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A given name is certainly a crucial part of someone’s life and identity. After all, it’s what’s going to be written on your documents and what most people will use to address you officially. However, a name that you create for yourself or that others give you can be as important as your “real” one. Giving someone a nickname is usually an act that occurs to simplify communication or make it more playful and personal. Being someone with a long name, I especially relate to the former.
However, sometimes nickname-giving can be slightly mischievous, and not necessarily in an offensive way. Sometimes people will give out nicknames that are there to brighten everyone’s mood, and not to make someone feel bad. Today’s post is exactly about that - slightly mischievous nicknames that stuck to people in the old days of high school. The Twitter post that inspired this post went viral, collecting 39.6k likes and told the story of the guy everybody called "pants", which inspired others to share their memories of high school nicknames. Consider upvoting the nicknames that you found funniest and leave a comment!
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Nolasaurous 2 years ago
There are four coopers at my school. They are all quite popular so when we say their names you gotta either say their last name or their first and last.
The very concept of high school nicknames is kind of odd and silly. People will pick up upon the most random thing and make it part of their daily interactions. Which isn't inherently bad, because a lot of the time, these nicknames will stick and make the repetitive nature of the routine and names less boring.
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ᴀʟᴇxᴏᴛʟ_ᴘʟᴀʏs_ᴄʀᴋ 2 years ago (edited)
i’m glad his name isn’t road kill edit: aww thanks everyone edit the2nd: GET THE CAMERAS IM FAMOUS
The randomness of these nicknames is, what I feel, makes them so entertaining. It seems as if one can take anything about a person, or what they've done and attach that to them as a way to address them.
#6
Layne Rodgers 2 years ago
This reminds me of when I was new to a school and didn't know anyone. I was nervous for my first class and then the teacher does attendance... My nickname for the last ten years has been Lanye (Like Kanye with an L) Northeast.
#7
Demonz Halo 2 years ago (edited)
I want to see the faces of the upperclassmen that made fun of you and just see their shocked expression
All in all, I feel like this list is a prime example of great nicknames that give everyone, not excluding the person being addressed with it, a good laugh. What nickname did you have or found funny? Let us know in the comments below the article!
#12
Demonz Halo 2 years ago
Imagine walking by the gym and seeing a kid run around with his hands in his pockets
#13
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Sibling nicknames are often ridiculous. I'm putting together a slideshow for my sister's 21st and am planning on going through all of them. Her name is Caitlin, so there were variations on that like, Cat, Kitty-Cait, Caitie etc but then there is Chicken (no idea why that started, but apparently after we began calling her that she convinced herself that she actually was a chicken) Crumby monster (because she still can't eat something without leaving crumbs everywhere) and Devil child (because she almost always has really big dilated pupils).
#18
Lulu Herrington 2 years ago
did nobody comment on this? well leave a like if you support ukraine
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Demonz Halo 2 years ago (edited)
Ok ok I’m in drama club. Can someone give me a nickname like this??
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Whitey Black 2 years ago
I was the only white kid on my high school basketball team (and my last name is Black 😁) so I was nicknamed TOKEN.
Mr. Jones 2 years ago
I'm gay and most of my male friends are straight. I get called "Token" a lot, too. Welcome to the Token Club.
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Heather Resatz 2 years ago
Knew a kid we all called 'Baby-Seat Brian' He was loaded one night and got caught breaking into a car, he stole the baby seat. And got caught by the cops, running down the street with a baby seat. Dude never lived that down
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago
A classmate used to be called nacho because I made a typo of the first part of his surname. I am called Chimm because everybody felt like my name is too long and i agree
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
I desperately wanted a nickname when I was a kid, but the only one I ever got was "Twitchy", because I fidgeted a lot. I hated it because it was given to me by the bullies who would yell it at me as a taunt. (Turns out I have Aspergers and the fidgeting in question was stimming).
