The author's research shows that nicknames are one of the oldest antroponemic categories as well as one of the most affective ones because nicknames usually keep both onomastic and lexical meaning that have motivated them. Nicknames are, more than other names, a product of speech. They are the act of speech and are not subject to the language norm. Nicknames bear message and mocking in their contents depending on the person they refer to. Due to those speech characteristics, nicknames fit into the topic of this journal that has speech in its title, and follow the huge, greatly admired and prominent opus of the distinguished colleague full professor Ivo Skaric to whom I dedicate this paper on the occasion of his birthday and the anniversary of his scientific work.