Not personally (Being called Clare it never really lent itself to a nickname although one dear friend started calling me Clareio years ago and my boss calls me Clarey) but my middle name being Elizabeth meant my parents often call me Clare Lilybett..
My grandmother however (on my Dad’s side and very Irish) is Margaret, I am 26 and have never heard anyone call her that to her face, quite simply she is, and always will be Peggy. It seems a lot of the more ‘old fashioned’ nicknames are further away from the original names than more modern nicknames (if she was my age i’m fairly sure she would have been Maggie or Mags…

Good morning!

We have a 2 year old named Henry – which at the time we thought NOBODY else would share his name because neither of us had ever met a Henry before. Flash forward 2 years and we know 6+ other 1-3 year olds named Henry. Oof.

I am not a fan of nicknames really but, in a hope to differentiate him from the other Henrys we’re surrounded by we started to call him “Moz”. His middle name is Morrissey (as in the singer of The Smiths) so we shortened even that and Moz has been sticking :)

So while I started out thinking my children would never have a nickname as long as I was living, we now have a Moz, Mozze, and Henry in our lives.

Good question!

Our daughter’s full name is Rilla (rhymes with Willa) Grace. We generally call her Rilla, but her cousin can’t quite say it and calls her Lolo. It’ll be interesting to see if it sticks!

Interestingly enough, no one in my family calls me by my given name “Julia.” They call me Julie or Jules. Greta has never had a nickname, but we call Faye “Faye-Faye” (weird that we make it longer!) or Boo-Boo, which stems from everyone telling us she looks like Boo from Monsters Inc. And then once I made “Boo-Boo” shorter and called her “boobs” on accident and that was the end of that. Ha!

My daughter, Penelope, has SO many nicknames, some of which came about by little ones not being able to pronounce her name. Opie, Ploppy, Nelly, & Pineapple. My daughter, Amelia, has either been called Amelia or Mia (which is how Penelope said Amelia when she was 2). Turns out Mia is an actual nickname for Amelia. She also gets called, Rae, which is her middle name. I wanted my kids to use their full names (Penelope, not Penny, which I love but is my mom’s name), but I do like the idea of naturally developing nicknames!

I love Mabes, because we always call my brother Riley “Riles.” I’m Court to close friends and family–if one of them calls me by my full name, it’s usually bad news :)

My son is Jackson, who we of course call Jack (although he prefers to introduce himself as Jackson–Jack is reserved for friends and family only). He also gets J-Bone and Munchkin.

When I was pregnant with my daughter and we decided on her name (Eden), we thought for sure we’d call her Edie. We never have, not once. She gets Sweet Pea, Peanut, and Eden McBeeden. She’s just not an Edie at all.

Ploppy and Pineapple are too funny! Love your daughters’ names.

Boobs…LOL! And how have I never noticed that Faye has an unncanny resemblance to Boo?!

Interesting nobody in my family has ever really had nicknames. Not my siblings or anyone. My toddler daughter is named Ashby and hasn’t gained any nn yet.

Funnily enough only our daughter has a nickname… probably because her name is the easiest to alter. Her name is Phoebe, but we usually call her Phoebes (Feebs) or Phoebe-Bee. We never really called our son Enzo anything else.

I just literally spit out my coffee. Love that.

This made me laugh because my daughter’s name is sadie, and we call her sades. Guess it’s not as unique as I thought it was!

Love seeing all the nicknames. Mine would be H, Hales, or HaleStorm (which is a perfect combination of my full name). My daughter’s name is Cora Jean and I always figured we’d call her Coco or something if we knew another Cora, but right now we just call her Cor. Don’t bother trying to call her anything else because she will say something like “I’m not a baby (or some other nickname), I’m Cora!”

I’ve since long outgrown my nickname, but for many years my mom and dad called me peaches. It all started when I was born and the nurse put me in the clear bassinet at the hospital and loudly proclaimed that my teeny, fuzzy, baby bottom looked exactly like a ripe peach, lol! My dad proceeded to plant a peach tree in our backyard for me and call me peaches for MANY years.

We all have nicknames! Mine was self-appointed. When I was 2 my Mom said,”Do you know your name?” And I said,”Ya.” And she said,”Welll?” And I replied with,”Sashie!” (My name is Cynthia). So Sashie it has been for 26 years.

My younger sister is “Snookie” or “Snook” and this was wayyy before the Jersey shore nonsense. So we’re Sashie and Snookie.

My baby sister’s name is Kelly and I nicknamed her “Krelk” shortly after birth and that has stuck as well.

I also forgot to mention that my younger brother is named Will (not William) and his nickname became Will-Pill. I have no idea how that started – maybe because it rhymed… He is now 21 and I still call him that sometimes much to his chagrin.

My name is Melanie – but almost no one calls me that except my husband (occasionally) and my Grandma (always) – my friends, co-workers – EVERYONE calls me ‘Mel’ or some knockoff of that. I get alot of Melly, Mel Mel, Mel-a-twee(my Mom), Melly Mel, Melbelle. I’m 30 and work in a professional environment and half those are from my co-workers. I love it though. It keeps things playful and fun and not too serious. I’m pregnant now and every name my husband I look at I ask ‘what could be the nickname for this?’ as I think the nicknames are almost more important. I bet that ‘Mabes’ sticks around (for a long, long time). I can see a boyfriend/husband using Mabes for sure :)

My son’s name is Desmond and we call him Des or Desi, but at school he insists that they use his full name. His older sister is named Maëlle (rhymes with Noëlle) and we’d call her Majelly. People have tried calling me the obvious Julia nicknames such as Jules or Julie, but because of my spelling it never stuck.

Growing up I assumed everyone had nicknames. I have aunts and uncles who’s real names I did not know until I was an adult. My sons name is Leo and we have a few nicknames for him, all of which are longer than his actual name! I guess we just use it as a term of endearment, like calling your spouse babe, honey, darling etc.

My daughter’s name is Ryann and when she was a toddler she always referred to herself as Ry Ry, I think because she couldn’t pronounce her own name. We now have shortened Ry Ry to just Ry.

I love that your dad planted a peach tree for you.

My parents to this day will call me El (short for Ellie). They also would call both my brother, Aaron, and me by our Hebrew names (full name if we’re in trouble). I especially get called Shev for Elisheva…which I secretly love. Funny story…in the Old Testament Elisheva is only mentioned once, but it is mentioned she is the wife of Aaron, Moses’s brother. The rabbi never told my parents!!! I figured it out when I was about 10 and the look on my mom’s face was priceless!!