Iggnacious 2 years ago
My HS buddies began calling each other by our father's names. Still do 50 years later Jeff - Hank Mike - Roy Kim - Ralph Tom - Iggy Jim - Murph etc
Spencer Arnold 2 years ago
Guy at school was called Wayne because his surname was "Kerr" (it was years before I found out his real first name was Matt)
Nathaniel 2 years ago
One kid at school was known as Jupiter because he had a big red spot....
Emlin Remlin Gremlin 2 years ago
I’m known mainly as just Gremlin throughout my friends the nickname started from “Emlin Gremlin” (my name is Emmalene) I am also called Em by every single one of my friends parents
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I like the nickname Emmaline (my name's Emma) but my mum said I'm not allowed that, as I got the idea from a song my dad listened to called Emma Emmaline, where the girl commits suicide.
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Jude Last 2 years ago
Some friends and I got into a discussion about what our names were in Spanish. Mine was pronounced, "Hoo-deeth". So they started calling me that. Next it was shortened to, "Hoo-dee". Then it became, "Hoo-der". When they started calling me, "Hoo-ters", I put a stop to the whole thing.
Ann-ette Wages 2 years ago
My son at 4 was told by older son, "that's your opinion, man." Little guy responded, " I am not pinion man!" Pinion Man is now 18.
Wicked Moon216 2 years ago
That's a good one for when Jimmy Fallon wants people send in stories like this! Ha ha ha!!
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blugeagua 2 years ago
My mom's sister (my aunt's) name is Gretchen and when they were in elementary school there was another kid with a really bad speech impediment and couldn't pronounce her name so he ended up calling her Richard. So throughout her entire life her nickname was always Richard. Even now in her 60's we sometimes refer to her as auntie Richard. Lol
Kady LaHaie 2 years ago
My dad's first day of kindergarten in the late 50s. He runs up to another kid and says, "What's your name?" The kid says, "CRAIG ALLAN BRUDER STUPID!" Sixty years later, it was still the kid's name. "Hey look here comes Craig Allan Bruder Stupid and his five kids." Yeah man. Small towns. People never forget.
Mr. Jones 2 years ago
My dad owned a fast food restaurant in our home town. My best friend was from Puerto Rico and didn't speak any English. Instead of using the spanish version of my name he called me "Hamburger Boy." I was friends with him for seven years and for seven years I was "Hamburger Boy." I'm friends with his sister on Instagram now and she said a few years back when I got back in touch with her brother briefly her dad was so happy to hear that "Hamburger Boy" had done well in life. In training school in the Army, this one girl had a really long Russian last name with like one consonant. We called her Alphabet. She said it was her favorite nick name ever.
meowgie catster 2 years ago
We call me friend squishy because when we were playing tag a few Halloweens ago, he accidentally grabbed my boob when trying to tag me. He meant to say sorry but he was all flustered and he was just like “uh, squishy”
Emmett O'Brian 2 years ago (edited)
We had five Bills in HS. We called one Bill, one Bildo (because that's what you do), and the rest Bill 3, Bill 4, and Bill 5. We also had a guy called Happy and one we called Vanderhobble. For random reasons. I only knew my maternal grandmother by her nickname and my paternal grandfather by his nickname. I also know a "Nick" who's real name is Abraham, but his brothers didn't want to call him by his name.
June’s Very Own 2 years ago
Had 2 male friends who both were best friends and looked a lot alike. Both their names are Charlie and both their last names start with G! One of the Charlie’s had a girlfriend called sophia so we called him “Sophias Charlie” and the other ones last name is godbert and we call him goddo. Good times
Kandi Heiple 2 years ago
A drunk guy called me Krandi once instead of Kandi (Im a bartender so Im always around drunk dudes) and a couple of my coworkers heard it and decided it was short for "Krandall". I was Krandall for the rest of the time I worked there. Even in serious situations all my coworkers and the owner of the bar would call me Krandall with a completely straight face.
Kady LaHaie 2 years ago
Before social media, loads of people in the sticks referred to themselves by their CB handle. Yeah. I'm that old.
