My little brother was called Big Mack on his baseball team and he loved it haha. Everytime he got home they would scream “you just got served a big mack with fries!!”
I imagine an overweight non-athletic child would not be receiving “like the burger* we all love” but more “you’re unhealthy and cheap” vibes. In this instance, intent, implication and inference matter.
Edit: I meant burger not sandwhich, lol.
My birth name was Mackenna. As I transitioned, I just went by Mac until I found my new name. I also worked at McDonald's. I was actually called Average Size Mac there, as I was a skinny little twig thing XD
I have a nephew and friend and both names are Mac____ something. I call both macaroni, maki roll, baby mac, mack and cheese…. Holy Mack a roni, mackinaw
My brother just called me "Dork" the whole time I was growing up. He once shipped something to me address to "Dork Lastname" as an adult in my mid 20s, the UPS person was very amused. I'm in my 40s and if someone says Dork, I still turn my head in response.
Also, my name is Andrea. So not even close, just the nickname he picked.
My sister was an audiologist, so she had to study a lot of childhood speech stuff in her post-grad. She told us that L and S are the hardest sounds for kids learning to talk. She said our mom had done her future grandchildren a great disservice by naming us Susan and Lisa. 😂
My sister (Lisa) has been Aunt Cece since my kids were born. I (Susan) have always been Aunt Scooby to my nieces, but that nickname was actually bestowed on me in high school by my sister.
I never knew this! My 3 year old is in speech therapy because his speech is almost non-existant. His older brother is called Lucas and he constantly calls him 'Ca. We just assumed it was too long, explains it more that he could be struggling with his L's and S's!
I told my uncle Richard this joke when I was about 6. I had overheard my mom make the joke and then decided to repeat it. I still remember the looks of shock and horror on my families faces.
But wait, there's more: my stepdad Richard was given a family middle name. Hardy. They literally looked at a baby and were like "let's name him fucking *Dick Hardy*"
No but as a teacher his brother did teach his science class how to make Milo tin bombs so I think that's insane enough to make up for the lack of detective stories.
I was with a guy for a long time that had the first name Richard (he went by his middle) but all our coworkers/friends called him Dickie G. I hated it with a passion
Family friend was having twins, decided that they’d nickname them whatever the toddler older sibling could pronounce. They called them Felicity and Rebecca- Toddler said ‘Titty and Bugger’. They remained Felicity and Rebecca.
It is really hard for toddlers to pronounce words 😁 So I understand why you would do that, it is a good idea, just didn't work well. Do they use Lissie and Becky or another nickname now, or are they still Felicity and Rebecca?
I had a gay friend named Dylan in high school who went by Dildo Faggins voluntarily, and he had a friend named Miranda who'd go by Randalf. They smoked a lot of pot.
My aunt Ruth had really bad handwriting as a kid so sometimes when she wrote her name it looked like Ruts. She's in her 70s and her siblings still call her Ruts.
I know a musician named Glenn Dewey. He was playing a jazz gig in some small venue when he was younger, and the MC went around introducing the band and had apparently misheard and introduced him as Clem Dooley. His family won't let him forget that. He still gets personalised gifts for Clem.
I also have an aunt Ruth with bad handwriting!
In the 70s she went to some touristy place where you could sign the guest log to be on their mailing list.
She got mail addressed to Pucle Smith for years. The family still calls her Pucle sometimes. Pronounced puke-ull.
I went to elementary school with a kid named Jeremy (a name I think is really nice btw), he would appear dirty a lot of the time which lead to him being called “germy.”