My 13 daughter is named Maecy. People started calling her Mace. I hated that bc it reminded of the 90’s rapper. She now goes by Mae, which is my aunt and great-grandma’s middle name, so I love it.

When my 10 year son was born I wanted to name him Henry and made everyone promise not to call him Hank. But, a couple years ago he asked what the Henry nicknames were and I told him. He’s a baseball fan, and loves to be called Hank. Go figure.

I come from a family of five and all but one go by a nickname. We were born in Romania and migrated to the US when I was very young, so I’m not sure if they came about because they were easier to pronounce or what. My brother Petru is Peter. We call my sister Maria by her middle name, Estera (which is actually more uncommon than her first name). My brother Mircea is Mitch. And they call me, Mara, Maggie.. which stems from my middle name Magdalena. But I spell it Magi, even though many people here pronounce that word different. You can always tell how the person knows you based on what they call you. Family calls you by your nickname. Friends/acquaintces call you by your given name.

My youngest is Silas. When he was born his big brother had unclear speech so when he would say Silas it somehow sounded like “Hot Sauce”. And a nick name was born. We think it is hilarious.

We have Corinne and I always assumed we’d call her Cori for short–but more often than not, we call her ‘rinnie’ (rhymes with tin) or often simply ‘C’.

I never did. Someone tried to call me Jenny and my dad was not happy. My nephew and nieces all have names from me. Tristan is “Boo” (which is short for kidderboo), Hannah is “Hanny hoodle doodle, my little noodle poodle” or “Hanny” and Julia is Julia-bear (her older brother calls her ‘baby girl’ which is super cute since he is just 4 years older than her). The twins Anthony & Blake have no nick name…I sometimes call them both “Bob” but they right away tell me that is NOT their name (they are 4) and the baby, Rylee, I call her “Chickaletta” because the kids all love Paw Patrol and it seems to suit her. Hannah told her teacher in Kingergarten that her name was Hannah Hoodle Doodle Rose E. Too funny!

My family has called me Heathe (sounds like heth) for the last 43 years. They can’t seem to push out the “r” sound. :)
More recently, a bunch of kids in my old neighborhood started calling me Feather. The funny thing about this story is that they then began calling Winston, Mr. Feather. He was not impressed. LOL.

We called our oldest son, Ian bugaboo as a baby which ended up being shortened to bugs and it has stuck with him. He’s almost 14 and I thought he would get sick of it but he still uses bugs in almost all of his usernames for online games. My sister in law called our youngest son Colin Collipop as a baby which lead to me calling him pop pop and at 12 we still call him some version of pop or pop pop.

What a fun post! That picture of Mabrey is adorable!
Nicknames are such an interesting subject. Most of the grandmas in our family go by their middle name or a nickname of their middle name. Because of that I named my children what I wanted to call them rather than a variation on that. But a little friend of my daughter, Willow, would call her WoWo and we’ll jokingly call that occasionally.
I, of course, have had all the Jo nicknames- Jojo, Jojo bean, Jojo potato, sloppy jo. My best friend was also a “Jo”, so we were known as “the Jo’s”. (Hi, Joellyn!) When I was dating my husband, we played lots of Scrabble and jo is an important Scrabble word – it means sweetheart, so that’s been special ever since.

My daughter’s name is Emerson and alot of people started to shorten it to Emmy. My husband then started calling her Emmy Lou and before we knew it we shortened it to Lou Lou or Lou. I usually call her Lou Lou most of the time and don’t think twice about it when we are around people that know her real name but not her nickname. They must think we are so weird to call her a name so far from her real name. If you ask her what her name is (she’s 3 1/2) she will say Emerson Lou Lou. Poor kid!

My four-year-old daughter is Mabyn, and I’ve often thought of the similarity in our daughters’ names whenever I read your blog. Now I discover they are nickname twins! We very often call her “Mabes” as well, along with “Mabes-y” (not sure how you would spell it), and often just simply “Mae.” Her cousin calls her “Mae-Mae,” which sticks with younger kids. But no one calls her “Maeby,” ala Arrested Development!

Nicknames have always been a big thing in my world. I am one of seven kids and we all had several nicknames, from long and completely silly (one sister was called kranny annie rooster fanny for a very long time which has now shortened to kranny) to short and endearing (my aunt called me cindy soup and then soup for years and oddly it remains one of my favorites). My kids are all C names, so nicknames are almost a necessity to keep my sanity while trying to call my kids! My 3 year old went through a phase where she refused to be called anything but her first name. Even her middle and last were off limits! My youngest is Cosette, and we knew from the start we would call her Cosi (like cozy) and I love it. Last but not least, my husband is Christian, and every once in awhile someone will assume he goes by Chris, but he never has, and it doesn’t fit him at all. We can always tell someone doesn’t really know him well when they call him Chris!

Morgan: Mogie (Moh- Gee)
Hayley: Haye
Audrey: Otter
Oliver: O’Bear

My son’s are Sam (Sam Sam, Sammers, but NEVER Sammy), and Griffin (Griff, Griffy, Griffers). My nephews name is Layne (he’s 1.5 yrs old) and we call him Layners! I don’t know how the adding “ers” to the end of all of their names came about but they’ve all stuck.

When my daughter was little, she spent her days with her cousins. The oldest, a 2-year old at the time, couldn’t pronounce her full name, Mariana, and called her Mana. She is now almost 16 and we still call her that within our family.

My name is Kristen, and I was always “Kris” growing up among my girlfriends. When I moved to a new town and got a new job, I decided to go by “Ten” instead. It’s a self-proclaimed nickname that I use professionally, and I prefer it because, to me, it’s more unique than “Kris.” Also, I know a lot of Kris/Chris/Cris’s, so it helps differentiate me in my sphere of people.

I LOVE going by “Chey” (pronounced ‘shy’) but rarely introduce myself as such, and cringe when I write Chey and people pronounce is “Shay.”

My daughter is adopted and was named by her older birth sister (it’s a crazy, wonderful story) who always wanted a little sister named Gracie. So her name is Grace but we almost exclusively call her Gracie or GraceFace.

I got called Alli when I was little and, like Everett, announced that my name was Allison and not Alli. To this day, I cringe when someone calls me that and I actually refuse to answer. My oldest, got a variety of nicknames that evolved – Alexis, turned into Alexa-ma-ta-tus, which turned into Tatus, which sometimes became Tator Tatus. It’s so funny how these things come about!

