What's the deal with the name "Moby-Dick"?

Turns out Melville based the name on a true story about a ferocious albino sperm whale named Mocha-Dick!!! The name originates from the whale's location off the Chilean island of Mocha and Dick was apparently selected as a random male name, like Tom or Jack, but Moby-Tom doesn't have the same ring to it.

Riddled with dozens of harpoons from his numerous escapes from whalers, Mocha Dick often attacked ships with premeditated ferocity. One of his battles with a whaler served as subject for an article, Mocha Dick: or The White Whale of the Pacific by explorer Jeremiah N. Reynolds in the May 1839 issue of The Knickerbocker, New York Monthly Magazine. The article recounted the capture of a giant white sperm whale that had become infamous among whalers for its violent attacks on ships and their crews. Melville was familiar with the article, which described "an old bull whale, of prodigious size and strength... [that] was white as wool". Significantly, Reynolds writes a first-person narration that serves as a frame for the story of a whaling captain he meets. The captain resembles Ahab and suggests a possible symbolism for whales in that, when his crew first encounters Mocha Dick and cowers from him, the captain rallies them thus: "'Mocha Dick or the devil,' said I, 'this boat never sheers off from any thing that wears the shape of a whale.'

Mocha Dick had over 100 battles with whalers. First noted (because of his color, and later for his wounds) in 1810, he battled whalers on a regular basis until 1859. He was described as being giant (even for a whale). He was covered in barnacles.

So Melville stole the name and the plot line from a true story recounted by Jeremiah Reynolds, but who's famous now, Jerewhatshisface?