KT 2 years ago
My Nick name is hoochi mama. One night at the beach with girlfriends were walking down the strip and my shoe broke. So we go back to my gfs car she has these super sexy lace up sandal boots so I switch them on and continue our walk. The whole way down men are hanging out of their car windows yling "hoooooochi mama!!" And it stuck my friends called me that for YEARS
Mad Mar 2 years ago
Was called Fry from grade school through til senior year. Was my last name. No one called me by my first name. Not even teachers. I got so fed up I wouldn't answer them until they used my first name finally. Then I was Mad because I happened to get so mad about it. Then Mad Mar like mad max. And so I am.
WoodenLion 2 years ago
savage & sudden - were 2 names i picked up. {funny how i got them but possibly only to me and those present}
AnxietyRiddenMom 2 years ago
My best friend growing up nickname was deedle dorf. Her grandfather gave everyone of the grandkids nicknames. Her brother was yeep, her cousin was smoother. Even her mom had one, it was rooie. Because I was practically with her constantly, I was not left out and I'm carlyboo.
Victor Trejo 2 years ago
There was this boy with very narrow eyes of in my class, the first year of junior high. Of course, he was dubbed Chinese. I, myself have also very narrow eyes. I was dubbed J*p. So, the Chinese and the J*p. Funny thing is I live in Japan now.
Victor Trejo 2 years ago
Censored word is JAPanese. Sorry it sounds like slur, just wanted to say things as they were.
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Yort 2 years ago
I’m jealous, I just got called by the nickname that actually comes from my name (not yort). And usually one-time random first names that sound decreasingly like my real name. Like if my real name was Yortina, my nickname is Yort, I’d get called Yortino, Yortinia, Yart, Yandrea, Yalice, Michelob, Mercado. That kind of thing where some of the wrong names aren’t remotely close. I’m jealous of these people who got cool nicknames,.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I never had a nickname that stuck (except all my brother's friends and even some teachers called me Huddo's sister, even though I'm older) but one I was given for a little while was funny. We had an author come to my primary school (I can't remember if it was Andy Griffiths or Terry Denton) and he wrote a song using our names. He rhymed my name with Eathtremor so I was called that for a couple of weeks.
Spencer Arnold 2 years ago
One guy was called Wayne because his surname was "Kerr" (it was years before I learnt his real first name was Matt - antipodean joke, I guess)
the engineer 🇺🇦 2 years ago
i once nursed a blue jay back to health when is bashed into a window in my free period. im still called blue jay to this day forward
n0_h0p3_l3ft_f0r_m4x 2 years ago (edited)
There was a kid named Eoghan in my grade, (pronounced Owen) and he got the nickname "Chubbs." It's not fat-shaming, he got the name because we were reading a play script in ELA class (A Christmas Carol) and he got the role of "The fat man." My ELA teacher gave the nickname to him and it has stuck ever since.
Alisha Spence 2 years ago
I wore a Dennis Rodman jersey to school when i was is like 8th or 9th grade and a guy I kinda hung around called me Worm and then it stuck and that was what everyone called me and my best friend became nightcrawler because i was already worm and we were always together. I still get called that from time to time when i see certain people from high school
Teresa Lewis 2 years ago
There was a kid who rode my bus in school. There was a sign outside his house advertising worms and nightcrawlers. He was called Worm for as long as I knew him.
Courtney Johnston 2 years ago
So my brothers nickname was Trown. Because his hair is tan, red, orange, brown. Hes a ginger, im a brunette, i met a bunch of his friends while out & realized they might know him. So i said "oh you must know my brother" we have different last names. No one ever believed we were related, because of looks & my attitude. He HATES that nickname. Mine is Courtney Motha-F****n Johnston or Bones, rarely i was called Lurch.
Wicked Moon216 2 years ago
One time when I was in high school a few of us bought these t-shirts with stupid sayings on them. Mine said "I used to be Snow White...then I drifted". They started calling me Snow Black after that.
