Latin Americans are infamous for coming up with nicknames. What is the best/worst nickname you’ve ever heard?

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Latin Americans are infamous for coming up with nicknames. What is the best/worst nickname you’ve ever heard?

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  1. rrrrrrrrrrrrram Avatar

    in b4 a thousand comments saying SIMBA

  2. Caribbeandude04 Avatar

    There was this guy in my class who had a big head, but his eyes, nose and mose where oddly close to each other, so we called him “Tojunto”

  3. xqsonraroslosnombres Avatar

    Pancuca= panza culo y cabeza

  4. killdagrrrl Avatar

    While on a school trip to Brazil, the tourists guide saw one of my classmates and named him Carewe. Cara de weon was the full name

  5. netodagravida Avatar

    A guy from the gym I used to go to was known there as Neptune, the name of the Roman god of the sea. At first, I thought the nickname was due to his appearance, he was a very muscular redhead with a pretty long beard, it was self explanatory. One day I was speaking with the lady that worked there, Neptune walked up to say hi to her and she calls him by his name.
    His name was Deusdemar.

  6. Cabo-Wabo624 Avatar

    Toothless guy in class we called him “ventanas”

  7. DurianRejector Avatar

    I went on a date in Mexico last month and combined the names “chacal” (thug) and “camarón” (shrimp) into “chakamarón” bc he was small.

  8. _DrunkenWolf Avatar

    I know the story of a kid who was know as Simba because his uncle killed his father

    Another one is a guy called Ateu because his name was Rivaldo Jesus

  9. gabrielbabb Avatar

    El manitas = to a handless man

  10. wordlessbook Avatar

    There was a comedian nicknamed Gordurinha (Lil’ Fat) because he was too skinny.

  11. Peruvian_Skies Avatar

    There was a very tall albino kid at my school called Cotonete.

  12. TheKeeperOfThePace Avatar

    All nicknames in Brazil would be banned under these new rules of social conscience and mutual respect. “João Gordo” for being extremely skinny. “Aleijado” after being shot in the leg. “Branca de neve” for being too black. “Albino” for being too white. It’s endless.

  13. GamerBoixX Avatar

    Met one guy nicknamed Bambi, because his mom was shot and killed when he was a child

  14. aetp86 Avatar

    I know a guy nicknamed “güebo tibio” (lukewarm dick).

  15. DoneAndDustedYeah Avatar

    These two are the most hilarious to me although they’re highly inappropriate because they’re used to make fun of people who have one leg noticeably shorter than the other, or broke a leg and are wearing a cast.

    1. Engaña-baldosas (something like “tile-tricker”)
    2. Arranca-la-moto (bike-starter)

    Don’t send hate messages, please.

  16. Malakar1195 Avatar

    We had a guy who had a malformed head that gave him a very prominent forehead and downward slope in the top of his head, we used to call him Avocado

  17. Luchofromvenezuela Avatar
    • Short guy: Tornillo e’ lente (glass frame screw)

    • Another one for a short guy: Jinete’pollo (chicken rider)

    • Lanky guy got nicknamed Betty Spaghetti

    • Guy with big cheeks: Chipydale (like the squirrels, Chip and Dale)

  18. Spiritual-Low-1072 Avatar

    We used to call a friend “mute” because when he spoke his voice was very low and we couldn’t hear him.

  19. Dragonstone-Citizen Avatar

    Dry stew or cazuela seca to a lame guy, bc when he went for lunch at his job he asked for stew, bus as he limped, he arrived at the table with only the beef and no soup.

  20. CoroTolok Avatar

    Fosforo for Red Heads.

  21. tremendabosta Avatar

    I really liked that a (straight – this is relevant) guy was called Purê because he would only make company (be a side) to women instead of dating them

  22. minominino Avatar

    Guy who was missing a finger= el Lincoln, el incompleto (but can be used for anybody missing a body part).

  23. Proof-Pollution454 Avatar

    I know a famous apostle who’s an influencer in Honduras named Chago

  24. LordHeezay Avatar

    Once I watched a reel about somebody saying that in her Secondary School there was a girl known as “La Acidita” and it was because her mom had AIDS (SIDA in Spanish) so “La Acidita” = “La Sidita” 😭

  25. LividAd9642 Avatar

    Batman, because the guy was an orphan.