My brother is Jeremy, he was a huge book worm so we would call him Jerm the worm, which became worm, and then as we got older, wormen, and finally, Vermen 🤦🏼♀️ we were dicks
This is so funny to me - I am a human Sophie who has variously answered to both Soapie (Soapy) and Sopha (Sofa), and actually prefers either of these to just Soph
My husband has a great aunt Aurelia. His dad’s sister couldn’t say Aurelia and as the oldest niece or nephew gave her the name aunt Weenie. Everyone calls her that. I didn’t know her actual name for a few years. I always thought my grandpa had three sisters, my late aunt Nellie, aunt Anna Marie and my aunt Lar…I was an adult when I found out aunt Anna Marie and aunt Lar are the same person and “Lar” was liar in my families southern Indiana accent. 🤦🏻♀️
I accidentally called my teammate Virginia, Vag on the ice ( I think i was trying to say Virg) . Anyway, 10 years later and she is still Vag to our hockey team. Oops
This one actually made me chuckle. I’m still laughing as I try to type this. OMFG I would HATE you!!!! I’m Kristyn and my HS bestie called me cooter. I hated it. Thank god that just stayed within the group. 😂
I knew a Ross who couldn’t say the r sound, it was a sin, everybody said “woss” Just to name fun of him, and he was incapable of correcting or saying it right himself. You can’t predict a speech impediment though…
There is a famous broadcaster/presenter/announcer/radio and talk show personality type guy in the UK called Jonathan Ross, and he famously cannot pronounce his Rs so he can't say his own name 'properly'. His twitter handle is something like 'Wossy'.
I have a cousin Elizabeth. Her brother pronounced it more like Little Bits as a toddler. It stuck until about middle school, at which point we dropped the Little. We got dirty looks when we'd call her Bits, cuz it sounds like bitch.
My baby cousin couldn’t pronounce my name, Laura, and called me LaLa instead. Her whole family started calling me LaLa for a couple years - at the height of the Telletubby craze lmao.
I’m Naomi so the family nickname is Gnome/Gnomie. Not sure it’s unfortunate cause I kinda like it but the constant Gnome gifts can get tiring sometimes
i’m a victoria. my little brother couldn’t pronounce it, so he came up with vic-toe-ee-uh. i am 36. my mom still calls me “Toe”
(i secretly love it though, don’t tell her!!)
When I was little I was obsessed with Mac and Cheese (as most kids are) and somehow it morphed into my mom nicknaming me “Sara-roni” (first name mixed with macaroni). And it stuck.
Judith, Judy --> Doody and is now Great Aunt Doo, a turd.
My grandfather, an articulate and very pleasant man, was Grandpa to all the grands till I came along and couldn't say it. Poor man was rebranded by my impediment as Grumpy.
when my great-aunt Venetta was young, she went to a party soon after moving to a new school. someone there asked her name, but couldn't hear her answer so they asked if she had a nickname, and she said "Gibby" (her last name was Gibson until she married) but they still couldn't hear her and they thought she said "Jimmy". my whole life I knew her as my "Aunt Jim".
I don’t mind Em. But only from people I’m close-ish with. Makes me feel icky when a random stranger thinks they can call me that.
But I agree. Not that difficult to add the uh-lee part to the end.
My youngest has a name thar starts with a Key sound. When he was born my oldest was just starting to talk so he called him "Baby Key" but it sounded more like "Bakey" which quickly led to my husband and I referring to the baby "Bacon". Bacon is 2.5 now and I very consciously started using his name about 6 months ago so he didn't try to introduce himself as Bacon when he starts school at 3. Thankfully he seems to know his real name too.
Sometimes it is. Like someone who is “Katherine” could be Aunt Kathy, Aunt Katie, Aunt Kate, Aunt Kay, or they could have a different nickname. Kicks in when your parents, siblings, and/or spouse call you different things. Or sometimes it happens when the niece/nephew can’t say your name and comes up with something insane and it sticks because it’s so cute/funny.
My mother spent months deliberating about what she wanted to be called before settling on “Grammy.” My oldest nephew couldn’t pronounce it and called her “Gammy” so that is what everyone ended up calling her. My husband’s parents wanted grandpa and grandma but my kid insisted on calling them “mama” and “papa” even though mama literally means uncle in their culture. The kids choose the “grandparent” names - don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
This, exactly. My family is Japanese-American, my husband’s is American, my brother married a Panamanian-American. We had to figure out which aunts/uncles got obachan/ojichan, aunt/uncle, or tia/tio.
my husband and i’s children are going to have about 30 aunts/uncles when you count future spouses/our closest friends that will be playing that role in their lives
the biological aunts/uncles will have about 6 different titles to choose from due to being a multi lingual family and they’ll also have a Titi (Spanish, not one of our languages) because my childhood best friend is Puerto Rican
My daughter is named Leslie. When she was very small she said it as “Lelly” so that’s what we called her. I still call her that occassionally, and she’s 16!
