What was Madonna's pet name at home?

Madonna’s pet name at home was Little Nonnie. She was born Madonna Louise Ciccone, sharing the first name Madonna with her mother, Madonna Louise Fortin. To distinguish the daughter from her mother within the family, relatives used the affectionate nickname “Little Nonnie.”

The nickname belongs to Madonna’s childhood in Michigan, long before she became one of the world’s most recognizable pop stars. She was born in Bay City in 1958 and grew up in the Detroit suburbs in a large Italian-American Catholic family. Her professional name was not invented as a separate stage identity; Madonna is her birth first name, although she later became known internationally by that single name.

“Little Nonnie” is often rendered in slightly different ways, including “Little Nonni” or simply “Nonnie,” but the canonical trivia answer is Little Nonnie. It should not be confused with Louise, Madonna’s middle name, or Lola, the nickname of her daughter Lourdes. Madonna’s mother died of breast cancer when Madonna was five, an event that later influenced several of her songs and public reflections.