"I am still Butter," he said, his family nickname.

He instead offered up "Jay," a family nickname, and it suited everyone.

For once, the security chief didn't seem ready to summarily execute him for using her family nickname.

Jake explains its a family nickname passed down to the first daughter every generation.

That's my family nickname, and it has no negative connotations.

In this manner of remembrance I do mean by name or, most likely, a family nickname.

"Do you know what my family nickname is?"

"I ought to explain that my family nickname is Tuppence."

More likely it was a family nickname that he and several generations of male descendants chose to use.

Many families in the town have a family nickname which has been carried on for generations.