A Jasper By Any Other Name
We knew that Jasper was going to be Jasper for months before he was born. From the moment that we found out that he – hitherto referred to as Sprout – was going to be a he, he was Jasper. Jasper. It was a name for eccentric old English uncles, for suspender-wearing artists pottering about in skylit attics, for crusty old men with beards restoring boats and smoking pipes on pebble-strewn beaches, for boys in knee-britches chasing rabbits in heather fields. Jasper. I loved the name. I knew that it was his name with as much certainty as I’ve ever known anything.
My mother hated it. Oh, honey, she said when I told her. Oh, honey, really?
The lesson, don’t tell anyone what you’re planning on naming your child, hadn’t sunk in from my first pregnancy, when she pulled an oh honey no on Emilia’s original name, Theo. Really, Mom. And it’s not up for discussion.
But what will you call him for short?
– What does that matter, Mom? We’ll call him what we call him. Which, I thought, was a perfectly sensible response. After all, we couldn’t have guessed in advance that we’d refer to Emilia as Budge (my mother calls her Milly, Jasper calls her Maya, but she is and will always be, to her father and me, Budge or Budgie. And no, we do not know why. She just is Budge.) How could we know what we would call Jasper? That would sort itself out after he arrived.
Or not.
The obvious diminutive form of Jasper is ‘Jas’ or ‘Jazz’ – ‘Per’ doesn’t quite roll off the tongue – and we certainly sometimes call him that, but more often than not we simply spin silly variations on any word – or, as the case may be, non-word – that begins with a J. This sometimes takes a turn for the bizarre, and, very occasionally, the inappropriate.
J-Man.
The J-Bird.
The Jabberwock.
Jimbo.
The Jibbler.
Jibby.
DJ Jazzy J.
Jazzer.
Jazzer Arafat.
Jasberry Ram.
Jaspberger.
Jizzer
Jizzburger
Joey.
Joomba.
Joombalaya.
Joo.
That last one caused a little confusion on a playdate the other week. Jasper was performing some of his usual acrobatics on a swingset and, in the process, ended up upside down in some sand, which prompted me to leap to my feet and yell something to the effect of oh, J-Man! Joey! My little Joo!
Which prompted my new friend to spin on the bench. Did you just call him your JEW?
– Huh?
Are you Jewish?
– What? Oh, god, no, it’s just… he’s… I sometimes call him… I call him lots of things… you know… like…
… and I swear to god, at precisely that moment my twisted, sleep-deprived mind could only think of Jazzer Arafat, which, you know, would only lead her to think that I have a really perverse outlook on peace in the Middle East, although that would have maybe been marginally better than telling her that I also sometimes call him Jizz.
At that moment I realized that, however irritated I had been by my mother’s early questions about Jasper’s name, she had been right about one thing: sometimes, the names don’t just sort themselves out. Sometimes, you have to give a little thought to what you’re going to holler across the playground. ‘Budge,’ Emilia’s nickname, has garnered some funny looks, but I doubt that it has caused anyone to question my politics, or my sanity. And when she’s sixteen and we’re still calling her that, she’ll roll her eyes at us and protest – just as I did when my mom called me Trinky in front of my friends (she still does this from time to time) – but it won’t really be all that embarrassing, and she’ll learn to appreciate it as the term of affection that it is. But Jasper, I am sure, is not going to want me shouting Jizzer! or Joo! at his football games or dance recitals. So.
Beware the Jibberwock
As I once said (and it seems such a very long time ago now), nicknames are special names, and they are always, by their very nature, “gibberish, gobbledygook, nonsense. Words that mean nothing, but which are nonetheless utterances of affection, expressions of love in our own private language.” All of the names that I, that we – my husband, Emilia and I – call Jasper are babbled utterances of love, and even though some of them lend themselves to misunderstanding, and all of them are nonsensical, and none of them have stuck, they are all exuberant expressions of how very much we love him, of how very, very, beyond-the-reach-of-ordinary-language special he is.
Still. We should probably restrict the use of Jazzer Arafat and JizzBomb to the yard.
You don’t need to tell me your nicknames for your kids, although I’d love it if you would. And, are there any names that you’ve had to restrict to private use? That the grandparents have looked at askance? That have caused funny reactions in the playground? Or am I the only one who should be consulting UrbanDictionary before I holler at my kid?
Posted by Her Bad Mother on June 10, 2010
Filed under: Being Bad, jasper
Tags: nicknames, very bad words
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Jun 10, 2010
Oh, how I love this post. I have a 7 month old girl, Nora, who is affectionately referred to as: Ms. N, The Nora Face, Nora Bug, Norval (Norv Turner reference…anyone?), Norval Redenbacher (because why not go all out), Norma, and a multitude of other things. I’m sure we have way more to come, considering we’ve only been at it for 7 months.
You’re not the only one. Trust me.
Catherine Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
@Lauren, NORVAL REDENBACHER. **LOVE**
So glad to know that I’m not alone.
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Cait Reply:
June 11th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
@Lauren, my cousin is named Nora and our grandfather called her Noriega or The Noraura Borealis. It took her until she was in her teens to figure out that Noriega was not necessarily the most appropriate nickname. But it is one of the memories of him I treasure.
Jun 10, 2010
Our girl is “Bops” or “Bop-she-bops” or “creature” or “person” or about a million different things.
She insists now on being called “A girl AND a monster.” If we just call her a girl we are corrected. Her daddy is allowed to call her “bug” but never “bugaboo.” I called her “sweetie pie” yesterday and had to repeated it thirty times because it was new to her.
One of my mother’s nicknames for me was “teety toots.” Not quite as bad as jizz, though.
Jun 10, 2010
My 14 month Owen is O, The O-Dawg, Bunny, Bunnybean, Bean, Puddin’, Puddinpop, briefly PuddleDuck, O-bie, Muffintop, and whatever else comes out of my mouth when I am full of love…
Jun 10, 2010
We call Sam “Bammer,” which is not *that* weird but the way we got to it might be: I called him “Sam-bam thank you ma’am,” which turned into “Bam-bam,” which became “the Bammer.” Yeah.
So far Grace has been called Squeaky, Snuffleupagus, and Pie.
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Catherine Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
@Annika, ‘Sam-bam-thank-you-ma’am’ *might* rival Jizz. Maybe.
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Jun 10, 2010
My daughter’s name is Charlotte and since, oh, about the time she was born, my husband and I have called her Monkey Moo. I don’t know why. She just IS a Monkey Moo.
When she was about six months old, we had to make a concerted effort to start calling her by her given name because she wouldn’t respond to Charlotte but would perk up if you called out for Monkey Moo.
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Jun 10, 2010
I have called my DS9 baby man since he was born and I call my DD10 either sissy or Missy Prissy.
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Jun 10, 2010
My first computer I named Jasper.
And I knew a Jasper (a girl) in college.
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Catherine Reply:
June 11th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
@Miss Grace, Jasper as a name for a girl is AWESOME.
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Jun 10, 2010
I laughed so hard reading this post that I maybe, possibly, peed a little. I think this might go down in history as one of my favourite posts of yours.
When Julia was a baby we used to call her Little J, which, until we had her, was a codename for something else entirely, if you know what I mean.
I have a nickname for Oliver that I keep mainly in my head, though I have said it out loud from time to time: O, Liver!
Catherine Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
@mamatulip, why does the letter go there? I mean, why?
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Catherine Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
Urgh, I mean the letter **J**. Why does the letter J lend itself so terribly and obviously to that J-biz?
Or whatever.
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Jun 10, 2010
My nickname as a child was pookie or pookie bear. I hated it.
FOr my own kids their names do allow for nicknames. Victoria can be shortened of course to Vicky but I HATE THAT NICKNAME and refuse to use it. My FIL does it to bug me. I call her Miss V, monster, muffin, typical stuff.
My youngest is Amelia so her sister calls her Mia and sometimes A-mia. She also gets the monster nickname
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Helena Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
@Carrie, I’ve heard Victoria shortened to Torie before.
Carrie Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
@Helena, actually my daughter referred to herself as Toria when she couldn’t quite pronounce her name
I like the nickname Tori but it always reminds me of Tori Spelling :p
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Catherine Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
@Carrie, I love the name Tori/Tory/Torrie. Except, you know, that whole Spelling connection.
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Jun 10, 2010
My older son’s name begins with an “A” so we sometimes just call him “A” – but this means I get into trouble when I spout off my affection with things like: “You are A! A is filled with love; you are full of A-ness. I love my A-ness!”
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Jun 10, 2010
I knew I had better stop calling my Sonja “Little Fatty Face” before she was able to put in cultural context, but it was SO HARD. Also trying to refrain from “Sonja Balogna.”
Catherine Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
@Custom Toy Portraits, my thinking is, why resist it? That’s the joy of kids. I mean, eventually you have to pull it back, but still. I love Sonja Balogna.