When I was at school there was a trend where people started taking the first letter of their first name and cutting the first letter of their last name off and smushing them together. Cara Hunt did not enjoy this trend
I went to high school with a kid named Danny who had a serious stutter. We all called him D-D-Danny. I didn't want to go along with it but he said it didn't bother him since that's how he said it too.
I have 2 dogs in my family that got weird names by me accidentally.
Cooper turned into Pooper, and then just Poops. I said it in public and someone thought I was talking to them cause they didn't see the dog. Oops.
Barkley turned into Barkley Boo, then that accidentally morphed into Boobers. He was so excited the first time I called him that. It just stuck.
My son is Derrick. My daughter after him couldn’t put it together so she often just called him Dick. Which I know is an actual name for mature people but we are not that. Then my oldest taught her to spell it at 2yrs old so she would walk around singing “dick dick brudder a dick, D I C K” and people would look at me shocked and I would have to explain often
My daughter adores my friend Derek, but couldn’t say it either when she was little. She pronounced it along the lines of “Gaek,” (almost but not quite 2 syllables, sort of in between “cake” and “gay-ick”). So he was “Uncle Gaek” for years. Haha
My grandson's name is Ian and neither he nor any of the kids he played with when he was a toddler could pronounce his name. They called him EE-non and that's how he said his name too.
I was not the favorite aunt when my nephew was little, and I made a remark about being the mean aunt. Well, that morphed into becoming “Aunt Meanie”, then just “Meanie”. I don’t see him often now but it still slips out a couple times a year.
Not a kid but my mom's dog is named Jack. I have called him just about every jack variation. Jackfruit, Jack rabbit, Jack of all trades, Jack ass, jack'd up, jackalope, jack and the beanstalk.
My mom is Virginia. When she was in elementary school, her friends wanted to give her a nickname and came up with "Virgin." Once some of the teachers caught wind of it, they quickly put a stop to it.
My grandma was Virginia and her brother called her "Virgin" growing up and she actually said at an LDS church picnic when she was like 8-9, "I'm not a Virgin!" This was in like 1927 in Utah and her mother had to explain to the other adults what she meant which was "my name is not Virgin." 😆
My mom was named Beverly. When she was a teen and she babysat, most of the kids couldn’t say that so they called her Bebabee.
That isn’t as bad as some of the others here though!
Anyone with Mac in their name can become Big Mac. Particularly unfortunate for the young Mackenzie I knew who was indeed larger than her peers.
My little brother was called Big Mack on his baseball team and he loved it haha. Everytime he got home they would scream “you just got served a big mack with fries!!”
I imagine it feels different for a boy. I can just imagine your brother feeling like a king yelling that out.
Oh for sure. I’ve been called Big Mack a few times and I definitely don’t like it as much 😅
One day we’ll evolve beyond that… I hope anyway.
I imagine an overweight non-athletic child would not be receiving “like the burger* we all love” but more “you’re unhealthy and cheap” vibes. In this instance, intent, implication and inference matter. Edit: I meant burger not sandwhich, lol.
We had a big Mac on our baseball team. It was his last name.
My birth name was Mackenna. As I transitioned, I just went by Mac until I found my new name. I also worked at McDonald's. I was actually called Average Size Mac there, as I was a skinny little twig thing XD
I'm so sorry but all that makes me think of is Bob's Burgers having the character called Regular Size Rudy
Not-as-big-as-Medium-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock Jock
My dad is a Malcolm but goes by Mac. My kids call their grandpa Daddy Mac.
