Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun byname

1 sense of byname

Sense 1
nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname -- (a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim")
       => appellation, denomination, designation, appellative -- (identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others)