This morning,I received a Snapchat asking me to say hi and Happy Birthday to Shrimpy (whose real name is Siomhra) as it was her 6th birthday. Shrimpy! How unbelievably cute!
When I was small, I was called SweetPea after Swee'pea, Popeye and Olive's SON (I looked like him as a baby, apparently...I dunno!)
I put it out there and got some really sweet nicknames for listeners' kids, and also what they themselves were called as children. Have a read!
- “Hi Paula I still call my sister Lenard. Her name is Lynette. Also my son Jack will always be ball-bag to me.” - John Cork
- “Bummer - I never kept my nappy or pants on as a child!”
- “Pumpkin, as I was a flaming ginger. Hated it then, hate it now (my elderly parents still call me it!)”
- “Paula I call my little fella Wormy, always have. Apparently, another child’s mother asked him in the playground last week what his name was and he said wormy! Better start calling him buy his actual name (Will)!”
- “Muffin. My grandmother called me that and so did most of my family!”
- “Paula I got the nickname Squishy because I used to be chubby!”
- “Paula we have 3 kids; Spud, Button and Boo!”
- “Paula since my daughter Leigh was born I've called her Milky Moo - 17 years on and she's still called it!” - Suzanne
- “Hi, Mark here - my three boys have nicknames. My oldest is one of the Shane's in his class so known as Shane with the glasses. My youngest boy Eoin, known as BabyO. And middle boy Ben had longest nick name; Benjamin-Button-Head!”
- “My sister’s name is Sarah. However, I invented the character name Spudley Buttson for her or Spud for short. At one point her friends called her Spud too!” - Andy
- “Hi Paula, in school one of the boys had black hair with a small patch of white, (about the size of a 50 cent piece) so he was known as Pigeon. After an unfortunate case of food poisoning in Transonic East Turkey which landed me in hospital I got the nick name Vinny the Poo. It took me years to shift it!” – Cheers, Vince
- “Worm, I read books a lot and my dad thought I was a bookworm.”
- “Hi Paula, my family still call me babe! Nothing to do with the pig though my mam used to call me Aidee babe and over time it got shortened to babe. My hubby thinks it's cute. My actual name is Eadaoin!”
- “Hey Paula, I keep calling my daughter Skippy which stems from when I was pregnant and she was kicking the bejaysus out of me!” - Frankie
- “My 5 year old is Logan and we call him Logi bear!” – Skello32 via Snapchat
- “Well P, I have 3 kids – Chuckers, Toodle Bops and Butty. And I call my wife Bu!” – Bres76 via Snapchat
- “Hi Paula. Other than my pet name of Doughbags , my dad had pet names for all of us. My sister Vivien was Popsie (a derivative of Vivsypops), my sister Sandra was Louie (a derivative of Sindylou), my sister Paula was Pia (Pia Paula) and my brother Colm was Clubman!” - Declan
- "Snowy. I had dandruff issues."
- "Mine was Bubblehead."
- “Hi Paula, my mam has always called me Waz as I had a habit of peeing on guests as a baby, I'm 37 now and she still uses it!” - M in Galway
- “Morning Sweet P! My nick name was Sour puss on account of the fact that my resting face wasn't exactly welcoming! Not like my brother, Saint cuz butter wouldn't melt in his mouth!” - Shay
- “I got name Suzie Socks had hockey game one evening it was freezing so decided to warm up my socks by fire so I'd be nice cosy - only my socks got scorched and I had no choice but to wear as they were team colours! Name still being used for snap chat lol!”
- "Moon Head. Speaks for itself really."
- "Morning Sweet P, I was offered Aer Lingus due to my rather large ears!! Any chance of a beanie to cover them up? Large surface area to keep warm for winter!"
- “My daughter could not say her name when she was small, she called herself Eddie Mc. Her name is Evelyn Mc Grillen but sometimes we still call her Eddie Mc. One of our twins is called Jim Jam his name is James the other twin is called John john!” - Angela
- “Hi Paula, when I was a kid I had baby teeth growing over my adult teeth and around the same time double glazed windows were becoming the rage! So double glazed was my nick name for a while!” - Tony
- “My family called me Taz like the Tasmanian devil on Loony toons because I could not sit still or walk anywhere and was constantly knocking things over!”