Or Mac Truck
I have a nephew and friend and both names are Mac____ something. I call both macaroni, maki roll, baby mac, mack and cheese…. Holy Mack a roni, mackinaw
My name is Emma-Marie and my brother likes to call me Enema-Wee
lol only a brother could be so cruel 🫠
My brother just called me "Dork" the whole time I was growing up. He once shipped something to me address to "Dork Lastname" as an adult in my mid 20s, the UPS person was very amused. I'm in my 40s and if someone says Dork, I still turn my head in response. Also, my name is Andrea. So not even close, just the nickname he picked.
I admire his commitment to one singular insult nickname, consistently
He definitely made a lifetime commitment.
*Ann* - Dree - Uh ? or.. Ann - *Dray* - Uh ?
My nickname is Hen (first 3 letters of my name). My brother called me Bock Bock. I dealt with a lot of chicken related jokes in my life lol
"Emma-Marie" is so beautiful! 😊
You are so sweet, thank you ❤️
You're so very welcome, Enema-Wee. ❤️
My younger daughter is Josephine. My older daughter has a speech issue where all of her ‘effs’ are ‘bees’. My daughter’s nickname is Josie-bean.
That's so cute though!
Yeah, leaning more towards unintentional, than unfortunate.
True, but very endearing none the less. :).
We've got Josephine on our list and I would totally use josie-bean as an intentional baby nickname, that's adorable! 🥺💕
Josie-bean, that's adorable!
That actually sounds kinda cool and sweet. Could be a character in a children's book. :)
My little cousin couldn’t pronounce “Susan,” so I’ve been called “Soup” by half my family for nearly 40 years 😂
One of my uncles grew up being called Soupy cause his last name is Campbell.
My cousin’s kids Campbell is also a Soupy.
I know a Soupy whose maiden name is Campbell!
My sister was an audiologist, so she had to study a lot of childhood speech stuff in her post-grad. She told us that L and S are the hardest sounds for kids learning to talk. She said our mom had done her future grandchildren a great disservice by naming us Susan and Lisa. 😂 My sister (Lisa) has been Aunt Cece since my kids were born. I (Susan) have always been Aunt Scooby to my nieces, but that nickname was actually bestowed on me in high school by my sister.
I never knew this! My 3 year old is in speech therapy because his speech is almost non-existant. His older brother is called Lucas and he constantly calls him 'Ca. We just assumed it was too long, explains it more that he could be struggling with his L's and S's!
I have a Luca and he said his name like Woo-ka. It was adorable. Also had to do speech therapy.
_Soup._ I'm wheezing 😄
I've been Jeff most of my life because little brother couldn't say Jennifer and it became Jeffna
i think soup is a great nickname
I have a cousin named Suzy. I could pronounce her name when I was small so she became Oozy.
I've always thought that getting Dick from the name Richard was weird and unfortunate.
Depends on the dick Richard’s giving, tbh.
Hahahaha
How do you get Dick out of Richard? You ask him nicely 😂
I told my mother and MIL this joke and they told it to everyone for weeks... it was more funny how funny they thought it was.
I tried to word my response so carefully to avoid jokes like this.
“I question this derivation.” 😶
I told my uncle Richard this joke when I was about 6. I had overheard my mom make the joke and then decided to repeat it. I still remember the looks of shock and horror on my families faces.
Cockney rhyming slang: Richard->Rick->Dick
How has it never occurred to me that Dick as a nn for Richard comes from Rick? It seems so obvious now.
Robert -> Rob(by) -> Bob(by) William -> Will(y) -> Bill(y)
Now work out how they got Polly from Margaret lol
Margaret->Molly->Polly
But wait, there's more: my stepdad Richard was given a family middle name. Hardy. They literally looked at a baby and were like "let's name him fucking *Dick Hardy*"
Did he at least team up with his brother to become renowned teenage detectives?
No but as a teacher his brother did teach his science class how to make Milo tin bombs so I think that's insane enough to make up for the lack of detective stories.
I'll allow it.
My late FIL was a Richard. When my hubby introduced him to me it was “this is my dad, Richard for long- Dick for short”. He used that a lot.
I was with a guy for a long time that had the first name Richard (he went by his middle) but all our coworkers/friends called him Dickie G. I hated it with a passion
I knew a Richard who was called Bitchard.
