300+ Nicknames for Your Babykins…Doodlebug…Snugglebunny…
[By L.R.Knost, author of Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages, Whispers Through Time: Communication Through the Ages and Stages of Childhood, and The Gentle Parent: Positive, Practical, Effective Discipline available on Amazon and through other major retailers.]
After nine months of googling, polling family and friends, making list after list, and agonizing over making The. Perfect. Choice. the moment arrives…you’ve finally chosen your expected blessing’s name. The perfect name. The name that will be with them forever. The name that will appear on their birth certificate, their highschool diploma, their voter ID card, their college degree, their marriage certificate. Your first parental decision…check! And then your little one arrives, and as you kiss that tiny, fuzzy little head, you find yourself whispering, “Welcome to the world, pumpkin.”
Wait a minute. Pumpkin? That’s not the name you agonized over! Why, after all the effort you put into choosing The. Perfect. Name. would you call your new arrival something entirely different?!?
Actually, it’s a good thing! Here are a few reasons why:
‘The perfect name’ is for the whole wide world to use in interacting with your little one, but a nickname is just for you, a symbol of the intimate, interdependant, loving connection between parent and child. Also, while ‘the perfect name’ may be perfect for certificates and licenses and diplomas, it doesn’t reflect the personality of this unique and adorable new person who has their own special purpose for being here. And, really, resisting giving your little cutie an equally cute nickname would be just as hard as resisting the urge to blow raspberries on their squishy tummy or kiss their soft cheeks a thousand times a day or stare into their curious little owl eyes.
So go ahead, choose ‘the perfect name’ for your tiny blessing so that they can be known to the world, and then, when you start getting to know your little hugabug or dynamo or sunshine, choose another ‘perfect’ name to reflect who they are and what they mean to you 
Here’s a list of some popular, and some not so well-known, nicknames to check out. If you’ve got a nickname for your little one that’s not on the list, share it in the comments!
| Ace Angel Angel-baby Angel-face Bab Babes Baboo Babs Babushka Baby-blue Babycakes Baby-dear Baby-diddle Babydoll Baby-doo Baby-face Babykins Bambina Bambino Bean Beanie Beanie-baby Bear Bearie Beau-bear Bebo Birdie Bitsy Bitsy-boo Blossom Boo Boo-boo Boo-boo-bear Boss Bubba Bubba-bear Bubba-dee Bubba-diddle Bubbles Bubby Bubby-doo Bubkins Bubs Buckaroo Bud Buddy Buds Bug Bugabear Bugadoo Bugaloo Buggie Buggie-boo Buggie-bunny Bumble-bee Bumbles Bumpkins Bumpy Bunny Buttercup Captain Care Bear Champ Cherie Chickie Chickpea Chief China-doll Chipmunk Chunk Chunky-monkey Coco Cookie Cookie-monster Coppertop Cowboy Cricket Cubbie Cubbie-bear Cubster Cuddle-bunny Cuddles Cupcake Cupie-doll Cutiekins Cutie-patootie Cutie-pie Daisy Darling Dear Dear-one Dearie Diddle Diddle-doo Diddles Diddly-doo Diddly-bear Dilly-bar Dilly-boo Dilly-doo Dimples |
Dolly Doodle-bear Doodle-bug Doodlekins Doodles Dot Duckling Ducky Duddy Dumpling Dynamo Freckles Friend Funny-bunny Funny-face Fuzzy Fuzzy-bear Fuzzy-bunny Giggle-bear Giggle-bunny Giggles Gigi Goose Goosie-goose Half-pint Happy Hobbit Honey Hoss Hugabug Huggy-bear Huggy-buggy Huggy-bunny Hunny-bunny Itsy Itsy-bitsy Jazzy Jellybean Jocko Juggernaut Kiddo Kiki King-kong Kit Kitten Kitty Lad Laddie Lass Lassie Lil’ Bit Lil’ Boss Lil’ Guy Lil’ Man Lolly Lollypop Loo-loo Love-bug Lovie Lovie-dovie Milk-monkey Mima Moe Monkey Monkey-doodle Moogie Moogie-bear Mookie Moonbeam Mouse Mr. Man Muddles Muffin Muncha-munch Munchkin Munchy Nanners Ninja Nipper Nutter-butter Paddy Panda Panda-bear Peaches Peachy-pie Peanut Peanut-butter Pet Pinkie-pie Pinky Pippa Poodles Pooh Pooh-bear Poppet Poppy Precious Prince Princess Professor Professor X |
