I know a guy who answers to Pillsbury. His real name is Joshua. I was shocked. I also know someone who answers almost exclusively to Oboe. (His real name is practically unpronounceable and bears a certain resemblence to it).

At this troper's school there are two students known as "Sleeves Kid" (Always has his sleeves and collar up) and "Mulletman" (self-explanatory).

In my elementary school there was a P.E. teacher who everyone would call "coach". To be honest, I don't remember his real name.

Hey! Same Here!

That's obviously very common...

This troper had a friend in high school who answered to "Frodo" (this troper's doing).

This troper can confirm that he still answers to "Frodo". (If we are talking about the same person.) It's pretty much interchangeable with his real name... Also, there was a red-haired kid who answered to 'Nubcakes' and 'Ginger'. Even his ''dad'' called him by said names.

There was a kid in my middle school/high school (can't really remember which...) who answered to "Rudi", even though his real name was something different. I cannot remember how it started, but I don't recall his real name at all.

This troper also had a Frodo in highschool. He also never knew the names of at least half of his friends/acquaintances.

A high school classmate of this troper answered to "Gump". He was given the nickname because of a matching haircut and running posture (sadly, no comparison on the running speed).

Because this troper has a very common name, and had this phase in which he always wore a coat (a year ago ago), people not in his inner circle of friends always call him 'Coat'. I don't even bother to tell them my name anymore.

In summer school one year, this troper had a kid in her class named Joshua. The teacher, who was self-admittedly bad at names, declared that he would call him "Tree" in order to help himself remember his name. This failed--while he could never remember "Joshua," Tree became surprisingly receptive to his new nickname, and that's all anyone ever called him.

This troper's friend will only respond to "Your royal highness," as he has minor head problems and plans to take over the world with a fork. I am not making this up.

Depending on just what is meant by "head problems"... he ''could'' be obfuscating stupidity on the whole fork thing.

This troper's 3rd grade bus driver was just known as "Sir" by all the kids. If you swore, someone would be like, 'Oooh, you said a bad word! I'm gonna tell Sir!'.

This troper's cousin had a classmate who known only as "Gerbil". Poor girl......

Pretty much every student in this tropers school call the teachers Sir (If they're male) or Ms (If their female). Except me because i can't break that elementary school habit of calling the teachers by their last name.

A teacher this troper once had was known to the entire school as "Monomial". He teached Math and was a bit on the short side.

Is your English teacher's nickname "Incompetent"?

I'm sorry, that was mean. You probably typed that in the middle of the night, or have English as a second language, or just had one of those moments, and other than "teached," your sentences are both perfect.

This troper had a substitute with a common name, who will forever be remembered as The Crybaby, ans another one called Ishmael with a weird nose known as the Jew.

In this troper's circle of friends, there are two girls with the same first name. To avoid confusion, one has become known as "Dreadlock" because of her dreadlocks, and the other as "Longhair" because her hair reaches to her thighs.

This Tropers former heterosexual life partner at school was half Dutch, half Norwegian with a name hardly anyone could pronounce, so even the teachers at school called him "Fish". So well known was the nickname that when his Grandfather visited and asked for him by his real name,the staff didn't know who he was asking for.

My school had an exchange student from Spain. Everyone (his teachers and the principal included) called him Nacho. His real name might have been Ignacio, but I can't remember.

It's a habit in this troper's country to address teachers as, well, "teacher", or " 'cher" for short (hard ''ch'', not ''sh''). As a result, this troper has forgotten most of her teachers' actual names.

This troper suspects that he lives in the same country as the above troper. He once overdid it and wrote a letter to his English teacher for a letter-writing exercise, addressing her as 'cher (though admittedly it was intentional), only to have the return letter addressed to 'dent. Lots of fun, that 'cher was.

Thirded with this troper, though I do remember their real names. One who had being called 'cher a BerserkButton threatened to call who did such 'table' in return. Of course, he did already have a OneLetterName--which also applies to this trope. His real name, I recently found out, was actually... Juan.

Averted with this troper: the only people to use my nickname are my best friends, whilst everyone else uses my real name, which I hate.

This troper generally goes by 'Nappy' due to his hair, to the point that people he's known for over a semester have asked "wait, what ''is'' your real name?!"

This Troper has a friend whose real name is utterly unknown; "Roman" is the best he can do.

There was a kid in this Troper's fifth grade class named Cookie. Only the teacher knew his real name, but everyone speculated that it was an EmbarrassingFirstName.

This troper has a friend with the same first name as himself, to clear the usual confusion I and many others chose to shorten his last name (Willemstijn) to a regular dutch first name (Willem). I tend to forget his real first name these days.

Da_Nuke will always remember the day he found out, after 2 years, that his friend "Papus" was called José Armando, when he finally knew his friend "Rafts" was called Francisco, as well as the day when he found out the "Old Man" from his high school, who sells us snacks and sandwiches, is called Jesús Rojas.

This troper's red hair earned him the nickname "Firefly" for all of middle school.

