People your DCs have renamed

[BarbaraVineFan]

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?!

When my son was younger he couldn't say "Ella" (sister) so he called her Della

Not a name, but as a child I was taught some hymns verbally not by reading from a book.

I thought Psalm 23 said 'in Partridge Green he leadeth me'.

When my son was 4 and at preschool, he told us all about a friend he had called Deeta. What games they played, what clothes she liked, what she did at the weekend, where she went on holiday etc...

When we were sending Christmas cards I asked if he wanted to give one to her. We wrote the card, then the card came back home in his bag the next day. Turns out, she was his imaginary friend. He stopped talking about her shortly afterwards. I felt a bit sorry about that as he used to be so happy talking about her.

I insisted for 2 years a girl in my class was called Barry. My parents eventually worked out it was Mhairi (pronounced varry)

When DS was at preschool, one of the staff members was called Natasha and he argued with me because he was adamant she was Atasha.

My eldest came home from nursery talking about a little boy called Pie all week. The next week when I collected him he asked if Pie could come to play. I replied ' who is Pie, can you show me? A little boy piped up ' me, I'm Pie! But my family call me Kai ' My little boy had not heard the name Kai before so decided Pie was more likely 🤣

Name changed for this one.

When my 11 year old was a toddler, he had many alternate names for things and people due to speech issues.

Chickens were ninnins, pumpkins were nuntnins, clocks were cyocks, and his siblings were Yehyit and Yahyah instead of Eris and Sacha.

His speech is now superb, but when he is sad, poorly, stressed, or heading toward a crisis, he will revert to using Yehyit and Yahyah. They’re also the names I have the two of them saved under in my phone.

My 7 year old used to do this alllll the time. Same with TV shows, it would take days and manic googling to find out what she was talking about. ' Friendly Jokes' was her name for Ridley Jones. Now she just full names people but says it like it's one word

Years ago my son had a party invite from his nursery friend, addressed to Barry... His name is Harry.

Youngest DD (2) kept saying her best friend at nursery was Pepper. Turned out to be Becca!

DD had a friend called Dodo at nursery. She was actually Georgia!

She also loved those nature programmes on the BBC, presented by David Aften’s brother.

My nephews P1 teaching assistant was called Wanda, or so we thought. Was actually Rhonda! We called her Wanda all year!

My nephew couldn't say Granny he pronounced it as Curry lol.

My grandson has a friend named "Momomed" 😅

My dd went to nursery with a boy called Miluke then I met her friend who she was adamant was ‘my Luke’

My daughter came home last week raving about her new nursery friend 'Indybum'.

It turned out to be just India. No idea where the bum came from 😄.

I used to think my Mum's friend Yvonne was Avon. To be fair it was when the Avon catalogue was a big thing, and I think she may have been an Avon Lady. So I can kind of see why little me got confused.

My kids spent their primary years at an International School which meant we had a gorgeous variety of names to contend with. One daughter was adamant that there was a boy called Cabbage in her reception class. Turned out he was called Kapish. My other daughter said there was a Henry B and a Henry K in her class. I think it took me a year or two to clock that Henry K was actually Enrique.

Little brother used to refer to the guy next door as Buckle (Michael) hence Buckle's gike was Michaels bike!

Jer-miner = Jemimah 😆

One of my kids had a nursery friend, many years ago, apparently called Sammy Wool.
Took me a short while to realise the friend's name was actually Samuel!

I got asked why I called DD carrots. She’s actually called Carys. 😂

My friends child is called Marshall. When he was a toddler he couldn’t pronounce his name, so when asked he’d tell people he was called arsehole!

This is a cute thread OP

My DS called his Gran, "Graun" so that's her name now.
My DD called her big brother Biddy, he's called Jimmy 🥰

My daughter came home telling me all about a little boy called Q. It wasn’t until a school trip later in the year when I discovered his name was Hugh….