  26. CapitanFlama Avatar

    Doesn’t translate to English well, but: Gepetto, because he made a kid out of a stick.

    In Spanish is: “de un palo hizo un niño”, for a guy who in a one-night stand got a girl pregnant.

  27. South-Run-4530 Avatar

    You guys have these taxi service but with motorcycles instead of cars too, right? It’s common enough here Uber has an app for it. There’s a song about some guy whining about a girl leaving to a party with a mototaxi.

    A guy in my class was robbed by this mototaxi and left in the middle of nowhere with only his pants on. People started calling him Leticia

  28. grimgroth Avatar

    Guy who had a limp: Pata con hipo (leg with a hiccup)

  29. Not_a_good_nickname Avatar

    In highschool: a guy we were friends with during higschool had ADHD, his name was “Italo”. But he took Ritalin, so we started calling him “Rita” (which is a common female name in Brazil). From then on, everyone in the school start calling him Rita, and people became confused when he said his name was not Rita. Cool guy. One day another “Italo” came to school, but we said “we already have an Italo”. So we called him by his surname, and so everyone else start calling him by his surname.

    In college: There was this senior guy who was always trying to get with the freshman girls (freshwoman? here we call them “calouras” or “bichos” ). In Brazil the boogeyman is sometimes called “Bicho-papão”.

    That term is important, lets dissect it:

    “Bicho” could mean three things: a) An animal. b) A freshman. c) (if you’re in the northeastern region) anything

    “Papão” can mean 2 things: d) something scary. e) From the verb “papar”, which could mean “to eat something”, coloquially, it can be used sexually to mean “to try or to intend to have sex with someone”

    So we started calling the guy Papão de Bichos, offensively, as if he was a boogeyman of the freshman but trying to get on with them but instead ends up being a jerk.

  30. 051OldMoney Avatar

    I was called boque pato cus of my mouth looked like Donald Duck when I was younger

  31. sclerare Avatar

    at my brother’s restaurant, they give each other crazy nicknames that i am impressed they came out with some of them.

    some nicknames i heard they call each other are, telemundo, zombie, diabetes.

    i met zombie… i get why they nicknamed him that.

  32. 051OldMoney Avatar

    My cousin was called Mandrake el mago because he survived near death experiences, got electrocuted, ran over by a van, and fell from a roof of a 2 story house flying chichigua.

  33. imk Avatar

    The classic nickname for Mexican-Americans who don’t speak Spanish is “Nintendo”

  34. pitbulldofunk Avatar

    I met a guy whose nickname was Peanut, but one day he got run over, so they started calling him Paçoca. 😂

  35. aliensuperstars_ Avatar

    one of my brother’s friends was called Calcinha (panties in portuguese), but I never knew why

  36. bzno Avatar

    My friend called me Eclipse sometimes when I was a teenager, for when I stood up I covered the sun with my big head hahaha

    It wasn’t really the head, I had a long and bulky hair. I laughed so hard. Oh man, good times

  37. Active-Knee1357 Avatar

    Everyone has a cousin named Papo

  38. CarbohydrateLover69 Avatar

    There was this guy who had a weird body shape and everyone called him oviparo

  39. minominino Avatar

    A guy in college who was really big, quiet and just hanged out with us we called him La Pared “The Wall”.

  40. BoGa91 Avatar

    El Thriller, because it was a doctor with polio after-effects who walked with the help of a cane and in a “zombie” style.

  41. Achira_boy_95 Avatar

    once i meet a man in the university named as Genghis khan, cause every asian girl in the university has slept with him

  42. Ponchorello7 Avatar

    Nicknames were the local sport in my hometown. Some good ones I remember are:

    • Timon y Pumba for a couple where it was a shirt skinny guy and a big fat girl

    • Hijo de Mumm-ra for a guy who looked a lot like a homeless guy who everyone called Mumm-ra.

    • Las cagadas. They were three sisters who inherited their nickname from their father, who was called el cagado because of his freckles.

    • La vaquita to a really short girl with huge tits.

    • Medio meco for a guy who was the shortest person I’ve ever seen that wasn’t a dwarf.