Micah 2 years ago
We has Mush because someone once said his face looked like mush. We had Burnt because once in class there was a fart, and when one guy got up at the end of class there was a black burn-like mark on his chair (that was definitely there before he sat down but oh well). One dude was named Apple, allegedly because he beat someone up with an apple. There were dozens of nicknames in my middle and high school.
Bi-Polar Express 2 years ago
I was PP for Pastel Princess because I wore pastel colors instead of bright 80s crap. In the crappy 80s.
Shishal Asaurus 2 years ago
I went to middle school with a kid named John Dill.... I dont remember how it started but from that point he was called Toilet Pickle. (Bonus: he was a major a$$hole from day 1)
Nannychachi 2 years ago
We have a neighbor with the last name Fluharty. So he's Old Fluharty. His son, a couple of houses down, is Young Fluharty. YF's wife is Tank Top Fluharty because she always mows in the same gray tank top. Another neighbor is Power Washer Woman because she uses one at least once a week on her sidewalk and driveway.
Susan Bosse 2 years ago
For reasons no one can remember, I started called my best friend's dad "Pops" and he called me "Tom Slick." 45 years later we still call each other by those names. Side note: I'm female. Lol
Hollie Marie 2 years ago
When my mum was little she couldn't say her brother name Chris she called him Kip instead, for some reason this stuck and now when the family reference him we go kip (never called him it to his face though xD)
Emma Algar 2 years ago
My names Emma. There were so many Emmas in my school and some boys decided to call me Ew Emma then it eventually shortened to Uma. It stuck and my friends called me Uma too it lasted years even after I left the country. It never bothered me I thought it was funny.
Alison D. O. 2 years ago
I was really tiny most of my childhood. distinctly remember in 3rd grade when a boy held up a tiny chip of wood and said "we're going to call you woodchip, because you're as small as this piece of wood." My dad still calls me Woodchip.
Axolotl King 2 years ago
My grandpa calls me cantaloupe. My first name is Melanie, so sometimes it would be abbreviated to "Melon" and I loved cantaloupe.
Mud spider 2 years ago
I called my friend “blonde kid” for the first semester of school before he told me his name there’s also “emo kid” who’s real name I still don’t know. He actually wasn’t emo so his friend started calling me “blondie” I started calling him “brownie” like the dessert XD. And there was “mango girl” who had shared a mango with me before I knew her real name… there was also “cute blonde” and “crabs” Lol. Which ones your favorite?
Kusotare 2 years ago
At my judo club there's a guy called "Pink Panther" because he washed his (formerly) white uniform with a red t-shirt. And there's another guy called "The Mechanic" because during a grappling session, he 'checked someone's oil'. (You're gonna have to look that one up, I'm not explaining it.)
Magicalmarilyn 2 years ago
My youngest son has been known as Butch his entire life. Got the name because his older brothers couldn't call him dumb b***h like their dad called a dog we had. He tried to say it when he was about 18 months old and it came out dumb butch and stuck. Most of the people he knows don't know his real name and he's in his 40's now
Joanne Lawrence 2 years ago
My ex was "Slayer." Because he looked like a vampire slayer, apparently. I guess I couldn't really disagree with that reasoning.
Michał Osiecki 2 years ago
called my little brothers friend "forhead" cause iof his forehead proportions. They started calling him like that and he is forehead up to now
buttonpusher 2 years ago (edited)
Heard of a kid called Smurf because he dressed as one for Halloween, but he'd painted himself with wall paint which apparently took about a week to get off.
Mary Jeffries 2 years ago
I want to school with a guy who was nicknamed Sup. His name was Clark. Clark Kent, Superman, shorten it to Sup. So strange to think of it now.
InfectedVoice 2 years ago (edited)
Nicknames are amazing, one of our friends is called 'channel 5' because about 20 years ago he was watching channel 5 for two nights in a row when we went to his house, another is called 'clean sheet' because didn't lose at MarioKart64 for 3 days in a row in the mid 90s, another called 'buck' because he got kicked in the teeth by a horse and another called 'kinger' because he asked whey Prince Philip isn't king once when we were in school, oh another called 'wafer' because he used to have a lot of wafer thin ham in his sandwiches at school.
