Nickname definition

A nickname is

• A familiar, invented given name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing
• A descriptive name for a place or thing
• An alternate name someone uses, or others use, to refer to that person instead of using that person's real or complete name
• The familiar form of company name (eg Bud for Budweiser, T-bird for Thunderbird etc)

More nickname definitions

Princetons definition of nickname : a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name).

At wikipedia a nickname is defined like this: "A nickname (also spelled "nick name") is a descriptive name given in place of or in addition to the official name of a person. Sometime a nickname is also referred to as a short name."

How to create a nickname

A nickname can be generated in several ways. You can use adjectives with either sweet or nasty meanings. Those adjectives you can combine with animal names, pet names or words that otherwise send human signals to create a surprising, cute or cool nickname. Often it's not the word itself, but rather the combination of words that will generate a funny or cute nickname.

Other ways to create a good nickname is to use word suffixes and diminutive word forms.

The goal is of-course to create a funny nicknames, cool nicks and cute nickname.

Cool nickname. Cute nickname

The nickname generator has been updated with a new wordlist with both cute and cool adjectives. So all names generated will be extra cool nicknames or cute nicknames.

If the Nickname Generator creates a cool nickname, and you're looking for a cute nickname. Just hit the generate nickname button once again. Both cool nicknames and cute nicknames are generated with a random function, so you'll probably get lucky in one of the the next tries.

Nicknames in practical use

A generated nickname is often to describe someone we love and care for. But we can also use a nickname our self. Cool nicknames and cute nicknames can be used for animals, friends, pets, lovers, boyfriends, girlfriend, sweethearts etc.

Nicknames among friends

Nicknames are commonly used between friends. Culture have great influence on which type of nicknames we use. In some nicknames the tone can seem harsh or maybe even a bit evil and viscious. In other cultural groups nicknames might be cute, sweet and lovable.

In common for both types of nicknames, is that a nickname express both love and affection. And the nickname also brings a feeling of belonging to a group or community.

Nicknames on the Internet

The use of a nickname is also very common on the Internet. Nicknames are used on Internet forums, communities and also a lot of Social services like Facebook, messenger, Twitter, flikr, etc. The internet nicknames are often more cool than personal nicknames. Friendship is often more superfluous and in many Internet communities cool nicknames seems to give the use a lot of self esteem.

An interesting nickname makes you easier to remember and will distinguish you from other people on the Internet.

Nicknames as pet names

A Nickname is also commonly used as a name for a pet. Pet names are often sweet or cute nicknames.

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Superhero Name Generator.
Where you can generate a different sort of nickname - a cool and heroic superhero name.

Evil Nicknames

You want even more evil nicknames? That's easy. Go visit the Evil Name Generator. The evil name generator makes pure evil nicknames. So if you're up for the nick of evil go visit the evil nick name generator.

The evil nicknames are made of a fantasy name that forms the nicknames base. Then a mean and evil nickname are added randomly. And then you have a evil nickname.