Have you ever had a nickname? If so, what was it, and how did you get it?
I’ll start. When my brother and sisters and I were just a twinkling in my parents eyes, Mom and Dad agreed Mom would pick the first names for girls, and Dad would select the first names for boys.
Then my siblings and I came into the world, three girls then a boy. Mom liked names that start with K’s, so we girls all got K names (as did my brother later.)
After Karilyn (the third girl) was born my elderly grandmother started to get confused who was who (She was 3,000+ miles away, so we talked on the phone with her more than seeing her.)
To make things easier my father nicknamed us K(birth order number), so I became K2. The nicknames stuck, and we used them a lot around home.
In second grade I was thrilled when I learned they’d named a famous mountain after me! Imagine the glory! (After I learned that wasn’t the case, I quickly decided being named for a very important mountain was also very cool.)
We “kids” still use our nicknames with each other from time to time, and one sister even signs her emails to family that way. So yes, the nicknames stuck.
How about you? Have you ever had a nickname?