OnlyMyOpinion 2 years ago
We used to call a lad Super Ted, because his best mate who he was always with was very Spotty.
Kady LaHaie 2 years ago
My actual name is impossible to pronounce so at my last job I let everybody call me Katty La Tatty.
Rachel 2 years ago
I know a Gay Dave. His name is not Dave, nor is he gay. He got called Dave after Trig in Only Fools and horses and thought if he acted camp he could get closer to the ladies before making a move. Turned out it stuck and he tried to change it to disco Dave in the hope it would improve his chances!
BookCrazyTeen 2 years ago
A girl I used to be friends with started calling me watermelon lady because she found out I was allergic to watermelon.
Patrick McKemie 2 years ago
When I was born, my mon and dad started calling me "Patrick". People have been calling me that ever since.
Sensitive Issues 2 years ago
My poor brothers nick name.... I am only 13 months older than him and I only heard "Good Girl" so when he would do good he was a "good girl" also! moms being moms she corrected me by saying no honey he is a "BOY"... I guess you get to tell me his name only once...He still tries to correct it. Nope not gona happen!
Jasam Nitko 2 years ago
I went to school with Cheese, Egg, and Pea. They got their nicknames independent of each other.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 2 years ago
I wish fun nicknames like this was more common. Actual names are boring. The only good nickname I have i allow 1 person to say it because he came up with it
Whitey Black 2 years ago
I was the only white kid on my high school basketball team (and my last name is Black 😁) so I was nicknamed TOKEN.
Mr. Jones 2 years ago
I'm gay and most of my male friends are straight. I get called "Token" a lot, too. Welcome to the Token Club.
Load More Replies... Heather Resatz 2 years ago
Knew a kid we all called 'Baby-Seat Brian' He was loaded one night and got caught breaking into a car, he stole the baby seat. And got caught by the cops, running down the street with a baby seat. Dude never lived that down
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago
A classmate used to be called nacho because I made a typo of the first part of his surname. I am called Chimm because everybody felt like my name is too long and i agree
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
I desperately wanted a nickname when I was a kid, but the only one I ever got was "Twitchy", because I fidgeted a lot. I hated it because it was given to me by the bullies who would yell it at me as a taunt. (Turns out I have Aspergers and the fidgeting in question was stimming).
Iggnacious 2 years ago
My HS buddies began calling each other by our father's names. Still do 50 years later Jeff - Hank Mike - Roy Kim - Ralph Tom - Iggy Jim - Murph etc
Spencer Arnold 2 years ago
Guy at school was called Wayne because his surname was "Kerr" (it was years before I found out his real first name was Matt)
Nathaniel 2 years ago
One kid at school was known as Jupiter because he had a big red spot....
Emlin Remlin Gremlin 2 years ago
I’m known mainly as just Gremlin throughout my friends the nickname started from “Emlin Gremlin” (my name is Emmalene) I am also called Em by every single one of my friends parents
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I like the nickname Emmaline (my name's Emma) but my mum said I'm not allowed that, as I got the idea from a song my dad listened to called Emma Emmaline, where the girl commits suicide.
Load More Replies... Jude Last 2 years ago
Some friends and I got into a discussion about what our names were in Spanish. Mine was pronounced, "Hoo-deeth". So they started calling me that. Next it was shortened to, "Hoo-dee". Then it became, "Hoo-der". When they started calling me, "Hoo-ters", I put a stop to the whole thing.
Ann-ette Wages 2 years ago
My son at 4 was told by older son, "that's your opinion, man." Little guy responded, " I am not pinion man!" Pinion Man is now 18.
Wicked Moon216 2 years ago
That's a good one for when Jimmy Fallon wants people send in stories like this! Ha ha ha!!
