Nicknames…What Are Yours, For Your Babies? What’s Up With Nicknames Anyway?

 But let’s face all the facts here.  If children are going to make fun of someone, and I know this well, they are going to do it regardless of your name, sadly, because I am a product of bullying, and never fully re-cooped from the trauma of it.  That is why I’ll be very wise with my daughters.  Hopefully, they will never go through any of that.  For boys it can be bad, but not as bad as for the girls, I believe.

 

What are some of the things you fear your child may be called because of their names?  What are some of the things you call you own children, names that do pertain to their real given names, and ones that make absolutely zero sense, but have been used by you forever?

 

Well over here, I was saying to myself when my daughter was still just a fetus, I did not want her to be called Mickey, if I named her Mikayla.  I loved the name, but not the Mickey thing.  I figured myself, and the rest of us, would call her, Kayla, or even Kaylee for short, but what did I start calling her right from the beginning, besides, fatty (only as a small baby), and boo, which for some reason i still do use to this day?…..MICKEY!! 

 

Yup, what I feared others may call her, is what I myself call her, and nobody else ever does.  Strange huh?  Now it just suits her.  I’ll stop when she gets a bit older and that annoys her, for now she likes it.  She is never Kaylee or Kayla, not EVER.  How weird.  Also, my husband created a nickname for her as a baby, after we got the 6.5 week ultrasound picture from the sonographer.  He said she looked like a little bean in the shot.  So ‘Miss bean’ became her nickname for the pregnancy and even beyond.

Why I also call her boo, i don’t know, but that seems to be a common one.  My boys, their names are pretty normal and mainstream.  Not much you can get out of them, but I always called my oldest, ‘Bubba’, which I also call Allie sometimes, and they remind me of one another in a lot of ways, so maybe that is why I use the same name?  Who knows?  I never really thought about it.   My 14 year old now, which I simply cannot believe is 14,  I used to call ‘Cheeky’ and ‘Cheeks’, cause he had these robust and adorable cheeks as a baby and child, you just had to squeeze them.  If I called him that now, he’d kill me!  He might kill me for simply mentioning it, but oh well. 

 

My little Alessandra, I always call Allie, and I reckon most people will call her this as well, since it seems like a popular nickname for it.  It is a long name, so a lot of people I’m sure will choose the easier way out.  I’m also sure as it happens already, people will confuse her name with Alexandra.  This was of concern to me 9 months ago, but not to my husband, who just loved the name.  It is a beautiful and more original variation, so hopefully she won’t mind having to correct some people from time to time, as I have had to do already.

 

I also call her a couple names that have nothing to do with her true name.  Like I mentioned, I call her Bubba alot, and somehow with her, bubba gets lengthened a lot of times, to bubbalicious.. HE HE….why?  Don’t ask, maybe I’m remembering my favorite gum of the 80′s or something?  

 

 I like using her full name sometimes as well.  I enjoy singing the Lady Ga Ga song to her, ‘Alejandro’, but in my version, it’s ‘Alessandra’, and she just adores when she hears that song sang from me, and even played on the radio.  I just change it around for her, and she’s all smiles.

 

Annaliese, I call Annie, but my mother in law calls her Lisa.  WHY?…it’s not Annalisa, in which case that may make sense.  I don’t know, the woman is 86 years old, I think I can let it slide!  I also call her leesy, or lengthen the name, and go to a fuller Annaliese-ey.  Aside from that, I call her Annie-bug a lot, but nothing really that isn’t associated with her name, any longer.  We should call her ‘cry baby’.  She cries more then any baby I have ever had before.  It’d suit her.