After one of the members on Naked Minds called my attention for using real-names instead of nicknames of fellow subscribers in reposting responses to stories, I made up my mind that I was going to apologize properly by letting you all in on my many nicknames; some of which are lost in space, I hope never to find the need of them again😐.
Nicknames are cool, at least for me. Lowkey, I suffer from a fevered admiration for people who get called by their nicknames so often that even their close friends forget what their real names sound like. Do you have people like this around you? Well, I got one, his nikky is ‘Effect’…my nigga’s so hardworking his peers and superiors felt an uncommon urge to christen him again😄. His real name and his abilities are like oil and water, gargle at your own risk, they both won’t gel. Wondering what it is? Well, I don’t know either🙈…met him as Effect, and Effect he shall continue to be…what I don’t know can’t hurt me🤡.
IF YOU LAUGH…I SHOOT!
Well, getting a unique and popular nickname was a goal for me in secondary school. It felt tech to own one, I wanted to belong by all means. And even if I said no to the mantle, these slum/parting books staged themselves at playful corners waiting to embarrass me🤕. How do I tell the owner of a Slum book that I got no nickname to fill? and even if I left it vacant without her knowledge, eventually, in the long future when she revisits it, she’s hit suddenly by the trauma of how weird I was in high school. Not me! I didn’t want anyone to have such memories about me😂😂.
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So I ferried on a nickname quest🚣♀️. I began asking friends what they felt will soothe me for a nickname, specifically one they can call me any time even in public. I remember brainstorming with Ayomide, my bunkmate, and some others. As expected, they coined appellations from my English name ‘Doris’. Sure you can already predict the kind of nicknames they came up with. ‘Dodo’, ‘Dori Baby’, even the spelling backward jinx ‘Sirod’. Yuck! 🤮
I wasn’t having it. They all felt cliche. “Common now, I’m bigger than all this jargon🙄”, I often said this within me anytime they suggested some dementia allusive nikky. Do you ever know what you want sometimes but then shy to say it, instead you look for someone to help push you to your death so that at the end of the day, you can have a name to blame when things fall apart?😹 This was the game I was playing but how disappointing, no one thought in my direction😫.
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“How about something sexy and mischievous?”, I suggested in a low tone. Trust the girls on this one 🤣🤣🤣, names started flying up and down. Guess the name I settled for 😭😭…‘SEXY BREEZE’ !!! oh, my days!!! Looking back now, I feel so embarrassed. Were my bunch of friends so stupid or I was the stupid one for agreeing to be coined a nickname for a tomfool?🤒 I definitely was so stupid! You need to see the way I blushed whenever someone called me ‘Sexy Breeze’. It felt so dope mehn😂😂!. But unfortunately, the name didn’t bring as much popularity as expected so I ferried on another quest🚣♀️.
Thanks to my very stupid friends again, I was caught between choosing ‘MYSTIQUE’ or ‘SEDUCTIVE MYSTIQUE’. Being an Oliver twist, I decided to do both. Depends on what mood I was in whenever someone handed me their slum book to fill. If I felt like a ‘Mystique’, then Mystique it is; if I felt spicy at the time, then ‘Seductive’ came before the ‘M’😹.
I still didn’t make the hall of fame with any of them. The only person who made me feel really welcomed with the name was one of my friends Tope, who had her feet swept off in admiration that she had to nikky herself ‘SEDUCTIVE SEDUCTRESS’ How insane?!😂😂 I remember hailing her to her face and screaming “bloody copy cat” in my mind😫. Asides from my unreserved hate for copycats, I deserved to be the only ‘seduction’ in school dammit! 😐
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Reflecting on how stupid the nicknames were, I should have left her to bear all of them. To date, Ayomide still taunts me with these nicknames. So if I become president tomorrow, this is how she’ll reveal one of my many foolish decisions in life right😫! Wicked girl!🤕 Not like hers was any better, who the f*** bears ‘Ayomzy Delight’? Only hoodlums😂😂
STILL FOOLISH?
