Instead Of Calling Your Boyfriend By His Name, Consider These 497 Ideas (2024)

You know you’ve got a strong relationship when you’ve given each other some custom, straight-from-the-heart nicknames that are used only for and by each other. The longer you spend with someone, the instances you call them by their legal first name become fewer and fewer — and the nicknames that replace it get progressively sillier and more personal. Coming up with nicknames for your boyfriend or husband to all but replace their actual name entirely is a relationship right of passage. Some people even get to the point of taking offense when their birth name is used in lieu of a loving “Babe” or “Sweetie Pie.”

Using cute terms of endearment for your partner brings you closer, makes them feel loved, and is a way to identify them as a special person in your life. While there are certainly the OG pet names you could call your boyfriend or husband that always relay your affection, the exact nicknames you bestow upon your SO depend on the dynamics of your relationship, your inside jokes and experiences together, and each of your personalities.

While one twosome may never dream of calling each other “Smelly” or “Noodle Head”, for others with a more playful jab-filled rapport, such titles are of the highest form of affection and honor.

Then, as seen on TikTok, some couple nicknames are quite simply unhinged and nonsensical (and hilarious). But sometimes they simply slip off the tongue out of nowhere and boom, he’s now called “Mister Potatoe Head”. These creative names are the ones that just roll off the tongue because whatever off-handed comment someone made in the YouTube video you watched last night just kind of stuck around in your subconscious. And often, they’re the best kind and always make for a good laugh.

To demonstrate your most sincere of affections, give one of these nicknames for your boyfriend or husband a spin. From the tried and true classics, to adorably cringe, to the totally hilarious and absurd, here are 498 ideas for new relationships to long-term partners to get you started. His heart will do a little dance, even if his face does an eye roll — these pet names will make him feel totally loved.