How did you choose your username?

[oversoon]

My name comes from back when I was playing a lot of Fight Night. I'm honestly not cocky about gaming skill on anything else, but I will methodically destroy you on Fight Night. The name was meant to make opponents prejudge me as a someone who would be looking for the quick knockout, when my pacing is my true weapon. I usually use Lennox Lewis, I almost always get a knockout in rounds 6-8, and I've only lost twice ever (those really stung).

 

[144_v1legacy]

A lot of people have pretty weird or even disgusting usernames, but mine is truly gross.

 

[Dizchu]

My female persona is called "Lizzy". I made her when I was 15.

"Dizzy" became a sort of affectionate nickname I gave to my creation.

"Chuggernaut" is a portmanteau of "juggernaut" and "chug".

The word "chug" now makes me think of beer but it used to be exclusively about palm muting power chords on a guitar. Because I'm metal as f***, dude.

Therefore, "Dizzy the Chuggernaut", condensed to "DizzyChuggernaut". It has been abbreviated to "Dizchu" which is a name I use for my art and music. I kinda switch between the two when I make accounts on websites.

 

[the December King]

I used to think I was really, really clever.

I made a different High Born moniker for each of the months, and would change my messenger name every month to accomodate. There were several I can remember now - The Caliph of October, the August Emperor, the Sultan of September- and I'm sure I wrote them down somewhere for a short story I was working on, to go in tandem with a new D&D campaign setting concept. But the only one that really stayed with me was The December King.

Which has nothing to do with snakes.

...

Might be time for me to change my avatar.

 

[CrystalViolet]

If anyone can figure out where I got my username I'll be impressed. I'll be less impressed if you use Wikipedia.

I picked this username because I was really into The Mighty Boosh and all things associated with it back in 2009.

I wholeheartedly support that.

That song 115 from CoD Zombies is definitely cool

You had me at tacos, you lost me at CoD.

Gertrude was a name I was bullied with in grade school because I was often mistaken for a woman.

I think it's awesome that you took it back and disempowered it!

 

[Panorama]

I was or had been watching BBC Panorama probably 5-10 minutes of making the account. Was asked to come with a username, assumed no one would have used it & no one had. Wish i had thought for more then .25 of a second about it.

 

[TakerFoxx]

The first time I joined a forum back when I was seventeen or eighteen, I went with the username"The Undertaker" on account of being a huge pro wrestling fan. Over time, the other posters started to call me "Taker" for short and the name stuck.

The second part comes from believing for years that my real life last name was Dutch for "of the foxes." Turns out that it's not, but again, the name had stuck.

 

[Nergui]

It's a Mongolian child's nickname that translates roughly as "no name".

 

[Roxas1359]

Well my original username was Maxieon, and that was just the main account name I was using for pretty much everything. I still do for the most part. Anyway, I changed my name back in 2011 to Neronium, another name I use as an alternate account, and the rest is really history. I came up with Maxieon when I was in the...I think 4th or 5th grade, and Neronium just showed up in my head one day. Not the most grandiose story ever, but still better than the originals of my Roxas1359 name.

 

[Queen Michael]

My name's Michael, and I'm a tranny. That's it. Though I told my mom it's a The Invisibles reference. (I'm not out to her yet.)

 

[Herman Hedning's mace]

I read a Herman Hedning (Marvin Meathead in the english translation) at the time and thought that this would have to do. I changed my username once to make it grammatically correct.

 

[-Dragmire-]

Sometime in my early teen era, I wanted a self insertion character for the stories that I was into. I just combined the words dragon and spire with an m in between as a good connecting sound. I've kept the name ever since for online names.

... I would later find out that Dragmire is Ganondorf's last name which was a little surreal since I thought, at the time, that my created name was very unique.

 

[Lionsfan]

When I first started getting into various forums, Xbox Live, etc etc, I was a huge NFL fan (Detroit Lions). So I registered myself as...well Lionsfan.

And I've just used it as my go to name ever since. Although there's only like 3-4 sites I visit on a regular basis, and maybe 1-2 that I post on

 

[xaszatm]

It's the initials to my full name. Xavier Alexander Spencer Zayar Aung Tin-Maung.

 

[Breakdown]

I was playing Transformers: War for Cybertron around the tme I joined the Escapist forums and I liked the character of Breakdown.

 

[zerragonoss]

Add another one to stupid name I came up with when I was much younger that I kinda let stick, "zer" is from wizard and "ragon" is from dragon

 

[Catfood220]

Before I was on forums, I was on chatrooms. One of the one that was about heavy metal and almost everyone was called something like Slayer_ROcks666 or Metallica-rules666 and me being the mischievous little imp that I am didn't wanted that for myself. So looking around for inspiration, I saw a tin of cat food.

A legend was born.

However, trying to register this name all around the internet, it became apparent that many legends had been born. Seriously, who chooses the name Catfood for themselves? Anyway, rather than go through the Catfood1, 2, 3 etc. I just went for a random number.

A legend was reborn. The rest is history.

 

[Evonisia]

I asked myself "What's the most interesting name you can think of for online purposes?"

Psychics are pretty cool

Tacos are also cool

That song 115 from CoD Zombies is definitely cool

And thus, I was born

True dat, now if only kids would stop singing that and Beauty of Annihilation while I'm trying to buy perks and headshot Zombies like a bawwss.

OT: Because I was tired of just coming up ridiculous names out of real words. Now I choose to make ridiculous names out of letters. Have I ascended above to a higher echelon of name creation, or fallen from grace and really my grasp on the English language has deteriorated alongside my self respect?

 

[Lieju]

Hmmm, I use the name 'Lieju' on all English-speaking forums, 'Mutalieju' if it's too short. I chose it about 10 years ago.
I think I just thought it was nice and short, easy for non-Finnish speakers and a joke for other Finns.