Joining Facebook after secondary school and seeing the way people spelled their usernames started to tickle my fancy. For example, someone who bears ‘Ayomide’ refines the spelling to ‘Haryohmide’. Mehn that shit looked so dope to me and if I don’t belong, who will🙈? But it was so heartbreaking, all my many remixes didn’t sound nice and I wasn’t with my foolish friends anymore to help me figure it out. Looking back now, I bless God o, otherwise they would have given me a remix best for simpletons😂😂. However, I got one, all thanks to my ex.
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What I was searching for was right beside me but I couldn’t see it… One day I decided to check my baby boy’s phone to see what he used in saving my number and boom! I saw ‘DHAUREYZ’… this was his remix for ‘DORIS’. It felt so cool, I adopted it without blinking, and to date, I use it for virtually everything; pseudonyms, emails, social media, etc. I know you are trying so hard to pronounce it 🤣🤣🤣… take it easy on yourself, a lot have bitten their tongues on that quest.
DREAMS ACTUALLY DO COME THROUGH…
And the last one…. Hopefully not the least🎯…My long lost dream of having a nickname that replaces my own name finally came to pass in the university. Hurrayyyyy!!!💃💃 Blow the trumpets!!!🥳🥳 Oh, my days! Even though I blacklisted the hostel because of my experience with infection, I must admit my time spent there was exhilarating.
I like to believe I was a hot cake, I mean hot inside the brain o and maybe a portion of hot outside🤡. Then I used to be more involved in poetry, brewing, and writing everywhere in the school (for those who cared to read anyway😁). And then I got big news that I was nominated for the Nigerian Writers Award, for Poetry Writer of the year category. I was more shocked than excited when I saw the news online (this is a story for another Naked Minds gist😆). That type of shock where you recheck for the umpteenth time to see if it’s really your name and if it is, you’re still in shock because you think the news is for someone else who bears your exact names. That’s how I felt.
I broke the news to one of my close friends Victoria and before I knew it, she started hailing and shouting ‘UJU MALOO’… what is ‘MALOO’??? I had no idea but it sounded cool, although with a blend of ‘razness’, I loved it. That was how the name flew🚀. I stayed in the hostel for two years and throughout the time, I was either called ‘Maloo’ or ‘Uju Maloo’. Maloo is a Yoruba word and depending on the caller’s tone, it could mean ‘Go’ or ‘Come’. But to Victoria, she meant ‘Go’, more like “keep on moving and winning Uju”.
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To cut the story short, ‘Maloo’ faded as soon as I left the hostel😓. But of course, I still saw some of the hostel mates who would always shout it out whenever they saw me on the walkway or somewhere in the school😄. It always felt like home. Even now, whenever I hear someone speaking Yoruba and says ‘Maloo’, it has a way of putting a genuine smile on my face😁.
THE ESSENCE
Although added a little spice to this article on publishing here, it’s actually a Naked Minds exclusive. You better join cause I won’t be betraying my coven anytime soon again😫.
Asides that this is an intended fun post to get us to unwind and sign out gradually from this puzzle-twisting year, I wanted to poke the essence of names🌚. Names are either powerful or impotent. Some are sweet, some are salty to the ears. Some sound so sweet yet a profitless meaning💩…some are an ear sore, but got beautiful meaning. You hear some names and you’re like “Huh? You mean your parents actually gave you this name😳”…that embarrassing! I wouldn’t want to mention names lol.
Most part of me wanting a nickname by force was because I didn’t see my two names as good enough and soothing for my personality. Have you ever pondered on your name(s) and asked yourself “why me”? Why did my parents choose to call me this? Well, I did for ‘Doris’, still stuck on trying to love the name🙁. I couldn’t fall in love with it because of the many unappealing tones people prefer to pronounce it😤. I wish I could insert an audio sample🤧. But I’ve always loved Obianuju (since I got mature though), and even invested more love for it after my parents told me I was named ‘Obianuju’ because shortly after my birth they both bagged a huge salary increase at work. Obianuju means ‘Born into wealth’ …but the meaning of Doris always fluctuates between the ‘bad and good’ whenever I look it up😏. There’s never been a unified meaning, I think whoever invented the name was six feet buried in confusion at the time😬.