    • Garapiñado to a guy who had a lot of acne. Cacahuates garapiñados are peanuts with a bumpy, red coating.

    • Escoba for a really thin girl with shitty bangs.

  43. Achira_boy_95 Avatar

    A un parcero que fue a una finca con los amigos y no se pudo comer a una pelada ( el estaba intentando por meses con ella hasta que le acepto la oferta) pero no pudo porque no se le paro, la vieja le dijo chimbo triste… Y asi se quedo en los proximos 6 años de la universidad. Hasta cuando se graduo le gritaron “felicidades chimbotriste”

  44. elfardon Avatar

    Once I heard about the “kit feijoada”, because the guy had pork ears, pork belly and pork knees.

  45. balarblue Avatar

    We had a friend who was missing two fingers on this left hand so we called him Ocho

  46. rafaelidades Avatar

    There’s Vampeta, a player in the Brazilian 2002 World Cup winning squad.

    He got his nickname because he was as ugly as the crossing between a vampire and the devil (“capeta”).

  47. Achira_boy_95 Avatar

    A un amigo grande y gordo le deciamos chumlee. Porque se parecía al del precio de la historia y era un poco lento y tonto.

  48. RisingBlackHole Avatar

    Pata de cumbia to a limping guy.

    Means “cumbia foot” because his foot kinda moved in dancing fashion

  49. pachecogeorge Avatar

    Clitoris, I have not fucking clue why he got that nickname. “Black Chicken” guy was just an average Venezuelan wasn’t black wasn’t white, not fucking clue either.

  50. poop_break_666 Avatar

    My favorite is cuatro nalgas

  51. Matalata13 Avatar

    There was this dumb, muscular jock working the warehouse where I worked with badly placed tattoos everywhere on his body and they gave him the name “manchitas.” I would always carry a book to lunch as well to read and they called me El Padrecito.

  52. No_External196 Avatar

    Aborto’e’chucha (Oposum abortion) was one of the funniest I’ve heard. The proud owner of that nickname was not the handsomest.

    A friend of mine’s father was put in jail, we started calling him INPEC (which is a jail security force). He later had a motorcycle accident and lost most of his teeth, he became “Dracula”.

  53. Division_Agent_21 Avatar

    There was a lady in my high school known as “La Milagrosa” because she could feed the whole school with a single Empanada.

  54. Cautious-Dare7050 Avatar

    A kid in my school used a wheelchair, people called him Schumacher

  55. Frequent_Skill5723 Avatar

    A mute guy in our high school class was called el gritón.

  56. menstrunchbull Avatar

    My family call my husband “el snooki” because of his skin colour. He is white but went years without taking care of his skin it looks like he has a perpetual tan. My cousin called him that once and it stuck 😭😭😭

  57. anweisz Avatar

    There was a teacher whose name was Blanca Moreno. We used to call her la nucita.

  58. hahayourealive Avatar

    My mom told me she had a teacher in highschool that had crooked legs, he walked with his legs too separated from each other and his knees a little flexed. The boys in her class called him “bolas entre parentesis” (balls between parenthesis).

  59. KingKronx Avatar

    Cabeleira. It was a bald dude who worked at a junkyard.

    They called him that because he had a huge amount of hair on the back of his ear which he combed and conditioned.

  60. MValdesM Avatar

    My dad once nicknamed one of his co workers 5 you ask why, that dude lost his testicles in an accident 5=>cinco=>sin cocos (cocos is a way to call testicles here)

  61. Silent_Video9490 Avatar

    Bag of cream. You know the typical guy who used to be a gym rat but hasn’t gone in some time, so he still is kinda big but with wobbly muscles… Yeah, bag of cream.😂😂

  62. FrontMarsupial9100 Avatar

    Caralho is a slang for penis in Brazil. A guys named Enis had as his nickname Aralho

  63. TortaConCarne Avatar

    Finally a good question!

  64. Tough_Stretch Avatar

    Back when I was in college I dropped by my older brother’s office because I wanted to talk to him about some family stuff without any of the family butting in. While I was there waiting for his assistant to tell me I could go into his office I heard one of the interns tell another to go get Capitán Tinieblas, which is the name of a famous old school masked wrestler whose name roughly translates to Captain Darkness and had a pretty cool costume.

