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[1] A nickname is often considered desirable, symbolising a form of acceptance, but can sometimes be a form of ridicule. A moniker also means a nickname or personal name. The word often distinguishes personal names from nicknames that became proper names out of former nicknames. English examples are Bob and Rob, nickname variants for Robert.
List of pen names; List of people who adopted matrilineal surnames; List of pseudonyms used in the American Constitutional debates; List of works published under a pseudonym; Mononymous persons; Nicknames of jazz musicians; Pseudonyms used by U.S. President Donald Trump
Lists of nicknames of world leaders (5 P) Pages in category "Lists of people with nickname by occupation" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 February 2025. This is a list of monarchs (and other royalty and nobility) sorted by nickname. This list is divided into two parts: Cognomens: Also called cognomina. These are names which are appended before or after the person's name, like the epitheton necessarium, or Roman victory titles. Examples ...
A pun of the portmanteau of Phil Lester's and Daniel Howell's names—"Phan"—and the word "fandom". [92] Danny Gonzalez: Greg YouTuber In one of his videos, Gonzalez looked up "Strong Names" on Google and found the name "Gregory," which he shortened to Greg, and declared it a "good, strong name." [93] DAY6: My Day Music group [94] Deadsy: Leigons
"In it we had the official names of people and their nicknames or family names." Four editions were printed with the last one in 2018. Over the years, a book recording sheep tags used by local ...
A man with the surname 'Clark' will be nicknamed 'Nobby'; the surname 'Miller' will have the nickname 'Dusty' (alluding to the flour dust of a miller at work); the surname 'Adams' has the nickname 'Nabby'. Several other nicknames are linked traditionally with surnames, including Chalky White, Bunny Warren, Tug Wilson, and Spud Baker.
Leopard's Head box, 19th century. Wood with metal tags, used to hold kola nuts in the royal court of Benin, where leopard was an epithet for a powerful person.. An animal epithet is a name used to label a person or group, by association with some perceived quality of an animal.