I could write a 5000 word essay on nicknames in and around my family, but I’ll just hit the highlights:

In my husband’s family, the first child is a son named James. Always, for 10 generations. They get their own middle names. When I was pregnant with the next James, we decided on Xavier for a middle name because he’s the 10th James (and that was the only X name we could think of). When we ran it by my BIL for approval, he loved it and said “We can call him Jax!” And so everybody has since he was born.

My Daughter is Diana Karel, and I have always thought of her as DK in my head. This turned into “Deek”, “Deeker,” “Deeker-doodles,” or “Deeky-deeky-chicken-sleeky.” The older kids in town (age 10 through high school) and many of the adults all call her “Deeker”.

Daughter- Khloe- call her Khloe Bear
Son- Gunner- call him Gun Man

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We name with the intention to nickname–I love nicknames! Our oldest is Elna (named after my mom) nn Elle. Harriet, nn Hattie. Georgia nn Gigi, Gig, Georgie. With each we use nicknames as much as we use their given names. What a fun post! Loving the comments!

My daughter Eleanor is always called Nori except by teachers.
I thought my son Truman would be called Tru, but he rarely gets called a nickname. His cousins sometimes call him T-man.

ah nicknames. I NEVER ever had one, until one of my younger nieces couldn’t pronounce erin, it was the e that made it hard. then it evolved to rin-rin. I’m psyched that i have a nickname!!! always wanted one! My younger sister’s name was Rebekah, we always called her Bekah for short, which she hated, and if we’re just talking via text or email, we type bek (i know she hates it!) but it’s so much faster. However if i’m addressing her in a christmas card or something, it’s always Rebekah.

I’m Sam (short for Samantha) — always have been. “Samantha” just feels so formal to me. My husband is Brian which doesn’t lend itself to any nicknames. Our son’s name is Parker but we call him “PK” (there’s a NHL player named PK Subban) or “Bud.” His middle name is Joseph but I hate the sound of “PJ.” It’s on par with someone calling me “Sammy.” Ugh.

My family is big into nicknames, and I love them when used by family (but not by anyone else!). To this day (I’m almost 40 years old) my parents still call me Lizie (pronounced with a long I) and a friend of the family who has known me forever calls me Liza Leigh Fortune Cookie. My brother Noah grew up with Paco, Curly, Nogenberry, and Noguchi. My son Cooper is Coop and my son Kaden is KJ, Kade, K, or as my husband refers to them both: Dude. Oh, and lest I forget my husband’s affectionate moniker for me: Hey You. ;-)

One of my cousins has almost always called me Pooh (my grandma always called me Meggie Pooh so that was his shortened version of my grandma’s nickname for me I guess). He occasionally called me Poopers, which I never thought anything of, until one of my friends heard him call me that when I was in high school and laughed about it, but I guess it is a bit strange to call someone Poopers! lol

My husband Willy goes by a name completely different from his real name (Rodolfo), as do most of his 9 brothers.

My oldest daughter is Abigail, but we mostly call her Abi, or Pichi (shortened version of a word that means “little thing” in my husbands first language {Mayan}). Our younger daughter is Emery, but we mostly call her Emy or Emerald.

So I guess we are a nickname kind of family. :)

My little girl is Olivia Finch. Before she was born we called her Ollie Finch all the time. Something happened once she was born and she immediately became Livvie to me. I wasn’t expecting that. So now Livvie has become Livvie Lou, which has become Lu… and sometimes Lula. A term of endearment in our family is stinkpot. So the dogs, Livvie, anyone I love could be called stinkpot at any time :)

My name is Cynthia but I’ve always been Cindy. I cringe when people use my real name because it feels so formal and I am so not formal. My father-in-law always called me Cinder and my aunt has always called me CindyLou. My roommate in college called me Nightmare. haha!

When we were pregnant with our son, my husband absolutely insisted that we give him a name with a logical nickname (my husband’s name is David, but he’s always gone by Dave to friends, he was Davy when he was little, and his brothers still call him Vid). So we named him Calvin, which my husband thought we could shorten to Cal (I’m not fond of it, but it’s better than the nickname the uncles came up with… Vin!). Now, Calvin is 2.5 and if anyone calls him anything but Calvin (Calvie, Cal, Pumpkin) he adamantly insists, “No! I’m Calvin!” which I couldn’t be happier about ;-)

My daughter’s name is Amelia, and we thought we could call her Amy or Mia, although I think I still prefer Amelia to either nickname. My son calls her “Baby Melia” and honestly that name is sticking more than any nickname we might pick!

I do not have kids of the human variety but my canine furbaby has had a million nicknames – Pickles, Piggy, Lady Sniffington, Madam PeePeePants and several more that I am forgetting. Her name is Frances. :)

When I was growing up my best friend and I had nicknames for each other and they were so strong that our family called us by them, as well. She was Ruey, I was Beagles. (Her name was Robin and mine is Abigail, so they were inspired by those)

Our daughter’s name is Beatrix, but thanks to a song that she responded especially well to as a baby (Elizabeth Mitchell’s “Little Bird”), we nicknamed her The Bird, which has since morphed into Birdie, Sweetiebird and Birdo. Nearly all her loved ones call her Birdie or Bird.

And now I have typed “Bird” so many times, it looks like a nonsense word.

The nickname thing is a sensitive subject for me. My given name is Kristina, which I love. But somewhere along the way my twin sister started calling me Krissy. It caught on like wildfire and now the only person who calls me Kristina is my Grandma. It isn’t that I don’t like Krissy– I loved it when I was younger. But now that I am older and a professional, it doesn’t feel right. I have tried to go back to Kristina, but it is awkward to try to switch it back in your late 20’s.

Our oldest daughter is Emily, and we call her Em, sometimes I’ll call her Em and M (like the candy), and her 2 year old sister calls her Emmy, which I love. Our youngest daughter is Lauren and one day Lauren Lou popped out and it’s kind of stuck, but shortened to Lou Lou or just Lou. I love their nick names.

An interesting topic, for sure! I’m Katherine, but my parents made sure my formal name was used growing up. To this day, if someone other than my family calls me Kate I cringe, but I love when my family calls me Kate. I loathe Kathy!!
My daughter’s name is Seraphina Katherine and my favorite nickname for her is Nina Kate. She also goes by “Phina”.

