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In addition to having colorful personal names, Indians exchanged actual nicknames too.
Names are a tricky subject in English as in any language, but happily a very few facts go a long way towards explaining the origins of hundreds of English nicknames and family names.
In Charles Stough's delightful article, Insulting Nicknames Give Journalists Something to Be Proud of [XXI,4], he gives The Grope and Flail for Canada's national newspaper of record, The (Toronto) Globe and Mail .
Hanks and Hodges and de Felice say that most of these nicknames could also be bestowed ironically.
Many of the resulting forms remain current as nicknames (or indeed as names in their own right), others are preserved only in patronymics, and still others have vanished entirely.