I was the only white kid on my high school basketball team (and my last name is Black 😁) so I was nicknamed TOKEN.

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

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).

Guy at school was called Wayne because his surname was "Kerr" (it was years before I found out his real first name was Matt)

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

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.

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

I start to think that maybe we don't need to be named at birth and let nature takes its course instead.

I was dubbed "frog" in high school because I would flail my arms about when I cheered during sporting events and such. And I was also a big Muppets fan.

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.

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”

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

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.