Probably most of us have fallen victim to awful nicknames. However, luckily for many of us, those were soon forgotten or simply never "clicked" or became a name we got addressed by more than once. Yet, just like some people get referred to by their Instagram handles, some folks get addressed by their nicknames. However, not all nicknames are as cool as The Rock's. In fact, most are embarrassing, stupid, and demeaning, even.
We must thank a couple of threads on the AskReddit community, which became our source for some of the worst nicknames ever. The original poster of one of these threads asked, "What's the worst nickname you've ever heard someone allow themselves to be called?" while the other thread invited the Reddit users to share, "What is the strangest nickname someone you know has, and how did they get it?" And it goes without saying that both threads did not disappoint with the amount of bad nicknames, in fact, horrible nicknames users had to share. And well, we simply just had to gather the best of the worst (or worst of the worst?)
Below, we've compiled some of the worst nicknames given to people, as shared by others online. Have you ever given your friends terrible nicknames? If yes, well, go apologize! Or perhaps you were the one who was given silly nicknames? What was it? Let us know in the comments!
#1
"Kilo. Everyone thought it was drug related but his name was Miles and we converted him."
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70points
#2
"I knew a Mexican kid in high school who was a wanna be gang banger and like 5'2"
We called him "Paragraph" because he was too short to be an esé."
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64points
#3
"I was friends with a guy at uni who was 6'6", extraordinarily slender with ginger curly hair and was allergic to everything. Seriously, he as one sneezing fit away from being locked in a bubble. His struggles to make his hair look cooler were seriously impeded by his allergies (couldn't dye it, couldn't straighten it), so he just left it.
So, the funny thing with him was that he was a goth. That in itself isn't funny, but what was was the sight of a massive, lean porcelain skinned guy lurching around campus dressed from throat to foot in black with bright orange hair.
We called him Duracell."
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64points
#4
"I have a friend who is half Mexican and half German. We call him beaner-schnitzel."
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53points
#5
"A guy named Paul with a brow ridge and giant forehead (more like fivehead amirite) we all affectionately called NeanderPaul."
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46points
#6
"I used to work with a guy with a pretty significant stutter. My boss used to call him Remix."
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41points
#7
"A guy in college named "Cheap Disguise" because he had huge bushy black eyebrows, a mustache, a big nose, and always wore black rimmed glasses."
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38points
#8
"Everest. I know a dude who was always complaining about Indian people. So I started calling him Everest because he is always throwing shade on India."
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37points
#9
"At work there's a Skeeter, because a guy didn't know his name and shouted "SKEETER" and the guy turned around so that stuck.
We also have Sorta Pants, because he wears pants that are so ripped that they barely qualify as pants."
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37points
#10
"This guy at work we call blisters because he always shows up after the work is done."
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35points
#11
"There was a guy at my dad's work that went by the name "poopy" the story was that after lunch on his first day he said "I have to go poop" this was in a maintenance shop, so everyone has a sailor mouth. He resisted at first, but in the end of his 30 years there even bosses called him poopy. I know most of the guys my dad worked with and I never learned Poopy McCalister's real first name."
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34points
#13
"There was a guy I met who lost his ear in an accident. They call him teacup."
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31points
#14
"Everyone in my fraternity calls me Puddles.
It's not my fault I have a weak bladder when I black out..."
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31points
#15
"There's a guy I know whose last name is Lopian. When he originally met my friends, one of them said "your name is Lopian? Haha like fallopian tubes?" and Lope said "yea".
So, we started calling him Fallopian Tubes... then, just Fallopian, then Phil Lopian, and just "Phil".
Confused the f*ck out of his parents when they visited in college, and because we all just called him "Phil" by default, whenever we'd meet new people, they had no idea his name wasn't "Phil", because "Phil" is an, otherwise, normal name."
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31points
#16
"I had a pretty tight knit group in one of my high school classes. In one of our conversations, it was brought up how horrible I was at the time with remembering names. One of the guys, who happened to be Hispanic, said to me "Bro, I know you know my name. Come on man, what's my name?" I honestly didn't know and so I popped out the first name that came to mind. "I don't know dude, Carlos?"
Everyone, including Carlos started laughing. For some reason, it just stuck. No one called him by his first name, even the teachers. From that point onward, he was Carlos.
To satisfy the curious, his name was Andrew."
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31points
#17
Commenter No. 1 wrote:
"That would be my nickname, "Captain Trips". My initials are LSD, and my parents were fans of The Stand, and since I was young I've been called Trips, Acid, and 25."
"That would be my nickname, "Captain Trips". My initials are LSD, and my parents were fans of The Stand, and since I was young I've been called Trips, Acid, and 25."
Commenter No. 2 replied:
"Please say you're into the Grateful Dead as well?"
"Please say you're into the Grateful Dead as well?"
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30points
#18
"Guy I knew at high school was called Richard Cranium by everyone. He had no idea what it meant and didn't mind."
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29points
#19
"I was a loser 6th grader and in PE i found a kid that was more loser than me. And since I liked Star Wars, I told him to call me Master Vader. I regret that now for I didn't know much about masturbation back then. OHGODWHY."
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29points
#20
Love_Indubitably wrote:
"I had a friend, we'll call him Matt, and he was an established member of a student organization. Another Matt joined this organization, and Matt 1 said "Look, we've already got a Matt, but I'll tell you what. You get to pick your nickname. Anything you want!"
"I had a friend, we'll call him Matt, and he was an established member of a student organization. Another Matt joined this organization, and Matt 1 said "Look, we've already got a Matt, but I'll tell you what. You get to pick your nickname. Anything you want!"
But Matt 2 really liked his name, and refused to pick a nickname. Matt 1 insisted, "If you don't pick your own nickname, I am going to pick one for you, and you are not going to like it."
Convinced that his real name would stick, Matt 2 again refused.
He could have picked something bad*ss, like Flash, or the Destroyer. But instead, Matt 2 was called "Ham-bone" for the next 4 years."
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28points