Are nick-names just a southern thing?

[onejacker]

Got a phone call from my old friend Blade the other day. Blade is not his real name, but a nick-name he picked up after he almost killed himself with a pocket knife when he was just a kid. After the phone call, I started thinking about nick-names I have heard over the years. (Yeah, I know, I'm a regular Albert "Hair" Einstien sometimes, but I keep myself amused most of the time.)

Probably my all-time personal record for nick-names in one gathering was at a dinner table I enjoyed one year in duck camp. Seated around the table were Tater, Rabbit, Free, Blade, Monroe, Byrdman, me, and Wormy. As a matter of fact, I met few people on that trip that seemed to go by there God given name. Must have been the geographical area we were in.

Do people in other parts of the world have nick-names? Anybody here from Up North, and know anybody with a nick-name?

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[Trollnheel]

Fat Boy, Big Shot, Kree Kree, Fun Bear, Mack Truck are a few of my friends' nick names. North Cakalackia

[WMalloy382]

Pretty much everyone I knew had one.. Jughead, Obes, Big dave, Rezdog, keebs, Monster, ...

Thats in Fairfield County CT.

Dont call them that anymore though once we grew up and had kids.

[redfish44]

Pork Chop, Action, Stebo, Bubba, Jimbo, Killer are just a few of my friends.

[Capt Rick Hiott]

Aw come on Cleetus.....

[240 LTS]

Cousins husband is called "Toad". He said everyone on his dead end street where he grew up (in MD) had (has) a nickname.

My brother is Francis and he was always called Skip and still is. To this day I do not know where the name Skip came from. Most don't know his name is Francis..... Let's keep this between you and me...OK?

[jaydub]

Wolf, Redz, Dicko, Whitey, Fitz, Daddy jack-just to name a few, and that was in Jersey,

[triumphrick]

I'm in my early 60's..back in my day I was Rick Dog or Tricky Rick, friends were Brother Bill, Brother Clark (last name), and a guy named Snooker...

Nowadays, all my son (Buzz) friends names are Lightning, Possum, Beavis, Chucky, Moat.....just a few I can remember..

[midway]

Couple guys I work with now have nicknames, Chunk and Stump, real names Mark and Steve. Then others I have known, Crash, he drove race cars at one time, Snooky, Butch, Boo, Taterhead, Stinky and others I do not remember right now.

[autobaun70]

I am from SC, one of my college roommates had a nickname, but was from Maine. you guessed it, he was "The Yankee"