The cute, weird, wacky and plain WRONG names we give children

Giving a nickname to your growing “human bean” is the first step to bonding with your child without having to permanently settle on a lifelong name. All though picking a name for life is pretty tricky. As this blogger soon discovered….

Blogger Sophie Cachia – the young mummy, hit the headlines again over the weekend with claims she had changed her baby girls name for the third time. She of course denies the claims as a total storm in a teacup.

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The Mirror shared, Blogger Sophie Cachia welcomed her daughter into the world in January.
Delighted to finally have the baby girl she’d been dreaming of, she already had several names in mind.

The mum originally settled on a very traditional name, Betty Margaret, after their grandmothers.

But after just two weeks she decided it wasn’t quite right.

Blaming medication and hormones for her first choice, she made the bold move to change her little girl’s name.

So little Betty became Florence Margaret, nicknamed Flossy.

But now, six months down the track, Sophie admitted she still isn’t happy with her choice.

“But I totally f**ked the whole thing up and now my experience with naming a girl is one gigantic clusterf**k of f**kups.

“So now LEGALLY she’s Florence Margaret but we call her Florence Gigi (especially since she’s her Aunty Gigi’s mini-twin!!!) So yeah… basically I suck at naming girls.”

Sophie did confirm however that there has only been one name change!

The nicknames we may live to regret

We asked our MoM’s what nicknames they gave their little jellybean before they officially met.

Some of them are very cute, while some are just plain WRONG, they include…

Buddha
Bubba Son
Dumpling
Bubble
Moon
Brick
Shithead
Skittle
Cletus (the foetus)
Gherkin
Gut grub
Fatty
Bullfrog
Barry
Bruce

Sciobhan shared, “Smudge and that’s the name we gave him. Yes it is on his Birth Certificate and his everyday name”

Jas said, ” My dad has called me tuppence since day dot… I’m 41 and he still calls me that”

Amy shared,”Puddin’ was always my daughters nickname during pregnancy and 3 years later it still is”

Dee shared, “Olive. The size she was at the time. Her dad fell in love with it, it’s now her name.”

Tanjia shared, “Froggy and budgie…I still call him froggy every now and again (he’s 27 yo)”

Kristy shared, “My son nicknamed my daughter Rosie when we found out she was a girl, now that’s all we’re allowed to call her”

Stacey shared, “Peanut. She’s almost 7 and we still call her that more than her real name.”

Lindsey shared, “Squishbabychild….she’s almost 15 now so she’s probably glad it didn’t stick!”

Zoe said, ” I called her Emmy short for Embryo but it didn’t stick after she was born”

Do you have name regret?

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24 Comments

- - nealsq said
  - 26 Oct 2017
    11:53 am
Little Ninja and Bladder Stomper were two of the names we used before birth

- - mom94125 said
  - 02 Sep 2017
    9:58 pm
no i didn’t have any nicknames besides bub lol. it was hard enough just to come up with a name and my hormones went crazy and i had crazy ideas and hubby didn’t really agree lol took months took settle on a name at all

- - june11 said
  - 13 Aug 2017
    10:41 pm
It can be hard enough choosing names that both parents like without choosing nicknames. I know one child who hates her first name being shortened. At the same time her Mum hates her first name and has shortened it. Her uniform has her full first name on it. Two of her kids have nicknames and they suit them actually.

- - mom64736 said
  - 01 Aug 2017
    12:55 pm
I don’t remember nicknaming my pregnant belly. I do remember using their names that we chose for them. We chose names based in part on probably nicknames. I didn’t think that was altogether weird…but maybe it is?!

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 01 Aug 2017
    10:23 am
Lol those are pretty funny- mine wasn’t that exciting. We called her BOB (baby of Blockley) and we also called her our little dragon baby because she was born in the year of the dragon.

- - ella12 said
  - 31 Jul 2017
    2:32 pm
A lot of those nicknames are not very appealing.

- - rovermum said
  - 31 Jul 2017
    11:40 am
I was so sick during my 9 months I don’t remember calling my growing child anything but bub or he. I always felt he was a boy. Funny though when a pet name sticks.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 30 Jul 2017
    5:25 pm
Haha. My friend called her bub “Trev” throughout her whole pregnancy. No idea why but they had decided on either Maggie for a girl or Austin for a boy. Of course, he popped out and she couldn’t call him Austin because he’d been Trev for 9 months. So he’s called Trev and actually, I think it really suits him. Hilarious though.

- - BellaB said
  - 29 Jul 2017
    7:17 pm
Some of those are sweet. Others, the kids must be grateful they didn’t stick!

- - Ellen said
  - 29 Jul 2017
    3:50 am
My daughter struggled to call her brother by his real name (Enosh) and called him Nosh, later he was called Eno by his teacher and class mates.

- - nadine_hill said
  - 28 Jul 2017
    2:13 pm
No nicknames here …. have loved reading through all the ones listed in the comments here though – lovely!

- - mom101628 said
  - 27 Jul 2017
    9:39 pm
We liked their real names so much we never went with nick names. But of course that changed when they went to school.

- - mom81879 said
  - 26 Jul 2017
    12:55 pm
My sisters nickname is Dink. My family were all born in England except her, she was born in Australia. The first Dinky Di Aussie in our family, Dink stuck.
- mom81879 replied
  
  26 Jul 2017 , 12:57 pm
  Everyone in our family, everyone she meets through our family, all call her Dink. Never her real name. But people she met thru her hubby all call her by her real name. Maybe she never liked Dink :/
- - mom93821 said
  - 26 Jul 2017
    6:59 am
No nicknames – very happy with the full names. Not keen on some of the names above.

- - taynik46 said
  - 25 Jul 2017
    9:12 pm
My eldest is named after my husband’s golf clubs – true story (and she has the same middle name as me) – my youngest – she was very tricky to name and we only decided just before leaving hospital (5 days later!) – we couldn’t agree on something that suited her and went through loads of names before settling on a complete random name for her first name – Nikki and then her biological nan’s first name abbreviated for her middle name – I am glad we are not having anymore kids lol! – I did find though that I was really prepared with boys names but girls were just so much harder to choose!

- - jacqbeckett said
  - 25 Jul 2017
    12:44 pm
I didn’t give my babies a name until they were born. daughter ella- I write her name pixie because she had pixie ears but I still call her ella. Son james- sometimes I call him buddy but write james.
My whole family and husband was glad that I didn’t call my 1st child if it was a girl London. They were glad it was a boy first!
I learnt that all my mum’s aunties all had flower names as their first, they all dislike it and took their middle name as their first name.

- - mom90758 said
  - 25 Jul 2017
    12:41 pm
The choice of the name is really important. Better not to rush into it!

- - Ellen said
  - 25 Jul 2017
    3:28 am
My daughter was 5 days old or so until we decided on her name. We thought no hurry, it’s better to take the time to chose a name, then deciding on a name you don’t really like. We were never into nicknames really, until our kids started to give each other nicknames.

- - Rachell88 said
  - 24 Jul 2017
    5:04 pm
Our bubba was nicknamed Flick or Flicker while I was pregnant. My first scan was at 5 weeks and she was this tiny little Flicker of a heartbeat on the screen. It just kind of stuck

- - mom206279 said
  - 24 Jul 2017
    4:51 pm
Lol. Is it wrong that I love cletus the fetus? We never really had a nickname for ours. Just called him bub. Still call him bub and he’s nearly 4.