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Jun 10, 2010
I love this. Ha. My kids have had a million nicknames. My oldest is the only one who won’t tolerate it anymore. Which was a sad day. We’d been calling her Beanie for five years, when she made us stop. It was hard to stop. Now I can call her Chipmunk, but only at home and only if she’s in a good mood. Yeah, she’s um…particular. ha. Oh, she will answer to Sissy, when her siblings say it. Which they do almost non-stop, unless they are angry and then they suddenly remember she has a real name.
We call my middle one, Noodle. She’s had a ton of nicknames over the years, starting with Squishy as a newborn. But Noodle seems to have stuck. She also answers to little sister. Because I’m original like that.
My son is Bubs, Bubbie, little boy or Smoosh, all of which he answers too.
The last two times, I’ve stuck by the don’t tell anyone the name until birth. Mostly because when i told people I was naming my oldest Maya (real name alert), people thought I was smoking crack or something. That I’d pulled it outta my ass or had made it up. The things I heard were not things one should say to a hormonal woman, so the second and third times I pretended to not have decided. Was easier.
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Jun 10, 2010
My Mom protested LOUDLY when we announced that we would be naming our second daughter Andie. (”Not Andrea? At least give her a girl’s name!”) When she was about a week old, Mom admitted that we couldn’t have named her anything better. She said she looked like an Andie, and she has for the last fourteen years.
And I laughed at your Budge nickname for Emilia, because that’s our son Adam’s nickname. Budgie, Budge, Budge-a-man.
Catherine Reply:
June 11th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
@Procrastamom, high fives for Budge!
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Jun 10, 2010
Emmett gets Em, Emmie (although I think sometimes at the park it sounds like I’m calling a girl), Emmie-Roo. That sort of thing.
The middle child (Eden) is interesting because from birth my son, husband and I started calling her Edsy-P (i’m not even sure how to spell it because I think the spelling sounds different than how we say it). Friends and family started to pick up on it but kind of got it wrong. I hear them saying E-Z P -which is not how we say it but that is now a nickname too. and btw P does not start her middle name so it’s totally random.
The last child mostly just gets Harpy shortened from Harper. But what’s weird is that instead of giving her something shorter we tend to call her by her full name. Harper Lily Margaret! and we sing it -operatically (no one can sing opera here so it’s painful)
I love nicknames.
Jun 10, 2010
My son’s name is Jasper too. He’s 11. We call him Jas and Jasper. I love the name.
Jun 10, 2010
Her name is Ruth and I cringe at Ruthie. We tend toward “half-pint” as a nickname because that’s what my Dad called her the first time he saw her.
Jun 10, 2010
I LOVE this post! My son’s name is Jann (pronounced Yon) which my entire family was up in arms about before his birth. “Everyone’s going to call him Jan” (they do. Once.) “How can you nickname that?” Turns out, pretty easily. For some unknown reason he’s been ‘Boogerbutt’ since he was about 3 days old, bubie, boop, buckethead, pumpkin munchkin, bunnyface and now mostly just bunny. I guess I should have given him a B name?
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Jun 10, 2010
My poor, tortured 13 year old son is called ‘Babykitty’ by me and (sometimes) ‘monchichi’ by his father. I’m not really sure how either got started, but he hates it. I’m always carful to just call him ‘Billy’ around his friends, or he would never forgive me.
Jun 10, 2010
Love this post!!
My daughter has many of the usual nicknames, sweet pea, munchkin, silly willy, etc., but mostly I call her Caelen Ellen punkin butt. Kinda long, I know, but it just seems to fit!
My son has more interesting nicknames, all of which he answers too (his name is Dylan Douglas B.). DD (which looks great on paper, but sounds like Dee Dee), Dil (like pickle), and crazy man. I really try to just call him by his given name in public!
Jun 10, 2010
Because my first comment wasn’t long enough…I have noticed that I start out with a long weird nickname for my kids that makes no sense. Like TooTooTotty, which came about one drunken night. Which then gets shortened to TooTooTot, then TooToty, then tot. It makes no sense and eventually it goes away, until the next random nickname.
But hey, I’m saving for their future therapy fund, so it’s all good, right?
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Jun 10, 2010
My oldest, Riley who’s now 18, has been Bunky, Bunk, Ri’s a by, and most often now, just plain Ri.
My second Connor (16), has been Connor-Johnner-Bonner-Boo, Bonner-Boo, Boodalair, Con, Con-man, and Joe (he still gets called Boo and Joe).
My daughter Hope (3) is Hopie, Hopie-doodle, Doodle-Bug, Doo, and often Miss Mouse.
My youngest is Henry (21 months) and he’s Henry-Bear or just Bear, and Mister Mouse.
(And yes, I sometimes still my 18 year old 6 foot, 180 lb son Bunky. Just not in public.)
Neen Reply:
June 11th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
My 16 year old just read this and reminded me that I forgot a bunch. Like Ri was “The Toad-man” and still gets called Toadie, and he was “Turtle, Turtle” and that we’re pretty sure that Henry thinks his name is “baby”.
Also, that since Hope found out his whole name is Connor John, she’s started calling him John Connor. Since she hasn’t seen “Terminator” and we have, we’re wondering if she knows something we don’t.
Jun 10, 2010
My son’s name is Quintin. For some reason, when he was about 6 months or so, I started calling him Buddha. That’s what he is. He’s either Quintin or Buddha. I even have a little Buddah tattoo for him. My other son, Roman, however does not have a nickname. I thought something might just seem right like Buddha did, but it hasn’t. My MIL calls him Romie (not a fan at all), my husband calls him RoRo sometimes. I call him Roman. Or my ‘jolly happy soul’. I’m not a fan of shortening first names. I try to pick names that can’t be shortened. I know we could call Quintin, Quin, but we don’t. My husband does sometimes. I love the name Jasper!
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Jun 10, 2010
My friends son is Jasper – and is the J-Man….great, wonderful name.
I named my son Will so he couldn’t have any nicknames – wrong… I call him P. Yeah I know – I have no fucking idea why.
My sister calls him the schmookmeister or the schmook for short. My nephew calls him Willski…again for no apparent reason but we love it.
The only people who can call him Willy are people who have left sizeable sums of dough to him in a will.
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Jun 10, 2010
When our daughter Clara (now 4 3/4) was born she was all curled up and red(as most new borns are). This reminded my husband of a kidney bean. From that day on she has been affectionately called “Clara Bean” , “The Bean” or “Bean” by everyone. On her first day of kindergarden this fall, when someone asked her what her last (second) name was. She replied with “Bean”
Our 7 year old son, Jacob has 2 nick names. The first is Jaco-Bakeo (originated by my husband). The second is “Bub” When Jacob was first talking he would introduce himself as “J-bub”.
Jun 10, 2010
my older is Lily. We call her Peanut. When she was a baby, she was fat. f.a.t. She looked a bit like two peanuts in a shell. She’s now 5 and kind of hates it, and yet i persist. I cannot stop myself from calling her peanut. SOme girl on the playground called her Lily of the Valley once and she about blew her top. I had a hard time getting offended by that one.
my younger is Wolfgang (cue familial eye-rolls). He has a lot of nicknames – he is a very silly person (his sister is a very serious person). Mostly, we call him Wolfie or Doodle (or doodlebug). He’s also knows and Wolfman, Bubba, Bubba ganoush (cuz you just want to eat him up), and Bug. And probably a dozen other things, too. He prefers to call himself Glob of Mud, but only when he’s fighting monsters (but not baby monsters. they may live another day).
Jun 10, 2010
My daughter gets Stringbean and Babaganush from my husband (no idea where the second one comes from!), and Punkinhead and Babydoll from me.
My son gets Bug from me (love bug, stink bug) mostly; or Buddy, Sweetie Pie, or Sunshine. Some of which have been picked up by his sister. Very funny to hear my 4-year old saying “here’s your juice sweetheart”.
Funny – she’s Alexandra because I liked Alex as a nickname, but she’s Allie. Just not an Alex. And he’s Justin Tyler, and we planned on JT – we’ve never called him that once.
Jun 10, 2010
Jazzer Arafat and JizzBomb . . . hahahahaha . . . giggle . . . snort.
My kids are Kevin, Jacob and Katie. And that’s what I call them. Because I’m, you know, TIRED from dealing with three kids who are 18, 14 and 6. They really consider themselves lucky when I manage to match the right child with the correct name when I’m talking to them. Also, I lack imagination and whimsy. And I’m TIRED.
Neen Reply:
June 11th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
@Rhonda S,
Do you ever go through the whole list and stop when you get to the right kids name? I’m the youngest of five and my Dad used to do that all the time. You’d get the first syllable of everybodies name until he got to yours! So, I got to hear “Be,Rhon,John,Kris, JANINE!” Whenever I got in touble. Giggle!
Unfortunately, I do it to my 4 kids too! “Ri,Con,Hope, HENRY!”
(and double yeah on the “would you please just let Mommy SLEEP!” When the little ones go to sleep on time, the older one goes to the bar with his friends and I can’t sleep until he gets home. Crap.)
poosemommy Reply:
June 14th, 2010 at 2:51 am
@Neen, My grandmother always “called the roll” when my dad was growing up “John-David-Bobby-Don” or “somebody-anybody-EVERYBODY”.