I’m Maggie, for Margaret, and have been called Mags, Marge, etc. My son is John and we call him Jack. He also gets called Jack Attack, Jackaroooski, JackJack. My daughter Leila gets called Bo Beila some times (Leila, Leila, bo beila, me my mo meila….) I, of course, am always calling them each other’s names and have now given in to calling them Le’Jack and Ja’Leila!

My kiddos all have nicknames, which I love! Tyler (10) goes by Ty or Ty-ty (loving called by his sisters!) Eli (9) is Bubba. Libby (3) is Libs or Libster or Libby Lou (her real name is Libby Jane). And finally Marlo (22 months) is Moe. My 2 year old niece occasionally calls her Larmo. :)

I love nicknames! Perhaps because I’ve had so many (B, BB, Beckers, Beckster to name a few)

We don’t really have a nickname for Willa, though her grandmother, whom she was named for, had the nickname Willie. For Greta, my mom calls her Grets. Probably because I post a weekly picture of her using the hashtag #Gretsday (for Greta Tuesday).

I didn’t really expect my children’s names to yield nicknames. I’m a big fan of name them what you’ll call them. A friend started calling my oldest Pipes, short for Piper and it stuck. Everybody calls her that, and we still use Piper as well. Her middle name is Louise. One day she was being a stinker and my husband and I called her”a weasel” and we laughed and said we would call her Piper Weasel. Somehow that stuck for her and she is convinced her name is Piper AH-Weasel and not Piper Louise. We crack up every time she tells someone her full name.

Our other daughter, Hazel, had been shortened to Hazie almost 100% of the time. I would never have guessed. I love it though.

I have a cousin named Secora who goes by Coco, Cora or Corey. Then she married a Corey and we tried to back off of that one to save on confusion!
I’m Jaclyn, and I get Jacki, Jacs & Jac. Occasionally Jack-o-lantern from a couple of people. Noodle & Pickle from my family.
My husband is Richard III and goes exclusively by Ricky.
Nicknames are a funny thing!

My mom swore I’d never be known as anything but “Melanie” – and she was the first to call me “Mel.” Everyone, other than occasionally my husband, has called me “Mel” for as long as I can remember. My sister’s name is Kelly and she’s also “Kel” (“Mel” and “Kel” were not planned by the parents, but it stuck). Unless we got in trouble together, and then it became the ridiculous “Kelanie” and “Melly.” This still happens occasionally and it is hilarious.

I have a 2 year-old Henry too! How funny! We call him Henners most of the time. I don’t care if everyone has the name – it is just perfect for him! And I am sure you feel the same way!

My oldest (Braelynn) has been called “Bunny” and every variation (Bun, Buns, etc.) since she was a baby. Our youngest (Violet) has been called “Vivi” for several months now. She has delayed speech and “Vivi” was easier for her to say and it just stuck.

We named our oldest Donovan, but he was “Nova” from day one. (very apt with his love of all things SPACE!) He just started using his “long name” this year in kindergarten. I think he likes having a nickname, still used by close friends and family, AND a “formal” name for Oh-So-Important-And-Studious kindergarten. And now our little family has an unplanned (honest) theme with sister Skylar and beloved canine, Venus.

This is so fun! We have a LOT of nicknames in our family, thanks to my husband, who ironically has no nickname. Christopher used to be called Critter; Evan went by Egg or E (pronounced same as the e in egg) or Ebenezer; Margaret Ellen has been known as MoGellen, Mogli, Margie Melon or just Margie. I’m Peggy Ellen (not Margaret), but just go by Peg or Peggy. But I’ve also been called Peggles, Pegster, Peglet or Piglet. My mom used to call me Peggy Elephant, and still does sometimes. My sister Nancy was occasionally Nancy Rottenbratz.

My given name is Carla but don’t ask any of my nieces or nephews, they wouldn’t have a clue. When my hubs (Greg) and I got married that TV show was all the rage and I am the weirdo hippie compared to my inlaws so there you have it. As a kid I was Pumpkin, all my life.

My son Liam has been PeeWee since he was 2. He was always the biggest, tallest kid in any group or class so instead of making it a thing, we made it a silly thing…this also allows our family to make awesome PeeWee herman movie quotes at terribly inappropriate times lol It’s pretty funny hearing about my son’s buddies call this 20 y/o, 6 foot 4 inch hulk of a guy PeeWee in pubs bwahahahaha

My son Quinn got his in a really cool way. he is a comic book freak and we went to a Comic-Con where we met one of his favorite artists…when he signed a poster for Quinn he addressed it to QUINNFERNO…ummmm yes. Yes. Him to a T. Done

My whole family does the weird nickname thing, but our rule has always been to do it with a light and loving heart, if anything ever “hurt”, it would be dropped like a hot rock.

Cool question :)
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Awesomesauce! Love it.

We have a little boy named Mason and his nickname is Maseman. His first birthday was superhero themed because of his nickname (and the fact that he was born premature and has been our little superhero from the start). We are currently pregnant with our second little boy who we plan to name Arlo. We keep trying to guess what kinds of nicknames we will come up with for him, but so far we haven’t thought of anything!

I think Mabes is adorable! My name is Amy and when my baby sisters were little they would call me Maimie instead! When I told my friends they started calling me that too, and it stuck around for a couple of years. Then in high school my nickname was Chuck, as in Chuck Norris but that’s a long story and I won’t get into that LOL
Two of my siblings had given nicknames, Anthony was Tony (which was then Tony-balongna!) and Nicole was Nikki. All of the family calls her Nikki still, but she has others, including her husband, call her Nicole :)

My name is Carolyn but when I was a baby (58 years ago), my mom started calling me Ticky. That name has stuck and that is the only thing that my parents and siblings (and now nieces and nephews) have ever called me.

My 23 y/o daughter is named Margaret-Ashley.
When she was a baby my mother began calling her Maggs. When she got into kindergarten she complained that everyone else was on #2 of their worksheet and she was still writing her name. She was frustrated with her double name and decided to go by Maggs permanently. (Much to my chagrin)
In college her formal sorority portrait has her nickname on it as well as her nursing ID badge. No one knows who Margaret Ashley is, but they all know Maggs!!:)

When the twins started talking, Brandon called Nathan “Nay Nay.” We still call him that 7 years later (and have all sorts of fun with the Whip and Nae Nae song!

