One of the guys in the group was playing with his new phone while we were all discussing how nicknames were developed. The guy with the new phone was recording video of his chicken nuggets jokingly saying "Nugget Cam!". During this, one of the guys was saying how he would like to pick a cool nickname for himself. Instantly someone said, "that's not how nicknames work Nugget". (His name is Cameron, Cam for short). He is now know as 'Nugget'

At work, my boss is progressive, but has some latent old white guy tendencies. A black guy said his DJ name is Triple K.

Worked with a chap whose surname was Turvey, his knickname was Topsy.

When I was in the Army in 1988, there was a woman in our unit whose last name was Russian and had like ten consonants and three vowels. Not one of us could pronounce it and she said no one outside of her family could. Well in the Army we call one another by our last names. So we nicknamed her "Alphabet." It eventually got shortened to "Alphie." She LOVED IT! One day she showed us a letter from her father and it was addressed to Alphie. He loved the nickname. She oldest son, now in his late 20s, his name is Alphie.

We called one of our bosses the Yeti....because only few people pretended have seen him and so for us his existence was not proven....

Guy at work was seemingly incapable of learning simple new things. You tell him something and the next day you'd have to tell him again, and the next, etc. We called him Groundhog Day, because whenever he showed up, "It's Groundhog Day!"

Guy in high school called me "Starla". He said looked like I had a gold star outline in my left eye. He also always said it like an insult and everyone in that class started calling me that as a way to make fun of me. Still not sure I get what's insulting about that. I never corrected him and ran into him 6 years later dropping my aunt off to her tests at a community college and he still called me that.

I had a friend in college I mix named the pound master, because she kept bringing home stray guys from the weirdest places 😂

Knew someone called Alby, as in they were always saying, I'll be there in a minute.....(with a Scottish accent)

There is a kid at the children's home I live at. He is so skinny, he looks like one of those plastic skeletons you hang out on halloween. His Nickname: Stick.

My daughter used to work in an office where the boss was known as The Pokémon, because he'd close the blind on his office window but leave just enough of a gap to be able to 'peek at you'.

Not funny or witty, this is more sweet. My nickname is Carrie (actual name Caroline). It came about because my youngest niece couldn't pronounce my name when she first started talking, she just randomly called me Carrie. She called me by my actual name recently and I hated it. It felt weird. She started calling me Carrie again and when she's around everybody calls me that.

I call my sister in law pampers. After two years she asked me why. I told her. It's because she is self absorbed and full off sh!t