Just call him "Nick"
I posted a long time ago about a couple of my relatives whose names I thought were somewhat unusual -- Experience Sabin and Truthful Wait. They were born at a time -- Experience in the late 17th century and Truthful in the early 18h -- when English Puritans often named their children in one of three ways, if they were not named for a member of the extended family. This latter practice tends to cause confusion as fathers, sons, uncles and cousins -- and sometimes the equivalents among women, though not as common -- would all bear the same first name and occasionally the same full name. By far the most common was to name their children after people in the Bible. This isn't particularly unusual. The practice was used for a long time in Christian communities and continues to this day. They, and we, have no shortage of Matthews, Marks, Lukes and Johns, names that are also common outside of religious communities. According to the New England Historial Society web site, half of all Purit...