Pet Names for Your Girlfriend

Love often dictates the ones in a relationship, to use a name other than the one that all know. In simpler words, pet names for your girlfriend are required in a relationship. They add a level of familiarity that helps improve the bond that is shared in the relationship. Let's check out a few of these pet names for girls.
Pet Names for Your Girlfriend
Using the full name becomes more and more difficult as you get closer and closer with a person. You like to give them names that will not only show your affection, but also respect and concern. In many cultures, the use of pet name show a bond that gives one a certain degree of right over the other person. This sort of a right, often corrects the wrongs in the relationship. That is when pet names for your girlfriend, make sense.

I have often seen that men call their girlfriends by different pet names for girls. Some are common, some are unique. Some are loving and some are point blank silly. I don't blame them, silliness, in a relationship, is fun. It adds the spunk to the mundaneness that romance can bring, when overdone.

List of Pet Names for Your Girlfriend
  • Sweetums: Yes, I have heard a 40 year old man call his wife this. It is one of the really cute pet names for your girlfriend, that made me realize that the secret of long lasting love can be fatuity. Read more on cute nicknames for girlfriend.
  • Blossom: I believe that the guy was a major "Power Puff Girls" fan. I later suggested names like Bubbles and Buttercup to him as well.
  • Angel: This is one of the really good pet names for your girlfriend. I have seen that if a guy uses this name for a girl, she is way special to him.
  • Funny Bone: The girl this name was used for was fairly skinny and, yes you guessed it right, had a major sense of humor.
  • Cuppycake: There was a really cute track that had come into trend about a girl being a cuppycake. After that, I found many men use this pet name for their girlfriends. More cute names to call your girlfriend.
  • Jaaneman (pronounced as jaa-nay-mun): This is a word I have seen Indian men use very often as a pet name for girls. It means "someone as important as life".
  • Jane: The girl for whom this name was used was very outdoorsy and enjoyed the wild. She called the guy Tarzan. One of the very befitting pet names for girls, don't you think?
  • Cleo: Well, it may be as clear to you'll as it was to me. The guy called his girlfriend this because he believed she was as beautiful and perfect as Cleopatra. Wouldn't it make an awesome pet name for your girlfriend?
  • Flame: Yes, sounds like a super hero name. But the guy's explanation was that she was the "hottest thing" he had ever seen.
  • Cuddlesome: It's clear from the name, the guy loved cuddling with his girlfriend. And this, he said, was what made their relationship perfect beyond reason. It is one of the best pet names for girlfriend that I have come across.
  • Barbie: No, the guy did not love sleeping with a Barbie when he was a kid. He called his girlfriend this because she, according to him, was perfect and ideal. Read more on sweet and affectionate nicknames.
  • Bella: I came across this one recently, after the release of the Twilight series. The guy was in love with his girlfriend, who was 10 years younger than him. More so, the girlfriend was absolutely crazy about Twilight.
  • Killer: The guy who uses this pet name is a hopeless romantic. He calls his girlfriend this because he could "just die in her arms". Well, romance has a new address for me now! May be even you can try out this as one of the pet names for your girlfriend.
  • Crazy: Yes, this couple was brilliant. They were artists and differed with each other on every front. Nonetheless, they are madly in love with each other. They called each other "crazy". Maybe you can use such funny pet names for your girlfriend.
  • Pooh-Bear: Well, I haven't really been able to decode the reason behind this pet name for girls. But, it is cute and showers a lot of love, don't you think?
  • My Girl: This one is inspired by the song "My Girl" by The Temptations. This was their wedding song as well.
Women can find similar help by reading more on pet names for boyfriend and cute nicknames for boyfriends.

I need not add, that there are many more pet names for your girlfriend that you can come up with. It can be loving, or even super silly. As long as it is used with love and affection, it will reflect your feelings, truly. More so, try to be unique with these pet names, women hate the ordinary and would love it, if they see you put effort into a pet name for them. Hope these great pet names for your girlfriend helped you out. This is where I sign off, sweethearts! Take care.

By Rashida Khilawala
Published: 11/2/2009
 
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