Poll: Have you ever had a nickname?

[SquallTheBlade]

I got plenty.
"Make" is the first nickname I have had.
"Mage" because of my previous nickname and because I played a lot of final fantasy games.
I was called "Squall" for short time when I was a kid because of FF8 of course.
"Kurkku" (cucumber), because I accidentaly broke one which would have been used in a sketch my friends were going to perform. Pretty funny thing so the name stuck.
"Purkka" (chewing gum). We sent a happy birthday congratulation to one of our friends trough our school radio, but the teacher read my name ("Kurkku") wrong, so I was "Purkka" instead.

Last two are pretty random when you think about it, but I don't mind.

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

Some people call me Quaker Oats since my name is Kwaku.

 

[unoleian]

For almost my entire school life, everyone insisted on calling me by my last name, which changed when I moved halfway through school to another parent's house in a different town. For whatever reason, people seemingly refused to use my first name there, as well, and used my new last name, giving me a whole other name to answer to. It got REALLY confusing bouncing between the two towns for vacations and what-not, it was like my name changed every 3 months for a few weeks. It continues to this day.

In college, the last-name business (mostly) stopped, but people started insisting on shortening my name in new, creative ways. I started going by J, JB, J-Beasy, and Beez, among others, depending on who I was with at the time.

Only now, in my professional life, have people really started calling me by my first name. I can only imagine how it must look to others and the thoughts they must have when they call my name, and I look around, bewildered, wondering if they're talking to me.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

My family has been calling me 'Peanut' since I was born. So it usually makes an appearance in forum names, game name-tags, etc.
I have a friend or two that have started to really like calling me 'Peanut' also.lol

I like it! ^_^

 

[Greedy_Smurph]

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.

Hello, Andy Mills. We've been expecting you..

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Yeah, I've gotten my fair share. With a name like Nicholas, of course people are going to call you Nick or Nicky. I've also gotten a few different ones -- Raspberry, Schmidty (guess what my last name is. Go on, you'll never guess it /sarcasm), Noodles, Sasquatch... there's more.

 

[Tiger Sora]

In 7th and 8th grade the "Popular" kids called me Tommy D. Just the kiddish of my name and my last names initial. But it was said in a skater accent.

Now I go by Tiger. A nickname I love.

 

[AngloDoom]

I have been named:

Silver (Because a friend of mine always said I came second to her - she became Gold)
Sly (Because everyone said I reminded them of a fox)
Dog (Because after a while everyone realised I'm not mischievous - just silly)
Metal Nipple Man (Because of my sexy sexy piercings)
Tiddles (Because I once wore a collar to school for fancy dress and didn't realise it had a name engraved on it)

I like to give people nicknames, so they often find one for me. I haven't been called anything for a while though, and this makes me very sad indeed.

 

[hashtag]

My real name is 'Caum' so my mum calls me 'Cal' or 'Caly'.

 

[Fai57]

I've accumulated a bunch just in the last 2 years after not having any before.

My most common nickname is Abby, after a guy in my fencing club forgot my name (I'm a pretty big guy with a deep voice, to put that in perspective). Almost everyone calls me that now.

Recently, a few of my friends have been calling my variations on Abigail, depending on what I'm like at the time, such as Crabagail (touchy), Flabagail (tired/lazy or eating), Stabagail (while fencing), and so on. It's gotten so bad that I pretty much answer to anything with -gail in it now.

Another one of my friends calls me Wolverine because of my large sideburns.

 

[MDMR]

my name is Myles

My friends call me Darkness

i go to school full of white people and im half-black

 

[Bruenin]

No
Though I wish I had one, but the only thing anyone ever suggested was JC... umm no thanks

 

[Chimichanga]

Very many, and all of them acquired some time IRL:

"Maurice II" : Glassblowing Seminar - My appearance and personality reminded some of the older members of another guy they knew named Maurice, so they dubbed me his successor. These kids would later also run the debate club at my school and it became my debate name and default name to everyone else who knew me.

"Megadeth" : Track and Field - I used to make a lot of jokes about emos and metal heads during off-time, so they just began to call me "megadeth" - when I asked about it they said it was based on an old inside joke between some of the older members who said it was based on another conversation about what "The most awesome and extreme band name in existence sounded like", which was "MEGAAADEEEETTHH!!!" Yeah - they weren't sure either, but it stuck.

"X-Factor" - Also track and field - Nobody could remember my name, and the coach made it a priority to do so, so a lot of people just defaulted to calling me "X-factor". Still better than another one of the newbies who got called "Cocks" and whose brother was called "Lubes". In retrospect, i was quite lucky with my aliases from that time.

"The Ghost", or "The Ghost Kid" : Misc. - Room mates and fellow renters usually never see me or hear me make any noise when I move around so they used to joke about me being some kind of ghost or phantom - not an official nickname, but almost everyone I've come to live with has at some point made a comment or pointed it out.

"Captain Farley", or just plain "Farley": Sailing classes - I used to make wisecracks that reminded the instructors of Chris Farley. Soon enough, it replaced my actual name.

"Sargent Asshole", or "Sarge": It came from a club that took to bestowing code names to each other in the order of a military rank followed by a swear or obscenity (ex.: General Fucktard, Captain Shit, Lieutenant Damn-it). We all thought it was hysterical at the time.

"That Guy": Again, because nobody could remember my name. Eventually they came to know it, but they found it funny how they could not for a very long time and referred to me as "the guy", "that kid", and etc.; all in good fun.

TBH, I think it's because nobody really bothered to remember my actual name and didn't want to admit it, so they just went by whatever title I had at the time. Some of these are labels I pick up regardless of where I am repeatedly throughout time by different people.

*EDIT: Should probably add some context just as to how they were attained.

 

[Akimoto]

I had one that followed me from primary to secondary - Lor Mee. It's a kind of Asian noodle and I hated it at first. Than I got used to it.

In the cadet corps it was naked truth. Don't ask.

My family nick is Bear.

 

[The_Lost_King]

Everyone calls me Arcelio because in spanish class we needed different names so it caught on and now alot of people call me that. also for a while 2 kids called me count chocula.

 

[LadyxDevilish]

Well many years back at high school me and my friend got named *Bluffy* and *Bluffy2*
Because the always called us a bluff on random stuff and we'd do it just for the sake of it,
and somehow it just became a regular thing and the whole nickname was formed.

I absolutely hated it though.

 

[Snowalker]

Wolfman, I shit you not. I am a werewolf.. back off.. Yeah, woof.

 

[starslasher]

I had one, but only for a couple of months. I was working in a freezer room, But on my first day, i didn't anticipate that i would be working in a freezer, and i kept putting my hands in my pocket. the boss asked me "are you feelig cold, or are you just holding your pants up?". He told me of calling me "Pockets", which i was okay with. From then on, while i was working there for only 2 months, until i returned back to the new semester, I was known there as Pockets. Well, partly it was also because people didn't want to embarass themselves in trying to pronounce my name correctly.

 

[kommando367]

I've had a few. Radio and Psycho are the only ones I remember.

 

[Fijiman]

I've had several nicknames over the years, but none of them ever stick. Mostly because the people who called me those nicknames either forgot about them/lost interest or never saw me again because they either moved away or graduated.