Do you have a nickname?

When one has the name Mark people think they are funny and original saying "Marky Mark". It is not funny nor original. Same with Marco Polo or Marcus Aurelius.
 

In high school, it was "Mats" (short for my 8-character maiden name). Brother was called "Max" and is still called that.

My paternal grandfather used to call me Pinky.
 
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No nickname. My name is Eileen...no one manages to get the name right, it's Ellen or Elaine or God-knows-what, can you imagine what they'd do with a nickname?
 

My husband calls me Packwidget. When we met he was 6' 7, and I was 5' 3". (We are getting shorter.) He is a fisherman. I met him at the river. He fished for large fish, like salmon, silvers and striped bass. After I started dating him I began lugging his fish up to the car. He carried the fishing gear. I'd sling the fish down over my back. Sometimes they hung down to my bottom or further. So he dubbed me Packwidget. He can no longer go fishing because of his back, so I try to carry things around the yard as needed. He engages the name at such times.
 
My first and second initials are C and J. In high school my friends called me CJ. But then, they seemed to get a little lazy. I guess handling two syllables was just too much for them. So, they squished the C and the J together and started calling me Ceege. No one has called me that since then, but I use it as a user name sometimes.....like right here. šŸ˜
 
When we were young kids had kinds all sorts of nicknames often given to them by their parents or siblings , but if we used some of them now days weā€™d be hung at sundown.


I was called kaedee as a child cause my first name is Kae and my last name started with D
so I used it as a UN when I joined SF about 5 years ago
 
A few.... A friend had two daughters that grew up in my company, as their father and I were very close, they did and still call me "Him"
My nephew calls me "Fuzzy", I have a fairly new beard.
My father in law, For 46 years of marriage has always called me "Hey you". I wasn't until his last couple years on this earth he called me by my real name, (which was very shocking just out of the blue he called me by my real name0, He continued using my given name until he went into hospice and then it was again "Hey you". I miss him and "Hey You"
 
My original nickname is Evelyn. My mother (who raised me) thought I looked more like an Evelyn than my given name. The brothers who owned the music studio I studied and later worked at nicknamed me. One called me Cleopatra which got shortened to Cleo and the other Cinderella...why I couldn't tell you. My Jazz theory teacher who became my BFF started out calling me Cleo...she thought it was my real name. Once it was evident that we were going to be the best of friends, I told her my original nickname that 99% of the people in my life called me, even my co-workers and bosses.
 
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My first and second initials are C and J. In high school my friends called me CJ. But then, they seemed to get a little lazy. I guess handling two syllables was just too much for them. So, they squished the C and the J together and started calling me Ceege. No one has called me that since then, but I use it as a user name sometimes.....like right here. šŸ˜
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We have a wild turkey we named CJ. I call him Ceege for short. Maybe you and he are kindred souls. He's a sweetheart of a tom. He will eat grain and bread bits from our hands. Do you think you would do that? Grin.
 
During my college years I went by "Doc" as when I was a freshman I saw to a dorm hallmate getting his eyes flushed out with water after he took a direct hit to the face during a nasty spray deodorant war...don't ask! This would later lead to my being asked "medical problem" questions by peers, many of which were of an intentionally embarrassing or sexual nature... :eek:
 
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