byname

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That byname, by the nature of DuVernay’s project, almost immediately comes to seem not merely inadequate but unjust.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2019

To-name, tōō′-nām, n. a byname, nickname, or name in addition to Christian name and surname.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

No; he had never heard of one called Randall, neither in hat nor cowl, but he knew more of them by face than by name, and more by byname than surname or christened name. 

From The Armourer's Prentices by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

It was not so; and the byname by which I went behind my back confirmed it.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The Resurrection Man - to use a byname of the period - was not to be deterred by any of the sanctities of customary piety.

From Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis