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 and Pickle
Thing 1 and Thing 2
Monstrums
Loinfruit
Fishfaces
By now they answer to most names 😆

DS13 has a lovely name. At home, however, he is:

Dottie
Dot
Bob
Bobbin
Bobgoblin
Bundle
Nugget
Dude
Gorgeous
McGorgeous
Thodgepeg

Ha ha ha I’ve got an Oliver

Olinge
olive
Blob
Blobbity Blob

im so pleased our family aren’t the only ones.

dd1 is the whizz or the prof cos she’s clever
dd2 is fluff or rack or puff

I call my children variation of their names, too outing to say exactly what as they are uncommon (but not weird) names. But say it's Anne. Then it would be Anna, Anna Banana, Andy, Andy Pandy, Antsy pants if being fidgety and so on.
I use babes a lot for both, bud or buddy for my son. Princess on occasion for my daughter.
My son calls me boss, but usually Ma, my DD calls me mum, sometimes mumsy.

My middle daughter has the nicest name of the three. We call her ‘tots’. She’s 18.

DS1 (28) is JJ despite those not being his initials.
DS2 (24) is Tomliboo because he loved the Tomliboos in In The Night Garden when he was tiny (his name is Thomas though).
DC3 (16) is Pops despite that also not being their name.

My dad always called me Pootle, after Pootle Flump 😆.

Too many to mention for my own three, but my dad is used to call and refer to me as "Queenie" when I was small. 🙂

Spud
Small boy
Lenny (dogs name but reasonably interchangeable)

I love my little girls name but she’s regularly called Little fish and my dh and I have no idea why 😂

Squdgy
Oreo cookie
Baby

He's 21 🤣

Our daughter is little fish aswell

Chuckle
Smelly Cat
Sweetpea

Ds1, Strawbs
Dd, Moo
Ds2, Captain Disaster
Ds3, Squidge
Ddog, Knobhead

One I call Roo as she had a habit of bouncing on on the spot as a baby.

Another is Smoosh or Squish as she was a particularly cute, chubby baby.

Mr. Bobbins.
Picalilli
Mr. Pickles

Gorge, gorgey, the wretch, that git, himself, Bobby, bubby, absolute little shit, Damart

Naughty Pet Lamb
My Best Pet Lamb

Dollyflop
Pebbles
Dibi
Peebs
The Beast
StinkChops
Yes Darling.

Eldest (now 17) he still responds to Ninks, Ninkynoodles, Chen, Chenkins and Chenneth.

Little responds to Toodles, Toodle Bug and generally anything that sounds like a pet name e.g Sausage, Sauskins etc😂

Pickle or sausage

Pook, Pookle, spook, spookatina, spookle, spooknicorn, mook, Mooknicorn

Munch, munchkin, monkey, Merlin

Bud, buddy, JD, Controller, the boy, Small boy (he's been taller than me for 3 years now!)

I think they all came from DH, my family don't do nicknames. In his family there's Bill Badger, Dibble, Nibso, His Nibs, Muffet and Muff.

DS1- Johann or ham as a derivative. Nothing to do with his name
DS2. Sausage.

Baby boy, bobos, bubs, bwelgas' 😂 The last one I made up myself and it just stuck. I've been calling him these since he was about 3.

So corny I know.... he's 8 years old now and he's already starting to hate them all for some reason. 😉

Beaubo, this comes from her calling me Momo.
or The Wah.
lots of my friends call her The Wah, or Lady WahWah. She just goes with it.

Her given name is really pretty. At least her peers use it I guess.