Load More Replies... blugeagua 2 years ago
My mom's sister (my aunt's) name is Gretchen and when they were in elementary school there was another kid with a really bad speech impediment and couldn't pronounce her name so he ended up calling her Richard. So throughout her entire life her nickname was always Richard. Even now in her 60's we sometimes refer to her as auntie Richard. Lol
Kady LaHaie 2 years ago
My dad's first day of kindergarten in the late 50s. He runs up to another kid and says, "What's your name?" The kid says, "CRAIG ALLAN BRUDER STUPID!" Sixty years later, it was still the kid's name. "Hey look here comes Craig Allan Bruder Stupid and his five kids." Yeah man. Small towns. People never forget.
Mr. Jones 2 years ago
My dad owned a fast food restaurant in our home town. My best friend was from Puerto Rico and didn't speak any English. Instead of using the spanish version of my name he called me "Hamburger Boy." I was friends with him for seven years and for seven years I was "Hamburger Boy." I'm friends with his sister on Instagram now and she said a few years back when I got back in touch with her brother briefly her dad was so happy to hear that "Hamburger Boy" had done well in life. In training school in the Army, this one girl had a really long Russian last name with like one consonant. We called her Alphabet. She said it was her favorite nick name ever.
meowgie catster 2 years ago
We call me friend squishy because when we were playing tag a few Halloweens ago, he accidentally grabbed my boob when trying to tag me. He meant to say sorry but he was all flustered and he was just like “uh, squishy”
Emmett O'Brian 2 years ago (edited)
We had five Bills in HS. We called one Bill, one Bildo (because that's what you do), and the rest Bill 3, Bill 4, and Bill 5. We also had a guy called Happy and one we called Vanderhobble. For random reasons. I only knew my maternal grandmother by her nickname and my paternal grandfather by his nickname. I also know a "Nick" who's real name is Abraham, but his brothers didn't want to call him by his name.
June’s Very Own 2 years ago
Had 2 male friends who both were best friends and looked a lot alike. Both their names are Charlie and both their last names start with G! One of the Charlie’s had a girlfriend called sophia so we called him “Sophias Charlie” and the other ones last name is godbert and we call him goddo. Good times
Kandi Heiple 2 years ago
A drunk guy called me Krandi once instead of Kandi (Im a bartender so Im always around drunk dudes) and a couple of my coworkers heard it and decided it was short for "Krandall". I was Krandall for the rest of the time I worked there. Even in serious situations all my coworkers and the owner of the bar would call me Krandall with a completely straight face.
Kady LaHaie 2 years ago
Before social media, loads of people in the sticks referred to themselves by their CB handle. Yeah. I'm that old.
KT 2 years ago
My Nick name is hoochi mama. One night at the beach with girlfriends were walking down the strip and my shoe broke. So we go back to my gfs car she has these super sexy lace up sandal boots so I switch them on and continue our walk. The whole way down men are hanging out of their car windows yling "hoooooochi mama!!" And it stuck my friends called me that for YEARS
Mad Mar 2 years ago
Was called Fry from grade school through til senior year. Was my last name. No one called me by my first name. Not even teachers. I got so fed up I wouldn't answer them until they used my first name finally. Then I was Mad because I happened to get so mad about it. Then Mad Mar like mad max. And so I am.
WoodenLion 2 years ago
savage & sudden - were 2 names i picked up. {funny how i got them but possibly only to me and those present}
AnxietyRiddenMom 2 years ago
My best friend growing up nickname was deedle dorf. Her grandfather gave everyone of the grandkids nicknames. Her brother was yeep, her cousin was smoother. Even her mom had one, it was rooie. Because I was practically with her constantly, I was not left out and I'm carlyboo.
Victor Trejo 2 years ago
There was this boy with very narrow eyes of in my class, the first year of junior high. Of course, he was dubbed Chinese. I, myself have also very narrow eyes. I was dubbed J*p. So, the Chinese and the J*p. Funny thing is I live in Japan now.
Victor Trejo 2 years ago
Censored word is JAPanese. Sorry it sounds like slur, just wanted to say things as they were.