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Jun 10, 2010
Although our son isn’t out yet, we’ve come up with a variety for Jack. Among them are: White Speck, Appleseed, Kicky McGuillicutty, Tiny Fry, Bubba, and Fats Domino. I also use DJ Jazzy J in private, so it’s good to know that I’m not the only one. I’m interested to see what we’ll be calling him after he comes out.
poosemommy Reply:
June 14th, 2010 at 2:55 am
@Mc, we started calling our youngest “The Papoose” while I was pregnant, which became Papoose, which is now Poose or The Poose(he just turned 4). I can see it on high school sports jerseys now: THE POOSE across his back.
We did have to explain to his bubba that calling him “Poose-y” was not a good plan, just stick to Poose.
BTW, try looking that one up in the Urban Dictionary!
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Jun 10, 2010
Bizzy is the boys main nickname and Boopy is the baby girls. I am pretty sure she thinks that is her real name! Oops!!
Jun 10, 2010
My daughter, Madison, gets Madi from her Dad. I hate it. Loved it in the beginning, but he wanted to spell it Matty. No chance.
I call her Boo Boo, Sweetie, Peaches, and anything else that might come to mind. I called someone else Sweetie the other day and Madison (who is almost 4) looked at me and said “Mommy! I thought I was your sweetie!!”
My mom and grandmother call her Squirt. My grandfather (who is really more like my father) looked at her when she was born and declared that she “was as cute as a button!” Button has stuck. If you ask her what her name is she will tell you “It’s Madison. But you can call me button like my Bampie does”. And yes, she calls him Bampie. Adorable!!!
BTW- I love this post!!
Jun 10, 2010
My son is Miles but we call him either Bobo or Zzz Bobo. I have no idea where either of those came from. But he really is the best Bobo around. We are the only ones who call him that. My sister calls him Muffin (why? I do not know) and my mother never calls him anything because she hates his name.
Jun 10, 2010
Our nicknames for our Emma are not all that creative, but I’m posting here because they’re beginning to annoy her 11-year-old self, which is kind of delightful. Even in the womb, we called her Emma-Bear. So her nicknames have been variations of Bear: Li’l Bear, Bear Cub, Bear, Bear-Bear, Sweet Bear, Bearie-Bear. She rolls her eyes at them now, especially Li’l Bear, which I’m not allowed to call her even in private anymore. But I do.
Jun 10, 2010
Colin is 10, to me and my mom he still is Cally. Carson is 7, he’s Bub (shortened from Bubby). Colin started calling him Bubby when he was 3 days old and it’s stuck. I love nicknames.
Jun 10, 2010
My boy Cassidy is Cass, Casserole, the Cassman, Dee Double D, Casbah, and Beau (because he is my beau)and my mom called him Little Bits (because even though she suggested Cassidy, she never really liked it,(??) and so called him by a nickname.)
Rosemary is Rosey, Posey, Little Bird, Bitsy (Mom again, although she liked her name) and Chickadee.
(Our dog is Jasper. HIS nicknames are Haspa, The Large Brown Lump and YOUR Dog. I’m not sure any of these would work for your cherub.)
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Jun 10, 2010
Our son’s name is Nicholas but he goes by Nick in school which we (his mom, dad, and me his stepmom) hate. When I met him when he was 4 he used to correct everyone who called him Nick. I guess times change. His dad and I call him Doody-head. Also, not the greatest, but it’s always said with love.
Jun 10, 2010
I have a Jasper Thomas on the way. I’m due July 3rd and he’s named after his late great-grandfather (paternal) whom they called “Jappy”, I’m just not sure that’s PC anymore. So, we’re going to try and steer towards “Jack”, his late great-grandfather’s name (maternal) but J.T. seems to be sticking. Of course you just don’t know until he is here.
My daughter Daniella aka Ella, will of course despise “Puny” when she is 16 and I get funny looks from folks at the grocery when I call her “Punk” which is short for Punkin.
Your Jasper is adorable.
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Jun 10, 2010
my 4-year-old’s name is josette. we usually just call her josie. we have a million nicknames for her, but my husband mostly calls her jose (yes, spanish). she has blond hair, blue eyes, and is not a boy, or hispanic. we live in a city with many hispanic people, and my husband has no problem calling her that, loudly, at a park, with people everywhere.
Jun 10, 2010
Peanut Butter Anjali and Arun Macaroon. Unfortunately, not much rhymes with “Anjali” but naming our son Arun MORE than made up for it silly rhyming names. And sometimes, he DOES smell like a baboon or a lagoon. Shoe fits, dude – wear it.
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Jun 10, 2010
I call my oldest Booshker and I couldn’t begin to tell you why, or what it means. (It doesn’t sound anything like her rather classic/ordinary name.) She’s 4 and if she’s mad at someone for saying something descriptive about her, usually innocuous but she’ll get offended just by people talking about her, she’ll yell out: “I’m not cute! I’m Booshker!”
Try explaining that one to the innocents.
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Jun 10, 2010
We didn’t tell anyone our name choices either, and we didn’t know until he was born that he would be a “he”. We told everyone that if it was a boy, we’d call him Obadiah, and if it was a girl, Hepzibah. It got a lot of the horror out of the way, and no one said anything when we named him Asa.
We usually do call him Asa, or Ace if we’re in a hurry, but our love-names for him are numerous: Asa-Bean, Asa-Boo (which I sometimes shorten to Saboo), Goober, Disaster-Boy, Petit Monstre… it all depends on the moment.
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Jun 10, 2010
My 15-month-old daughter is called Nay Nay, The Nay, Big Nay, or sometimes Bebe Nay Nay because she used to shout “Nay, nay, nay!” when she was protesting some sort of terrible baby injustice (wet diaper, boob not appearing in front of her mouth quickly enough, that sort of thing).
Jun 10, 2010
I have a Jasper and we occasionally call him JazzyJuJu. Maybe that negates the “jew” association.
I also have a York. Love that name, as does my son (he’s 13) but man, oh man, are there some bad nicknames out there! York the Dork, Porkie Yorkie (good thing he’s skinny), not to mention it rhymes with Fork, Cork, and a lot of other dumb things. It’s brutal.
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Jun 10, 2010
When he was a baby, I called him Shnooks. Sometimes I call him Bug. Hey, Bug!
Sometimes “Michael, Michael, motorcycle” just to tease him.
Jun 10, 2010
Our daughter’s name is Wren (which my mom protested by saying she’d end up an old lady in a nursing home and everyone would think she was a old buzzard and not a pretty wren… talk about brutal!)
Anyway.. she hopped out a Wren and the name fits although it gets morphed into other things – Wrennie, Wrennieroo, Wrennikin Skywalker, Wrennie B, Wrenniebean, Bubee, and WrennieBob (a twist on grandpa’s nickname for her dad, Naterbob). My mom abandons it all and just calls her by some confectionary sweet – cupcake, sugar cookie, cookiedoodle, puddin, pud (by which we’ve gotten some weird looks and a few questions).
And then sometimes I get mixed up and call her by the cat’s name, Rosie.
Jun 10, 2010
All my kids have gone by Peanut, Punkin, pee-wee, etc.
My oldest is GabeBabe, Big Gabe, G-Man, The Gabbler, and Gabbles, though he hates the last one.
My second son Niall is Ni-bye, Ni-bo, Monkey-Man, Monkey-Toes.
My daughter Katie Rose is Katie-Bug, Katie-Doodle, Doodle, Rosebud, Rosie-Posie or Bubbles.
The new one (though we have a name picked out) is just Peanut, Bean, or Burrito. We’ll have to wait until she’s born to see whatever nicknames pop up.
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Jun 10, 2010
My oldest, Meredith, is Boogie. BoogShnoog, Shnoogety-Boogety, Boogie-Lou, Boogieshnots. And, when I’m feeling all emotionally invested in the “nuggle time”, she’s MereBear.
My youngest, Madelynn, is Sibbit. Sibbaroo, Roo, Sibbaroni, Sib. I came up with “Itty Bitty Sibling” as reason for the nickname, but the truth is that we just call her that. Not because of anything or anyone, we just call her that. We. just. do.
As a classic Elizabeth, I have always been affectionately referred to as Biz. Truth be told, it’s my favorite name. :0)
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Jun 10, 2010
I think you should ALWAYS call him JizzBomb. Esp. in the supermarket, and especially if you’re not wearing a bra and are chewing gum and drinking a Yoohoo. Always.
I knew a little boy named Jasper in my youth. He was my friend Queenie’s (yes her real name)little brother. He was one of those unique souls you know has never been around the world before; they were from Hong Kong, and he used to speak in this lovely pidgin Cantonese/English and knew extraordinarily long words for a six year old. So whenever I see the name Jasper, I think of that sweet little soul. I LOVE that name.
My son’s name is Xander, short for Alexander (tho we’ve never called him that). We call him “X” in emails and letters but he’s always Xander. A friend of ours calls him “Al”, which I love.
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Jun 10, 2010
Ray-zilla (from Rachel) because she has morphed from the sweet little lamb she was at birth to this little tyrant who wreaks destruction wherever she goes.
