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Why would you start calling a kid Gerry if no one else calls him that, and he doesn't like it? There is nothing wrong with the name Geronimo, and forcibly pushing a nick name onto the boy would give him the idea that their was something wrong with his name or with him. Just because a child's name doesn't fit within someone else's arbitrary ideas of what appearance and ethnic identity they need to go along with their name does not give another person the right to rename a child. Would you press a nick name onto a boy with some Spanish lineage named Arthur just because the real Arthur was from Britain? Hopefully not.