Puddin’ Puddin-pie Pumpkin Punkin’ Punkin-pie Punkin-wunkin Punky Pup Racer Rollie-pollie Roo Rookie Scooby Scooby-doo Scout Scrappy Scrappy-doo Shortcake Shortie Short-stuff Silly-bear Silly-goose Silly-pickle Silly-willy Slugger Smiley Smoochie Snickerdoodle Snoopy Snow-bunny Snugabug Snugabunny Snuggle-bunny Snuggles Sparky Sport Sprout Squeaker Squeaks Squirrel Squirt Squishy Star-bright Stinker Stinker-bear Stinker-winker Stinker-winker-bear Stretch Sugarplum Sunbeam Sunny Sunshine Sweet Sweetcakes Sweetheart Sweetie Sweetiekins Sweetpea Sweets Sweet-tater Sweet-treat Sweetums Tabby Tadpole Tater Taterkins Teddy Teddybear Teddykins Thumbkin Tiger Tigger Tilly Tink Tinker-doodle Tiny Toodle-bear Toodles Tootsie Tootsie-bear Tootsie-pop Tootsie-wootsie Turbo Turbo-man Turtle Tweety Tweety-bird Twinkie Twinkles Tyke Waddles Whiz-kid Widdle-waddle Wiggles Wiggle-bum Wiggle-worm Winnie Wookie Wookie-bear Youngin Zippy |
Related links:
Ten Steps to Surviving the First Three Months with a Newborn
Love in the Time of Cosleeping
Babywearing Basics Resource Guide
Breastfeeding, Babywearing, and Bouncing Back into Shape after Baby
25 Tips to Prepare Children for a New Sibling
Four Ways Attachment Parenting Can Reduce the Risk of SIDS
The Science of Sleep: Newborns
L.R.Knost is a best-selling parenting and children’s book author and founder and director of Little Hearts/Gentle Parenting Resources, an online resource for gentle parenting education, articles, and research. Books by L.R.Knost include Whispers Through Time: Communication Through the Ages and Stages of Childhood ; Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages ; The Gentle Parent: Positive, Practical, Effective Discipline ; and Jesus, the Gentle Parent: Gentle Christian Parenting (Release date: May 2014) the first four books in the Little Hearts Handbook gentle parenting series, as well as her children’s picture books Petey’s Listening Ears and the soon-to-be-released Grumpykins series available from Amazon and other major retailers.
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Ladybug
October 20, 2012 at 9:57 am
“Ladybug” — That’s my Rebecca!
Charley, “Sweet pea”, is on the list already.
Little Alex, “Mousie”, is almost on the list.
And baby Amy is “Gumdrop”.
April 14, 2015 at 10:19 pm
I call our son “Little Mister.”
October 20, 2012 at 1:29 pm
We call our little guy “puppy.”
October 20, 2012 at 6:17 pm
aww, my mom used to call me puppy. (I often pretended that I was one, so I guess it fits!)
October 9, 2013 at 3:31 pm
We have a daughter named Melissa and her name means honeybee so my husband called her bzzr. Another daughter was bubbly because that was her personality. Our son was scooter. Not sure why on that one.
October 22, 2012 at 10:19 pm
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Our youngest daughter was baba, doobs,doobie; pumpkin used the most. Today she doesn’t mind me calling her pumpkin. Our eldest was tootsie. Our son, Pandie.
November 10, 2012 at 6:59 pm
Our babies have all had their own nicknames. The eldest was ‘Bubba’, then we had ‘Pom’ , ‘Tiddles’ and ‘Boo’.
March 14, 2013 at 7:18 pm
Our daughter is “punchkin” — a combination of “punkin” and “munchkin”
September 10, 2013 at 8:26 pm
aww what a cute list. The eldest of my two boys is bubba (or bubber), as was my husband to his family. They both periodically end up called monkey, lovey, love bug, bug, buggie and the occasional punkin. When they were babies they were “little one” and my youngest gets called my little dino and monster a lot. (he loves to growl and act scary)
November 1, 2013 at 4:34 pm
I love love names and meanings so yes I searched for the whole 9 months for that perfect name, and yet I call my children silly names that change as the years go by
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Now I know why!
Thank You!
I call my sons
1) Mighty Mike or angel boy-16yrs
2) Daring Dan or Darling D -14
3) Champ or Buckanoo-11
And my daughters
4)Sugar Bear, Victory Girl, Sunshine Princess-9
And baby 5) AngelLove
November 1, 2013 at 5:43 pm
My older son was “Wee Goon” and my younger son has been “Squishy.”
November 10, 2013 at 7:27 pm
i call my cute baby boy – agu becoz this ws the word uttered by him first n we liked.
December 20, 2013 at 3:21 am
My nickname was froggy because I would roll over and sleep with my legs up beside me like a froggy
January 14, 2014 at 5:01 am
Hey.. my little girls name is noodlz and it’s stuck with her for 10 yrs now
February 12, 2014 at 9:02 pm
Cute
February 15, 2014 at 11:52 pm
My lil girl nickname is Ms. Piggy cause when I brought her for first two weeks she would make grunting noises like a pig
February 15, 2014 at 11:50 pm
i call my nephew Bunky it just came to me when i held him for the first time.