Jun 10, 2010
Love this post, and all the nicknames you have for Jasper! My 17 month old is Andrew, but we call him all sorts of names. Anders, Andy, Mister, we even refer to him as ‘The Boy’ but in a loving way! Other names include Andy-roo, Poobum, little man, sweetie-pie, and one of my faves is Anderson Pooper!
I’m 30 and my parents still call me ‘Banch’ – it’s what I called myself before I could say my name, and it stuck. They’ll still call out ‘Banch’ to me if we’re out at a store together, and I bet people DO think what a strange name that is, but I don’t really think twice about it. It is what it is, and I think it’s special to have those secret understandings with your immediate family!
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Jun 10, 2010
Great story about my eldest child’s nickname. When I was a few months pregnant, I was standing outside on evening with my three year old niece, looking up at the stars. She pointed to one and told that it’s name was Tookey Dook. (long o sounds). I laughed and repeated the name to her and we shared a giggle together. Fast forward a few more months to my hospital room after giving birth. Someone brought the same niece back to see me and the new baby. She climbed up onto the bed, arranged herself carefully next to me, leaned down and kissed the new baby on the forehead. Then with the biggest smile ever she said, ” See Aunt Dawn? I told you it was Tookey Dook and now she’s here! The entire family has called my child Tookey for 16 years now.
(Note: Now that the terrible teens have arrived, I do occasionally refer to her as Bette Davis now.)
Dawn´s last blog ..How to pack the whole world in a Ziplock bag
Jun 10, 2010
It’s interesting how so many nicknames sound so cute when said within the family, yet so weird when said outside in the presence of strangers. All I can say about my own nicknames is that two of them were food-related.
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Jun 10, 2010
Anna has been The Kid in utero and out, Silly Goose, Goose, The Goose, etc. Parker is mostly PeeDee. Her big sister named her that in utero which surprised us because she said she wanted a girl. Turns out, according to Anna, that is a girl’s name. Parker is most often PeeDee, but she is also referred to as PeeDee PeeDee Parker and as PeeDee PeeDee Pumpkin Eaty How Does Your Garden Grow. I’m not sure what kind of monster would call her that… Her initials are PJ, and yet, that’s not one of her nicknames.
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Jun 10, 2010
Oh this is beyond funny!! Jizzbomb. LOVE IT.
Both my kids have “different” names… meaning, you won’t find them in the top 500 but with that they don’t have easy roll-off-the tongue nicknames either.
We also have a weird made-up language around here – husband & I had it even before kids, and though we chided ourselves once the kids were born that we needed to scale it back, tone it down, around the kids, lest they grow up believing those are actual WORDS… well, we didn’t. And we hear them saying things like Gosh, mom I’m horms. And hope they don’t actually SAY that around anyone else. Horms means hungry, dontchaknow?
As to telling the parents prior to said child’s arrival. The moment after finding out our daughter was a girl I immediately called my mother & told her we were going to call her Sinead. She laughed out loud… until I said, no, actually, that I was serious. At which point, I stopped consulting her about names. Cause dangit I LIKED Sinead.
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Her Bad Mother Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
We’ve always made up words, totally long before having kids. Weird names for everything, bizarre nicknames for our cats. It’s a wonder that we pass in polite society.
Jun 10, 2010
My daughter, Chloe, started calling herself “coco” when she was just learning to talk. That somehow turned into “coco puff”.
Our nanny calls her Cookie which cracks me up.
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Jun 10, 2010
Big Kid and Smorgas. Or Tedster and the Smoog. (pronounced Shmorgas and Shmoog)
I guess I’ll stop when they bring girl friends home.
Her Bad Mother Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
And you don’t go all the way to SmorgasBORD? I wouldn’t be able to resist that.
Jun 10, 2010
So my oldest we call everything. Monster, monkey, muffin,pumpkin, turkey baby, turkey butt, pumpkin pie, girl-child, kiddo, kidlet, punky, punky- girl and any variation thereof. The second girl is two weeks old and already has Jumpy, jump-jump, Z, and Squishy. Both of them have been called “my little mexican baby” but only in private. And honestly, they do look latino…
Her Bad Mother Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
So. Almost as good as JAZZER ARAFAT. Or, JASPERGER’S SYNDROME.
Kimberly C Reply:
June 11th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
@Her Bad Mother, The bad part is that Turkey, turkey-baby, turkey bird and turkey butt are all ways that I am TRYING to avoid calling her a childhood nickname of mine…. Turd. My dad. What can I say, the man has always been colorful. But my kid! She creates nicknames too! We are in Alabama- my people are country, maybe redneck even? Husband’s family is very suburban- guess which grandma ended up with “Mee-maw” as a name? Ha! And then, oh so organically, grandpa became “Pee-paw” which can make me roll around on the floor laughing.
Jun 10, 2010
Love this! Love your blog and all these fun responses!
I have a 5-year old son – Eben. He started off in utero as “Bug”. After he was born, he became Bubba the Sweetest little man, which morphed into Bubba Sweetman, and he is still Sweetman, or DJ Sweetman. He is also Ebos, Ebosnebbs, Ebosnebbikins, Chunchie, and Chunchkin (the last two are modifications for the nickname I call my husband, Chuncho, which is derived from Nacho Libre’s “Hey Chuncho, I need to borrow some sweatpants!”).
My second son, who is only 7-months old, has had less time for us to develop nicknames for. His proper name is Gideon. Of course, we call him Giddy, which everyone said would be horrible, but it actually suits him quite well. It also makes a pretty fantastic diaper-changing song: There was a baby who had a poopy bum, and Giddy was his name-o, G-I-D-D-Y…and so on… He is also known as Bundlekin and Brumby (I know I’m asking for it to refer to him as a wild horse, but it suits him too!).
This, of course, does not stop with our children, the cats and the dog have many names also. It appears as though once you start, you can’t stop!
Her Bad Mother Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Our cats have nicknames, too. In fact, I don’t know that we’ve EVER called them by their real names. The kids just know them as, among other things, the Bad Ladies, Sis and Doob, Sissypants and Effin Doob (don’t ask).
kelly (@kellynaturally tweeter formerly known as @kblogger) Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
@Her Bad Mother, as in pass me the effin doob????
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Jun 10, 2010
My sister-in-law used to call my oldest daughter Peanut. That stopped shortly after my son was born when my daughter got the notion that “peanut” referred to a part of the male anatomy, and asked me why her aunt called her such a strange thing. I explained the difference, but still…
My son gets called Jeep, for his initials, G.P.
My youngest, Selene, doesn’t have too many nicknames yet. I don’t like calling her “Silly”. She makes a good “monster” with the noises she loves to make, or “rascal” because she’s always into mischief.
We also mess with the pronunciation of her name. Selene, Selena, Sell-uh-nay, Sell-lay-nuh. I call her Lena sometimes too.
Stephanie´s last blog ..Don’t Let Your Kids Be Incompetent in Basic Life Skills
Jun 10, 2010
I wanted to name Matthew, Sebastian. (I should have told NO ONE DAMMIT!)
All my kids have had nicknames and it has followed tradition to our littlest.
Aaron is “Butterlump” “My little pat of butter” and “Little one”.
In contrast, my father called my twin sister and I “Jill” “Punzelle” “Gilda” and “Anna Maria Stanzetti”.
I seriously think I am doing ok in comparison.
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Catherine Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
@Loralee, I love the name Gilda. Also, with nicknames like ‘Anna Maria Stanzetti,’ is it any wonder you gravitated to opera?
Catherine´s last blog ..A Jasper By Any Other Name
Jun 10, 2010
Stinkerbutt, which turned into Tinkerbutt, which turned into Tink.
We even made up a song (to the tune of “You Are My Sunshine”:
You are my Tinkerbutt
My little Tinkerbutt
You make poopies, twice a day
You’ll never know dear, how much they TIIIINK
Because we throw the diapers away.
(My husband gets credit for that one.)
Catherine Reply:
June 11th, 2010 at 10:09 am
@Jo, one day, I will write the post about my songs. Such as, “The Stinky Man” (to the tune of “The Candy Man”) and “Steamer” (to the tune of “Dreamer”)
(*ahem*: “STEAMER/Jibby rolled a steamer/Now he’s got a poo in his pants OH NO…”)
Catherine´s last blog ..A Jasper By Any Other Name
Jun 10, 2010
Well, the oldest responds to Munchie, Munchie Butt, Munchie Moo, Tadpole (Because I was a froglette and my dear ole Dad just couldn’t let it go) and Little Bunny Tay-Tay.
Middle is KaylaBug or Love Bug.
But it’s the last one that really has the worst of it. He’s Jackasaurus, Jack Attack, Bubba, Bugaboo, and most regrettably: Jacks-off (Because the opposite of JacksON is … you got it.)
I have no idea why my children’s nickname are so much longer than their real names.
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Catherine Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
@followingtheroad, aaaand, Jacks-off just made me LAUGH. OUT. LOUD.
YOU WIN NICKNAMES.
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followingtheroad Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
@Catherine, Do I get a crown? I should totally get a crown.
followingtheroad´s last blog ..Gah.
