Names you call your child that aren’t their names

[MarshmallowClouds]

My daughter has a name beginning with J - for reasons lost in the mists of time we call her Jinty McGinty, which has nothing in common with her name, bar the first letter.

I find it amusing that we spent so long agonising over her name, yet often don’t use it.

Pumpkin pie, pumpkin patch
sausage, little sausage
pickle pants

bubs
bubsy boo
bubba

Cuteness
Peach
BooBoo
Smurfles
Smurfling

Bubs, though less often now as he is embarassed by it

Onionface, inspired by Mole insulting the rabbits. We use this for each other to wind the other person up.

Babyhead and Stinky

they are teenagers

Lambchop , biscuit and Charlie bear. After their favourite things when they were small.

DD 23 Pooh
DD 20 Doo
DS forever 10 Bo

i don't have children but my mum calls me "chucky egg" or chucky

My gran's name was Yvonne. She was called Bunty by everyone (her mother used to sing Bye Baby Bunting to her).

My daughter gets called Posy or the fuller version of Posy Annabelle. Often shortened to P.A.

His nickname is Moose.

so;

Saddam Moosain
Moosifer
Moosillini
Adolf Moosler
Chairman Moose.

He’s 3 and a dictator.

I am Tootyfilou… so named because I was a tiny prem. still mostly called Tooty by my dad… I am 60 😂
My husband always calls me Raz, abbreviation of my surname. My dad was also known as Raz, by his friends.

My three have all had nicknames from birth that I've used pretty much interchangeably with their real names
Son #1 is FP (short for Felix Pie. Where the 'Pie' comes from I have no clue)
Son #2 is Beeeesch (no idea why, his name is Oscar)
Son #3 is Mouse, short for Mouse Face because he had furry arms & a cute little face as a baby. I call him this 99.9% of the time even though he's 14!

Dd1 is lovingly referred too as spare kidney
Dd2 is spare parts

Mr Munch
Boat
Little Monkey
Little Sprout when he's in a fatty phase

I sometines used to call my DS Justin, as in just in time or just enough (effort), usually in regard to school work. He's now a Head of Department😄 His name is nothing like Justin.

19 year old Flom Flom, 20 year old Mr Shoes, 21 year old Smells... rhymes with her name!

Oh wow. I call DD (15) so many of the names listed here 😂

My current favourites are
Sweet potato (or sweet potat)
Chicken/chikka
Sausage
m-loaf
Bubs
Honey

Boopy
Boopington Bear

For some reason I never did with the girls.
Ds is "Squeaky", "Mr Man" and "Boy" depending on my mood. (as well as his name)
He answers to them all without a huff, so I can presume he doesn't mind.

Cookie
Donnie
Moochie
Lovie
Softie
Lockie
Munchie
Lolly

Bumchops ... and he even has a theme tune that we sing when we hear him coming downstairs or into our room.

Lovely
Pet
Pal (he hates this one and asks me to stop)
Loveen
Love
Sweetpea

Mine are gayboy 1 and gayboy 2 😁

Omg we call my 2 year old moose and I am absolutely stealing some of these! They are hilarious

DD went through a particularly destructive terrible two's and got stuck with the nickname bam-bam, which has become bam-bam boogie pants, bamboozle, bamboogly and others. DS1 and 2 are mostly stuck with bab, sausage, pumpkin and honey bunny

A lot of these sound familiar ...

DS (now 20):
Pops
Porky chops
Oswald (not his name)
Sugar Pie
Shoogs (short for Sugar Pie)
Sir Shitalot (he did/does)

DD now aged 10:
Baby
The Baby
Bubba
Baba
Bunny*
Bunnykins
Bunny Boo
Boo
Boo Boo
Sugar Pop Pie (to differentiate from Sugar Pie)
Princess Shitalot (see above)

She was known as Bunny from so early and so long that nursery had it down as her "known as" name. When she went to school she came home on the first day and said indignantly "they said my name is [actual real name]".