What strange nickname stuck with your child?

My niece is called Bob , when my sister was pregnant she nicknamed named bump BOB & it's stuck - she's in her teens now & occasionally still called it

DS2 is known as Pootle.

My 81 year old aunt has always called my 77 year old mum Mouse. My mum calls my aunt Hog.

When they were growing up they had two ancient aunts who lived together who were called Aunt Mould and Aunt Slag. No one has any idea whether those were their actual names or not. In fact it had never even occurred to them how <ahem> unusual their names were until my mum recently mentioned them and my DH guffawed! (And then promptly apologised for guffawing!)

I have two trubs.

Big trub and little trub. Short for trouble.

One of my sons went to pre-school with a boy that had only ever been called by his family nickname, so that was what he answered to. Squidgy. His peg and drawer were labelled with that to begin with, but by the time he left they were using his actual name.

Much as I call my kids daft names they've always known their proper name.

They've been called Squirrel, Skylark, Gooey, Little Bear, Roly Poly. They are adults and I still call them these daft names sometimes.

Bean is what we call eldest, first name rhymed with soya so it just became Bean.
Youngest was always called babalooba (which didn't catch on I'm sure she's very grateful for that at 23 😂)

One of my daughters is called Jasmine and gets called Ratty a lot by her siblings. Not in an unkind way but because Minnie = Mouse = Ratty apparently!! I think it it slightly unpleasant but as she is 5 she loves it 😂

Whenever I was pregnant we called bump 'bean'. On the day youngest dc was born the older siblings came to visit us in hospital. Dh and I hadn't yet settled on a name, so they all went home still not knowing their new sibling's name. When I came home that night, the children had been excitedly talking about Bean all day. And that was it, from then on youngest dc's name was Bean. Youngest dc does have a proper name, but it wasn't really used until they started school. Even now (Y13!) Bean is still the their affectionate nickname at home.

My littlest is called Whiskers. That's because when I was pregnant with him we asked my eldest what should we call the new baby? Whiskers, he suggested.

Chuckles as my DS used to always laugh and smile as a baby.

I love the fact you felt the need to clarify that you hadn't actually named a child Mr Pickle 😆. I also genuinely chuckled upon reading that she's MR pickle despite being a girl.

My daughter is known as Plum. None of us can remember why and he she's 27 now

One of mine is Mr Pickle which is not the name on their birth certificate, and they're not a boy.

In primary school there was a girl called Egg. We all called her that I didn't even know what her real name was for a while.

Similarly in secondary there was a boy called Mole and even the teachers called him Mole 😂

My 21-year old son’s been Mr Gimlet pretty much since birth.

Nog, Noggins, Chooch, Choochlet, Baba-de-Chooch, Herb, Herby-Monkey, Potate, The Potate, Spudlica....I'll stop there.

All one child. None of the above relate to her actual name. She's 25 and still answers to most of the above. Also suspect she's on Mumsnet, so Hello Chooch if you see this!

My baby hasn't got any yet as she's too young

BUT my nn for years has been Tallulah which is nothing at all close to my name and I don't even know why.

I moved around 2years ago so have a new circle of friends so get called it less often now.

I actually considered this for DDs name.

My own children
Lou/louby-her middle name is lousia
Nathe
J
Boo/boobie/boos (god knows how boo turned into boobie!)
Walfs
Ethel/gladys/tinkerbell/mollydolly/Phyllis/brenda/blondie (god only knows-she answered to anything aimed in her direction!)

All adults now and nothing has changed

It's not that strange but I call my DD Bear, ever since she was a baby and I called her my little baby bear

My dad calls me Trish and I'm in my 40s. Trish is in no way related to my name, he liked a character on a TV show with that name when I was born and so I've always been Trish, but only to my dad.

Mine is Gabs!

My Mum thought I waddled like the geese from Aristocats (the Gabble sisters!) when I was a toddler, so she used to call me Gabble, which then got shortened to Gabs.

People are very puzzled when I explain that Gabs is not short for Gabriella, as my real name could not be any further removed from Gabriella

I know a Ben whose real name is Dave and found out most of my husband's friends' names on their wedding days! Mainly related to surnames.

I went to school with a girl who was Boo for a lot of her childhood as she was Eleanor / Wellanor / Welly Boot / Boo!!

Monster Munch and the diminutive form of his name with y - boo boo on the end. I can hardly remember the time I called him his actual name .

'Kaboo' our husband uses it more than me - it's after they once made a sound like 'Kabooboo' when they were about 6 months old and DH loved it and still calls them Kaboo or The Kaboo sometimes (they are 16 now).

A university friend had a brother everyone called Rack and I'm not even sure anyone remembered why. Even his teachers called him Rack!

Mine answers to nugget, boy and noodle.

However a child I once knew thought his name was Lemon because that's what he'd been called for most of his life by his sibling who couldn't pronounce Lennon and it had stuck. It genuinely took him ages to realise it wasn't his actual name poor lamb.