Jun 10, 2010
My kids both had a long string of names when they were smaller… Now they have one each (though variations sometimes!) Matt is Shoo (because when he was a baby he loved the sound of shhhoooooooo instead of just shh) and Preston is Goog… Which derives from the following: peanut -> peanuty goodness (sung to the tune of cookie monster C is for cookie, that’s good enough for me, sub c is for cookie with peanuty goodness) -> somehow became pgoodness -> which somehow turned into Goog, Googstar, Googstar Airlines, etc.
Jun 10, 2010
My daughter is a mil- started out as milly girl, then milly, and now it is mostly just mil (or mil
pill, sil bil mil, etc). Has nothing at all to do with her given name, but it started organically when she was less than a month old and mil is now pretty much what her dad and I call her exclusively.
Jun 10, 2010
I love nicknames.
I am not a parent yet, but my best friend’s little sister has a pretty adorable nickname. Her name is Angie, but her family calls her Angie Panjy Ping Pang Orangutan. 
Jun 10, 2010
I love that there are other people who call their kids all kinds of crazy crap
Both of my girls have long lists of nicknames.
The oldest is any number of these: Charlabear, Beaner, Sweetie pea, Charlootie, Loo loo, Budge, Beedge, Beedgie bear… there are more that I can’t think of right now. I’ve recently been informed, however, that I am only to call her Sweetie pea or Beedge; because she likes those.
The younger is: Clarity bell, Claribeener, Claribana, Bananarama, Clubby, Clubooboo, Clubanarama, Beeb… sometimes Abraclairdabra.
I completely agree with the adage that “a much loved child has many names.”
It’s kind of a compulsion with me, I think… none of my best friends ever expect to hear me utter their actual names
My husband answers to Monkey Bucket – only for me though
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Catherine Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
@Jessica, my husband answers to Doofus, but only for me
Catherine´s last blog ..A Jasper By Any Other Name
Jun 10, 2010
I am slightly embrassed to admit this but for as long as I can remember my daddy called me sonaconahoneywok, said exactly as it is spelled. The rest call me jule or Jules. Juli, the name I use is just half of my given name. I have fallen into the trap of calling all my nephews baby. The 3 y/o is a big boy not a baby as he tells me, ( his mum calls him her zacahrycakes)!
Jun 10, 2010
names. little feathered keys. some jingle. some clank. some sing. they open doors, smiles, hearts.
i balk at writing ours here because they are *magical*, and because I am ridiculously private, and because if I did I’d look over my shoulder for the tsk tsk tooth-sucking sound of the voodoo high priestess.
i can tell you they are mostly delicious, they are sweets and baked goods and silly floral names, they are gender bent and have no known origin. Then get shortened and become derivative nick-names and nonsense songs and inside jokes. and now we are perched on the precipice of DON’T when the endearments become embarrassing and so i sneak them in like icing at just the right moment lest there be shrugging and eye rolling.
they are precious.
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Jun 10, 2010
Laughing out loud and waking the children, damn you.
I thought that we came up with a nickname-proof name with Thalia.
Sage, at only two, bested us. When she started calling her Thal-Yuck.
mom101´s last blog ..Pink and blue
Jun 10, 2010
Now that Wombat, Lizard, and My Main Man Stan are teens and a budding preteen, they prefer I restrict those nicknames to the house.
Jun 10, 2010
We call her baby girl, monkey, senor crankypants, the baby and Magagaloo, Miss Maggie, Magaggie.
We change the lyrics to songs for her and my favourite is Magagaloo to the tune of the Muppets Mah Na Mah Na song.
My mother calls her Maggie Margaret, which is a bit odd.
I’ll also throw in the odd poopypants or stinky bum.
Amy B´s last blog ..Dear Baby,
Jun 10, 2010
Boo calls the older kids Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Always has, likely always will. I, however, call the girl Zee, or MicMacPaddiwhack when I feel like really embarrassing her in front of her friends. The middle child has always been Smash, Skjel was Joe (don’t ask…can’t answer…he was just a real Joe) and Knox gets Knoxy, Fox, Foxy Knoxy, KiKi, Keeks, Kickadoo, Rocky and the list goes on. Lately it’s Kiki.
I figure he’s wearing his hair in a ponytail right now, I may as well go whole hog on the gender confusion bit.
Redneck Mommy´s last blog ..Somebody Tell Me What To Do
Jun 10, 2010
Seriously cackled over Jazzer Arafat. And Joo. Cackled.
My mother also balked when we told her that we were going to name our first India. In the end, that’s not who she was, so she got a different name, but we decided we certainly would not give away our choices for our second kid. My mother would antagonize me anyway, with her, It’s not going to be India, is it? to which I would answer, Oh mom, you are going to WISH her name was India.
As for nicknames? The first is lovebug, the second is, well also lovebug. Although her father and I often refer to her as Cassidy Catastrophe. Or Hurricane Cassidy. It’s accurate.
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Jun 10, 2010
chan the man prefers we not call him that. but on his facebook page he lists “chanzy, chandelier, champaign, Chan, and even Terry Fox” as his many names. i think chan the man should still be allowed.
our daughter is aly-bally-doodle-all-the-day. and she always has been.
our youngest is samsonite.
leaking crazy´s last blog ..up and down and up and down
Jun 10, 2010
My dad called me “muck” when I was a kid. Don’t ask me why because I have no idea.
My daughter is Aery Beary Fairy, Air Bear and Booger. My son is Con-Man, Conny or Goober.
Occasionally they’re both ‘GOTOYOURROOMRIGHTNOWDAMMIT!’
Barnmaven´s last blog ..Powerless
Jun 10, 2010
My daughter, Natalie, referred to herself as “Nanny” when she was first learning to talk. We adopted it because we heard it all. day. long. Now, she’s Nan, Nanners, Nanalicious, Nanaroo… etc.
Jun 10, 2010
My son Carson is Bud. That’s it. Daughter Emma is Emma Bear, Sissy(I’m the only one that calls her that). They both get the normal sweetheart, sweetie, honey, etc. They haven’t reached the age of being embarrassed by me or their dad. But when they do get to that age I should have some really good nicknames that will be just mortifying!
Jun 10, 2010
Mine get a lot of those good old standards – muffin, Miss Muffet, Sweet Pea, lovey, that sort of thing. Pumpkinpie also gets called ladybuggy or Lady Lou Who, or by Miss G, G-girl, G-unit, etc. The Bun is already confused about his name because of a daycare nickname I hate, so I try hard to reinforce his real name so he at least KNOWS it, when I’m not calling him buddy and little man and so on.
And kittenpie, of course, was my orange cat’s nickname. The black one goes by Stupid, Doofus, or Fooly Cat. Or Snouty, because he does have a long snout.
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kittenpie Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Also was going to add I know a few small Jaspers – it’s cute, and way better than the weird crap my mom was suggesting, so there you are.
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Jun 10, 2010
My daughter, Hannah, has been: Hannah Banana, Punky, Bunny, Bunny Boo, Hannie Boo, Boo-ba-doo, Boo Boo, and my favorite–Monkey Doodle. One of her day care teachers calls her miss chatterbox.
Jun 10, 2010
These are awesome…we have so many nicknames too. Eldest is mostly Papoosie Girl, given by my mother after we swaddled her within an inch of her life, she was colicy! Then there was Rosebud and finally Sweetpea. They all have others of course, with the strangest for the baby being, Memaka…I am actually not even sure how to spell it. Her most fitting would be Miss Screamy Pants, she is quite a screamer.
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Jun 10, 2010
My name is Amanda. While I was growing up, my father took to calling me :Skeeter” because I buzzed around him like a mosquito. That is all well and good, until Lil John came out with that “From the windooow, to the walls, till the sweat drip down my b*lls, awww SKEET SKEET muthaf*cka!” rap song, thus announcing to the word that a slang term for semen (aka JIZZBALLS) is skeet. My then-boyfriend-now-husband still gets a kick out of the fact that my father basically calls me “ejaculator”.
Jun 10, 2010
I am guilty of the million nickname problem. Age has made me forget most of them for the oldest 2- but a few stuck.
When my 13 year old was about 2, she declared herself a grown lady… so I’d refer to her as Miss Madalyn. After a while, I just called her Miss, and still do.
When my 10 year old son, Benjamin, was a baby, he had super blue eyes. He was called Benja-Blue. I also called him Bud. He still answers to Bud.
When the two of them were younger, I was a participant of a mommy message board, and when I’d talk about them, they were the ‘wee beasties’. Now, it has become a term of endearment in our house. They refer to themselves as beasties. I am the head beastie.
We also have a 6 month old, Melody. When she was a newborn, she’d pull her legs up under her when she slept on our chests and we called her froggie. Then she started grunting while she nursed and I called her my little piggie. Then, when she started to move around more and hold her head up, I noticed how big her ears are and how her little bit of hair stood up in a large tuft on top of her head. She looked just like a little monkey. For 4 months now, I have hardly used her name. She is the Monkey. Pronounced- Mohn-kay.
