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!

I have
Lou-middle name Louisa
Nat
J/jj
Boo/boo boo
Walf
Edna/Gladys/tinker bell/Ethel/madam/Blondie/moo/Miss moo cow

all answer to their ‘new’ names-I did get funny looks once for shouting ‘boo-bie,wait at the road for me!’
He did but I was never to call him that again!

The Baby

He is 15

Hawkins - my DH would call her hername-kins, which got shortened to kins, and then he'd say ahh kins which in his NE accent became Hawkins. So anyway that. But then also bear or some derivation of such like monkey-bear (not sure why), bugalugs, boogaloo... Anyhoo basically nothing related to her actual name which is lovely but not what we use most of the time.

I call all my kids babe or baby. Everyone calls dd6 trouble or sausage. But I don’t know why!

DS was always Bam Bam from the Flintstones. It stuck. He’s 28 now.

DD is Name-Moo, but most just Moo or Moomoo.
DS is Bud, or (the) Name-ster.

I still am Treasure to my mum, Treash for short.

My cousin Phoebe was called Filbert as a baby, partly from the sounds of the name but also because she was little (compared to four older siblings). Sometimes in the family we still use that, or Fil/Phil, Filly, Bert. Her friends at school call her Phoebe or Phee (Fee?)

I also know an adult Phee whose original name is Fiona, but she hasn't used it in decades. She changed the spelling because non-British people pronounced Fi as Fie (rhyming with pie) - could also work for Phoebe? I don't think you have to decide now; call her something even if it's silly and it will evolve.

Phoebe Jeebie?
Mine have nicknames based on their real names, but also get pet, love and the little one gets babba

Shoo-shoo

don't know why. People tend to ask if I'm french 😂 (choux-choux is a french pet name) btw it's not a shortening of their names

Or angel or "their name"-bees/sys like sarah-bees or joan-sys

Phoebe-bees sounds like Cbeebies 😅

Cheeky monkey
Beast weasel
Mucky pup
Chickadee
Munchkin
Petal pie
Pumpkin

Both were nameless for at least a week after birth boy was ducky and girl was just baby girl

Buggar lugs! 😂 this comes out when DD isn't listening to a word I say 🤣

DD is 14 and still my Bubsy. Her friends think this hilarious.

Quack quack (she sounded like a duck when she was born)
Buddy
Wiggly Diggly

@BurglerBill for a long time I called our daughter Piggy or Piglet because she fed like a dream and she was so chunky.

My husband asked me to not call her that so I went back to Ce or CeCe and the Monkey stuff came from there.

The Dolly!

Fifi?

Mine are 20 and 17. The older one still gets called Monkey. The younger one is the Squidge.

Poppet, treasure, boo, coco

@123feraverto beast weasel 😂

I call my daughter 'booby' - no idea where it came from but it's stuck. Hopefully I get out of the habit before she knows what I'm calling her

Youngest is spud or spudders but at 12 has now said he doesn't like it so I'm trying not to use it, when he was little he couldn't say his sisters name and called her toto which has become Coco over time

Dd1 is smidgen

Dd2 is Tinkerbell or Tigerlily

Mine get called pops, gremlin, booboo, poppet, noodle, piglet, lovely, poops,