My daughter is Bridget Elizabeth, but she’s been called Birdie since she was tiny. Neither my husband nor I are totally clear on when we started calling her Birdie… He says we planned it all along. I say we had talked about it when we were thinking of giving her Elizabeth as her first name. Nevertheless, she’s Birdie now, we can’t shake it. She’s Birdie to family and friends. She’s Birdie at school. It suits her though, and we haven’t met any other Birdies so far, which is nice too.

this is embarrassing… around 5 years of age my dad wanted to give me a nick name, but something that I would hate. My first & middle name is Brittany Lee, so he started calling me Brittany Flea, fleameister, or straight flea. I definitely hated it then but he was persistent and it stuck.
Now, my family will never call me Brittany, it’s always Flea. I hope we’re still friends!

My family calls me Chelle, my twin calls me Chelley. Growing up my dad used nab a Tootsie pop for my twin and I whenever he went into the store and would come back saying, “Tootsies for the Tootsies” which was just so cute.
My niece’s name is Avery and my hubby and I immediately started called her Aves (like Caves), which I’m not sure my sister-in-law liked so we stopped, but it still slips out now and again! :-)

My nickname my dad gave me is Audi. All my close friends and family call me that. When my oldest daughter was 2, she used to wear pigtails a lot and her pre-school teacher started calling her Pippi Longstocking and it stuck. She’s 11 now and even though her name is Peres (pronounced Paris- it’s a family name), she still goes by Pippi (even at school)!

I have been Jessi my entire life. I don’t use it at work as when I answer the phone it sounds like “Nancy” So I go by Jess, or Jessica. My daughter’s name is Agnes Marlene. We call her Aggie Bear. Mostly cuz she growled so much as a little one. My sister and other like to call her “Ag” which I hate. So they try to change it to Ag-Mar (short for Agnes Marlene). But I am not a huge fan of that either. Aggie or Aggie Bear is just fine. We are expecting in October and if it is a boy we are thinking of naming him Jude. Really hoping there are no nicknames for that.

Such a fun post and responses. My mother was insistent that I never had a nickname so to this day I go by Christina. Ironic because both her and her mom both use(d) their middle names rather than their first names. My dad called me Peanut for most of my young life which now looking back, I love. We named out daughter Ainsley and never thought it would get shortened but people do call her Ains (rhymes with canes). In a funny twist a lot of people actually add her middle name once they hear it together, Ainsley Rose, which at 3, she absolutely loves. Go figure.

While my name is Amanda, my family has always called me Buzzy. If you know me by way of my family, you also call me Buzzy. When my mom was pregnant with me, my dad started calling me Buzzy Schwartz because he got tired of saying “the baby”. After I was born, Buzzy stuck. I am 43 years old and I asked my dad a few years ago if he thinks of me as Amanda and he said he didn’t – he knows it is my name (he should, he picked it) but he thinks of me as Buzzy. I will answer to either Amanda or Buzzy without a 2nd thought.

My cat’s nickname is MABES! His name is Mabey (Arrested Development)

We call my one syllable son, Fox, Foxy Fox – or Foxy for short.

I call my son Harrison Snugs, short for Snuggle Puppy. I’m trying to stop that before he starts school though…just in case it slips in front of his friends.

My mom named me Adrienne because she thought there weren’t any nicknames for it. Then when I was about 2, so the story goes, my older cousin couldn’t say Adrienne and said Adie (pronounced like 80) instead. The name stuck and only my grandmother still calls me Adrienne.

We named our daughter Alice and thought she would probably be called Ali or Al, but she goes by everything but those! Everyone has a different name for her: monkey, pumpkin, babycakes, munchkin or lump lump. We have a son on the way who will be named Elliott and I’m very curious to see what nicknames he will go by!

I’ve never been a big fan of the nicknames I’m given because my name is Sascha– my mom has always called me “Sasch” (like sausch) I was also called Sausage a bunch in school. The only name I’ve enjoyed was an accident because my father in law who’s from eastern KY called me “SASHer,” and though he was embarrassed about it, it sort of stuck. So to my in laws I’m Sasher, or Sash.

I decided to comment because my kid sister is named Mabel, and it reminded me of your Mabrey :) We’ve called her Mabs most of her life. And occasionally I call her Babs… couldn’t tell you why. Nicknames are fun.

My son’s name is cole thomas.One day we I started calling him coley moley but my husband didn’t like moley. So I started calling him ‘Mo”. My husband calls this same son Thomas (his middle name). One day someone was over and I was calling my son ‘Mo’ and my husband was calling our son Thomas. The poor guy visiting says “I thought his name was Cole?” My poor son!

My eldest is Ashlinn and we were going to call her Ash – but she’s not an Ash, and she hates being called *anything* other than her name (I get away with my equal-opportunist nicknaming, being: I call EVERY kid kiddo). Imogen (said Im-uh-jen, apparently it’s really uncommon in the US?) would answer to just about anything, but only gets called Imogen. I’m a Johanna who goes by anna (non-capitalised, if I can get away with it) – I couldn’t say J as a little kid, but then there was an Anna in my class so I got stuck with Johanna, and then everyone kept trying to call me Jo, which I hated. My sister-in-law is Jo, and she’s definitely a Jo, so at 19 I stopped answering to Jo and decided I was anna again, and I can’t imagine being anything else. It feels like me. My father-in-law was given a family name, but his dad left not long after and his mum hated the name so he ended up being Buster (which is most certainly not Ockert!). I’m not generally a nicknamer – I’ll call someone by the name they’re introduced as until I’m asked not to. I have a friend who has a long name and doesn’t like it being shortened, and when she got engaged, her now-hubby’s aunty took him aside to ask “so what do we call her now?”.

My name gets shortened to Han.
My husband, Timothy, has been Tim as long as I’ve known him.
We have three children: Georgia who is GG or Georgie, I am picking that she will get George as a teenager.
We have Lucas, who we call Lukie and we have a Henry who gets Hen or Henny.

My daughter’s name is Avery, but we call her Aves most of the time and Avey once in a while. I don’t think I would have even thought of these nicknames before she was born. Funny how things turn out.

My husband and I call our daughter Elle (short for Ella). There aren’t too many ways to shorten her name, which was one of the reasons I liked it. I call her Lovie, too ;)

Our son is Campbell. We didn’t plan to give him a nickname, but he has lots of them! The one that we use the most and has even caught on with friends and family is Cammy. I feel bad because its primarily a girls’ name, but it just fits him. I assume he will drop the nickname as he gets older :)

I have to reply to your comment because our daughter’s middle name is Rill for my grandmother whose middle name was Rill for HER grandmother whose name was Rilla, but went by Rill. I’ve never known another Rill or Rilla, so I love that your daughter’s name is Rilla. :)

When I was little my father called me Little Bug. My now 60 year old brother still calls me Bugaboo and I love it.