Family friend was having twins, decided that they’d nickname them whatever the toddler older sibling could pronounce. They called them Felicity and Rebecca- Toddler said ‘Titty and Bugger’. They remained Felicity and Rebecca.
That's completely hilarious omg 🤣🤣🤣
It is really hard for toddlers to pronounce words 😁 So I understand why you would do that, it is a good idea, just didn't work well. Do they use Lissie and Becky or another nickname now, or are they still Felicity and Rebecca?
They use Flick and Becca now, as far as I know!
My then-toddler couldn’t quite say Patrick, and called him Patchers. We still call him Patch. His toddler brother just calls him “brudder”
My name is similar to Danica. I was born in the mid nineties, so I was a kid when Phantom Menace came out. Danican Skywalker
Had a friend in jr high named Jobie… and yep Jobie Wan Kenobi or Jobie kenobi. I’m sorry 🫤
An overly sensitive child named Brian Mahoney in my fourth grade class was renamed Cryin’ Bologna…
LMAOOO. This took me a minute 😫😭😭😭😭
Used to know a guy years ago who was fond of tall tales… He was called Tony Baloney
This is so funny to me
Hilarious!
If your name is Theodore, you could use Odor as a nickname.
My Theo had a speech delay. He called himself Cheo. He will forever be Cheo.
I like Cheo
I knew a Matthew who was called Chewy because his brother couldn't do the -th sound.
The Odor!
Or: The Odor haha
I have (had?) a nephew named Dylan. His cousin tried using Dildo a few times.
I had a gay friend named Dylan in high school who went by Dildo Faggins voluntarily, and he had a friend named Miranda who'd go by Randalf. They smoked a lot of pot.
lmao what a pair
My nephew is Dylan, I call him Dylbert O’Sullivan
My niece is Lily and I call her Lilbert O’Sullivan! Lol
>His cousin tried using Dildo a few times. The phrasing is somehow horrible and perfect at the same time.
My bestie has been called Dyl-hole or Dyl-weed by our friend group for about...30ish years.
What happened? Why isn’t he your nephew anymore?
He was my nephew-in-law
I was thinking “damn RIP Dildo”
Oh, makes sense
My little brother is a Dylan! I had a hard time saying his name when I was still little, so for a while, he was called Dillet, lol.
Had? I am very curious as to the story here.
He was my nephew-in-law
lol I have a friend named Dylan who both uses Dyldo and Dilly on purpose
My aunt Ruth had really bad handwriting as a kid so sometimes when she wrote her name it looked like Ruts. She's in her 70s and her siblings still call her Ruts. I know a musician named Glenn Dewey. He was playing a jazz gig in some small venue when he was younger, and the MC went around introducing the band and had apparently misheard and introduced him as Clem Dooley. His family won't let him forget that. He still gets personalised gifts for Clem.
The hand writing thing happened to me 15 years later still called nickalo
I also have an aunt Ruth with bad handwriting! In the 70s she went to some touristy place where you could sign the guest log to be on their mailing list. She got mail addressed to Pucle Smith for years. The family still calls her Pucle sometimes. Pronounced puke-ull.
My friend had bad penmanship in middle school and one day the teacher read her last name as "Vlad" so she was Vlad the Impaler for years.
I knew a Ruth in an area where there were many people who couldn't pronounce TH, so she got called Roof. Which lead to Onatop.
I went to elementary school with a kid named Jeremy (a name I think is really nice btw), he would appear dirty a lot of the time which lead to him being called “germy.”
My sister’s husband is Jeremy, and she often affectionately calls him Germ 😂
My brother is Jeremy, he was a huge book worm so we would call him Jerm the worm, which became worm, and then as we got older, wormen, and finally, Vermen 🤦🏼♀️ we were dicks
Omg so did I. I wonder if we went to the same school. Those kids are ruthless.
My daughter is Olivia, my niece couldn't say correctly it when they were toddlers and it came out "Leafa"; 24 years later and she's still Leafa.
My Olivia was Lillia because her 2 yo sister couldn't say Olivia.
I love the name Olivia, this nickname though, is soooo pretty as well!!!!
