Turns out, assigning certain names to your phone contacts is, in a way, a world of its own. There are unwritten rules that one should follow: for instance, it's completely unacceptable to have your spouse listed only as their name after years of being together. On the other hand, it's pretty funny if someone does have their significant other named that way. Even after years and years of marriage.
This whole thing has recently been proved by this short tweet in which a user @wrefinnej shared how she just found out that her husband has her number listed on his phone as "Jennifer Wortman." The post quickly went viral and it currently has over 300k likes. In addition, it inspired other people to share the most hilarious, quirky, and interesting ways someone has them or they have someone named on their contact list. With that being said, Bored Panda invites you to look through the best ones we managed to find!
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Some users didn't quite understand why anyone would be mad if their number was listed like that on their significant other's phone.
"…how else am I supposed to have my husband in my phone???" one user commented. "I know! I’m feeling terribly insecure now because my husband is in my phone under his name. I’m not sure else how to do it," another one added.
My hubby has me as babe on his phone and I have him as A sweety. I have the A in front so it is the first contact in my contacts list.
I did the same to my sister. I replaced my name by "the best sister ever" 😀
I did the same to my sister. I put myself as "the best sister ever"😂
In fact, some people even explained why they prefer to list people using their full names. "I use full names for general security purposes. If anyone gained access to my phone, familiar labels would be giftwrapping contact info for my entire family," one user commented.
"Friend was thrown off his bike, hit his head and was only just about able to say his wife's name over and over. He was in no fit state to recite numbers. They were able to call her, thankfully. Definitely worth having in there," another user added.
My friend and I were travelling to Ruanda (we are both from Austria) to meet her then fiance. She had his name listed as "Umugabu Wanye" (that means: My husband). Thinking that this might be his official name, I listed him under the same name, although we always called him "Ferdinand". At the airport we had to show them a contact number to the immigration officers. They were already having a lot of fun with my friend and joking around about her loving a Ruandan man ("Ruandan men must be good" or something like that), but then was my turn to give them the number too... yes, we had some explanation to do...
My son has me as Mothership & his father as The Big Cheese. Love him!
I'd feel pretty good about that name. MY daughter has me as "HBIC" (Head Bitch in Charge)
All iPhones have a RED star by the emergency contact name in the contacts list. When the star is tapped it says "emergency contact" and takes you to that contact.
A few users pointed out how it could be extremely helpful to list your significant other as ICE (In Case Of Emergencies). "EMT/Paramedics suggest all phones have a separate entry entitled ICE (in case of emergencies), even if you have your spouse/so/parent/child/etc. Fully listed in contacts. It saves minutes when seconds matter!" someone wrote.
"My wife and I lust each other in our phones as ICE - In Case of Emergency. It was recommended by Emergency Services years ago to help them quickly locate the correct person to call if one was in an accident," explained another user.
Do you mean you have your mom as that? Cos it sounds as if you really have a mothership, but it's in your phone as Mom.
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Load More Replies...A grad school student in a bar? And who passed out?! This is even more surprising than the name.
thats how it be tho you get caught slippn one time and you go to jail......in your room.....👮♂️🚨
To a child that may seem true for them! BUT unless you ARE a Federal Employee encourage him to change that to ICE (In Case of Emergency)!
I use to have my Bluetooth connection listed as Mi5 mobile phone tap for when people use to do random searches on public transport.
Another user commented by giving an alternative to the ICE thing to iPhone users: "My husband is listed by his full name... but he has his own ring/text tone that is ONLY his... and I have him as my SOS contact coded to his contact via Apple so if something happened to me and the SOS function was activated it alerts him with a text to my location."
I have Sigue Sigue Sputnik's Sex Bomb Boogie as the ringtone for my husband. Sometimes people are like "what the hell", when it goes off. Once I overheard a reaction that made 0 sense to me and that I'll always remember. My husband and I were at the Incheon airport, after our Tokyo trip. We didn't know we didn't need to separate into international passport / domestic passport lanes, so we naturally went to each queue respectively (me, having my Croatian passport, him with his Korean one). The international one had a longer queue, and in front of me there was a group of friends speaking English amongst them, sounded like native speakers, but couldn't tell where from. My husband called, making this ringtone go off, I replied, speaking in Korean, naturally, as we do. The conversation was short. Those aforementioned guys were like "What was that?! She's Taiwanese, probably." Me (inside my head): "What?" Nothing about me or that situation pointed to Taiwan. That was so random.
That would be even cooler if this Peter Buck (OP) is the guitarist from REM!
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Load More Replies...Turns out, many people have their loved ones listed with A letters in front of their name to make sure that they appear on the very top of the contact list.
"My husband appears on my phone contacts as AA his name (Emergency Contact). The AA ensure he is the first one in the list of contacts in case I have an accident or I am dead and someone need to be reach in my behalf. Hahahahaha. I am practical and dramatic. Hahahaaha," a user shared.