When we named our son Elias, we thought we’d call him Eli, but it never stuck! Our daughter is Loretta, but we call her Etta. She was named after great-grandmother, who was still living at the time, so we needed a way to differentiate between the two. Elias then shorted Etta to Ed, and it stuck! She responds to all 3 names.

Everyone in my family going back as many generations as I’ve known has at least one nickname; they’re like terms of endearment in my family. We have three kids:
Ava Juliet, who started out with Ava J, which morphed into Ava Jaybird, which is now often just Jaybird.
Allegra Rill, who gets called Leggie, Legg, or Leggie Lou.
William Flagler (“Will”) who I often call Willie Man and my husband calls Biggie or Big. My dad calls him Willis. :)
Speaking to your daughter being called Mabes, our daughter Allegra often is called Leggs by her friends. And Allegra’s best friend is named Aubrey; her nickname is Aubs. :)

I have a bug, birdie and boo, aka oscar, everett and archer.

In high school friends started calling me Pinky because I blushed easily. I did not like it much but put up with it. I used to call my son Sunshine when he was little and would sing YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE, …to him every night. After I turned 18 a few people called me SPOOKY after the song by Classics IV – Spooky. My cats have nicknames!

Australians are big on nicknames – my husband Simon gets Simmo, and I get Kyles. My own kids (Lily, Georgia & Harry) have about 20 nicknames each. Some are Lil-Bug, Lilla, Gigi, Georgiana Banana, Georgie-girl, HJ, Hazza (so Aussie and I hate it, but my brother calls him that all the time). And speaking of my brother, his 4 groomsmen for his wedding are called Breeny, Tezza, Esky and Tommo. And his name is Christopher, but he gets called Critter or Crit as my little sister couldn’t say Christopher when he was born, and it stuck. Even his teachers called him Critter. Like I said, we love our nicknames! Lol!

Thanks for the link to my site! I come by my nickname obsession honestly. My mother grew up in a big, Italian family where they followed the tradition of naming the firstborn son after the father’s father; the firstborn daughter after the father’s mother, and so on and so on. The result? LOTS of cousins with the same name, and LOTS of nicknames. (My Great Uncle Flash – who had been a fast runner in his youth, was still Flash when I met him as a cheerful, paunchy, 60-something. But they couldn’t possibly call him Anthony. There were plenty of those!)

Even though my parents cheerfully disregarded the tradition and gave us names they just plain loved, the impulse to nickname remained. One of our daughter’s middle names is Wren, for my sister’s nickname, Bird. So it comes full circle, and the wacky nickname is now part of the next generation’s legal name …

LOVE hearing all the stories of nicknames, planned and otherwise.

My daughter Cassandra is 25 years old. When she was a toddler she was always singing and we started calling her Gladys (for Gladys Knight….60’s artist). Even her older brothers used the nickname and I remember once introducing her to someone when she was about 3 years old as Cassandra, she said “oh my name is Gladys”. As she’s gotten older we still use the nickname affectionately from time to time.

Loved hearing your family’s history of nicknames!

Still friends, Flea. ;)

We call Cheetah (our cat) Cheetah Bo Beetah!

I have a funny story about nicknames for Margaret! My best friend’s grandmother goes by Peggy and we asked her 6 year old (at the time) brother what he though Peggy was short for and without hesitation he exclaimed, “PEGASUS!”

I love Mabyn! I haven’t heard that one before. It’s so pretty. Yay for nickname twins ;)

Mr. Feather, haha! One of our neighbor’s is Becky, but the first time I introduced Mabrey to her, Mabrey misheard Ducky and that’s what she calls her to this day. As if Ducky is a perfectly normal name. Our neighbor is elderly and a little hard of hearing, so she doesn’t even notice. Even if you aren’t hard of hearing, yelling “Hi Ducky!” across the yards sounds an awful lot like “Hi Becky!” All that to say, Becky = Ducky in Mabrey’s world :)

So funny!

My two sons have almost inexplicable, silly nicknames that have stuck. My oldest is often called “Mushy” at home, which is such a lousy nickname, but it morphed from baby babble and he hasn’t complained about it yet (he has complained about other totally normal nicknames, and all but Mushy have disappeared). My younger son, Kelly, is also known as “Wig-wag” which is a version of Wackadoo that my older son came home saying from school one day. So strange how nicknames come into being!

I have 6 year old twin boys, Cruz and Grayson. Grayson is an obvious one, Gray, which we love. Cruz is one syllable like your Layne but we tend to call him Cruzer when at home :)

Our sons names are John and Kevin. Nicknames are Johnny or Johno, and Kev. My name is so short your would think there would be no nickname, but people call me Lor all the time.

My real name is Elizabeth, but I have been called Mimi my entire life. Which occasionally turns into Meems. My son’s name is Grafton but everyone just calls him G. I love nicknames!

I do not go by a nickname, except from my husband (VZ) or very close friends (V, Vic-the-Slick). I like being Victoria. My mom hated nicknames, so she made sure everyone called me by my full name. Now I always introduce myself as Victoria and probably 50% of the time, people automatically call me Vicki anyway. I hate that! Don’t do it! My little sister is named Jacquelyn, but she goes by Jackie, although I and my parents both still call her Jacquelyn, haha.

Funny to see this. I was just thinking about nicknames that come to an end. My niece Lila called her sister (Samantha) ‘Pita’ when they were babies. I have a video that will live forever of Lila sneezing on her birthday cake and at the beginning she is calling ‘Pita! Pita!’ I watched it the other day with them and my heart hurt a little because that time and name are past.

My youngest sister is an Elizabeth. As soon as she was born my parents were calling her Elizabeth, but my middle sister and I (3 and 6 at the time) called her Lizzie. My parents had no idea where that came from. Lizzie McGuire didn’t premiere until I was 13 and we didn’t know any Lizzies or Lizs in real life or in pop culture. So the first two years of her life we called her Lizzie and they called her Elizabeth, but when Lizzie was 2 years old, she started referring to herself as “Zizzie” and that made it clear to my parents of her preference. She’s been Lizzie ever since.

They always thought when she entered the professional work world she would start referring to herself as Elizabeth, but she’s 24 and still going by Lizzie, even at work. Honestly her name suits her so well, I forget most of the time her real name is Elizabeth. :)

Our oldest is Ethan, which I thought couldn’t be nick’d, but we sometimes call him Ethie. His little brother Oliver (sometimes Ollie), can’t say Ethan and calls him Seesin.

