Terms of Endearment for people can work well as pet names.
People have called their significant others as well as their children and others by sweet nicknames forever.
Giving your pet a name such as Bunny, Dearheart, Honey, or Wookums is common. Many owners bestow a formal name but end up calling their pet by a term of endearment most of the time anyhow.
Many of these names are very cute, but some are sickening sweet and/or funny!
Here is a comprehensive list of Terms of Endearment that can be used as pet names too:
Angel
Apple
Baby or just plain old Bae
Angel Baby
Baby Darling
Baby Doll
Babygirl
Beauty
Beary
Bebe
Beloved
Boo or Boo Boo
Boo Boo Bear
Boopsie
Boots
Boyfriend
Bubba
Bubbie
Bubbles
Bunny
Bunny Dearest
BunBun
Bug
Butterball
Buttercup
Care Bear
“Caro” or “Cara” – Italian for Dear
“Chang Noi” – a Thai term of endearment which means Little Elephant
Cherish
Chica
Chick or Chickie
Chickadee
Cookie
Cowboy
Cuddles
Cuddle Duck
Cupid
Cutie
Cutie Patootie
Cutie Pie
Cute Stuff
Darling
Dear or Dearie or Dearest
Dearheart
Doll
Doll Baby
Doll Face
Doodle Bug
Ducky – this one is most often used in Britain
Dumpling
Gem
Girlie
Girlfriend
Friend
Handsome
Honey
Honey Bear
Honey Bucket
Honey Bun
Honey Bunch
Honey Child
Honey Pot
Honeysuckle
Hotcake
Kid
Lamb
Lamb Chop
Lambie-Pie
Love or Lovey
Lovebird
Love Bumpkin
Lovebug
Lovey-Dove or Lovey-Dovey
Lover
Mama
Mama Bear
“Mea Aloha” – a Hawaiian term that means “My Loved One”
“Meu Chuchu” – A Brazilian pet name; “chuchu” is a vegetable!
“Mon Cherie” – French for My Dear
“Mon Petit Chou” – French for my little cabbage or cream puff
Muffin
“Muru” – Finnish for Breadcrumb
My Love
Pal
Peachy or Peachie
Pet
Petunia
Pinky
Poopsie
Pop or Popsie
Poppet – a very old-fashioned term of endearment
Pooh Bear
Pookie
Pudding or Puddin’
Pumpkin
Precious
Princess
Queenie
“Schatje” – Dutch for “Little Treasure”
Silly Goose
Smootchie
Snookums
Snooks or Snookie
“Snoepje” – Danish for “Little Candy”
Snuggles
Sugar or Shug
Sugar Baby or Sugar Babe
Sugar Cake
Sugar Doll
Sugar Plum
Sugar Puss
Sunshine or Sunny
Sweetheart
Sweetie or Sweets
Sweet Pea
Sweetie Pie
Sweet Potato
Sweet Thing
Sweetness
Sweetums
Teddy
Teddy Bear
Tinkerbelle
Tootsie
Tootsie-Wootsie
Turtle Dove
Tweety
Tweety-Pie
Twinkle
“Vishenka” – a popular Russian pet name that means cherry
Wookums