Load More Replies... Yort 2 years ago
I’m jealous, I just got called by the nickname that actually comes from my name (not yort). And usually one-time random first names that sound decreasingly like my real name. Like if my real name was Yortina, my nickname is Yort, I’d get called Yortino, Yortinia, Yart, Yandrea, Yalice, Michelob, Mercado. That kind of thing where some of the wrong names aren’t remotely close. I’m jealous of these people who got cool nicknames,.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I never had a nickname that stuck (except all my brother's friends and even some teachers called me Huddo's sister, even though I'm older) but one I was given for a little while was funny. We had an author come to my primary school (I can't remember if it was Andy Griffiths or Terry Denton) and he wrote a song using our names. He rhymed my name with Eathtremor so I was called that for a couple of weeks.
Spencer Arnold 2 years ago
One guy was called Wayne because his surname was "Kerr" (it was years before I learnt his real first name was Matt - antipodean joke, I guess)
the engineer 🇺🇦 2 years ago
i once nursed a blue jay back to health when is bashed into a window in my free period. im still called blue jay to this day forward
n0_h0p3_l3ft_f0r_m4x 2 years ago (edited)
There was a kid named Eoghan in my grade, (pronounced Owen) and he got the nickname "Chubbs." It's not fat-shaming, he got the name because we were reading a play script in ELA class (A Christmas Carol) and he got the role of "The fat man." My ELA teacher gave the nickname to him and it has stuck ever since.
Alisha Spence 2 years ago
I wore a Dennis Rodman jersey to school when i was is like 8th or 9th grade and a guy I kinda hung around called me Worm and then it stuck and that was what everyone called me and my best friend became nightcrawler because i was already worm and we were always together. I still get called that from time to time when i see certain people from high school
Teresa Lewis 2 years ago
There was a kid who rode my bus in school. There was a sign outside his house advertising worms and nightcrawlers. He was called Worm for as long as I knew him.
Courtney Johnston 2 years ago
So my brothers nickname was Trown. Because his hair is tan, red, orange, brown. Hes a ginger, im a brunette, i met a bunch of his friends while out & realized they might know him. So i said "oh you must know my brother" we have different last names. No one ever believed we were related, because of looks & my attitude. He HATES that nickname. Mine is Courtney Motha-F****n Johnston or Bones, rarely i was called Lurch.
Wicked Moon216 2 years ago
One time when I was in high school a few of us bought these t-shirts with stupid sayings on them. Mine said "I used to be Snow White...then I drifted". They started calling me Snow Black after that.
Micah 2 years ago
We has Mush because someone once said his face looked like mush. We had Burnt because once in class there was a fart, and when one guy got up at the end of class there was a black burn-like mark on his chair (that was definitely there before he sat down but oh well). One dude was named Apple, allegedly because he beat someone up with an apple. There were dozens of nicknames in my middle and high school.
Bi-Polar Express 2 years ago
I was PP for Pastel Princess because I wore pastel colors instead of bright 80s crap. In the crappy 80s.
Shishal Asaurus 2 years ago
I went to middle school with a kid named John Dill.... I dont remember how it started but from that point he was called Toilet Pickle. (Bonus: he was a major a$$hole from day 1)
Nannychachi 2 years ago
We have a neighbor with the last name Fluharty. So he's Old Fluharty. His son, a couple of houses down, is Young Fluharty. YF's wife is Tank Top Fluharty because she always mows in the same gray tank top. Another neighbor is Power Washer Woman because she uses one at least once a week on her sidewalk and driveway.
Susan Bosse 2 years ago
For reasons no one can remember, I started called my best friend's dad "Pops" and he called me "Tom Slick." 45 years later we still call each other by those names. Side note: I'm female. Lol
Hollie Marie 2 years ago
When my mum was little she couldn't say her brother name Chris she called him Kip instead, for some reason this stuck and now when the family reference him we go kip (never called him it to his face though xD)
Emma Algar 2 years ago
My names Emma. There were so many Emmas in my school and some boys decided to call me Ew Emma then it eventually shortened to Uma. It stuck and my friends called me Uma too it lasted years even after I left the country. It never bothered me I thought it was funny.