Oh and Oliver sometimes gets Ollie-wog or Crawley (rhymes with Ollie, when he started crawling), Crawley-wog, and occasionally Crawley-woggimus Rex.

Every Claire I’ve met gets called Claire Bear at some point.

Yep – my Daughter’s name is Shelby. We call her Shebie or Shebs. Not sure why…. Just kinda stuck! Or we will call her by her first and middle name – Shelby Grace.

My sister Jeannette shortened her own name in written format to jnet to save time. I spell it out because I like it better that way. When we go to restaurants, events, etc. where they call your name, we all listen hard for how they are going to butcher her name, then call her that for a few weeks!

I’m so glad you asked this question because I share my sons nicknames every chance I get! I’ve kept a tradition going in my family, that being our initials spell our name! My name Jessica Elizabeth S (keeping last names private ) spells “JES”, my son Marlow Oliver W spells “MOW” (this one calls for little imagination!) and my other sons name is Sawyer Andrew W spelling “SAW”. I hope the nick names stick or at least make for an ice breaker story at some point!

My daughter’s name is Elin. When we brought her home I was calling her Elliebug. It then became Bug. Our family and friends all call her Bug or by her name. She’s only a 1 1/2 so we’ll see how long Bug lasts. But right now I love it.

Our two oldest children have nicknames which are just shortened versions of their names: Tanner/Tan and Riley/Ry. Our youngest child is named Reeve. She has a firecracker personality and has been called The Reevester since she was very young :) Our third child, Logan chose his own nickname (Gilbert) and is called that by everyone. I believe he is “Gilbert” on the class list at school :)

While pregnant we didn’t find out the gender so we nicknamed the baby nugget. We still call her nugget to this day but we have also have come accustomed to calling her toots because she got the nick name toots magoots because as you can guess she toots A LOT! I am sure she will grow out of that one very soon but for now we will continue to call her that. lol

Our Penelope Rose goes by “Posey,” as her full-time name and she hates being called anything else. If we hadn’t planned on calling her Posey (which is a family name), I love Nella or Nell as a nickname for Penelope.

Our Phoebe was supposed to be “Pip” or “Pippa” around the family but so far she’s “Pheebs” or PJ most of the time.

We also call Posey “Birdie” bc for some reason as a baby we called her Posey Bird.

We have a 10 year old named Henry. We named him that with the intention of calling him Hank….flash forward 10 years and he has never nor will he ever be a Hank. We call him Bubba (our middle daughter called him that when she couldn’t say Henry) or H-man or just H. Even after we thought we were soooooo original with the name Henry and now here it everywhere, I still love that name.

All three of our kiddos have nicknames and all three have stemmed from a sibling, a friend or just a funny coincidence. Funny considering my husband and I both have formal names yet go by a shortened version and we vowed we would NEVER give our kids nicknames! Ha!

Our oldest is Henry. We named him that with every intention of calling him Hank. Flash forward 10 years and he has never nor will he ever be a Hank. Our middle one dubbed him “Bubba” because she couldn’t say Henry – it has stuck, even with friends. Ironically, that was my husbands best friends nickname and he passed two months before Henry was born.

Our middle daughter is Lucy Baer (Baer was my mom’s maiden name). Family started calling her “Lucy-lu” “Lulu” and “goose” from a very young age. It has since grown into “Lu” or “LuBaer”. I’ve been trying to get her to shorten to Lu for years now….since there are 3 Lucy’s in her class and I HATE that all her friends call her “Lucy M”.

Our youngest is Gracie and somehow on a random weekend her nickname was born after reading Pinkalicious one too many times. There is a teacher in the book series named Mr. Pushkin. Our Gracie has now become known and referred to by friends and family as “Pushy” or “Push”. This is my favorite nickname of all.

I’m Catherine and have always gone by Kate – however all my family calls me “Kiki”.

My husband calls me “Strawbs”. A co-worker called her husband, Peter Pudding and my hubby and I had a laugh about it and he said, I could be Lori-Ann Strawberry Flan, this got shortened to Strawbs and has stuck. My daughter, Bethan is sometimes called, ‘Beh-hee’ as my son couldn’t say her name when he was younger.

My Sister called me Al, which I never liked and still don’t like. My Mom called me Sis, which I miss. May she rest in peace.

My name is Susan and my nickname from my older brother has always been Fred! To this day, he calls me Fred, and it seems so normal to me. I will always remember being a teenager and having boys call for me on the phone and my brother yelling – “FRED – phone’s for you!” The boys were totally confused. I have always weirdly loved this nickname – what can I say?

That is cute. :)

That story sounds so interesting. I’m trying to figure it out, but I can’t!

Yes! We planned for Carter Joseph to be CJ and it did’t stick. But Evan became Evy and Evinrude–go figure. Aaron became A-rod. I don’t even remember how it happened, but they are 30-37 and those names still show up.

My oldest daughters name is Alexa Bell and not once have we called her Alexa. It’s Allie, Allie Bell, Als. So when daughter #2 came along we went with Maddie Jane and call her Mads sometimes. My older sis is Samantha but everyone she knows calls her Sam except for my parents and me and my other sis (named Victoria who hates any form of nickname except for her nieces and nephews calling her aunt tora)

My daughter’s name is Madison Rose and when she was little we called her Madi Rose (we still call her that sometimes, she’s 14). She mostly uses her full name, but her friends call her Madi and Mads as a nickname.

My given name was Catherine but my mom called me Cathie (child of the 70s! I hate Cathie now!) but my family also called me Catrina &Catrine growing up and then as I got older Cate. I now go by Catherine and Cate with my family.

My name is April and I’ve always wanted a nickname. Nothing ever stuck, and not for lack of trying! The only one that kept coming back that I’d smother immediately was Ape. No one wants to be called an ape. :P

My husband and I have very different tastes in boy names, so of course we had two boys and no girls. For our firstborn, he didn’t like any of the names I came up with, list after list of them, but wouldn’t come up with any options on his own. Eventually we narrowed my suggestions down to a short list, and it wasn’t until the baby was three days old that my husband reluctantly agreed to Mordecai. “But Mordecai sounds like an old man,” he complained. So we call him Cai (pronounced Kai). It really suits our son and my husband likes it, too. He’s four.