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Have you ever reflected on your names before?🤔 Heard some of you got like seven and counting🤠, unlike me, I wasn’t fortunate enough to be named by all the prominent members of my extended family🤣🤣. I’ll love to know your names and what you feel about them. Would you say they resonate with your personality or your parents deserve 600 years for such cruelty? 😂😂
Hmmmmm about my many nicknames 🤐… what’s yours and how did you come by it? I like to believe the way some of these nikky’s sound is the reason we choose them, not necessarily what they mean🤭. Did you at some point want a nickname so bad like I did? Do you have a past regrettable nickname🤣🤣? And you see that name, yes! That very one you use on IG and Twitter… How did you arrive there? ‘Sexy posh’, ‘Dragon’, ‘Barbie doll’, ‘Cupcake’, “Renegade’ …Is that you? 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
Warning!!! Do not try to taunt me with my first three nicknames, otherwise I go comot ya teeth just now😂😂. I’m curious to hear yours, I will try not to laugh. Common… Let me in😌, leave me a comment 😂😂👇👇
P.s. I want to propose that parents should leave about one or two name slots open until a child is grown so we can name ourselves according to our personalities. Dear future kids, I got you😆!
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Those nicknames are hilarious😂😂😂 except for the Dhaureyz though. And to think our Sunday topic was “Naming”😂😂😂…if there is one thing I know Name forms and bears a very big role in our lives. That’s is why as sweet as a name may sound the meaning is very important. I’m in love with my names, although my traditional name sounds weird😅😅its meaning says a lot about me🙈🙈. Well As for nicknames, Back then in Secondary school, I was Mostly addressed by my surname even down to the University. Although I have never really fancied getting one for myself, I recently started… Read more »
😂😂😂😂 nicknames are cool but lowkey I also admire people who bear their surnames with their full chest😂😂😂… so you have refused to disclose your tribal name huh? 😂😂😂
Noooooo!!!!
If I disclose it you will just spoil the name for me😂😂…Those who knows my traditional name tease me with it…infact they tease me with both my names😂😂😂so just Take my surname in place of it😅😅
😂😂😂 okurrrr
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 WTF is Sexy Breeze? Even if you were stupid. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Permit my laughter ples. I earned it😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😒😒😒😒 and you laughed without saying yours right? You don’t think I earned the right to know too? From your username I have no doubt you are a Johnbosco😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂 johnbosco my son I sent you to school blah blah 😂
😂😂😂😂 but it was Johnbull…
Asking us not to taunt u with ur past nicknames actually made me want to .😂 what in d world is sexybreeze? 😂😂😂🤣🤣 Seductive Mystique rings a bell that tickles my fancy. 😁 I can’t unlove it 😂. Had a weird one In high school. I remember being called “Gboko”. Can’t vividly remember how the name came to be 🤣. Leaving one or two name slots for a child is a brilliant idea that should be made a norm. It was a battle between I and myself to develop likeness for my names. This battle would’ve been averted if my… Read more »
😂😂😂😂 what does Gbako mean though? Hmmmm you love seductive mystique? I bind you!! 😂😂😂😂 nothing will make me reconsider that nikki again.
Anyway Gbako😌, you can join by clicking on the hyperlink where I mentioned it at several points of this article.
