What was your nickname growing up and why?

[azmouse]

Mine was Pebbles.
My mom would bunch my hair together on the top of my head and put in a bow. This was in the early 60's and The Flintstones was a popular network show. My dad thought I looked like Pebbles. I always thought my dad looked a bit like Fred. Funny but until he died I didn't realize that he was the only one who called me Pebbles.

[mikeytherat]

1. Moosefoot

I have size 14 boats, and always had big feet.

mikey_the_rat

[azmouse]

7. ummm... that's not really a negative for a guy, is it?

Whoa! :evilgrin:

[ThomCat]

15. You know what they say about guys with big feet.

:7

[no name no slogan]

34. They wear big shoes?

[Common Sense Party]

43. Mine was "Squatch." Short for "Sasquatch." Same reason. nt

[eyesroll]

2. I was "The Nerd" from fourth through sixth grade.

For pretty self-explanatory reasons.

[Left Is Write]

3. Fat Cheeks.

Yes, the reference was to my face.

No, it did not last longer than about age five.

[jpgray]

4. Jage

No reason.

[Dora]

5. "Punk." And also, "Turd."

I dunno why, but to this day I cannot say "turd" without feeling all warm and fuzzy and missing my stepdad.

[Magrittes Pipe]

6. The boys on the baseball team called me "Snake."

:shrug:

[NewWaveChick1981]

8. Mine was very short-lived, but it was Ladybug.

I have no idea how I got it, only that my mom started it. It lasted about a year, then for some reason, she went back to my real name.

[yvr girl]

9. Draqua

But only in the last 10 years.

It's part of my name and aqua combined - I like the water.

[Lethe]

10. strawberry, carrot, and oscar

strawberry and carrot top for the obvious reasons (i am a jaywalker, and have mostly brown hair now)

oscar because one time when i was in 5th grade or so i went to a high school football game and ate three hot dogs in a row cause i was really hungry. friends called me oscar after that.

[miss_american_pie]

11. Stringbean

Tall and skinny, but that only lasted until the boy cousins all hit puberty and grew taller than me.

[sundog]

12. polack

it took me a few years to "get it"

[terrya]

13. My family nicknamed me "T"

And well, it stuck. :-)

[trof]

14. Butch. And it stuck.

Friends and relatives call me that.

In 1941, it was a fad to call little boy babies "Butch".
After I had been cleaned up from the birth process, a nurse presented me to my mom.
"Here's your little Butch."
And that's been me ever since.
:-)

[ThomCat]

16. Unfortunately, it was "Hey, you."

I was convinced for 8 years, seriously, that my dad didn't know my name.

[skygazer]

17. Slave

I was the youngest of six and none of my siblings ever wanted to play with me so no matter what the game, if they let me play I was ready to play it.

My sister (who was evil and cruel) decided to get me to play "slave" - I had to do whatever she told me to and call her "master."

That damn game lasted about 8 years. :grr:

[hopein08]

18. "Cheeseball" or "Picky Nicky"

"Picky Nicky" because someone, and I'm not sure who, decided I was picky (though I've never thought of myself that way) and my first name is Nicole. But I hate the nickname "Nicky" so don't think of me with that name or call me that!

"Cheeseball" because my aunt decided that I was weird or cheesy or something. I was still very little then.

[Deja Q]

19. Never really had one from my parents that I can remember...

But I had plenty from school peers.

Dork
Nark
Geek
Freak
Doofus
Gremlin
Lonely boy
Captain Jobbie
Faggot
Homo
Queer
!&@^#%$ Queer
Dead (as in "You're dead")
Retard
God's joke (or any 6 variants of that...)

Need I go on?

[nytemare]

20. "Face"

So named by my Dad, who called me that for two months before I finally asked him why. Apparently, I make a lot of faces, so the name has stuck.

[Dangerously Amused]

26. Also the nickname of Billy Crystal.

Given to him by the legendary Billie Holiday when she used to babysit for him. Billy would later go on the name his production company, "Face Productions."


