2005-11-15T17:18:30Z")
Equally unimaginative - The Lovely and Talented Mrs. **Shodan** and the **Shodan** -ettes. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/37 "2005-11-15T17:21:49Z")
My SO is referred to as SWMBO (She Who Must Be Obeyed). My stepdaughter is The Teenaged Terror, although I’m going to have to find a new name for her in 2006, as she will turn 20 and officially graduate from Teenagehood. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/38 "2005-11-15T17:50:25Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > … he thinks this place makes me weird. Little does he know, the weirdness started a looong time before I showed up here. 😃 The bus wife says the same thing. Says we all scare her. Except when she has a question and I answer it by showing her something here (usually from GQ) that answers it for her. Then she thinks this place is alright. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/39 "2005-11-15T17:58:14Z")
I usually just say the boyfriend or the boy. If I wanted to get all cutesy with my username, I’d have to either call him Farad’n or Harq-al-ada, neither of which anyone would get, unless they were a big dork like me. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138/40 "2005-11-15T18:10:48Z")
I am **Little Bird** and my husband is, of course, **Bird Man**. (Attourny at laaaaawwwww!) The cats and dog go by their real names and Mom and Dad are Mom and Dad. Maybe I should invent a scheme, **Mama Bird** and **Papa Bird**? If I ever find myself in the family way I could call it **the Egg**. That would be cute, maybe… In real life my just turned 21 year old little brother is **the boy** , but only with me. Everyone else has to call him Mike. I guess if I ever referred to him on here it would be as “ **the Boy** (my little brother).” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-family-name/331138.md?page=3)