The Collaborative International Dictionary
By-name
By-name \By"-name`\, n.
A nickname.
--Camden.
Wiktionary
by-name
n. (alternative spelling of byname English)
Usage examples of "by-name".
Apothecary and Herbarist, or Weeding Woman, and Alphonse Karr does not seem to have had any by-name of that sort.