nicknamer

plural nicknamers

1. One who bestows a nickname.

   The Hudson River Cafe, which opened in May, is tucked beneath the West Side Highway at 133rd Street, in West Harlem, on that still-gritty stretch of 12th Avenue along the Riverside Drive viaduct that hopeful real-estate nicknamers have dubbed “ViVa,” for Viaduct Valley.

   2007 August 19, Jonathan Miles, “Sanguine Sangria”, in New York Times