This assay explores nicknaming's sociolinguistic and ethnographic sense amid female teens in Nigeria with specific focus on those inhabiting Calabar Metropolis. It reckons with female nicknames' origin, dynamics and their social effects in group integration and accord. It uses Leslie and Skipper’s (1991) socio-onomastic nickname theory that distinguishes between constitutive, preferential and ad hoc nicknaming rules in grasping nicknaming process' social construction. It is inferred that female nicknames are creative, cultural symbols and styles via which female teens voice themselves as a kind of critical opposition to the stereotypical female image in a retentive society, in view of their psychological, sexual and aesthetic appeal.