Other names as nicknames

[sifukatara.livejournal.com]

This thought came about when i recieved a really sweet comment in my LJ. i had written a post about nicknames after reading everyone's opinions here in a post about them.

My friend told me if she had to pick a nickname for me, she would call me Gloria. Her reason for this is because she said whenever she talks to me and we're talkin' about TBAA or just our faith in general, my frend can feel my connection to the actress who plays Gloria and how much I myself shine with the light and truth of God's love. My friend asked me if it was okay if she calls me Gloria as a nickname and I said yes.

Before everyone starts sending rude comments my way in light of what I wrote above, the only reason I posted that bit about my faith is because I wanted to explain what happened better. That is the only reason I did it.

Now my question is, in certain situations, for certain people you know really well, what does everyone think about using other names altogether for nicknames?

Comments

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

The reasoning behind mine isn't quite the same but if you ask my best friend, my name is Henry.

My SO's father calls me Princess and he's the only one that could get away with that. I'd rip anyone else's head off.

My closest friend from high school still calls me Angel, because he claims I was his at a very rough time in his life.

I think nicknames, no matter what they are, are a sign of affection. Even being called a clearly masculine name is perfectly okay with me because I know she wouldn't bother to call me anything except my name if she didn't truly love me.

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

me too only my nickname is Boob, usually only from my best friend, who also greets me with "Hey Fool" or ends a phone convo with "Bye, Fool"

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

I don't think you should have to defend or disclaim talking about your faith. It's a sad world when people have to.

I think it's cute if it's significant/personal. :)

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

Okay, thanks for telling me. :)

I still stand with what I said though. But thanks for explaining :)

[sifukatara.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your kind words. You are right and what you said is true. I added you to my friend's list on LJ. I hope that's all right. I also sent you a message through LJ as well.
I hope to hear from you soon
Lauren

[jordle.livejournal.com]

Gloria has extremely bad connotations in my family, so I don't think of shining light but I guess we all see different things in different names :P

My BFF calls me Valdy. It is short for Valandra and it's a long story as to why I'm called that!!

[sifukatara.livejournal.com]

That's understandable. To each their own.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's anything wrong with it. When my mom was growing up, John was a very common name and her youngest brother is named John. 4 of his 5 best friends were named John also. They all went by nicknames. Some nicknames were based on last names, but my uncle went by "Foy" and that has nothing to do with anything...

I know a kid Mike who goes by Dwayne just because there are so many Mikes at my school and someone started calling him Dwayne.
Then in middle school there was a kid who they called "Lincoln" because he liked the band Linkin Park...
There are others, but you get the idea: A-OK.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

This girl I know named Hannah sometimes gets called Cameron because she looks like Cameron Diaz.

My friend Ben gets called Stevesie because my other friend forgot his name and thought it was Steve when she first met him.

Oh, and one of my friends calls me Anastasia and I don't remember how that started.

But other than things like that, if you want to name your kid something and then only call them a nickname that's completely different, you should just name them that nickname.

[sifukatara.livejournal.com]

That was cool. I needed that laugh right now. I'm not tryin' to offend you in any way. But that whole Stevis thing was funny.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Haha, why would it offend me?

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

While I have several nicknames that do derive from my real name, I think some of the best names happen spontaneously, and you don't even have to have some great story behind it, although that is sometimes the case.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

I went to grad school with a guy named James. For some reason, none of our profs could get it right...he was Jeb, Jim, Jerry, John, everything except James......so I named him Betty. Once James was a Betty EVERYONE got Betty right:)

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

I know a guy named Kyle that also goes by Betty... I had forgotten till I saw this, lol.

[tokyo.livejournal.com]

I had one friend who refused to call anyone by their real names and came up with different names for them. Not just nicknames, either. My name is Beth, but she called me Nora for no apparent reason. It was cute, but really confusing when she was talking about other mutual acquaintances.

I don't really have any nicknames for my friends that aren't derivatives of their original names. Megs short for Megan, Kat short for Kathleen, and Taye short for Taylor. *shrugs*

[glassteapot.livejournal.com]

My friend Andrew gets called Ricky because he looks incredibly like Ricky Fitz from American Beauty.

I used to work at a restaurant where a lot of the waitstaff and hosts were the same generation; every time someone new started who had the same name as someone else, we called them something different. A second Anthony was rechristened Gus, two Jessicas who started at the same time became Blondie and Bubbles, the second Alex to come along became Xan and the one after that, Der... oh, and there was a girl named Aloechka who became Kim because no-one could pronounce her real name. :-P

[sifukatara.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's cool! BTW: Lucy is one of my favorite names!

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

That's sweet indeed. I like the idea of giving a nickname that's entirely different from one's real name...it's intimate/personal somehow, which is nice =)

I had a friend who was called Kiwi all the time. No idea why, though ;)

[sifukatara.livejournal.com]

I totally agree. That does sound neat.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

I used to know someone who was called Kiwi too!

[ginger]

My middle school best friend's sister randomly started calling me Virginia (no correlation to my birth name at all) when I was 11, which got shortened to Ginger.

Ginger stuck so well that I got my name legally changed when I was 23.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

That's awesome.

[jazbot.livejournal.com]

3 different people, who hadn't met, different social groups and over a period of 2-3 years decided to Call me Jeffery. My Name's Jasmine. I don't have one at the moment, but It's probably only a matter of time before I'm Jeffery again for someone.

[djador.livejournal.com]

I met a kid in highschool named Avery and I didn't find out for months that his name was actually Jeff and Avery was just a nickname. He was called Avery because a friend of mine decided that he 'looked like an Avery'. And everyone just started calling him that. He even got it on his basketball team sweatshirt.

[sifukatara.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of one of my best friends! Her name was ABigail, ABby. But when i met her, our teacher called her Gabriella because that was her german name and I started calling her that because I thought that's what her real name was. But it stuck and now I'm basically the only one who calls Abby, Gabriella now. It's special for her because I'm the only one who calls her it.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

my best friend calls me "osc" (like the first part of oscar) after she jokingly called me oscar the grouch one day in college when i was grumpy and it stuck.

i call her buggs. that stuck too.

its cute.