    A while later when I was talking to my brother I remembered and asked just who the hell Captain Tinieblas was and why they gave him that nickname, and he deadpanned “Oh, he’s one of the drivers and they call him that because he’s gay.”

    Puzzled, I asked what being gay had to do with being nicknamed after a cool wrestler with a pretty badass name, so he explained that the guy was named Roberto, but since he was very effeminate they started calling him Robertín (think, “Robbie-wobbie” or something cutesy like that) which was later shortened to just Tin. But then that mutated to Tinieblo (the Dark One) or Tinieblas (Darkness) because why not, and after a few weeks that inevitably led to Capitán Tinieblas in honor of the famous wrestler who had nothing to do with the gay community.

    A few months later my brother told me that the nickname had ultimately settled into El Capi because everybody felt Capitán Tinieblas was too long and sounded too manly and the original essence had been lost. So that’s the one that stuck.

  65. Nanolaska Avatar

    A guy I know was very small and brown skinned as a kid. His uncle used to call him “Maní”.

    Once, we were at a party. He told us that special nickname his uncle had for him and every girl was thinking his uncle called him like that for other reasons.

  66. Asyedan Avatar

    I once saw a guy in a magazine who was a descendant of two historical figures, Juan Manuel de Rosas (infamous dictator of the mid 19th century) and Manuel Belgrano (independence hero who also created our national flag). His surname was ‘Rosas y Belgrano’, so his classmates in school called him ‘Esquina’ (corner/intersection), because his surname sounds like the intersection of two streets.

  67. Dramatic-Border3549 Avatar

    When I was in high school a friend’s nickname was sapo cego (blind frog) because he had never seen a perereca (female frog, also a slang for pussy/vagina). In english we would call him blind cat, I guess

    Also I have to name the real CR7: Flávio Caça Rato

  68. ReyMeon Avatar

    Back in junior high a dude had a unibrow. We called him CJ(cejota)

  69. ImaRipeavocado Avatar

    I know a guy who lost three fingers in an accident, so he only has his thumb and his little finger. His nickname is “cuento corto”. Because “este dedito compró un huevito y este se lo comió”.

  70. InverstNoob Avatar

    My dad has a friend who had a small plane accident and got burned. They called him “carne asada”

  71. translucent_tv Avatar

    The funniest one I heard was “Don Chido” (Mr. Cool sounds better in spanish) was a butcher who accidentally cut off four fingers on a meat slicer, so it always looked like he was giving a thumbs up.

  72. By-Popular-Demand Avatar

    A kid at my school that shat himself was nicknamed “danet” (brand of chocolate pudding)

  73. PosturadoeDidatico Avatar

    In Brazil, body odor is commonly called CC (Cheiro de Corpo), most commonly referring to the armpits. Recently, a guy who was nicknamed ” 200″ (duzentos) after the Roman numerals (CC) went viral

  74. TheMiddayRambler Avatar

    Surprised I haven’t seen this yet it’s a very common cuban one cara de guante for someone so ugly it looks like their face got hit with a baseball

  75. IPaintBricks Avatar

    A guy who lost the index, middle and ring finger in an accident with a buzz saw.
    He was nicknamed “short tale” (cuento corto).
    Because instead of “este dedito tomó, un huevito, este lo echó a cocer, etc” it went straight from “este dedito tomó un huevito y este se lo comió” (it’s hard to explain in English, lol).

  76. Saltimbanco_volta Avatar

    I found out about a guy whose mother really liked the english pronunciation of the name “Gabriel”. She wanted to name her kid like that but if she did everyone would pronounce it the latin way, so her solution to force the english pronunciation was to name her kid “Gaybriel”.

    Of course, his nickname was “gay”.

  77. ButterscotchFormer84 Avatar

    I got called gringo in Colombia once. I can’t remember where exactly, might have been in the north.

    I’m Asian…

  78. External_Secret3536 Avatar

    At my college there was a horrible girl whose nickname was “ploc-monster”, alluding to an old candy store with that name that featured little monster figurines.

