People your DCs have renamed

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My DD, almost 4, met a little boy today at holiday club named 'Feelings'.
She chatted about him all the way home - what she played with Feelings, what Feelings said, etc.
After some confusion I worked out that her new friend's name was in fact FELIX.
Has anyone else had a child rename a friend like this?!

Love this. Is he still referred to as Me Too?

I knew twins growing up whose names were combined.

ie. Marcus and Barry became Barcus
(not actual names).

ds2 spoke of a boy at nursery called "weed" - we never even questioned it....kid was called "reid"

My daughter told me about a girl named Arthur at school... I asked if it was Martha, but she was very indignant and adamant it was Arthur. Until someone heard her refer to Martha as Arthur and gently corrected her!

When my brother started school he made friends with a boy called Warren Chipshop....in fact his name was Warren Shropshire

I remember being adamant at primary school that my new friend was called Zebra. Eventually my parents worked out that her name was in fact Deborah.

For ages he insisted his baby brother was called "Spot" instead of "Scott".

"Ruby Ring" for a girl called "Ruby".

"Boney" for a boy called "Bodhi".

DS had a girl called Chisel in his class - Giselle, to her parents.

There were lots of Isabel/Isobel/Isabellas as well, including an Ysabella who was always known as Isabella Withawhy.

And they were taught by Mrs Eyeball (Glasspool) and Miss Stocking (Mrs Docking).

Two summer camp leaders- Brick and Tube. Never did get to the bottom of it!

We had a Fwclam………..3yr old quite obsessed and kept talking about Fwclam………relieved to discover someone had called their child Firquahn not Fwclam 😂

I lived in a predominantly Muslim area when I was young. Aged about 6 I came home from playing with some girls on our street and told my mum I'd made a new friend called sleepy.

She was actually tasleema

@Riverlee I think the teacher set them all straight fairly quickly!

Lasagne ... It was Nathaniel!

Nathaniel seems to be a name mispronounced alot on here.

Ah what a fab thread! My eldest was insistent that her new friend in Nursery was called Grease.
Took me weeks to work out it was Reece.

My little sister aged 1 could not get her tongue around our new baby sister's name Christine, so called her Kiteen - it stuck and for ever after she was known as Kit. No-one ever used her real name.

There was a playgroup leader called Mrs Sparkly by all the children. Mrs Barclay. 🪄

The TA was Mrs Shorts - Mrs Shaw.

I made a new friend aged 5 called Goy, to rhyme with toy. Yes, he was Guy with a Bristolian accent.

Dd2 made a friend once called Friendly. We kept saying we were glad he was nice to her before finding out we was actually Finley.

My son had loads of these when he first started school… Mrs lion ( Mrs Ryan) Mrs Shoes ( Mrs Hughes), Mrs heavens ( Mrs Evans) Simpson playground ( infant playground).

My son thought a little girl he used to play with was called grease she was in fact grace

We've had Kristy known as Catflap

Not my child but my husband, he took a call from his mum informing him that his sister had given birth to a girl 'for some reason they've called her Irish'
'Are you sure your mum didn't say Iris?'
To be fair it was around 4am!

My DD was adamant when she was younger that there was a girl in her Cheer squad called Kiwi.
it turned out it was actually Keeley…

Fairy knickers turned out to be Veronika

Not my child but a child I looked after used to call Christopher, vinegar