Which 'pet names' do you use for your children?

[BurglerBill]

Which 'pet names' do you use for your children, if any?

We call our oldest daughter 'poppet'. My mum always called me 'sausage'. I don't have one for my youngest daughter yet - nothing has really materialised, and her name doesn't really have any nice shortening, so looking for ideas!

Chimpy
Baby bear
Little bear
Bean
Bean bear
Demon
Chipmunk
Munchkin

All of the above for just one child 😍

Chicken pie
Twpsin
Sausage

My littlest is Nugget
Nuggie
Nugs

Oh dear.

Curly head
Poo bum
Cheesey
Angel face
Kiddo
Wee wee knickers
Collectively they are the ducklings

two boys (in their 20s now) still call them sweetie
when they were little, sweetie, poppet, youngest was called tug boat

Leaf or Lilly for ds
Mess or Geoffrey for dd.
Like a pp said I don't think they're something you can plan or get advice on they're just in family joke names that have evolved over time.

Squish, squishy, squishingtons, pickle, baby, princess, curly locks, my little love, lamb chop and butt cheeks.

Mine are the Little Goblins.

Individually they are Minnoo and Whiskers❤️

I call DS sausage- but strictly just between us. He calls me Mamma but only at home!

My son is Puppy, Pups or Squeaker because when he was born he looked like a puppy and made little squeaking sounds

My daughter is Ce Monkey, Monkey, Monks, Monkey Moo, Mrs Moo or Pumpkin. The short form of her name is Ce or CeCe so Ce Monkey (as in Sea Monkey) came from that.

Angel bear 🧸

@BrutusMcDogface

I don’t think you can ask other people for pet names for your child? They just evolve. We have ‘name-bobs’, ‘name-moo’, ‘nameles’ (not nameless; for example George would be georgles. Not the real name but you get the idea!)

That said, I think Bee or Fifi would be great for a phoebe.

Yep, I get your point - my problem is that the name which has evolved in our house is pretty awful, so I'm trying to get away from it and thought that starting a thread might give me an idea of the types of names used by others.

@HammerToFall

Baby dyl for Dylan even though he's six foot has a six pack and is 16. He's down as baby dyl in my phone as well. When he was little my mother in law called him dildo and didn't have w clue what she was saying.

Oh my god 😂

I'd go for Beebs or Bumble. But as other posters say, it is supposed to come naturally.

Pickle and Sweetpea.

Sweetpea was originally Chickpea, but evolved.

Buzzy as in buzzy bee?
Our dd's nn is Tommy due to often going the colour of a tomato

My eldest, age 7, has recently banned all cutesy nickname, only allowing me to call him:
Albatross
The Geoff

His brother is
Flan
Mr Baby

Munchkin
Munch
Kiddo
Sweetheart
Sweetie Pie

Kids are older now, but I rotated through the above names!

DD1 was Baba, when she was small enough to call me Mama, then Her Maj, or Maj (her initials are HM)
DS is buddy or buster or Buddy Buster
DD2 is Toots or Tootles or Chooch. Not sure why.

Haha, ours are quite specific - Loz, Maxi-Moomoo, Dufus and Theo-opodopolus...

Chica, chickadee, sugar plum, sunshine, sweetie, starshine, superstar, honeypie, pomme de terre, petit petit petit pois, schön sohn, toll tochter....I rarely use their names!!

Eldest is bugs
Middle is bear
Youngest is wack

Lol at dildo 😂
My nickname was pinky, no idea why, no rhyme etc and I was quite a tomboy when young.

DD1 Brookey Bear

DD2 Tinker boo

Bunchkin
Baby angel

Mrs goggins (named herself this aged 3), El goggerino, Mrs G, baboo, baby lamb, booboo, sausage, name-bear, bear cub, goblin child, the chimp.