nickname

substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place or thing
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nickname

Summary

nickname ranks in the top 0.84% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,019 views/month, #655 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • nickname is a type of name[2].
  • nickname's Commons category is recorded as Nicknames[3].
  • nickname's said to be the same as is recorded as Übername[4].
  • nickname's said to be the same as is recorded as nickname[5].
  • nickname's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Nicknames[6].
  • nickname's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[7].
  • nickname's partially coincident with is recorded as middle name[8].
  • nickname's main Wikidata property is recorded as P1449[9].
  • nickname's different from is recorded as tsusho[10].
  • nickname's different from is recorded as name calling[11].
  • nickname's different from is recorded as pseudonym[12].
  • nickname's different from is recorded as social name[13].
  • nickname's different from is recorded as byname[14].
  • nickname's different from is recorded as nickname[15].
  • nickname's different from is recorded as term of endearment[16].
  • nickname's different from is recorded as nom de guerre[17].
  • nickname's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Anthroponymy[18].

Body

Definition and Type

nickname is a type of name[2].

Why It Matters

nickname ranks in the top 0.84% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,019 views/month, #655 of 77,819).[1] nickname has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] nickname is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . englishonline.britishcouncil.org. englishonline.britishcouncil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 2458, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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