This Troper is part of a huge group of {{otaku}}. Most of us got to know each other through the Internet, so we basically use our online aliases as names. And some of them have their roles on the group as names. For this troper it's actually easier, because her real name is hard as hell to spell and/or pronounce. Meeting someone new usually goes like this: "Hi, I'm Writeress." "Alright. Your real name?" "Laura. But don't call me that."

This troper rarely encounters a familiar face whenever he enrolls in a new course and some consider it unnecessary to learn the names of people you'll see for only three months and never again, so most people take to calling him "Smart Money" due to the fact that he is never seen without his ''Smart Money'' jacket.

One of this troper's housemates goes by the name Garlic. The origin of this is a mystery.

One of this friend's is known as Tim Santiago. His name? Josh. He doesn't answer to Josh anymore. No one knows why Tim stuck.

this troper was known by a large number of people as "fiddle girl" due to various live performances and a radio appearance. She still encounters people at her college who do not know her real name, yet talk to her and address her as "fiddle girl". The name stuck so well that she now uses the Gaelic word as her internet handle.

This troper knew a girl from camp who went by Gypsy. The teachers didn't even remember her real name. Her best friend from school, also in the same camp, did not remember her real name.

A girl in this troper's high school was called Mia by everyone. Her real name was Danielle. Unlike most of the examples here she ''did'' have an explanation, but I've forgotten it.

My nickname is "Livvy", for Olivia. When it came time for my more recently added friends to write out graduation announcements, everyone was surprised to find out that it was actually a nickname. Apparently I never realized that I never used my whole name in front of them. I have known these friends for probably a year or more.

We had a P.E teacher who was incredibly nice and a little weird a friend of mine nicknamed him "The Nutter" (he didn't mean it to be insulting though, in fact it was a compliment) because we never learnt his name.

This troper was called "Chief" throughout most of high school.

Where this troper went to college, one unfortunate fellow got the name "Squeak" due to his resemblance to the BASEketball character. Insult to injury (and a great PsycheOut) came when one of this troper's friends had a girlfriend who cheated on him...with SQUEAK!

This troper always refers to his Panamanian grandmother as "Lita". (Her real name's Finlandia.)

This Brazilian troper was, almost always referred to as "Buchechudo" (which is the same as calling an obese person "fatman", only it referred to large cheeks). Variants were soon to follow, and I remember the most amusing one being "Capitão Buchecha" (Captain Cheeks). For some reason, it always reminded me of Mexican Lucha Libre. Huh, odd.

My sister narrowly escaped being nicknamed Rogue in high school. I myself had a close call with... get this... [[spoiler:Robocock]]

You won't get away with not explaining that one.

At a special needs center this troper's mom once worked at, the art instructor who'd come in once a week was known only as The Art Guy. He preferred it that way - if anyone asked his real name, he'd claim it was Arthur Guy.

This troper has a friend who everyone calls Duff. I mean everyone, even his children (which annoys his wife who thinks they should call him 'Daddy')

Due to having an overload of girls with my name in High school, I eventually learned to respond to Mom, Esty (Short for Estella, which I earned after saying that I had no sense of humor), and, among my nerdiest friends, V.

Because I was tiny until my junior year in high school, one of the gym teachers knew me only as "Pee-Wee." Ther was an Egyptian exchange student who went by "Fence." Never learned his real name.

This Troper's manager is just called "The Kid" because he's the youngest manager there. The owner of the place responds to his last name, as his first name is fairly common. This troper is only known by his initials, to the point where when he added some of his friends from work to his facebook page, they had to get a good look at his picture to figure out who he was.

This Troper has a classmate who is unknowingly referred to as ''Mr. Fluff Fluff'' because he tends to ask obscure questions and speak in a rambling, mumbling way that makes it almost impossible to understand what he's saying. Everything he says sound like: "flufffluffflufffluff..." We do, however, know his real name.

This troper's 2nd grade Sunday school teacher was known by our entire class as "The Cookie Man"; because he always brought class breakfast in the form of cookies (Sometimes donuts) and orange juice, and none of us could pronounce his last name correctly.

2}} This troper happens to share a first name and general appearance with this guy, and so was referred to by this nickname, which I have also taken as my troper ID. We also had an English teacher from Madagascar with an unpronounceable name, who was always referred to as sir, the English teacher, or a halfhearted mangling of his name before giving up: "Hey, it's Mr. Ramanatso... Ramanastosti... The English teacher."

This troper is called Harriet. Everyone calls her either Ha or Spook.

This Troper rejoices to the Military nickname of Boarhunter, owing to a hunting tattoo, and the oddity of bowhunting in the UK. This Troper is only called by his real name when offical documentation is used, other than that, everyone uses the nickname, including people who have no idea it's a nickname, including the Officer's, even the Colonel, When the Brigader arrived on a visit, this troper was introduced as 'Ocdt Boarhunter'. Very few people in the unit actually know or remember his real name.

This troper knows a guy named Alex who is known to everyone in his circle of friends as "Keith". Upon meeting him, one of his friends told him that he looked more like a Keith than an Alex, and the name stuck. My boyfriend and I have known him for two years and just recently found out his real name.

