Family Nick name propagation

Hi,
Using GrampsAIO64-5.1.3-2 on Windows. I have some 600+ persons in my family tree. I recently added a Family nick name to the topmost ancestor in my family tree. The reason for this is that we don’t have enough real estate in the Charts/Reports to show my rather long surname. I was hoping that adding familynick will take effect and propagate that to all the descendants Unfortunately, it did not. Is there a way that the familynick can be pushed to all person records in my family?