Jolene´s last blog ..Melody, a birth retrospective (finally!)
Jun 10, 2010
My husband’s uncle was named Thumper in the womb by all of his siblings because (of course) he thumped, and Bambi had just been released that year.
Thumper never was called “David” – so much so that last year, “David” LEGALLY changed his name to “Thumper David Smith.”
Seriously. How awesome is that?
Jun 10, 2010
When I was first pregnant, and before she was born, we called our eldest daughter Hannah, Macadoo. Now she mostly answers to Boojamagoo, Booj, or Shug (short for sugar bear). The little one is usually Chicken, Chickamagoo, Chicka, Memma Katerina, Mem, or Memma Kate. When I’m talking about or to both of them, they’re my magoos or the chicklets. I’m a big fan of nicknames! We rarely use their actual given names- and when we do they know they’re in trouble. Big trouble when we start using their real middle names too!
Jun 10, 2010
I named my son Zachary, and my entire Spanish-speaking family calls him Zacharito. Which I turned into Zacharito Bandido, and then just Frito Bandido. No idea where that came from, since I don’t even remember those ads!
Jun 11, 2010
This tugged at my heart in a totally unexpected way. I had never thought about nicknames with so much affection before.
My daughter’s name is Violet Picabo (peek-a-boo). As you can imagine their were a few protests, but in the end the name fits her like the very skin she was born in. My grandparents call her Picabo, almost exclusively. I tend to call her Vi-Vi or Boo when I am feeling melty and dewy eyed. Middle-naming her on the playground always causes a few heads to turn. No matter how aggressively you scream VIOLET PICABO, it sounds like you’re playing a game.
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Jun 11, 2010
I used to babysit a little boy who was nicknamed Bud. On his first day of JK he got sent to the principal’s office because he wouldn’t answer the teacher when she called his name, (Stephen). Turns out he didn’t know that Stephen WAS his name!
And I nicknamed my youngest Badness Jones before he could even walk….he also gets called Smash and Sam Bam. My oldest is nicknamed Lollie – She used to wear only purple, and my husband called her some endearment and she insisted, no, she was a purple lollipop, which eventually got shortened.
Jasper’s nicknames killed me, I loved reading everyone else’s too.
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Jun 11, 2010
I have a niece who is 45 years old and still answers to Poopsie. I believe the nickname stems from the time, at age 2, when she used the display bathrooms at Sears.
Jun 11, 2010
I love this. Kendall’s nickname will NEVER be Ken or, heaven forbid, Kenny. Oh God, I shudder to think of that. It is, instead, Robble, at least amongst my husband and I. NO clue where it came from. We can not dissect it’s origins because it seems it came about in a colicky newborn sleep deprived haze which our brains have wiped from existence. All we know is since our earliest memories of being functioning parents (around 7 months), we have referred to him as Robble. And I’m told this is the noise the Hamburgler makes when he steals and eats hamburgers. I’m fairly certain we didn’t know this or have this in mind when the name came about, although I guess I can’t be positive.
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Jun 11, 2010
My sweet little girl’s name is Nico (yes, she is named after that Nico) which doesn’t present too many problems. I mean, her nicknames are Monkey and Baby girl which have nothing to do with her name. The only foreseeable problem will be school. Apparently Nico in (this really isn’t meant to sound offensive or racist) Lebanese or Arabic, I honestly can’t remember, is blowjob. Awesome. We’ve never been able to get an absolute straight answer because those who are horrified by our daughter’s name are also incredibly embarrassed.
Did I mention that she will be going to an ultra multicultural school in the fall? For the love of god.
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Ms. Whiteplates Reply:
June 12th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
@Ms. Whiteplates, I forgot that our smallest child (Django) is otherwise known as Bubs, Bubby, Bubba and Butters. He was a fat baby.
I didn’t have a nickname when I was a child because my parents were weird about nicknames, my mom was horrified when we called Nico Froggy for her first few months of life – a sleeping newborn with her legs bent kind of look like frog legs. I don’t know if it is because they are extraordinarily religious and don’t want to equate humans with animal but that’s what they get for all the mind boggling religiousy things they say at my dinner table.
Ms. Whiteplates´s last blog ..A Lament for Gluten
Jun 11, 2010
Josie is Princess Whups-a-Daisy; she falls a LOT. Noah is Boo-boo, Knight Whups-a-Daisy Uh-Oh, and Noah Skywalker. Guess which 2 he requested?
Jun 11, 2010
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Jun 11, 2010
We are alos on the gazillion and one nicknames train. And all of them – nonsensical.
Matthew (11) is Matt, Matty, Mouse, Matt the Rat, Magoo, Mister, Machoo (like a sneeze), Mighty Mouse, Schmoopsie poo, Boy, Wondernut, Thunderpants.
Grace (6) is Gracie, Gracie-Lou, Freebush, Bush, Gracie-Lou-Who, Goose, Gooshius, Baby Girl, Peanut, Shmooshy face.
Our Dog (Charlie) gets Charles, Chubbers, Foofy, Fluffernut, Furface, Shar-lay. And last, but definitely not least, our cat’s real name is Stinky. She is also known as Princess, Petunia, Kitty and Stinkers.
Jun 11, 2010
My daughter Sophie has been all of the typical nicknames- Sophie, soapy, sweet pea, sweetie p, poppy, squishers, and little buddy- which morphed into buddy- which has morphed into budders. People immediately think of the unfortunate little boy on south park and ask why I would do such a thing… But it is what it is. And for now, it’s stuck.
Jun 11, 2010
Like one of the previous commentors, both of my boys have been called BoogerButt from their births. Also Baby Bear. In writing, they get called N and T.
I’m not a big fan of people shortening my boys’ names though, they are Nicholas and Tobin, not Nick or Tobey.
Mostly, though, I call my boys “My Love” and “My Heart”.
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Jun 11, 2010
Somehow my baby brother (16 yrs younger) is called “Bacon” – his name is JACOB. I have no idea where it came from. Maybe b/c Jacob has 4/5 letters that spell Bacon??
He answers to it anytime you say it. Quite funny.
Definitely lends itself to lots of fun jokes – when cooking breakfast, grocery shopping, and especially the Beggin’ Strips commercial “Iiiiit’s BACON!!!!”
Loved the post.
I may or may not have spit out my water on the monitor when I read “JizzBomb”
Jun 11, 2010
previous comment notwithstanding, my dog answers to about 7 names too – among them Ding-a-Ling (great fun to shout across a park & watch him run to it) and ZaZa.
n.b: this comment was voodoo priestess approved. she waives all jurisdiction over anyone else but me.
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Jun 11, 2010
Our kids are named Kyler Kermit who we mostly call Kermit or Blue, and Mikabella Merx we call her Pink, Mika, Squweaka, or Bella-roni (like Rice-a-roni), or Monster-bella. The colors have been a funny set of nicknames for them. It came out of necessity actually. I yelled to my husband one day to help, he said which one Blue or Pink? It seemed easier and faster than yelling their names. The trouble comes in now, we are pregnant with our 3rd…. what color will we call him/her? We don’t know what it is yet?
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June 11th, 2010 at 11:47 am
My sister’s name is Brooke, but has always been Josie to my mom and Buddy to me. And now that she is an Auntie….. wait for it…. we call her Auntie.!
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Jun 11, 2010
My second daughter has been “Bucket” since birth (her name is Olivia). She was such a large baby, and always full of rolls of beautiful, wonderful baby fat. My sister mentioned one day how she was “just a bucket of baby fat…” and the name Bucket has stuck ever since (she is now 7 and the skinniest girl you would ever see!). We often get interesting looks at her baseball games when we yell “Go Buckets!!”.
Jun 11, 2010
My daughter’s name is Sabina. We call her Bina, Bina-boo, Beans. Bina-boo is my favorite. She’s this funny little self assured 3 yrs old that will tell you if you ask what her name is to address her as “Miss Sabina”.
My son’s name is Emiliano and we call him Nano or Big Man E.
Jun 11, 2010
My son Thomas is T-Man, Thomasina (he’ll hate that one when he’s older) Puddin’ or Sweet Potato. My daughter Emerson is Emma-Lemma-Ding-Dong, Emster, Em, Peaches, or Emerson-Stop-Pulling-The-Dog’s-Tail! which is actually more of a command, but comes out of my mouth nearly as frequently as her name does.
Jun 11, 2010
I named my younger daughter Kathleen. She began calling herself “Mouse” at the grand old age of 18 months. She is now 23 and most people outside the family do not know the name that’s on her birth certificate.
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Jun 11, 2010
My son Thomas is T-Man, Thomasina (he’ll hate that one when he’s older) Puddin’ or Sweet Potato, or my favorite – Ebenezer Double-sneezer – because he always sneezes twice in a row. My daughter Emerson is Emma-Lemma-Ding-Dong, Emster, Em, Peaches, or Emerson-Stop-Pulling-The-Dog’s-Tail! which is actually more of a command, but comes out of my mouth nearly as frequently as her name does.