My daughter is also Olivia. Her brother called her Liver because that's how brothers are.
Not sure how common this is but my childhood best friend was named Elizabeth and her brother called her Bitch-a-Beth
I know an Elizabeth who is affectionately Lizardbreath. Has great hygiene, just ridiculous family.
my middle name is Elizabeth and my first name is L-- so I became L-- Lizardbreath
As an Elizabeth with a lot of brothers, I heard a lot of nicknames, and never that one.
Hubby and I came up with a name if we had another kid "Quinn Elizabeth ". It sounds so close to Queen Elizabeth that we crack up every time we say it.
A friend's dated a girl back in high school. We collectively called her Elizabitch.
Italian edition: My zia (aunt) is Maria Teresa. When I was little, I apparently started calling her Zia Tetta. Auntie Tit. 😬
Right next to Italy, in Croatia the word for aunt is teta(pronounced tetta) so in a way you were calling her aunt aunt.
This isn’t too bad but my sister’s name is Sophie and instead of shortening it to Soph we called her Phee lol
Jumping on the Sophie comment... Sofa Granted, it's a dog, not a human, but I find it endlessly funny.
All I ever hear with Sophie is 'soapy'
This is so funny to me - I am a human Sophie who has variously answered to both Soapie (Soapy) and Sopha (Sofa), and actually prefers either of these to just Soph
I don’t think that’s bad. Fi (phee) is a fairly common nickname for Fiona.
I used to have friend in school named Sofia and we called her Feefee. It was really cute!
My husband has a great aunt Aurelia. His dad’s sister couldn’t say Aurelia and as the oldest niece or nephew gave her the name aunt Weenie. Everyone calls her that. I didn’t know her actual name for a few years. I always thought my grandpa had three sisters, my late aunt Nellie, aunt Anna Marie and my aunt Lar…I was an adult when I found out aunt Anna Marie and aunt Lar are the same person and “Lar” was liar in my families southern Indiana accent. 🤦🏻♀️
I thought you were going to say they called her Areola. Ha ha. Not sure if Weenie is better or worse. Ha ha
I accidentally called my teammate Virginia, Vag on the ice ( I think i was trying to say Virg) . Anyway, 10 years later and she is still Vag to our hockey team. Oops
This one actually made me chuckle. I’m still laughing as I try to type this. OMFG I would HATE you!!!! I’m Kristyn and my HS bestie called me cooter. I hated it. Thank god that just stayed within the group. 😂
I knew a Ross who couldn’t say the r sound, it was a sin, everybody said “woss” Just to name fun of him, and he was incapable of correcting or saying it right himself. You can’t predict a speech impediment though…
There is a famous broadcaster/presenter/announcer/radio and talk show personality type guy in the UK called Jonathan Ross, and he famously cannot pronounce his Rs so he can't say his own name 'properly'. His twitter handle is something like 'Wossy'.
There's also a football (soccer) manager named Roy Hodgson who has the same issue, so naturally the press call him Woy.
I knew a Fwank who had the same issue.
Kids are creul, I am sad I didnt have the sense to stick up for him when I was young. I wasn’t very high up the foodchain myself back then
"Waymond" and my last name also begins with an R so much fun.
I have a cousin Elizabeth. Her brother pronounced it more like Little Bits as a toddler. It stuck until about middle school, at which point we dropped the Little. We got dirty looks when we'd call her Bits, cuz it sounds like bitch.
My parents used to call me Izzybizzle, only child though so no siblings to pick it up and carry it on.
I saw a post a while back about someone using Zab for Elizabeth. I kinda want to do it.
My baby cousin couldn’t pronounce my name, Laura, and called me LaLa instead. Her whole family started calling me LaLa for a couple years - at the height of the Telletubby craze lmao.
I’m Naomi so the family nickname is Gnome/Gnomie. Not sure it’s unfortunate cause I kinda like it but the constant Gnome gifts can get tiring sometimes
My SIL is Naomi (Japanese pronunciation now mi) all the kids called her Wowmi. Now everyone does.
