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basket name
basket name n. 
/ˈbaskᵻt neɪm/,
Brit. /ˈbɑːskᵻt neɪm/
, /ˈbɑːskᵻt neɪm//ˈbaskᵻt neɪm/U.S. /ˈbæskət ˌneɪm/
, /ˈbæskət ˌneɪm/West African English /ˈbaskɛt ˌnem/
(among West African peoples, or their descendants, esp. Gullah communities) a pet name given to a child in addition to its ‘official’ forename./ˈbaskɛt ˌnem/ΚΠ
1893 E. H. Botume First Days amongst Contrabands 48 I could remember that ‘Cornhouse’ yesterday was ‘Primus’ to-day. That ‘Quash’ was ‘Bryan’... The older people told me..these were ‘basket names’.
1948 L. D. Turner in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. Apr. 84 Most of the Gullahs use two kinds of given-names. One is English, and they call it their real or true name... The other is the nickname known also as the pet name or basket name.
2001 J. Robinson Pride & Joy ii. vii. 92 African children who were named by the slave master often had two names: the registered name given to them by the master and a secret name, or ‘basket name’. given to them by the family.
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