"I do the same thing for work contacts, but with ZZ so I never mistakingly send out inappropriate texts to them," another person added.
I wonder how they feel about when they watch Modern Family together.
he was probably on a vacation or raised to say "mum" bc his mom called her mom "mum"
Load More Replies...For years my dad was "Daddy" in my phone, but I realised that I probably sounded like a 2 year old, so it's now "Dad". His ringtone goes: Your father is attempting to reach you on your cellular device. (With bleeps like a spaceship and read in like a robot voice)
I am from West Yorkshire and I have always said Mum, so does my daughter.
Us Aussies only ever use 'mum', when I came here from Holland where we called her 'mam' pronounced mum. Very convenient
Load More Replies...My moms when my brother is calling her he has emoji as a boy and it says "Arron elliott boys head, boys head, boys head
I thought it was funny just "mom old woman" and then I said it out loud "CALLING MOM,OLD WOMAN"and laughed so hard my dad shouted up the stairs to go to bed..
Yes, the vast majority are doing well... they even seem needed in some jobs. Vast majority is law abiding (and don't let their emotions override their adherence to protocol --- can be good can be bad). Read Ron Jonson "The psychopath test" eg.
Load More Replies...Who's phone is that one on, yours or his? Either way, divorce is well deserved.
@BoredPanda if you are planning to do a gallery of hillarious comments from your own page, please include Lorraine R's :)
Load More Replies...Do you check your messages, "And now, a reading from the first epistle of Peter..."?
My ex-aunt was married to my uncle Richard and they had s son- Richard Jr. After their divorce, she married a different Richard who also had a son named Richard Jr. Not confusing at all🙃
Some prefer blondes, some like them tall, this person seem to like Peters lol!
How do you prefer to name your loved ones on your phone? Have you got any funny examples to add? Let us know down in the comment section!
I have my mom as Parental Unit/Birth Giver sag arrow and my dad is Parental unit Cancer Crab
ONLY if she is older and acted like a mother would I ever allow that to be put on my phone. I'd change it back in a heartbeat!
My sister was "Sasquatch" in my phone because she is taller than me and she has a temper.
my aunts name in my uncles phone is "the boss" and hers is just "FIANCE"
My husband thinks he's hilarious. He has the Star Wars bad guy music as my ringtone .
There may have been a 4th or 97th. He was just the guy that stuck.
Load More Replies...He Who Shall Not Be Named, or Called, or Answered, or Even Thought of Ever Again
Yes, I thought that was so clever I gave myself the first like!!
Load More Replies...In this case, the "Billy and Mandy" version might fit better : Lord Moldy Butt!
it is amazing that watching Ace Ventura 2 on the first date can result in a marriage! ;-)
I really don’t get it. But don’t explain to me if it’s something I don’t know because I’m to young
There is a scene in Ace Ventura 2 where Ace climbs out of a robot rhinoceros via it's behind.
Load More Replies...Haha, I'm listed in someone's phone as Barack Obama. First time his daughter heard that name called out when the phone rang she was sooo impressed with her dad. After she saw me, not so much anymore.
Great idea! LOL! BUT bet he was disappointed he realized it wasn't who he thought it would be.
Smart, good to have a fresh smack of reality in the face if you're ever feeling nostalgic or he comes 'round begging for you back.
OUCH! Hope you had him call your phone so you could show that to him! LOL!
Cause he's the father of the baby. Also if she wants to avoid his calls, she'll need to know who it is first, so.
Load More Replies...She was expecting something more exciting then that.
Load More Replies...Everyone in my contact list is listed first and last name, because I often have to forward contacts to other people. This includes my wife, mother , father, grandparents... it also makes them easier to find when you don't have to scroll through 300+ contacts trying to remember the nickname that you gave that one guy.
My husband too, he only listed me under my name. Men can be so unromantic at times. =)
Then tell us honestly what you have saved for him.
Load More Replies...It's 'hun' but with an o in the middle and a double n at the end! 😉🤟
Imagine if ur drunk and u get a call from “ Ukrainian Private Investigator” I would be like “oh S**t What have I don’t now!!!” 😂😂😂
I just recently changed my mom to something other than her full name XD. I don’t even know why I had her full name, especially when my dad was “Papa”. She was scandalized when she saw it.
Usually for emergency reasons it’s best to not put important people as joke names because if someone else looks they won’t know who it is
Load More Replies...I don't even know why but I have my grandma down as the precious don't judge me.
No judgement! I wish my grandmother was still alive so I could do that!
