Almost everyone's got a nickname from friends or at least a pet name. What's yours and what's the story behind it? Did you name yourself or your friends, family or even your enemies named you? Just wondering.

Zahymaka is really Z.A. Hymaka. Z is for Zuksy [one of my nicknames] A is Azuka. The Hymaka [pronounced High-Marker] name was formed in school between two of my best friends and I.

We picked the last two letters of our names and created a "brand name." We loved it because we were actually high-markers in school. Of course they went by OZ Hymaka and T² Hymaka.

Who's Next?

Zahymaka, look

When i was in Nigeria junior school [Jss1 -Jss3] ppl used to call me 'sisipelebe' - meaning skinnygirl. because i was skinny. When i came to london ppl started calling me funky/funkky because my name is funke. God help. Actually i dont mind

mine's so simple. am john chukwunonso ifuma by name. when i first got into school, i used to act like the mr. quite guy and move like i no nothing, so dudes used to call me johnny just come, and u know, bin a fine boy nah, gurlz wud flock round me but i just chill so they used to call me chuksy as in pet name. after a short while, i became a soccer star and ma fav. number was 9 so all guys used to call me johhnychuks9, for short, johhnyc9 or jc9. that it

Zahymaka:

Almost everyone's got a nickname from friends or at least a pet name. What's yours and what's the story behind it? Did you name yourself or your friends, family or even your enemies named you? Just wondering.

Zahymaka is really Z.A. Hymaka. Z is for Zuksy [one of my nicknames] A is Azuka. The Hymaka [pronounced High-Marker] name was formed in school between two of my best friends and I.

We picked the last two letters of our names and created a "brand name." We loved it because we were actually high-markers in school. Of course they went by OZ Hymaka and T² Hymaka.

Who's Next?

hmmm never knew . .


mine's a combination of two of my names

mine was a gradual development, from adebola to debola, to debols, then balls/ballz (which wasnt very funny for me) till a fusion of name + nickname adeballz, now that is unique

@debosky

ha about ballzdeballz

What happens when you retire?

the money still dey!

dont have no story

4 me its almost like i get 2 change nicknames. Albeit every1 xcept my peeps call me tdough. I coined d t 4rm ma name while d dough stands 4 money.

It depends on which nickname. I have nicknames from my family, secondary school, high instution, work place 1, work place 2, work place 3, area, friends, ,