This troper has a friend known simply as "Hobo." (Apparently, it's a long story, and he doesn't seem to mind the name.) It took two years for her to learn that his name is actually "Alex." She still doesn't know his last name, and still refers to him as Hobo.

To this day, the janitor (named Jason) and the security guard (named Edwin) from my school are simply called Mr. Janitor and Mr. Guard.

This troper had a friend who was called "Spiffy." New people were confused to be introduced to an adjective.

While this troper has a real name, and is frequently addressed by it, he is also an avid D&D player, who has two characters who, while they have names, have really come to be known among the group by their titles, Exile, whose real name is Iago, and The Captain, whose actual name is Lord Captain Roias Silverstar. It became easier for the other players to just remember their titles, and to be honest, without looking at their character sheets, I don't think any of the other players could remember their real names.

This troper responds to: Annoying, Markio, Marco (but only with "Polo"), MarkRobot, StongRadd, Strong Radd, Melink 03, Melink Model 03, you know where Im going...

The Bunny Ears Principal where this Troper attended high school insisted on being called "The Dude". Yep.

In high school, there was a slightly strange guy, who was really small and for some reason didn't like keeping his things (or even his books) in his locker, and therefore walked around with a huge backback. We called him "Tiny-Guy-Huge-Backpack" and very few people knew what his real name was.

In High school, my best friend and I did this all the time, mostly because we did not know the people in question personally but their ubiquitous eccentricities were constant topics of conversation:

Gaston the security guard

Pointless Guy, who was everywhere at once but seemed to have no classes and did nothing during his free periods. He was a double-super-senior. Wow.

Lunchbox Kid. He was a typical goth/emo guy, face filled with metal and everything else was black and red. Yet he seemed to have a '50s tin lunchbox with random cartoons for each day of the week

And a personal example. Our computer teacher/guy that would punish us for having fun called us Jay and Silent Bob respectively. Our appearance and personalities fit perfectly.

This troper has a friend who everyone refers to as 'Motown'- to the point that, while writing this, I cannot remember her real name. Alexa, maybe? Alexandria? I don't know.

This troper and her friends answer to our forum handles on this one forum we all frequent. 'Alice' is actually Charlotte, 'Chessie' actually Lily, 'Break' actually Max and 'Lethal' actually Jeremy. It's gotten to the point that we'll make comments on something in a larger group of friends, this will happen: "Break's dating [X] now!" "I called it!" "Hmm." "Uh, Break? Huh?"

The main tech guy that we come down to see whenever we have a problem with our government-funded Mac Books is known as just that- the Tech Guy. And "You".

This tropette (currently a sophomore in high school) is frequently called Smiley by her friends. She's still convinced that some of them don't know her real name...

At the high-school this troper went to many teachers had nicknames that pretty much everyone knew, there were times when you couldn't even remember their actual names.

This Troper is known to some circles as "Viking", and is quite pleased with the appellation. the addition of BraidsOfBarbarism only exacerbated the issue.

As incoming freshmen at university, several of this troper's (new) friends took advantage of everyone not knowing each other. One friend disliked her real name, especially nicknames for it. She insisted one day on being called "Alaska". Everyone reluctantly took up the nickname, and it's gotten to the point after four months that we often forget her real name. Also, many seem to think she is from Alaska. She is not.

Another friend introduced himself each time to other people with different names. Not all of these names are logical, as one girl was somewhat confused that his name was not really "Steak", since there are a lot of weird real-life names out there. At least for a while, she still called him Steak.

This troper's history teacher is known exclusively as 'Doc.' His real name isn't listed on official school documents, because most of the other teachers and administrators don't know it. To be fair, he's been teaching at my school since before most of them were born. She also knows a girl who goes exclusively by Brooke. Her real name is Christina.

In a {{Bleach}} roleplay I was once running, we had an OC who was the 3rd Seat of the 10th division. Everyone called him 'The Third Seat' and his real name was never stated. When he got promoted to Captain Commander of the Gotei 13, he became known as 'Head Captain Third Seat.'

This troper was the only French Horn player in his high school band, and as a result was often called Frenchy by bandmates (at least they didn't go with Horny). When someone came from the office to deliver a message to me during class, even the band director had to look up my real name in the school directory (since he'd replaced my real name with Frenchy on the roll sheet...)

At school, everyone seems to know me as "The Strange Girl Who Sits in the Back Row"

My schools so far have all had a very high minority population, while I am not one. As a result, I have come to answer to "White Girl" just as easily as my real name. (My little brother says that he also finds himself answering to "White Boy" quite often. He, unlike me, was once called a racist on the sole basis of being white, and I have no doubt in my mind that this was entirely unwarranted, because he does not have a mean bone in his body.)

I apparently respond to "Hey, you", in a variation of this trope. Result of aloof older sibling.

This troper has been known to respond to the name Macro.

This troper has been called "Hobbit" by most of her friends since middle school (which is why I call myself original hobbit). She also knew a boy in high school nicknamed "ketchup", and didn't know his real name for at least a semester.