March 28, 2014 at 11:35 pm
My lil girl is ‘pickle’. Not because she was when she was little, but she sure has grown in to it! Just had our 2nd and im automatically calling her pickle too, which is causing confusion, so came here for inspiration.
April 6, 2014 at 4:14 am
i am still searching a name that i can call my daughter
May 26, 2014 at 8:41 am
My 3yr old son insisted on naming our new baby boy “Hobo”, but then he was finally born and automatically “Hobo” wasn’t happening…our 3yr old insisted on “Joker.” And “Joker” it is.
May 29, 2014 at 3:55 pm
With mom and dad names that are used are…Bugga-boo, MisterMan, LittleMan, BigGuy. So many endearments.
May 29, 2014 at 3:59 pm
My dad called my boys hot rod and buddy. I call my youngest son boo bear.
June 4, 2014 at 11:46 pm
My daughter is punkin punkin and my son is poota poota
trying to figure out a name for my third baby now!
June 9, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Bucko, pup, booly,
August 2, 2014 at 11:00 pm
Pookie, Pookums, Pookalooks… Drives my parents nuts! But an elegant name like Gwynevere really doesn’t suit an itty bitty chubby poo machine!
August 12, 2014 at 1:42 pm
I call my grand daughter ‘Boots’ (because she wore little pink cowgirl boots.
September 4, 2014 at 10:41 am
My husband has been calling our son Nounourse (teddy bear in French) but I shortened it to NouNou. I also call him BooBoo, bubba and lil’ man. His real name is Maverick.
September 23, 2014 at 1:44 pm
I call my son Elvis “Blobby” because on the first ultrasound he looked like a little blob. We also somehow ended up with “Vissy” even though I was not going to shorten Elvis whatsoever. Oh well.
September 30, 2014 at 7:50 pm
We have mouse and Tricks (patrick)
October 4, 2014 at 3:21 am
My step-daughter is Kiddo. I think I’m the only one that calls her that. My 7 mo old is squirmy worm, squishy, or sweetest
October 11, 2014 at 8:14 pm
I love nick names that just come to be lol!
1) Christmas, Ya-ya -13
2) Chubbs, Deetle -9
3) Bubbles, Sexyman -8
4) Squish, Babes -5
December 6, 2014 at 1:33 am
My little girls name is cassie and ever since she was a baby, I have called her cassiebear and I call my little boy my bubbaboo
December 9, 2014 at 10:32 pm
We call our son Hamlet, he can be a bit dramatic.
December 16, 2014 at 9:52 pm
I call my little boy “Pickle” hehe.
January 4, 2015 at 6:10 pm
My 3yr old girl is monkey butt and rosa baby…my 1 yr old boy is chunky or chunky Wunky my hubby calls heprincess or Mami and him champion or papi
March 20, 2015 at 4:24 pm
I call my nephew monkey….. or Bub-boy or bubbaloo
April 10, 2015 at 8:10 am
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I named my dauther “Sunny” She is a beuatiful girl I love my duather very much
June 28, 2015 at 11:00 pm
I call my middle daughter Apple-14 since before she was born and my oldest Poo-17 everyone has a nick name for my youngest baby girl Butter, Brownie, Hunny but I think as her Mother I like Toots or tootsie
July 7, 2015 at 11:46 pm
I need help…I am about to be a grandmom again…I have a granddaughter who is my snuggle bunny…a grandson who is my snuggle bear and I need a new name for my new grandson that is a very cute animal name…He will be my snuggle…..???? Please help…I’m thinking cubbie like a bear cub because my grandson is snuggle bear he is 6 and his baby brother coming soon could be snuggle cub or snuggle cubbie???
July 27, 2015 at 1:05 am
Snuggle bug
October 1, 2015 at 12:16 pm
Hi! My dad was Spot, I am snaggletooth pumpkin peanut Harvey Munster monster rhino and child-creature. My baby is puppy baby cakes, cuddlemunster and lovey.
August 9, 2015 at 2:24 am
I like Snugglebear and Snugglebear for my two adorable twins
November 1, 2015 at 6:08 am
I call my 5 month + old son my little “bear cub” and my fiance calls him “doodlebug”
I’m going to start calling him “dino” and “panda” thanks to this list (^^)
November 18, 2015 at 1:44 pm
My first daughter is Bunky Pie, with many variations such as Bunky, Bunk and Bunkster.
The second is Pookie Pie with variations of Pookie, Pook, Pookster.
December 16, 2015 at 1:21 pm