# Which US president had the best nickname?

> Some were earned by soldiers, some were insults that stuck, and one is just three letters.

*By YPB Team · Published August 19, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/which-us-president-had-the-best-nickname*

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## Current results (3 votes)

1. **Andrew Jackson** — 33.33% (1 votes · score 1000/1000)
   'Old Hickory', from troops who decided their general was as hard to break as the wood.
2. **Calvin Coolidge** — 33.33% (1 votes · score 835/1000)
   'Silent Cal', for a man who treated conversation as a resource to be conserved.
3. **Abraham Lincoln** — 33.33% (1 votes · score 762/1000)
   'Honest Abe', earned as a country lawyer long before it became campaign material.
4. **Rutherford B. Hayes** — 0% (0 votes · score 734/1000)
   'His Fraudulency', pinned on him by opponents after the disputed 1876 election.
5. **Dwight D. Eisenhower** — 0% (0 votes · score 734/1000)
   'Ike', short enough to fit on a button — 'I Like Ike' did the rest.
6. **Martin Van Buren** — 0% (0 votes · score 571/1000)
   'The Little Magician', for a political operator who was five foot six.
7. **Thomas Jefferson** — 0% (0 votes · score 571/1000)
   'The Sage of Monticello', the title he got once he stopped governing and started building.
8. **Ulysses S. Grant** — 0% (0 votes · score 571/1000)
   'Unconditional Surrender Grant', a pun on his initials and his terms at Fort Donelson.
9. **Zachary Taylor** — 0% (0 votes · score 467/1000)
   'Old Rough and Ready', a general who campaigned in a straw hat and no uniform.
10. **Theodore Roosevelt** — 0% (0 votes · score 467/1000)
   'Teddy' — a nickname he disliked that ended up on a stuffed bear in every nursery.
11. **Ronald Reagan** — 0% (0 votes · score 467/1000)
   'The Great Communicator', a nickname earned on television rather than a battlefield.
12. **James K. Polk** — 0% (0 votes · score 343/1000)
   'Young Hickory', the protégé who kept every promise he made in one term.
13. **William Henry Harrison** — 0% (0 votes · score 343/1000)
   'Old Tippecanoe', from the 1811 battle that gave America its first campaign jingle.
14. **Franklin D. Roosevelt** — 0% (0 votes · score 343/1000)
   'FDR' — the first president known to the country by three letters.
15. **George Washington** — 0% (0 votes · score 190/1000)
   'The Father of His Country' — the only presidential nickname that reads like a job title.
16. **Grover Cleveland** — 0% (0 votes · score 190/1000)
   'The Veto President', for rejecting more bills than his twenty-one predecessors combined.

Tags: usa, nicknames, presidents