Load More Replies...My parents passed away before I even had a cell phone, but I have my brothers full name in the one I have now. He's my only living family member now.
person who just said that I'm probably autistic or my grandma is I don't know I'm not I just have to brush an ADHD please do not assume people are autistic it's really rude thank you
I have my parents as ICE Mum (full name) and ICE Dad (full name). They told me to put them in as ICE and then I wasn't sure what to put after that
I have a friend who's changed her # so many times I just # them and when I want to call or text her I just go in my call history to the last time she called me. ... probably safe to call that one I guess?
Oh for gawds sake BP, w i l l y is hardly a swear word, and free w i l l y is the name of a film!
Load More Replies...The automatic "Maybe" addition isn't more than 5--10y old though.
Maybe it's was more recently, when he purchased a new phone; she just figured after 30 years of marriage you'd think he would take the effort to add her as a contact. Lol. At least that's my interpretation.
Load More Replies...Well you're not wrong, but you're not right either.
Load More Replies...I wonder if she is related to the guy who said he had that for his wife in his phone
We met online too 19 years ago. My husband still calls me by my online handle. We've been married for 17 years and have two teenagers
lmao... mine did the same... when i call her it shows up as princefrickncharming calling
My GF is the bosses granddaughter. So I listed her as any other client. The name of her service address. She still finds it offensive.
That's gotta be disappointing when she just wants to talk and not buy ice cream...
This one boy in my class has like10 letters in his name and not even his parents always spell it right he is just like:😶
My daughter has me in her phone as Britney Spears. I don't know why. A long time ago I stole my wife's phone and changed my name to Sexy Hot Pants. I think that's still how it's set.
My daughetr's numerosi is Oh no, my daughter. In Spanish sound better
I met my boyfriend on tinder and his name on my phone is still 'not s serial killer'
What about those 2 people who have the same spelling of first and last names and got married? Toni Walker I think. Must drive the IRS CRAZY when they file their tax returns every year!
Whaaaat? That's an interesting take on this. Pretty sure it's just common sense for a person to know how to spell their spouse's name.
Load More Replies...Imagine if "That annoying friend" sees their contact name in ur phone
Name will change to "No longer friends".
Load More Replies...I knew someone who had her mother as "Dad's Wife" and the ringtone for her was "Crazy" by Patsy Cline. Her boss' ringtone was "If I Only Had A Brain".
The ringtone for my family is “Scream” by Michael Jackson.😒
Load More Replies...My aunt puts everyone in her phone by their first, middle and last names.
Well, calling (here presumably african-american) others "monkey" is also frowned upon.
Load More Replies...Siri : "Calling Dama heart, shrinking purple hear, kiss stain, queen's guard, eyes, pork head, pork, diamond ring, party confetti, straight white couple, white man and woman kissing, straight white family with two sons, diamond ring, diamond ring, taco, hot dog, eggplant, peach, confetti, whish seem to fall from a coconut for some reason, pennyiwise baloon, Pull".
Pork??? Y'all can't call it pig now 😭😭😭 I don't understand how you see an animal and immediately think of food instead of the actual animal lol
Load More Replies...Clearly he tried cracking a joke once...but it didn't go as well as expected...🙃🙌
Why is this downvoted? I like seeing my husband's full name on my phone. After years, seeing or hearing his name still gives me this warm, pleasant feeling inside. Maybe so for Christine's husband (and many others), too.
Load More Replies...Ok kinda unrelated but HOW CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING ON THAT SCREEN WHEN THE PROTECTOR IS CRACKED LIKE THAT. I HAVE LITERALLY THROWN MY PHONE OUT OF A TREE AND THERE IS NOT A SINGLE CRACK IN IT, WHAT DID YOU DO TO IT!!!!
Calm down. It still works just fine a little cracked. It’ll be totally ok.
Load More Replies...My contacts are all inside jokes. God help me if they ever have to call someone on my phone.
These were inspiring - as soon as I get my phone back, I shall be creating some hilarious contact names.
What did you do to have your phone taken away
Load More Replies...Please all just put ICE (in case of emergency) in front of your next of kin, whatever the nickname. Easier for emergency services to know who to call.......
Most phones now have an emergency contact label so it's easy for others to find and if it has that label others can call your contact without having to unlock your phone.
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This is my contact name for my stepmom, who used to work in an aquarium
Not as crazy as other entries on this list, but still a lot of emojis
Load More Replies...My contacts are all inside jokes. God help me if they ever have to call someone on my phone.
These were inspiring - as soon as I get my phone back, I shall be creating some hilarious contact names.
What did you do to have your phone taken away
Load More Replies...Please all just put ICE (in case of emergency) in front of your next of kin, whatever the nickname. Easier for emergency services to know who to call.......
Most phones now have an emergency contact label so it's easy for others to find and if it has that label others can call your contact without having to unlock your phone.
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This is my contact name for my stepmom, who used to work in an aquarium
Not as crazy as other entries on this list, but still a lot of emojis
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