Are you still called by your childhood or baby nickname?

Only by my mother. She’ll never change.

Everyone else calls me by the name I have gone by for 65+ years.

My family members (both immediate and extended) call me by my nickname.

I have a love-hate relationship with my nickname. I used to want to be called by my real name because it sounded more… prestigious. Nowadays my friends all call me by my first name, and I kind of feel a bit distant from them. I kind of want them to call me by my nickname, but it has already been a habit for them. In short, I can’t decide between the two names.

Yes. Proud to be a LOON! o_0

No. All of my grade school friends have moved on. I was called
A “Skinny Long Necker” a play on Daddy Long Legs” the spider. From the shorter Honor roll students.

Yes. My wife calls me by the nickname I got in third grade — which is just an abbreviation of my last name.

When we were very young everbody just called us “Twins..get over here or whatever until grade one when we were told our real names…
It was too much trouble to try and figure out who was who?

My name is Jack, but friends and family call me by my childhood nickname Archie.

Friends from my old hometown (K-10th grade), still call me by my grade school nickname. I’m also still FB friends with our elementary school librarian and principal. :P

Cousins, aunts and uncles still call me by my childhood nickname about 75% of the time.

I’m 70 years old and my 2 older Sisters still call me, “Lonnieboy”. HA! I use to hate it but doesn’t bother me anymore. On my birth certificate my name is “Lon”.

My elementary school class had a 60 year reunion recently. Our first ever! It was funny how ,as kids, all the boys’ names ended in the “y” sound and without exception, as adults, we dropped the ending. Jimmy, Stevey, Ricky, Billy, Tommy, etc., became Jim, Steve, Rick, Bill, Tom… One guy said “The last person to call me Ricky was my mother. And that was a long time ago.”
We could not help reverting to the childhood names occasionally but no malice was ever intended.

My girlfriend has the same name as her mother and grandmother (Margaret). To reduce confusion her dad, on the way to the hospital, figured out he would call her by a shortened version which is also a boy’s name (Gary). She has been called that ever since she was a day old, and is still called that by closest friends.

I am very seldom called by my youthful nickname. Few people even know what it was. An old friend will sometimes use it and then it tugs at the heart.

Yes. I tried quite a few times to eliminate it but it always surfaced no matter what.

Only six people that I can think of call me by what some people called me when I was younger. It is not creative, it is just adding a Y, like calling someone named Patricia Patty, or someone named Cynthia Cindy. None of the people who still call me that are relatives, unless you count my husband, but he did not know me as a youngster. My dad was one of the people who used to sometimes call me by that nickname, but he doesn’t now, and stopped a long time ago.

When someone calls out for me by that name I don’t instantly realize they are talking to me it is so infrequent. I would have to recognize the voice, or maybe if they said it a few times I’d realize they were trying to get my attention.

I’m fine if someone wants to call me any version of my name, but the childhood version with the Y on the end I don’t really identify with. If you ask me what I prefer or am accustomed to, it is either my full name or the very short version like Pat for Patricia.

I did not have a nickname. Neither did my siblings.

Yes, my sister still calls me by the name she used for me as a toddler (she’s three years younger). I wonder if she still can’t pronounce my real name. ~

Her boyfriend also uses the nickname, for simplicity. My parents will sometimes, but only in writing. And my husband has adopted the nickname and uses it a lot, because I really like it. I don’t have a problem with my actual name, but the nickname is almost a term of endearment because only some special people use it.

Come to think if it, my earliest friends use a version of that name, too. My other friends (from high school) use a different nickname that I also appreciate.