Seductive mystique😂😂😂 I still can’t wrap my head around it. Sexy breeze kor. What was your inspiration abeg, all these cheap stainless container perfumes abi😂😂😂😂 There’s one grey one, I think it’s sexy freeze and it smells awful😂😂😂😂😂😂 Your choices of nicknames are just wierd. I’ve always wanted nicknames too and I’m too embarrassed to mention some of the stupid ones I had in secondary school. They were worse than yours😂😂 don’t even start to imagine. I’ve grown to love my name now, I wouldn’t want a nickname or another name now. I might just change your name on my… Read more »
😂😂😂😂😂 so you liken me to cheap perfume? My hard earned nickname?!!!! I dare you to mention your own nickname 😐😐😐
Okay, I’ve got to say it, those nicknames are hilarious, except for “dhaureys”. I have never been one for nicknames, except for those names you get doing something funny, weird or hilarious and people tease you with it for a day or two, but it later fizzles out of mind and they forget. My bestfriend however got the nickname “Santi”, short for “Santiago” those times while we were still seeking admission and untill today, the name stucked, even more than his own name. Uptil now, people literally thought Santi was his real name. Infact, his girlfriend thought his real name… Read more »
😂😂😂😂😂 I paid careful attention to reading this only for you to not disclose. Now you’ll make me scan through the books of the old testament to look for something I feel soothes you. 😂😂😂😂😂
Santi sounds sweet, unlike my Sexy Breeze… Is your Christian name Habakkuk or Obadiah?…not like I expect you to say yes or no😂😂😂
If my parents were ever name me all those conc, old testament names, I’d literally never talk to them again. Those names come across as names hardcore, fanatical Christians would give their children. I have seen weird names though, once saw someone’s ID with the name “Bakare Holyghostfire”, another South African with the name “uhkleme Condom” I have also seen someone bear the name “God’sbattleaxe”. like WTF. I remember I went to school with people named “courage” and” forgiveness” Thinking about it now, I guess I should really be grateful to my parents. They could have named me “Thankgod” or… Read more »
Jeeeeezzzz! Condom😳😳😳… his native language surely failed him. I am sure it means something else in his native language. These kind of names will make you quickly answer “Present!” during roll call because 😂😂😂😂 you don’t wanna see the reactions.
I feel so much for Barakat, secondary school’s mockery was on another level😂😂😂😂
I thank God my parents are not so deep in the whole Christianity thing otherwise I would have been named “Money bringer” or ‘Testimony’ instead of ‘Obianuju’…
A name should make a statement doesn’t mean a statement should be a name now…o wrong😂😂😂😂
Na wa o…Sexy Breeze, how? From where? Sexy Breeze, how do I laugh please 🙊. I have just one name, Onyinyechi (God’s Gift) and I so much love it, although the Yorubas made it sound so local, I usually end up with Onyinye. I had no English name and I felt I needed one so unique for my art. My uncle named me Perpetual, it felt cute till people started calling me PEPEYE 😑 coupled with the fact that I was skinny n small. Instead a coined a name out of it PEPET 🙂 aka Pwetty Petite Pepet 😉 I… Read more »
😂😂😂😂😂😂 I was feeling hurt you mocked my sexy breeze only for me to keep reading and see ‘pepeye’ 😂😂😂😂 it brought back memories of a female classmate in primary school who was a little too over the place everyone called her ‘pepeye’…I think it’s a yoruba word for duck 😂😂😂
Your dad is a genius! Onyii will go places. Amen 💥💥
Dodo, I am just going to be here lmfao again with my cold glass of jwice🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
Wish I could leave a Voice note on the comment section but then, Doris imagine you as an OAP and saying “Signing out, it’s Sexy Breeze”. Cool yeah?🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 so you not gonna talk about yours huh? But come to think of it, I should register the nikky since you all love it this much. It might as well resurrect my dead OAP career🤔.
Don’t even dare!🤣🤣🤣
My Nikkies are cool you know 😉
Prove it 🙄🙄
Looool compared to mine you’re a nick name legend oh.
Had two back in school then LIL-N- SWAG loool dear Lord and the other one was NKAYRAZ, I wanted to be so cooool so badly and wanted to be different too after years of much nonsense I’ve settled for just Nk or Nkay, turns out simplicity can sometimes be your friend
😂😂😂 we all wanted to be cool and getting a nikki qualified us. Pondering on NKAYRAZ…you were raz? I mean were you a rascal? 😂😂😂
At all o I wasn’t just thought being raz was the new cool so I thought to start with a nickname suggesting my razness
It’s the lil-n-swag for me😅😅
😂😂😂😂 she’s probably little and swaggy. 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
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Awwwww I appreciate the concern 😅😅… it’s a sort off long decision to make, I’m sure they’ll come around in due time🙈🙈.