We were going to name our second son Ezekiel and call him Zeke for short, but after he was born we agreed that it just didn’t fit him. So we had to start from scratch—and he was already born, mind you! My husband picked Lazarus and I had trouble getting used to it, but now we call him Laz or Lazzie boy (to rhyme with Danny boy, the song). I still have days where I think, “We named him *Laz*???” but I’ve gotten used to it and I can’t imagine him with any other name now. He’s two.

I may not have had a nick name, but you bet your buttons I heard every calendar and spring-weather joke under the sun! Didn’t help that there was a boy close in age at my school whose last name was May…

My mom’s name is Pam, but everyone calls her Pammers. I started calling her that 15 or so years ago and it stuck like glue. It is fitting; goofy, fun, playful- very Pammers.

My partner insisted that our son have a name that started with a “J” so they could share their same initials JDP, so we named our son Joaquín. I really like the name Quin… his nickname is Quin :)

My second oldest son (now 14) is named Zakary. When he was born our oldest was 22 months and couldn’t say Zakary, so he called him Zizzy. Lately I’ve started calling Zak “Zizzle” and if I’m wanting to be silly I call him “Zizzle to the hizzle”. It’s a cute little thing we share. :)

All my girls have nicknames Jillian is called Jilly, Lindsey is called Binds and Avery is called Aves. My brother who is close to 40 was always called B (very short for Brandon). It’s still hanging on and my kids even call him Uncle B. My guess is that it could stick unless she decides she doesn’t like it anymore. I love nicknames and hers is adorable!

Our sons are Sydney and Alexander. Sydney is named after my dad and as our family never called him Syd, we don’t shorten our son’s name either. As for Alexander, though, we knew that there were a lot of Alex’s out there, so we chose to call him Xander. He’s a funny little guy with great expressiveness, so Xander works for him. A friend recently addressed him as the X-man, and I have to say, as a childhood fan of the Xmen comics, I really like it.

My mom, who passed away almost 20 years ago, was very good at creating nicknames for children. When she wasn’t calling me Maggie or Peaches, she called me “Sesser”(which she somehow derived from Stephanie). She called our friend’s daughter “Dolly”, though her name was Dawn Marie. I would love to know what she would have come up with for her grandsons.

Four darling daughters each given a name with family meaning, which have now evolved into multiple goofy nicknames/terms of endearment.

Julia: JuJuBean JuliPooli, Jubilation
Isabella: IsabellaPickerella, Belle, BelliButton
Sabrina: Brinki, Brini, SaBooBoo
Annika: AnniBananie, Lovey, Banana Muffin

I have been gently asked to please refrain from using nicknames in public places or while cheering at sporting events (silly teens). I’ll try . . .

Admittedly, it can be difficult to tell who I’m talking to, especially if I default to an all purpose/person PunkinPie or LoveBug.

In college, my friends started calling me Amanda Panda which has stuck around for the past 10 years. I’m 32 and now even my parents, family members, and husband refer to me as Panda! Due to the fact there was always so many other Amandas in school, I was often called by my last name, A-town, Mandi, and Pants… If I’m not at work, it almost seems weird to be called by my real name now.

Does my fur baby count?

I have a nearly 4yr old bullmastiff named “Rue” Short for her registered name “Moulin Rouge” but from Rue, more names have grown over the years…. she is now also known as Baby Rue, Rue Bear, Buddha, Bouge, Rutabaga, and most recently… boob.

;)

We have an Everett too, but most of the time we call him Rhett. This was our intention before he was born and it has stuck! We also have a daughter Emerson (Emmy), nickname that we planned and has also stuck with her. Our middle son Wyatt (Wy-Wy)….unintentional not planned nickname, as he gets older I don’t think he will like it !!

Fur babies totally count ;)

My 6 year old nephew is named Rhodes, but he is a bit of a wild character and has the nick name of Rodeo. It suits him really well.

I was called Bekah by most of my friends growing up (NEVER Becky — except by my grandaddy). In college, and still today, I’m mostly just Bek. My husband even introduces me to co-workers as Bek. We named my eldest daughter Virginia, with the expressed purpose of shortening it to Ginny. My youngest is Olivia June. When she was first born I thought it would be cute to call her O.J. but that never stuck. Holding her in the hospital when she was only hours old I started calling her Livy-Loo in my oxytocin and prolactin-induced stupor and she’s been Livy, Livy-Loo, or just Loo ever since.

I love the nickname, Ducky! Adorable.

My daughter’s name is Presley but mostly goes by PB or baby bear. B is what her last name starts with and baby bear because she is the baby and she calls me momma bear. My son is Tyler and he is the oldest and his nickname is bubba, and we don’t have enough time to go into what all I have been called over the years due to my name.

My daughter is also named Maebry (spelled a little differently of course) and we call her Mae. However, shortly after she was born her sitter began calling her Mae Mae and the nickname has stuck–but it suits her! I love that there are some other Mae Maes out there too:)

I hear you! I was born Emily and always had other Emily’s in my classes. So in High School my friends all started calling me Emma (my family calls me Emma, Emmy, Emmerz, Em, my youth group leader called me Mirv). College came around and it was easier to introduce myself as Emma rather than wait for people to come around to it. And that continued into my professional career.
Long story but I married someone who knew me in high school. So my Adult years had turned me into Emma and he calls me Emily. It was so sweet! So now i’m this weird blend between Emma and Emily as I start new adventures, but I like it. And i’m glad to be Emily again. I’m Aunt Emmy to my nieces and nephews as I Loathe Auntie Em

My sister Elizabeth was nicknamed Lizza (short I) by my mom, and called Liz by everyone else. mom didn’t ever really like it. Liz moved cities and jobs and has made an effort to be called Lizza instead. It’s interesting. I’ve taken to calling her Bif again and she calls me Merz. she goes by Aunt Lizzy to the kiddos. My other sisters are Alicia (Aunt Alicia, Leash for short, Eeshla) and Lori Jean (LJ, Jeanie, Aunt Lo)

I hate when anyone shortens my name to “Lin”. In fact, you could stand beside me shouting “Lin” and it would never even occur to me that you wanted my attention. Lol!! However, I tend to hand out nicknames like Halloween candy. I guess the oddest ones would be for my daughter, whose name is actually Joanna. Frequent nicknames for her, from me, are either Momo, Moe-ey, or Face. But if someone calls her “Jo'”, I cringe. And “Jo-Jo”?? *shudder* — ugh!

My daughter is Mabry, I imagine pronounced the same as yours. We call her mabes as well, and it has caught on with her teachers!