Poll: Have you ever had a nickname?

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Oh, I have quite a few, and more than I'd care to admit.

In one group of friends I'm known as 'Fiz' and I'm introduced as much. In my other group of friends, I'm either known as 'Twin' or 'Jenderson', don't ask about the last one since I can't really explain it. With the latter group, my list of nicknames seem to grow, and I have no idea how I even got most of them now that I think about it.

 

[Realitycrash]

"Add", a nickname that has replaced my regular name to the point that I don't use my regular name any longer.
Also had several less charming ones. Billy (idol), Blondie, Barbie, Boytoy, etc. Funny, my name doesn't even begin with a B.

 

[dvd_72]

Dvd. Take my full name, David, take out all the vowels, and you have my nickname. Not too original, but it works for screen names.

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

I've had a few

"Kickstand was my longest lasting and it still used today. It was given from to me from the wrestling team for my endowment. As weird as it is having a mostly all boy team saying it, it got cool once the cheer leaders thought it was my middle name.

 

[TheLoveableMuffin]

My name is Nathaniel. Here's all I can think of:

Nat
Natt
Natty
Nathan (when my teacher couldnt say my full name)
Daniel (when my other teacher misheard me on day 1 and didnt realise for a week)
Na-fanny-hole (ho ho how humourous)
Fanny
Noodle
and now I'm Nate full time now.

 

[DJDarque]

Old friends used to call me JJ because of my initials. People I know here also tend to just shorten my username to DJ.

 

[staika]

In high school my nickname was ninja, I don't know how it started but this one upperclassman didn't remember my name so he called me ninja. From then on everyone just started calling me ninja.

 

[Andy Shandy]

Yeah, it's either Andy Shandy, which started quite a while ago and has stuck, as you can see, or Damn Silly because it's an anagram of my real name.

 

[Aris Khandr]

The way the school system in my area worked is that five elementary schools fed into one middle school. I have the third most common surname in the country, and the fifth most common given name for girls. So when I got to my first day of 7th grade, it turned out that there were SIX girls with my same first and last name. Nicknames were demanded, if for no other reason than to differentiate. I had recently been introduced to RPGs, and my first character's name was Aris. So I became Aris. It stuck, to the point where many of my friends actually have to stop and think for a moment to remember my real name.

The only other nickname of significance was in college, where my roommate at the time called me Elf. Our computers were in the same room of the apartment, yet I could wake up, leave my room (opening and closing doors), walk across the apartment to the computer room, sit down in my chair, and only the sound of my computer booting up or me clicking at the mouse would alert her that I was there. So theorized that I had to have a racial bonus to Sneak.

 

[Nouw]

Closest thing is Nam because people can't be arsed saying Nam Woon, my full name.

A girl from my class used to call me "Fluffy" because of my fuzzy hair. Thankfully it didn't really catch on and she is still the only one who calls me that.

Your avatar is from Cracked and I still have no idea what it means >.> Explain please. And fluffy is a cute nickname :3

 

[ImperialSunlight]

Not really. Probably because there aren't many good nicknames for "Derek". But on the internet, I am "theemporer". At first the misspelling was an accident. Now I use it in its incorrect form as... I guess punishment for my misspelling. Also, less commonly, "firelegendmushroom" or "firelegendmush" if it does not fit.

 

[Thistlehart]

My uncle Steve (aka Slim) christened me Foghorn (ala the Looney Tunes character) because I was a fairly chatty/noisy child. He still uses it on occasion.

Nicknames are a popular in my family. Sometimes it's hard to know what someone's real name is.
For instance, one of my uncles is known by nearly everyone as Bunk, but his given name is Robert. I think this arose because he usually slept out in the bunks above the grainery when he was young, due to my grandparents having the old-fashioned one-room house at the time (and three more sons).

 

[Pinkamena]

I was nicknamed "Dansken". Means "The Dane" in norwegian.

 

[zspartancats]

During 10th grade, half of the 10th grade students called me frank.

My history teacher called me Frank. I never knew why, but he did. It stuck and for the whole year until I went to the JVS.

A little part of me died each time someone called me Frank.

 

[Malyc]

There are those who call me... Goose.

This comes from my last name being Goossens. Not too hard to figure out how it happened XD.

 

[Ickorus]

People used to call me Captain Caveman because I had long hair.

Other names included:

Drone - A name I used for a game which for some reason was picked up by some people in real life.
Cousin it - Long hair, again. (Kids really aren't that creative)

In high school my nickname was ninja, I don't know how it started but this one upperclassman didn't remember my name so he called me ninja. From then on everyone who just started calling me ninja.

My death apparently will be at the crust of a pie, I like pie so I guess it could be worse.

 

[Darkwhite]

Whitey, because I had white hair when I was younger, inventive huh?

 

[MetalMagpie]

I was Burtle (short for Burtle the Turtle) at school and Wench (short for Web Wench) at my university fencing club.

I haven't picked up a nickname at work yet, but it seems like it's only a matter of time. I've got colleagues called Penguin, Tactics and (the one I really want to know the story behind) Arathorn.

 

[Shockolate]

"Pherson" (Fer-son, or fear-sun) my last name sans the scottish Mc. So widespread that we constantly joke that I don't have a first name.

"Patches" because I have Tritchotillomania.

"Fire Thrower", While drunk one night at a bonfire, a friend and I got into a tug of war over the fire poker and he pulled it so hard I knocked over the pot so it all fell out towards another friend, 'throwing fire' as it were.

 

[twaddle]

I'm called the weird black kid with the british accent. I'm trying to go by Nonae, but I keep giving people the option of calling them my real name......I may stop giving them that option