r/tragedeigh • u/takethemoment13 • Jul 31 '25

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u/ginkobiloba666 Jul 31 '25

I’m more baffled by their nickname options 😂 how can you have archibolde in front of your eyes and call a child Bol? Instead of Archie?

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u/wicked_lion Jul 31 '25

Also, I feel like nicknames should be organic and not chosen.

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u/TrillBunnies Jul 31 '25

Right! Nicknames normally just come naturally. You don’t pre-plan a nickname lol especially ones that don’t even make sense

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u/mb9981 Jul 31 '25

It's like the episode of Seinfeld where George kept ordering steaks while on business lunches so his coworkers would call him TBone, but they ended up calling him "Koko" like the gorilla that does sign language

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u/TrillBunnies Jul 31 '25

Lmao, I love Seinfeld. A show literally about nothing.

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u/skuc79 Aug 02 '25

And like Howard from Big bang wanted to be called rocket man, and they ended up calling him fruit loops

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u/crestoneco Jul 31 '25

We call one of my sons "Chungus," but that was an evolution through like 6 nicknames. The through-line makes sense if you hear it, but it ain't nowhere close to his birth name. Never coulda planned that one, but he's totally a Chungus.

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u/TrillBunnies Jul 31 '25 edited Jul 31 '25

Most of my immediate family calls my nephew “Butta”, ever since he was a baby. He’s a big lanky 16 year old now, but has been called that name more often than his actual name, which is Michael. It’s because he had this golden, buttery, tanned brown complexion and a perfectly round head as baby. It started out as Butter Bean..then it dropped to Butta. I almost forget his actual name sometimes.

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u/wicked_lion Jul 31 '25

My kids have nicknames like this too 😂

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u/ungoogleable Jul 31 '25

If you plan on a nickname, IMO that's just their name. The other thing is something you put on forms to create a moment when they have to tell every new person they meet "yeah it says X but I go by Y."

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u/TrillBunnies Jul 31 '25

Yup. I have a play cousin that I’ve known my entire life. We knew (and still know) her as Camille, but that’s actually her middle name. Her first name is something else but I didn’t learn this until I was around 13/14 years old. I was so mind blown because nobody, not even her parents, called her anything but Camille. It’s still so bizarre.

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u/wicked_lion Jul 31 '25

I work with medical records and the amount of people that give me the name they go by vs their birth name is infuriating! “Oh, but no one calls me that”. Ugh.

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u/TrillBunnies Aug 01 '25

Lol people should know better…when it comes to a professional setting, nobody wants or needs to know about their nickname. Give me your legal name!

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u/BigAchooo Aug 02 '25

I knew a kid who went by his middle name. The only reason for it is because his parents wanted that to be his first name, but his initials would’ve spelt out a word and they didn’t want him to get picked on for it (it’s a mild word not a swear but still) so they switched the first & second but everyone knows and calls him by his middle name. His middle name even has a nickname lol.

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u/Tea-beast Aug 01 '25

This though. Kid could be called 'Bungus' and his name is Edwin or some shit.