‘its Sexy Breeze aka Maloo aka Dhaureyz in da house!!!’ I just say make I hail you small 😄😄😄 The thinking hat you and your friends were wearing while thinking of these names tho… Don’t wear it again Nicknames… I’ve never been bothered about them But my friends gave me one that has stuck for them tho ‘sucido’ Don’t ask how it came about… It just did My name is lovely It felt and still feels unique to me Despite the fact that my grandmums and older people mispronounced it back then I wanted to cry I had this uncle… Read more »
😂😂😂😂😂 we will never wear it again in Jesus name o😂😂😂😂😂
For real I am eager to know what Sucido means or where it stems from cause it sounds like suicide to me 😂😂😂
@sources of water, stockings 😂😂😂😂😂
Alan Shearer 😀
Meaning??😅
I’ll try not to laugh at sexy breeze because i have seen worse. Giving yourself a nickname is some how better at least you have it under control. What of the ones that people give you behind your back😂😂🙈. I cried my eyes out the day i went to visit some friends in their own hostel room in secondary schol and i eavesdropped on them calling me “that ant head girl” Jeezzz me, a whole me, it was not fair. I had a nickname they whole school or clique knew about but me. I used to be very slim with… Read more »
😂😂😂😂😂😂 this is hilarious. Dunno if to feel guilty because there was a girl in secondary school we all called ‘Ant head’…asides from the shape of her head, she looked like a soldier ant 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I can imagine your reaction though. Forgive them. But looking at your avatar, it makes it even funnier. Looks like an alien ant head over there 😂😂😂😂
what’s even sexy about a breeze?
Mine was shandyraw (God how foolish I was) I had to terminate it after ss3. Now I go by a name my grandma gave me. Ezeugo….. Because the name isn’t common I had to add 1 behind making it “Ezeugo1” one of its kind 😁
😂😂😂😂 well there’s everything sexy about breeze ooo… because of all the stroking from you all, I googled ‘sexy breeze’ and I found that Victoria’s secret has a perfume collection called ‘Sexy Escape Breeze’ 😂😂😂😂 who knows if they stole my nikky 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
I have always loved Ezeugo especially with the 1 attached to it. Speaks original! Kudos to your grand ma💥.
😂😂😂😂😂 shandy whaaaatttt… the ‘raw’ there makes my mind run wild. Hope it’s not what I’m thinking? 🏃♀️🏃♀️
Whatever you’re thinking is what it is😂. That was my 2go name😞 and to think that I was so proud and fulfilled whenever they call me that name.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 whattttttt… so you were one of those badt guys during 2go days. Interesting 😂😂😂😂
Seductive mystique 😏😏. Your nickname history is quite interesting. My first came from a title ‘Junior’ 😂😂 as I had the same name with my dad, so my family calls me Jay boy, some botty because I was acting like one, some ojugo because I wear glasses. But ehn, the one wey shock me pass na ‘socket’. So I changed school in senior secondary and when asked to introduce my self someone didn’t hear me well and said Akingbesocket? instead of Akingbesote which is my last name. So everyone started calling me socket, I doubt if a lot of them… Read more »
😂😂😂😂😂 I trust secondary school peeps…SOCKET you shall remain 😂😂😂😂
Thank God it wasn’t something worse cause they still wont be considerate.