:7

[YellowRubberDuckie]

21. Humdinger.

My dad thought I was the end all be all. I love that dude too. He's been gone ten years now.
Duckie

[Shine]

22. I was teased mercilessly with nicknames I didn't want as a kid.

so I don't even want to go there with listing them.

I have a very unusual first name and the kids looooved to make fun of it, growing up. It was really hard for me sometimes. I just wanted to be a Susan or a Kathy or a Jennifer. Something "normal".

Seriously, I've never been big on nicknames ever since...for MY name, anyway.

Now, of course, I love my name. I had to grow into it. :D

[Kali]

25. me too

[xmas74]

Unusual name club member checking in!

I was made fun of often over my real name. I used to write down more "normal" names and ask that people call me them instead. Between my name, GATE classes (yep, one of the smart kids in school) and having moved there from another state I was ridiculed on a daily basis. It was ok to laugh at me, to pull cruel pranks on me, and to attempt to force me to do things that I didn't want to do on dates in high school.

Kids are cruel, aren't they?:pals:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. Didn't have one.

I was such a dweeb, nobody ever even bothered to give me one.

[Darth_Kitten]

24. Cha cha

not too many people used it, my grandpa coined it for me, and my uncle and sometimes my sister would call me "cha"

I guess when I was a toddler I used to dance about or something and my grandpa, who was from Hungary, thought I looked like a little Zsa Zsa (Gabor)

with his accent it sounded like "cha cha" " :)

[laylah]

27. My dad always called me

Juniper 'cuz I grew so quickly, Mom always called me "Jenny Bug" for WHATEVER reason, and my brother always called me "witch" 'cuz he was a jerk :spank:

Jenn

[mwooldri]

28. At University it was Beavis.

I'll show the scans when I get home but imagine Beavis from Beavis and Butthead with thick plastic framed glasses with glass bottle bottoms for lenses. That's me!

Mark.

[Neshanic]

29. In college frat. "Stubs". 6'1" with 30" inseam.

[DanCa]

30. Midnight Toker

Not really but it would have been so cool if they did People used to call me a toe head growing up but it I didn't know it was because of my blonde hair. I thought I had a head shaped like an actual toe.

[LiberalEsto]

40. It's spelled towhead

I think tow was some kind of light-colored rope.

[hyphenate]

31. My "nickname" was/is Marie

My mom and I have the same first name--Mary. When I was growing up, the family called me Marie as a result to distinguish between Mom and me. When Mom or Dad got really pissed at me, they would sometimes call me Maria!! (Including the exclamation marks! :))

The family is still the only ones to call me Marie. All my friends call me Mary, which is what I prefer.

[MissMillie]

32. Twin

because I'm a twin. I guess it was easier for people to say "twin" than to figure out which one I was.

[In_The_Wind]

33. Other kids would call me B B.

Because I used to sing Little Egypt.

[no name no slogan]

35. Firestomper

because I've always had big feet (currently men's size 12/13), even though I was of shorter than average height.

[ScreamingMeemie]

36. Cheeks, Snowmobilewoman, Fishstick and Slash.

N/T

[Sugar Smack]

37. "overboard"

because of my enthusiasm :rofl:

[Kailassa]

38. Horse

I was a shy kid from a big farming town and we moved to a small, very inbred sawmilling town where the girls didn't say no to the boys.

I got a reputation for being able to kick like a horse even if my hands were held tight, and they gave up trying on me.

For many years I thought that good girls made the guys happy and that I was just bad.

[LiberalEsto]

39. Kiku

until I put my foot down at age 13. Now I wish my parents were alive to call me Kiku.

In college some people called me Foggy because I was kind of absentminded.

One friend used to call me Neetz.

And my daughters call me Mom.

[Kathleen04]

41. Fuzz/Fuzzy

because of my big curly hair-do.

[slide to the left]

42. Mine

My name is danielle and my dad always called me Danielleski

MY husband picked it up also, but he shortened it to Ski.