  79. morto00x Avatar

    A friend who had a limp was called dólar because he was always going up and down

  80. Limmmao Avatar

    In my town there was this runner who had an accident, got burnt and couldn’t use his neck much. The neck kinda fused with his back. His nickname was ducha fría (cold shower)

  81. hadapurpura Avatar

    Elvis (el bizco)

    A guy who used to get bad grades in college: Atila (el Rey de Los unos)

  82. Gahan180 Avatar

    “El Mono”, he was deaf in one ear

  83. RateAdvanced Avatar

    At uni there was a girl with a big forehead but the rest of her head was normal sized, kinda like a peanut shape (?) some guys called her “cabeza de enanito” meaning dwarf head.

  84. Kitinha_47 Avatar

    There was a dude in school who’s last name was Mencarelli, and we use to call him MeuCaralho

  85. preguicila Avatar

    I was a chubby kid. My uncle called me Tonia, tonielada

  86. JamalFromStaples Avatar

    We call my cousin Dewey cause he looks like Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle.

  87. Reon88 Avatar

    There was this guy who had had a stroke and his lips were crippled from one side, so he could open his mouth only from one side.

    We used to call him “the pawn” as the chessboard piece, because he ate to the sides.

    Había un wey que tenía los labios chuecos y paralizados de un costado por una embolia, solo podía mover un costado de la boca.

    La raza lo bautizó “el peón” como la pieza de ajedrez porque comía de lado.

  88. multicolorlamp Avatar

    There was a really smart boy in my grandmas town so they called him Pitagoras.

  89. marcelo_998X Avatar

    “cabeza de dado” (dice head) to a guy who has spot baldness

    “Perrita” (Little bitch)

  90. Collider_Weasel Avatar

    “Filhote de Gato” (kitten) because of his giant head;
    “Município” (municipality) because he had lice as a kid, so there was a population on his scalp;
    “1001” suffered an accident and lost his two middle teeth;
    “Philips” had a permanently bent arm like a record player’s arm, and the brand was common at the time;
    “Siri” (crab) had eyes pointing at different directions;
    “Patinho” (duckling) followed his mum everywhere as a kid;
    “Geral” (a slang for a police search) was subjected to a police search for absolutely nothing;
    “Meia-noite” (Midnight) was very white;
    “Maruim” (a type of gnat) was very thin and small;
    “Turu” (onomatopoeic) walked like the Pink Panther (turu-turu is the sound of the cartoon’s theme song).
    And this was only at my middle school.

  91. Pikachewy16 Avatar

    My favorite is “el Nieves” (the snows) because of his dandruff.

  92. huazzy Avatar

    Relevant story: I went on a trip to the Dominican Republic as an interpreter and all the students started calling one of the men in the village “CandyMan” because he looked exactly like the actor that plays the Candyman in the horror film of the same name. During our final night there people would go up on stage and give a small speech.

    Candyman goes up and says (in Spanish) “I heard you call me Candy Man and I don’t know why you gave me that name. But perhaps it’s because you think I’m sweet. Thank you.”

  93. heythere_4321 Avatar

    Vulto (bulto/shadow)

    Because once a teacher said how we wont remember lots of people of our lives even if we saw them daily for a long time because they didnt made any kind of impression, like they were just like a fickle shadow on the wall.

    Afterward, the class collectively agreed that one guy was our meaningless fickle shadow.

    This one was mean, but it really catched poor thing

  94. goldfish1902 Avatar

    Back in 7th grade my History teacher one day showed up with a Farrah Fawcett hairstyle. Kids nicknamed her Wolverine

  95. Fernando3161 Avatar

    There was a guy who was seein with a “not-so-attractive” girl once… His nickname for the rest of highschool was “Don Bagre”

    We were pieces of shit.

  96. scorpioinheels Avatar

    One of my niece’s names is Sierra. Her grandfather named her “Misty” and the whole family calls her “La Mista.” No one knows her government name.

  97. Arrenddi Avatar

    A short guy with a big head of Salvadoran descent was called (by other Salvadorans) Colmoyote cabeza de Ayote, or Pumpkin-headed botfly.

    The dude seemed to take it all in stride, though – or at least it seemed that way.

  98. Worried_Diver6420 Avatar

    This thread is a cultural gem!