Most of us Pinoys have a nickname that close friends or family members would call us by, but some of us who move abroad usually drop their nicknames or don't use it in public for fear of getting teased.
I've seen some young adults in the US get mad at visiting family members when they're addressed in their family nicknames out in public or in front of non-Filipinos.
So what is your Filipino nickname? Do you use it in public when not in the Philippines?

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/m...070302opi3.html

here's a funny one:
http://www.epilipinas.com/filipinoname.htm

List of famous Filipinos with their nicknames:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Phili...ts_by_nicknames

*one of our forum members has adopted Manuel Quezon's nickname as their own

Thank God I don't have one. Mainly because that tradition was abandoned once my parents moved here in Texas before I was born, however my cousins have nicknames, a lot of them range from Dado to Jet.

kikay

i got bolantoy

My real first name is Jose Martin but my friends call me Popoy, my son's name is Alphonsus Martin and I call him Pong and my daughter's name is Martina Marie and I call her MM.

lembot

Girls call me "Totoy Mola"

If the girls call you Totoy Mola you probably made them very happy.

i'm IKAR but i sometimes spell it "ykar" to give it a twist?

but it kinda evolved and now im called "icai" which they spell as IKAY.

I want a nickname, but nobody in my family wants to accept my suggestions.

then get a nickname for AF...

Kennedy after my name Ken. Or Banitnit.

isuc

gawd sounds...................gawd!!!!!!!!!1
nevermind

The occasional Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan


Jeebus being mixed rocks.

Umm... Jay-Jay.

I also got:
Syoti Boy (or Syoti-Bhoy if you like... )
Ham-Ham
A-san <--chinese... lol.

my mom is either 'di-an', 'tita D' or 'diyan', like the filipino word for 'there'. -__-

best ones that my family/barkada has:
Tito Doughnut (Donato)
Pepot (Fé)
Ambo
Toktok (...long story)
Ajing
Niko
Kitopeh (my grandma's attempt at pronouncing "Christopher". It stuck)
Mimi
Iyay
Nene

im epoy

suits you.. you look so kikay..
my friend's nick is kikay too!

Doy!

my sisters called me "Tony boy"

Toto for me!!!

MY NICKNAME IS

jr
dakog wa-it - means big lips in bisayan

my cousins nicknames were (not all had nicknames)

king king
ding dong
Lapad - moon face or round faced
Tambok - fat
Bayot - gay
Nigra - very dark skin
daloydoy
camang - forgot the meaning
cordapeya
cordapeyo
ki ki - vagina in bisaya

my real name is Jay-R but all my friend called me Al-luw, i dont know y.

Mine is Baba. It means youngest son in Bikol. It's pronounced "Bah-bah" but since I live in the South most ppl say it like "Bubba" Haha. But the only ppl that call me that are Filipinos.

CHU CHAY

john john

i have one too many..
my nickname, as i personally prefer to be called, is KATHY...
though, growing up, it has somewhat evolved.
the closest of people to me call me IRING, it is bisaya..
then some would invent things like ms kathy, katkat, kitty, katya, katuy, tati, tatuy,etc..

ok ^^'' mine's normal . . . Gen
heh.

lol being piany I gave my friends nicknames.

Sabrina - Bee
Palwisha - Pally
Joseph - Lu
Cheninzy - Chenny

lol I still need to think up more.

I have none ... I'm so whitewashed



looked it up here http://community.livejournal.com/tagalog/77645.html.

"Refers to individuals who carry a brush, hand wash, moisturizer, lip-gloss and various other facial enhancements in a case (aptly called a kikay kit) inside her bag. Recent inspections
of various backpacks have led to the conclusion it is not a purely female trait. This breed cannot resist checking themselves out on mirrors, glass windows, bread knives, sidewalk puddles and plastic-covered notebooks."

it does suit the way you look.

If I did have a nickname I would like to be called Laglag-panti

from http://community.livejournal.com/tagalog/77645.html meaning

"A man so incredibly hot, so heart-stoppingly gorgeous and oozing with masculinity that female underwear (whether worn by males or females) falls to the ground without effort whatsoever."

My sis nick name are miming, minggay, tokyang and kordapya (she wears glasses).

budoy..

haha this thread is so funny..


well mine sounds like air-me ;(

my cousins got:

sendang
pepang
kaikai
ecto
neneng
pie-pie
bo bing
jong jong
jing

and i have friends whose real names are apple,baby,boy,girl ?????? haha

buti hindi naging chichay lol
my sis' nickname is chi chi and her friend chu chu
mine is tito, buti hindi naging titi

Ma-My, My-My, Myking, & Ki-King.

omg Nene
*sigh*

Uhhhh....AFville.

not very filipino....

Susu

'Yong kapitbahay namin sa pinas, nick names nila:

Bingbing
Jingjing
Ningning

Ngayong malalaki na sila, Ning na lang, or Bing/Beng or Jing na lang.

I was called "Ineng" when I was younger.
At my workplace, they call me "Bruno" but I'm NOT a man!

Too bad. That's what you get for living in a predominantly white suburb.

my nicknames...
- shie
- shy
- lie / ylie
- shielay
- shielat (my classmate in college gave me this nickname for i have accidentally wrote shielat in my library card... since then he called me shielat... sounds so bastos...)
- bati (short for nakabati = in surigaonon it means heard, but in visaya it means ugly.... uh hate this...)

my sisters realnames and nicknames
christine - tin / tintin
tina rose - lovelove; tin
daisy jane - lang / dj
kent - kenken / kentoy - my brother

our couzins nicknames
- malone - lon; marnel - bongbong; marilou - denden; mark anthony - makoy; michael - jingle (theyre siblings)
- allan ray - al-al; annelyn - an-an; tati; bebing (theyre siblings)
- maria chona - cho; cherryl - che; jacquelyn - jack (female); fransisco - tonton (theyre siblings)
- bryan ray - bry / bray; christopher - tope / toper (theyre brothers)


our neigbors nicknames
- maymay and kaykay (they are actually sisters)

meron pa ytang kangkong eh! lol

wow. this thread is very pinoy