Oh finally…you are a Junior…I always found it weird whenever I heard someone being addressed as that growing up😅😅
And you refused to mention your feminine name huh? 🙄🙄
This is hilarious! I laughed almost all through. I used to have a nick back in sec school, and it was boldly imprinted at the back of my inter house sport wear (lol).. I gladly wore that and felt proud each time someone calls me that.. Well, it’s not a common nick neither was it any of those dumbly coiled names😂😂, this was posh and sounded more like a real name. But i ‘ve outgrown that nick ever since graduation… For uni, the thought of giving myself a nick never crossed the pedestrian bridge of my mind.. But somehow I… Read more »
😂😂😂😂😂 well how can we be sure your nickname was not sickly since you wont spill? So long as I am concerned, sexy breeze is better way better…not unless you say though 🙄🙄
Kudos to your folks mehn…they saw the middle from the start. 😆😆
‘Sexy breeze’ I can’t stop laughing 😂😂🤣🤣🤣. Some nicknames can be funny though especially when you remember how you got them. I remember i had just gotten into a new school in SS1. The biology teacher who was a corper asked us to introduce ourselves. I told him my name was Queen but he said he prefers calling me Queenito. As expected the whole class adopted the name. It didn’t end there, our government teacher was teaching about Benito Mussolini one day, after the class my friends decided that I had to add Benito to the Queenito😁😄..Since I was feeling… Read more »
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 your classmates are the worst! Whaaaatttt!!!! 😂😂😂😂 that year it would have looked too dope in your eyes especially being associated with Benito Mussolini 😂😂😂😂😂
About Ezinwanyi, there are some traditional names you hate at first but growing up to understand the meaning or circumstances surrounding it, you develop a special love for it. But I am sure you didnt dare tell your classmates it was your name in secondary school, they would have finished you without remorse😂😂😂.
Tbh you should have tried “Dori baby” 😂
But then back in high school, I was a popular figure but then never got a nickname cause I kinda think it was childish and all…was popular cause of my height and stature and I was the only guy With the name Eric, but fast forward to my last in high school my close friends rebranded my name to “Rick” and “Ricky”
Kinda loved it though 😂😂
And you had to tease me first huh😑😑…Ricky is actually cool, you are lucky they didn’t call you ‘longy’, ‘iroko tree’
or ‘stick’ 😂😂😂
Sexy breeze WTF shoot me please🤣🤣🤣. I thought I had the worse nikky in secondary school till I read this.. for the name and it meanings mines cool and it suites me perfectly
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you will soon be shot if you don’t spill that nickname of yours🙄🙄.
My two kobo on this is that, my nickname is closely related to my native name which is EJE means Lion so I call myself the Kulkat and that has been what some of my friends and family call me since 2015. I love nickname but it shouldn’t overshadow your real name just like the mistake some persons make on facebook.
Hmmmm Eje… I feel you. Sometimes there’s usually a conflict of interest when it comes to recognizing certain persons who have a more popular nickname than their real names. A case of not knowing what name to write on their awards. If it’s their nikki or…I know someone who just legalized his nickname because of this.
I bear Doris too and it’s been difficult getting nicknames. I’ve decided to stick with pseudonyms and my surname in short. Carly shay😂😂( icarly) for the longest time and jekwe from my surname. I don’t think there are any cool derivatives from Doris. So, sometimes I stick to just ‘D’.
😂😂😂😂 it’s the ‘D’for me. Imagine someone asking “Do you want the D?” 😂😂😂
Hilarious story, meets hilarious comments. My story is a bit hilarious too. My first nickname came from my mom’s apprentices who hated my gossip skills, and later my older siblings adopted it too…but it didn’t last long cos, I fought them all for the nickname. The nickname was in Yoruba, it was; “ogiri ni eti, eyan lo jebe” for short, it was “ogiri ni eti”, which translates in English to say; “the walls have ears, a person bears that” for short, it was “the walls have ears”. I wasn’t the outspoken type when I was very young then, I had… Read more »
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 the beginning though. I love how you relay your sincerity. Your mum and apprentice are OG’s 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Hmmmm for you not to like the name Daniel🤔. I have never for once looked up the meaning because I assume it’ll be great judging from the Bible’s character. I should look it up. Giving ones life to Christ comes with a lot of sacrifices really. I remember deleting all my circular songs one time. I felt bored to death but downloaded most of them back much later after realising the music was not the problem persay but the mindset. Thank you… Read more »
you are welcome.
glad you had fun reading.
Daniel means God’s judgment…not all Bible names are nice.
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