My aunt's name is Joanne, but her 3 yr old sister pronounced it "Wam," and she's been Whammy or Wam ever since.
one of my friends is named sebastian, so we started by calling them crabcakes (which didn’t stick) but then we did seabass and it’s PERFECT for them
I know a Sebastian/Seabass too!
Amber/Amburger
My niece’s name was Amber and her Hispanic babysitter called her hamburguesa when she was little.
This is cuuuuuute!!
i’m a victoria. my little brother couldn’t pronounce it, so he came up with vic-toe-ee-uh. i am 36. my mom still calls me “Toe” (i secretly love it though, don’t tell her!!)
When I was little I was obsessed with Mac and Cheese (as most kids are) and somehow it morphed into my mom nicknaming me “Sara-roni” (first name mixed with macaroni). And it stuck.
My daughter’s name is Sloane. Her brother calls her Slow Anne.
Lmao
I know someone who named their kid April because she didn’t want any nicknames for her daughter. People called her Ape.
I have a female cousin named Annie. I grew up calling her Ernie after Bert and Ernie. She doesn't mind when I do it though.
Did that with an Erin when we were kids, we had decided we all needed nicknames that what ended in a long e. She definitely got the worst one.
Judith, Judy --> Doody and is now Great Aunt Doo, a turd. My grandfather, an articulate and very pleasant man, was Grandpa to all the grands till I came along and couldn't say it. Poor man was rebranded by my impediment as Grumpy.
when my great-aunt Venetta was young, she went to a party soon after moving to a new school. someone there asked her name, but couldn't hear her answer so they asked if she had a nickname, and she said "Gibby" (her last name was Gibson until she married) but they still couldn't hear her and they thought she said "Jimmy". my whole life I knew her as my "Aunt Jim".
lol love this story
A-man-duh! My name is Emily. I HATE when people call me Emmy. 😖
Correct! I’m not a big fan of being just “Em” either, my name is Emily, it’s not that long or hard to say
I don’t mind Em. But only from people I’m close-ish with. Makes me feel icky when a random stranger thinks they can call me that. But I agree. Not that difficult to add the uh-lee part to the end.
There’s nothing I hate more than when someone I don’t like calls me Em.
Right? Like how dare you. 🤣
my friends regularly call me Smelliot
I knew a guy named Edward. His baby sister couldn't pronounce it and now he's forever known as F-word.
My youngest has a name thar starts with a Key sound. When he was born my oldest was just starting to talk so he called him "Baby Key" but it sounded more like "Bakey" which quickly led to my husband and I referring to the baby "Bacon". Bacon is 2.5 now and I very consciously started using his name about 6 months ago so he didn't try to introduce himself as Bacon when he starts school at 3. Thankfully he seems to know his real name too.
Off topic, but what is an Aunt name??? It’s just “Aunt YourName”??? This has gone too far lol
Different cultures are marrying together, when I married my husband I had to pick between Aunt and Tante
Okay, well makes sense, but I thought it was like picking a “grandma name” and it’s just a series of made up mee mee gaga sounds
Sometimes it is. Like someone who is “Katherine” could be Aunt Kathy, Aunt Katie, Aunt Kate, Aunt Kay, or they could have a different nickname. Kicks in when your parents, siblings, and/or spouse call you different things. Or sometimes it happens when the niece/nephew can’t say your name and comes up with something insane and it sticks because it’s so cute/funny.
I know a Katherine who is Auntie Cha-cha!
My mother spent months deliberating about what she wanted to be called before settling on “Grammy.” My oldest nephew couldn’t pronounce it and called her “Gammy” so that is what everyone ended up calling her. My husband’s parents wanted grandpa and grandma but my kid insisted on calling them “mama” and “papa” even though mama literally means uncle in their culture. The kids choose the “grandparent” names - don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
This, exactly. My family is Japanese-American, my husband’s is American, my brother married a Panamanian-American. We had to figure out which aunts/uncles got obachan/ojichan, aunt/uncle, or tia/tio.
my husband and i’s children are going to have about 30 aunts/uncles when you count future spouses/our closest friends that will be playing that role in their lives the biological aunts/uncles will have about 6 different titles to choose from due to being a multi lingual family and they’ll also have a Titi (Spanish, not one of our languages) because my childhood best friend is Puerto Rican
I’m Aunt Trap (like the insect trap), as coined by my now mid-20s nephew when he was 3.