Jun 11, 2010
Our Ruby is a very squirmy girl (especially after her bath) and her father frequently refers to her as his “greasy jamon”….which prompts my mother to constantly question the sanity of parents who refer to their daughter as a pig.
Jun 11, 2010
Never, ever, EVER tell anyone What You’re Naming The Baby. I learned this the hard way with my first son, who was an Archer in utero for WEEKS until my ex-husband foolishly told his mother. “ORCHARD?” she screeched, “ORCHARD you’re going to name my grandson after a bunch of FRUIT TREES?” Of course she was being deliberately obtuse (there is nothing the matter with her hearing or her grasp of the English language, she’s just a bitch). “So he’ll be Archie, like the comic book, and everyone will laugh,” she finally sighed. So we changed the name to something else, and since I keep our real names anonymous let’s just say it’s a name like Thomas but we wanted to call him Tom. “Well if his name is THOMAS you can’t call him TOM that’s just STUPID, I don’t BELIEVE in nicknames,” my ex-MIL whined, conveniently forgetting about Archie. So I laid down the law and told my ex that either he lied to his mother and swore we were naming the baby Tom or it was back to the drawing board. “You’re naming him TOM, just TOM, not THOMAS,” was the predictable response, “that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of.” But we stuck to our guns. She called him Tom. And then after he was born she presented us with an engrave-able silver-ended glass tube, a BIRTH CERTIFICATE HOLDER, with the plate engraved “TOM” and oh, the smugness. That thing was the ugliest knickknack I have ever seen, and the tube was too short for his birth certificate, and we threw it out I think but the point is JUST DON’T TELL ANYONE UNTIL THE BABY IS BORN AND MAYBE NOT EVEN THEN. Eventually my ex-MIL saw a blanket a friend had had embroidered with the child’s name, birthdate, and weight at birth and said “well why would it say Thomas when he’s TOM?” and I told her “his legal name is Thomas but we call him Tom, we lied to you because you were being so difficult about his name. We almost got a divorce over it and decided that was the lesser evil.” She was furious, of course, and kept right on meddling and eventually we did get a divorce but to this day she calls my oldest son TOM so I guess I win? Oy.
Jun 11, 2010
Love this post. My sons name is Wesley. Yes, it is old fashioned but it fits him. Nicknames that have appeared:
Wesie (by me)
Wes
Mr. W by his older cousins to get him riled up
Bug
Bug Butt
Toothless ( just lost a tooth)
Monkey Toes
Jun 11, 2010
My mum always called me Lucy as a kid. I have no idea. If she liked Lucy so much why didn’t she just call me Lucy?
I call Sam Samuelly McSmelly, Spud, Monkeybum, Stinky pants, Flump a lump, Munchkin, Brat, Puddle pants (Don’t ask me, I open my mouth and words come out…) his best friend calls him Max. In fact he answers to anything and everything, well, except Sam that is.
My grandad was the best, he could never remember peoples names so all the male grandkids were called Cuthbert and all the females Sidney.
Jun 11, 2010
We named our son Hieronymus. This was agreed upon even before we knew he was a boy. Most of the world know him as Harry. But to us, he is Harrypotamus and always will be.
Talk about your parents hating it.
Yeah. Been there.
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Jun 11, 2010
My eldest son Luke gets called Cookie. My daughter Moya gets called Moya Moo. My son Billy gets called Billy Boy. My daughter Nell gets called The Nell Bell or Nellicious.
I love nicknames, my parents had about 5 differnt names for each of us and even now as adults we know exactly who is who.
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Jun 11, 2010
Our son Miles has a gazillion nicknames. Myzee P. Pyzee (he calls himself this at times), Myzee, Monkey, MyzerDoodle just to name a few
Jun 11, 2010
This post made me giggle so much…I had always thought I was a little different for sticking my little girl with a million nicknames.
What stuck? Pooparoo.
She answers to Pooparoo more often then her real name, Abigail.
Jun 11, 2010
So, if you are going to call him Jasberry Ram, you most definitely have to get the book “Jamberry” by Bruce Degen. If your kids haven’t heard it yet, they are going to love it! Just be prepared to read it 25 times! A few other favorites for two year olds: “Little Blue Truck” by Alice Schertle, “The Big Red Bus” by William Benedict and “Sheep in a Jeep” by Nancy E. Shaw. Cute pics by the way, cute kids!
Jun 11, 2010
i have a nephew named felix and one named hugo. hugo is called hugs. felix…well, there are many names.
i have to tell you, i LOVE the name jasper!! and that kid…is breathtakingly gorgeous!!
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Jun 12, 2010
Oh, man,this post made me snort coffee out my nose and it’s not even 8am here. Hang on, let me wipe the tears….
….we started calling my youngest “Katie-did,” which led to calling my oldest, “Sarah-doo.” Not that exciting, except for the allusion to poop, I guess.
Jun 12, 2010
@dana, Pull that stick out of your ass and have a drink or two, hon.
Jun 12, 2010
That is so funny that Amelia is Budge or Budgie without really an explanation. When my son was born, my husband held him in his arms for the first time and called him “Boogito.” It’s nothing like his actual name but from then on he’s been Boogito, Boog, Boogs, Boogeets, and Bug. I can hardly wait to hear what he’ll call our second child. I hope he doesn’t call him Jizzbomb.
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Jun 12, 2010
Oh you’ve mad me laugh and laugh with this. Glad that my comment is right underneath Sunny’s comment. My son is called Sonny and my mother in law point blank refuses to call him it. She says it’s not a real name. Even though we named him after Sonny Rollins and Sonny Liston and Sonny Bono (okay, maybe not the last one). Instead she calls him Little’Un. She hasn’t broken in 10 YEARS. I play trying to catch her out. I thought when we had another she would have to distinguish between them but no. He’s still Little’Un. And when our second was a girl, I wanted to call her Cher just to piss her off. But I chickened out.
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Jun 12, 2010
My oldest gets Jare Bear, Hotrod(his dad calls him that), Max gets Mighty Max Max bunny Tater Tot Wingnut Chicken Neck (the last 2 are from Pop-pop, Max calls pop-pop hubcap). They both get Crazy boy, I can’t even remeber how that one started!
Jun 12, 2010
OK, I once called my husband “sweet pea-ness” in the presence of my two stepsons. I’d been adding -ness to a lot of words, but it worked less well on sweet pea.
My husband is muffin (short for stud muffin, obviously) so the girls are muffinettes, muffin pies. I have Hannah Bean and Claire becomes Clarabella then Belle. The list goes on and on, and on my blog they are sometimes gingerlings.
I love Jasper, which is what everyone used to call my old sweet dog jarvis when they couldn’t remember his name correctly.
Um, what the hell about the comment before mine? Do you want a call to action for some flame warring? Oh wait, I am the grown up at my house. Never mind.
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Jun 12, 2010
LOVE the nicknames. We call our kids all sorts of things. Mostly, I just call both of them “Goober”.
Jun 13, 2010
this did indeed make me laugh! I suspect though that the name Jasper will become very popular (thanks to Stephanie Meyer) so no doubt lots of new nicknames will come to mind.
I’ve been given a fair few nicknames, and slowly i’m still getting more!
My correct given name is Rebecca (i spent ages changing the spelling about because I thought Rebecca was just too dull)
I’ve had
Boo, Bex, Becca, Becky, Donut (my aunt still calls me this, and to this day I still answer her. She even does it in public, and I respond to her in public. People must think my name really is Donut) I’ve also been called Bee, Smally (my maiden name was Smalldon)and the latest is Queen Rottie…. I won’t even tell you how that one came about. it’s a LONG story.
my sisters nicknames are even weirder. Her name is Amy, and her nicknames when she was smaller were Fatguts and Daddys stool pigeon.
My younger brother was known as Bushboy.
nicknames are awesome
my husband is known to everyone as Flams….
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Jun 13, 2010
Psssst just call him J. J is the awesomest best nickname ever, because it’s the best letter of the alphabet — it’s the tenth! The tenth. That’s special. And only really smart and beautiful people get to have the nickname J. Really.
Or you could call him Rock.
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Jun 14, 2010
My son is Maxwell, which became Maxiwelly moo-moo, now he is just Moo-and 16-and yes, I call him that around his friends
Sometimes he is Schmooey…and then Bubbie
Lindy Pearl is Sissy, Pearl Monster to her daddy and I still call her 17 year old self Sugar Plum Fairy
Jun 14, 2010
We’ve taken to calling my almost 2 year old, Edward, baby Al-Qaeda because he’s a bit of a terrorist, as most 2 year olds are. I never thought twice about it until we were in our local Middle-Eastern owned convenience store. We got some funny looks as well…..I think I’ll go back to just calling him Tiny. Yikes.
Jun 14, 2010
My oldest daughter (4) has the nickname of Punky. I am apparently especially lazy and usually shorten it to Punk. So we are in public and I call her “Punk” to get her attention or tell her that we are leaving. I wonder if people think a) that her name is actually Punky when we use that or b) I am just calling my kid a punk.
Her sister is Tay Tay (which I didn’t think was odd for Taylor, but everyone comments on it).
