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Which 'pet names' do you use for your children?

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BurglerBill · 12/04/2022 10:53

Which 'pet names' do you use for your children, if any?

We call our oldest daughter 'poppet'. My mum always called me 'sausage'. I don't have one for my youngest daughter yet - nothing has really materialised, and her name doesn't really have any nice shortening, so looking for ideas!

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mandajmo · 13/04/2022 23:18

@topcat2014

Boo boo for DD (15)

Only at home!

I've got a BooBoo too x
Tdcp · 13/04/2022 23:02

Dd is Cookie 😁

SilentBob · 13/04/2022 23:01

Beans, Beanster, Bubba, Monkey Socks. None of which have anything to do with her actual name- one even arose from an advert for Rowntrees Randoms back in the day for some inexplicable reason.

Hi, daughter, if you're reading! (She's in her twenties, not a precocious toddler who may be trawling Mumsnet for bad mom tales to share with pre-school)

snowone · 13/04/2022 22:52

Have 2 DDs - depending on the day they get pumpkin, poppet, baby, babe, pudding or sausage 🤣🙈

picolata · 13/04/2022 22:43

Mine get called pops, gremlin, booboo, poppet, noodle, piglet, lovely, poops,

17caterpillars1mouse · 13/04/2022 18:22

Dd1 is smidgen

Dd2 is Tinkerbell or Tigerlily

jmh740 · 13/04/2022 11:36

Youngest is spud or spudders but at 12 has now said he doesn't like it so I'm trying not to use it, when he was little he couldn't say his sisters name and called her toto which has become Coco over time

lustforlife · 13/04/2022 11:28

I call my daughter 'booby' - no idea where it came from but it's stuck. Hopefully I get out of the habit before she knows what I'm calling her Grin

Haveatakeaway · 13/04/2022 10:31

@123feraverto beast weasel 😂

mellongoose · 13/04/2022 08:01

Poppet, treasure, boo, coco

tinkywinkyshandbag · 13/04/2022 07:22

Mine are 20 and 17. The older one still gets called Monkey. The younger one is the Squidge.

Depoisthedevil · 13/04/2022 07:00

Fifi?

halfsiesonapotnoodle · 13/04/2022 06:35

The Dolly!

Twizbe · 13/04/2022 06:35

@BurglerBill for a long time I called our daughter Piggy or Piglet because she fed like a dream and she was so chunky.

My husband asked me to not call her that so I went back to Ce or CeCe and the Monkey stuff came from there.

Vampirethriller · 13/04/2022 06:15

Quack quack (she sounded like a duck when she was born)
Buddy
Wiggly Diggly

groovergirl · 13/04/2022 06:08

DD is 14 and still my Bubsy. Her friends think this hilarious.

Mommabear20 · 13/04/2022 06:03

Buggar lugs! 😂 this comes out when DD isn't listening to a word I say 🤣

123feraverto · 13/04/2022 05:51

Cheeky monkey
Beast weasel
Mucky pup
Chickadee
Munchkin
Petal pie
Pumpkin

Both were nameless for at least a week after birth boy was ducky and girl was just baby girl

grey12 · 13/04/2022 05:06

Phoebe-bees sounds like Cbeebies 😅

grey12 · 13/04/2022 05:04

Or angel or "their name"-bees/sys like sarah-bees or joan-sys

grey12 · 13/04/2022 05:00

Shoo-shoo Smile

don't know why. People tend to ask if I'm french 😂 (choux-choux is a french pet name) btw it's not a shortening of their names

MakkaPakkas · 13/04/2022 04:08

Phoebe Jeebie?
Mine have nicknames based on their real names, but also get pet, love and the little one gets babba

AmandaMirandaPanda · 13/04/2022 03:47

My cousin Phoebe was called Filbert as a baby, partly from the sounds of the name but also because she was little (compared to four older siblings). Sometimes in the family we still use that, or Fil/Phil, Filly, Bert. Her friends at school call her Phoebe or Phee (Fee?)

I also know an adult Phee whose original name is Fiona, but she hasn't used it in decades. She changed the spelling because non-British people pronounced Fi as Fie (rhyming with pie) - could also work for Phoebe? I don't think you have to decide now; call her something even if it's silly and it will evolve.

GreenCereal · 13/04/2022 03:40

DD is Name-Moo, but most just Moo or Moomoo.
DS is Bud, or (the) Name-ster.

I still am Treasure to my mum, Treash for short.

Finfintytint · 13/04/2022 03:37

DS was always Bam Bam from the Flintstones. It stuck. He’s 28 now.

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