The phrase "a name sometimes used" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a term or designation that is not the primary or official name but is occasionally employed in certain contexts.
Example: "The term 'cyberspace' is a name sometimes used to describe the virtual environment of the internet."
Alternatives: "a term occasionally used" or "a designation sometimes referred to".
Those red wines -- smooth, spicy and highly aromatic -- are generally blends of grapes with unfamiliar names like periquita, trincadeira, baga and aragonez (a name sometimes used interchangeably with tinta roriz, the Portuguese name for the Spanish tempranillo).
Urodela is a name sometimes used for all the extant species of salamanders.
In 1920, students began publishing the campus's first sports newspaper under the name The Hoya, after successfully petitioning the Dean of the College to use it instead of the proposed name, The Hilltopper. "Hilltoppers" was also a name sometimes used for the sports teams.
Another name sometimes used for them, Pantopoda, means "all legs" and describes them perfectly.
Eggy bread, the name sometimes used for the UK equivalent of French toast, clearly lays out the problem: too much egg, not enough of a sugar overdose.
The terms maiden name and girl's name are sometimes used for the original family name of a married woman.
The battle's name is sometimes used as a synonym for the entire Toledo War.
That name is sometimes used generically to describe a column written by a woman; in 1991, Martyn Harris in the Spectator described Julie Burchill thus: She ran away to London at 16, went to work on a pop music paper, and now writes the Glenda Slagg piece for the Mail on Sunday.
The name is sometimes used interchangeably with the so-called shipping fever, a specific type of pasteurellosis (caused by Pasteurella multocida) that commonly attacks cattle under stress, as during shipping.
The main island is Mangareva, whose name is sometimes used to refer to the whole group.
Swift had Laputa, and Mencken had Moronia, which was the name he sometimes used for the country he lived in.
