How we ended up calling our rottie "little one"

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We have an 8 month old rottie. He's name is Zeus but, the thing is, he doesn't know that. See, his dad wanted to call him Zeus, though I personally don't like that name. But since it's my sister's baby and she decided to let her husband name him, I had been trying to convince my brother-in-law to change it by mentioning nicknames which he might like. As Zeus was growing, we kept calling him by nicknames such as "negrito" (which means little black one), "peanut", and "bebote" (which means big baby). Until one day, my sister started calling him 'chiquitin', an informal term for "little one" in Castillan, 'cause he was the smallest back then and the youngest up until now. Before we knew it, he was no longer responding when we call him by his name--not even to whatever nicknames we had called him--except "Chiquitin". Now, when people ask what is our rottie's name, we tell them that it's Zeus. But there are some people who would hear us calling him 'Chiquitin' and they'd be all like, "His name is Chiquitin?", with that awkward smile on their faces. And so, we had to explain like 'no, his name is Zeus but he only responds to his nickname which is Chiquitin because, since he's the youngest in the house, we kept calling him by that nickname... lalala'. That fact alone never fails to make people chuckle and put on that that's-so-cute face. Well, who wouldn't?