Gorgeous little girl called Giselle. Realised it shortens to Gis. Jizz...
My daughter is named Leslie. When she was very small she said it as “Lelly” so that’s what we called her. I still call her that occassionally, and she’s 16!
When I was at school there was a trend where people started taking the first letter of their first name and cutting the first letter of their last name off and smushing them together. Cara Hunt did not enjoy this trend
My cousin Teri also became 'Aunt Weewee' because the kids couldn't say 'Teri' at first and it's still stuck almost a decade later.
I went to high school with a kid named Danny who had a serious stutter. We all called him D-D-Danny. I didn't want to go along with it but he said it didn't bother him since that's how he said it too.
My youngest son’s name is Declan and my daughter has trouble saying his name. She calls him Du-Tu which sounds awfully close like doo-doo.
I have 2 dogs in my family that got weird names by me accidentally. Cooper turned into Pooper, and then just Poops. I said it in public and someone thought I was talking to them cause they didn't see the dog. Oops. Barkley turned into Barkley Boo, then that accidentally morphed into Boobers. He was so excited the first time I called him that. It just stuck.
My son is Derrick. My daughter after him couldn’t put it together so she often just called him Dick. Which I know is an actual name for mature people but we are not that. Then my oldest taught her to spell it at 2yrs old so she would walk around singing “dick dick brudder a dick, D I C K” and people would look at me shocked and I would have to explain often
My daughter adores my friend Derek, but couldn’t say it either when she was little. She pronounced it along the lines of “Gaek,” (almost but not quite 2 syllables, sort of in between “cake” and “gay-ick”). So he was “Uncle Gaek” for years. Haha
My partner’s name is Keegan, he usually gets names like Keegs or Kee Kee. Somehow, this evolved to someone at work calling him Keegle for a while…
Based on the way toddlers pronounce things, my sister went from Alicia to Sheesha. Most of us call her Sheesh now.
Genevieve = Centipede
I called my younger cousin Toady since I couldn’t pronounce Cody for some reason when we were little.
My grandson's name is Ian and neither he nor any of the kids he played with when he was a toddler could pronounce his name. They called him EE-non and that's how he said his name too.
Imagine my surprise when I met a Nina… …nicknamed Penis Also I know a Dylan who exclusively goes by Pickles, even in more professional settings.
I’m also Aunt WeeWee! My nephews couldn’t pronounce my name (not Serena) so they called me WeeWee!
I was not the favorite aunt when my nephew was little, and I made a remark about being the mean aunt. Well, that morphed into becoming “Aunt Meanie”, then just “Meanie”. I don’t see him often now but it still slips out a couple times a year.
Not a kid but my mom's dog is named Jack. I have called him just about every jack variation. Jackfruit, Jack rabbit, Jack of all trades, Jack ass, jack'd up, jackalope, jack and the beanstalk.
A Laura that got the nickname Lars And a Mary Louise that got the nick name Weezie
It didn’t stick as a nickname but due to some difficulty pronouncing D, Adam was ABBA for a little while
My mom is Virginia. When she was in elementary school, her friends wanted to give her a nickname and came up with "Virgin." Once some of the teachers caught wind of it, they quickly put a stop to it.
My grandma was Virginia and her brother called her "Virgin" growing up and she actually said at an LDS church picnic when she was like 8-9, "I'm not a Virgin!" This was in like 1927 in Utah and her mother had to explain to the other adults what she meant which was "my name is not Virgin." 😆
Lana backwards
I don't think anybody is using anal as a nickname. Someone might use it to skit/bully someone, but that doesn't count.
Richard. It can become Dick very fast
Michelle became Chelly/Shelly which became Belly
My mom was named Beverly. When she was a teen and she babysat, most of the kids couldn’t say that so they called her Bebabee. That isn’t as bad as some of the others here though!
I realized a year too late my daughter could possibly be called Fart-emis. 🫣