Best Nicknames

Origin: unknown
assumption: baby talk for brother

Meaning: “friend, pal, chum”
The nickname Buddy has been given to boys
with many different first names

Buddy Variations:
Bud, Budd, Buddie

Buddy TV and Movie Quotes:
“You can call your next dog “Krypto.” Look, it’s not that hard:
Max, Lucky, Rocky, Bailey, Scamp, Monty, Bud.”
Smallville: Krypto (2005)
“Buddy, for your own good you gotta let this go.”
Wedding Crashers (2005)
“What’s the good word, buddy boy?”
The Honeymooners: Brother Ralph (1955)

Famous people nicknamed Buddy

1. Buddy Holly (1936-59), American rock and roll singer
born Charles Hardin Holley
2. Buddy Rich (b. 1917-87), American jazz drummer
born Bernard Rich
3. Buddy Hackett (1924-2003), American comedian, actor
born Leonard Hacker
 

 
Real Buddies:

• Buddy Jewell, Jr. American country musician
• Buddy Wayne Knox, American rocker (“Party Doll”)

More Buddies

• Buddy Bell, American baseball player
  born David Gus Bell
• Buddy Blattner, American baseball player and sportscaster
  born Robert Garnett Blattner
• Buddy DeFranco, American jazz clarinetist
  born Boniface Ferdinand Leonard DeFranco
• Buddy Ebsen, American actor
  born Christian Rudolph Ebsen, Jr.
• Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist
  born Armando Greco
• Buddy Guy, American guitarist
  born George Guy
• Buddy Myer, American All-Star major league baseball player
  born Charles Solomon Myer
• Buddy Rogers, American actor and jazz musician
  born Charles Rogers
• “Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers, American professional wrestler
  born Herman Rohde