Alison D. O. 2 years ago
I was really tiny most of my childhood. distinctly remember in 3rd grade when a boy held up a tiny chip of wood and said "we're going to call you woodchip, because you're as small as this piece of wood." My dad still calls me Woodchip.
Axolotl King 2 years ago
My grandpa calls me cantaloupe. My first name is Melanie, so sometimes it would be abbreviated to "Melon" and I loved cantaloupe.
Mud spider 2 years ago
I called my friend “blonde kid” for the first semester of school before he told me his name there’s also “emo kid” who’s real name I still don’t know. He actually wasn’t emo so his friend started calling me “blondie” I started calling him “brownie” like the dessert XD. And there was “mango girl” who had shared a mango with me before I knew her real name… there was also “cute blonde” and “crabs” Lol. Which ones your favorite?
Kusotare 2 years ago
At my judo club there's a guy called "Pink Panther" because he washed his (formerly) white uniform with a red t-shirt. And there's another guy called "The Mechanic" because during a grappling session, he 'checked someone's oil'. (You're gonna have to look that one up, I'm not explaining it.)
Magicalmarilyn 2 years ago
My youngest son has been known as Butch his entire life. Got the name because his older brothers couldn't call him dumb b***h like their dad called a dog we had. He tried to say it when he was about 18 months old and it came out dumb butch and stuck. Most of the people he knows don't know his real name and he's in his 40's now
Joanne Lawrence 2 years ago
My ex was "Slayer." Because he looked like a vampire slayer, apparently. I guess I couldn't really disagree with that reasoning.
Michał Osiecki 2 years ago
called my little brothers friend "forhead" cause iof his forehead proportions. They started calling him like that and he is forehead up to now
buttonpusher 2 years ago (edited)
Heard of a kid called Smurf because he dressed as one for Halloween, but he'd painted himself with wall paint which apparently took about a week to get off.
Mary Jeffries 2 years ago
I want to school with a guy who was nicknamed Sup. His name was Clark. Clark Kent, Superman, shorten it to Sup. So strange to think of it now.
InfectedVoice 2 years ago (edited)
Nicknames are amazing, one of our friends is called 'channel 5' because about 20 years ago he was watching channel 5 for two nights in a row when we went to his house, another is called 'clean sheet' because didn't lose at MarioKart64 for 3 days in a row in the mid 90s, another called 'buck' because he got kicked in the teeth by a horse and another called 'kinger' because he asked whey Prince Philip isn't king once when we were in school, oh another called 'wafer' because he used to have a lot of wafer thin ham in his sandwiches at school.
OnlyMyOpinion 2 years ago
We used to call a lad Super Ted, because his best mate who he was always with was very Spotty.
Kady LaHaie 2 years ago
My actual name is impossible to pronounce so at my last job I let everybody call me Katty La Tatty.
Rachel 2 years ago
I know a Gay Dave. His name is not Dave, nor is he gay. He got called Dave after Trig in Only Fools and horses and thought if he acted camp he could get closer to the ladies before making a move. Turned out it stuck and he tried to change it to disco Dave in the hope it would improve his chances!
BookCrazyTeen 2 years ago
A girl I used to be friends with started calling me watermelon lady because she found out I was allergic to watermelon.
Patrick McKemie 2 years ago
When I was born, my mon and dad started calling me "Patrick". People have been calling me that ever since.
Sensitive Issues 2 years ago
My poor brothers nick name.... I am only 13 months older than him and I only heard "Good Girl" so when he would do good he was a "good girl" also! moms being moms she corrected me by saying no honey he is a "BOY"... I guess you get to tell me his name only once...He still tries to correct it. Nope not gona happen!
Jasam Nitko 2 years ago
I went to school with Cheese, Egg, and Pea. They got their nicknames independent of each other.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 2 years ago
I wish fun nicknames like this was more common. Actual names are boring. The only good nickname I have i allow 1 person to say it because he came up with it
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