Both girls have been called Shorty McButterpants (if you’ve ever seen The King of Queens, there’s an episode where Kevin James calls himself Chubby McButterpants).
Jun 14, 2010
Our son is named Nikhil but only his doctor calls him that. He’s otherwise known as Kili, Kilimanjaro, Handsome, Mr. Man, Kils (majorly awkward at the playground), Kilsies (??!), Monkey Man, Chief, Baba, Babs, Babbycakes, and so on. It always amazes me that he responds to any and all of these names.
Jun 14, 2010
Ah, a post to make us laugh.
Flora is faced with the same “nickname” problem. We can’t call her “Flor”; my brother calls her “Flo” on occasion, and we wish he wouldn’t. I called her Florabean, and probably will for the rest of her life.
Kathryn, on the other hand, does not go by that name, ever, except when she is in trouble with her father. She has been, since hour 1, Kate, my Kate. I have taken to calling her Kate-Kate, Katiebelle, and Katie-Kate.
I think I can get away with these.
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Jun 14, 2010
My daughter’s name is Lily, but the first time my grandmother held her she cooed, “My little Lilikoi!” and I kicked myself for not naming her that, because I thought it was so pretty. Most of her nicknames come from that: Lee-Lee, Koi, Koi-Koi.
We also call her Schmoops and Kupa. Where does this stuff come from?
Jun 15, 2010
Jasper is a wonderful name. And I’m fairly sure I’d never think not to call him Joo, too. (Do you see spellings when you speak? I do.)
We named The Best Baby Oriana, an unusual (but allowed, due to medieval tradition) name in Portugal. It’s a fairy name, a princess name.
Unfortunately, people tend to think she is Mariana, much more common, or, which I dread, Ariana (I would never name my child Aryan, but it’s astoundlingly popular these days).
I thought I would call her Ori, but I almost never do, except when I am overcome with her joy and burst out into Ori-ori-ori-ori-gatinha. She (is 17 months and) calls herself Nana (which is also what she says mamã is called). We call her Oninana, Ninana, nanana, bichana (what you call kitties), ori-bichana, bichaninha. Also, Disparate.
In English, I mostly just call her baby, pussy-cat, kitty-kins and such. Sometimes, Spaghetti-Oh.
The looks askance come mostly from the English, and not from the referring to my child as canned “food”.
Jun 15, 2010
My 3 boyz nicknames are: Viz, Dutch and Mooga.
One of them is Caleb. I thought FOR SURE we would call him Cal for short, but nope.
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Jun 15, 2010
Oh my. Where to begin?
My boys, twins, are either Twin A & B, Noggin (he has a shunt so his head size is slightly larger, I know…bad) & Screech (he was on oxygen so long that he has a scream that can rupture an eardrum), Bugaboo & Little Man, Heffalump (he’s the heavier of the two) & Wee Mite, Sludge & Smudge, Tall Guy & Mini-Me, Monster & Monkey, Fwopy (he does the passive agressive throw yourself in the floor and not move thing) & Old Man (when he was in the NICU, he looked just like a wrinkled little old man), I could go on and on…
My girl is Grabby, Gabrellie (I’m the only one who ever calls her this), Gabrella, Ellie, Baby G, Tater Tot, Tiny Tot, Drama Queen, Sissyfus, Oh Weeee (because of a sound she makes), Yodel (yes, she yodels at 15 months *snort*), Piglet, Babygirl, Teeth (she’s recently started biting me when she nurses occassionally), Ol’ Blue Eyes, Puddles (she loves water), and Micro Tike, and so many more it would take me forever to list them all.
It’s it so much fun giving them nicknames?
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Jun 15, 2010
We call my son Jeff, Squeaker (Squeak for short). It started when, as a newborn, he made all kinds of odd squeaking noises. And it stuck because, when he laughs really hard, he still squeaks. Oh, he is going to hate this in a couple of years!
Jun 16, 2010
I stumbled on your blog while trying to find little boy haircuts that might convince me to cut my little one’s hair. I have a serious problem with chopping off his lovely locks, and I see now that I am not the only one! My question to you is… do you regret it? Are you happy you finally did? Jasper is one absolutely adorable and handsome and beautiful boy, and I can’t wait for my little guy (Eli… or E, Elight, Little man, Booger, Snotface, Monster) to get that nice 2 year old head of hair! He is almost 1 now, and has wispy curls on the side that make him look like he has wings on his ears, but completely straight in the front. As I say it out loud, it sounds like the flock of seagulls, which makes me want to keep it more. Your blog is a delight and an inspiration.
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Her Bad Mother Reply:
June 17th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Do I regret it? No. Jasper’s now had a couple of haircuts (one just yesterday, which cropped that adorable two year old mop) and each time, I catch my breath at the change, but then it just becomes HIM, and I relax. It doesn’t hurt that it keeps growing back so fast
And, thanks
Jun 16, 2010
our daughter’s name is mattea, and all of her nicknames are unrelated to her ‘proper’ name.
most popular are chugalug bug, tuggy, peanut pot pie, cheeks mcgoo, lovey, punkinpie, peep mcgeep…and that was just in the past 15 mins. 
Jun 16, 2010
I had called my oldest boy just about every kind of endearment there was by time my second little guy came around 10 years later so I worked really hard to find something that was individual and just his – I ended up with Noodle and Pumpkin Head as my most used nicknames. My husband has always called him Booger.
Jun 17, 2010
He is Jefferson, called Jeff. Unless you are anybody else on the planet and then they call him Jeffery. For me, he is munkey or lil’J
Jun 17, 2010
Nate became, at one point, and I have no idea why or how, “Nathanial Junkbottom.” And his name isn’t even Nathanial, it’s Nathan. But still. Sometimes I call him Nater, sometimes the Natester.
Jun 17, 2010
After reading this it made me realize that I might want to stop calling my littlest “P”. She is little and has always been called Peanut. But sometimes even that gets shortened to just P.
Hey, our kids could get married and they’d be Pee and Jizz. LOL! Oh, boy.
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Jun 18, 2010
My 6 year old’s nickname have nothing to do with her name, but for some reason I can’t stop calling her:
Mink, Minky, Minx, Minxy, Minxy boodle… I think they started with Monkey, and then went on from there. It’s also Thessy-bear, Thessaboo, Thessy-mess and Thessastink (from her diaper days)
I refuse to stop calling her them, and will probably toast at her wedding “To Thessy-mess, my little minxy-boodle!!”
Jun 19, 2010
We call our 16 month old “Bong”. Allow me to explain. Her name is Mathilde, shortened to Tillie, Billabong rhymes with Tilliebong, which is shortened to Bong. Sometimes we’re out on the playground and I ask my husband, “How is the Bong?” or “Where is the Bong?” or shout out “Bong!!”
We’re not stoners, not at all. But I’m not surprised that the other parents probably think we are!
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Jun 19, 2010
LOL. My mother was appalled to hear us call our son Pickle. It came from Nickel Pickle which totally makes sense because his name is Nicholas. He has tons of other nicknames of affection, but Pickle is the one that has stuck the most.
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Jun 22, 2010
I sometimes call Harris H-bomb or Harrisite, but more commonly call him Buddy, Mr. Harris, or Mr. H.
Jun 22, 2010
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Jun 25, 2010
I have a 16 month old Jasper. I don’t know where the name came from (pre-Twilight).. we just liked it. No one we knew was named Jasper.
We had a list of names and we wanted to wait to see him before we named him.
He looked like a Jasper from the start.
When we told my parents and grandmother, the look they gave me, the “God, WHY” look made me cry so hard the nurses came in to make sure I was ok.
But, he’s my little Jasper Jones, Houdini, Snuggle Monkey butt, Captain America, J-Man.
Jun 26, 2010
I was unaware that I was reading a post of yours in Blogher: I only glanced at the picture, and had already figured it was someone I hadn’t read before.
So, I’m going along and enjoying, but, then, rolling my eyes at this writer who is writing like Her Bad Mother, and, Stop It.
My eyes roamed the page to just get to the end, and then I realized it Was you. So, I went back and read it over and enjoyed it immensely.
You have such a strong voice, it jumps off the page. No one can copy it, without me noticing, anyway.
Jun 30, 2010
My son’s nickname has been “Stinkbumps” since the day he was born. My mother was in the delivery room with me and, upon seeing her grandson come into the world and hearing his little goat-bleating cry, said “What a little stinkbumps!” It has stuck. He didn’t mind it so much when he was a pre-schooler. A shout of “Hey, Stinkbumps!” across the playground or park got his attention much more swiftly than calling his actual name (although it, too, is very unique). Once he started public school, I was forbidden to use his nickname around any of his friends. (In fact, he doesn’t like me to use his real name, either, and insists a use the more common derivative “Jamie”.) Now that he’s in middle school, he has promised my swift decapitation if I ever call him “Stinkbumps” in public, but at home is still okay, so long as none of his friends are within a 50 mile radius. I’m sure when he’s in high school, I won’t be able to call him that at all. Of course, it will be the first thing I tell the girls he brings over. Followed by showing them his naked baby pictures. Embarassing my child is my duty as a mother.
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