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HeroLinik September 3rd, 2018 2:45 AM

Where did your username come from?
 
Topic title says it all, really. How did your username come to be?

As for me, it started over on an IRC (yes, this was before Discord) server for a forum I used to frequent. Looking back in hindsight, I was using a really stupid name (castlewars) that didn't really fit, and people were mocking me for my name and making offshoots of it, such as castlepeace. As I was going through a Zelda phase at the time, I wanted to change to "Link", but my finger stumbled on an extra I, making it Linik. The "Hero" part at the start was added for YouTube, just to make it sound cool.

colours September 3rd, 2018 3:36 AM

not even going to touch on the history of my past usernames, that's a whole 'nother story and I had a very long bout of username indecisiveness lmao

but as for my current username... let's just say it fits my personality the most, haha.

professor plum September 3rd, 2018 6:07 AM

Gonna move this over to S&T.

My current username came from my love for Ursula from The Little Mermaid. I've had this username....twice, now?

As far as my main username - Erik Destler - it stems from my love of the Phantom of the Opera. Erik is his canon first name from the book, and Destler is the surname given to him in the 1989 horror adaptation starring Robert Englund that I never finished watched bc it was too scary.

Caite-chan September 3rd, 2018 7:37 AM

Mine is a play on my real name Caitlin. I had wanted to use my real name when I join Bulbagardens but someone had already taken it so I changed it to Catie-chan.

HeroLinik - Not gonna lie I never even noticed the spelling until I read your post...lol.

moon September 3rd, 2018 12:02 PM

Journey was taken.

TY September 3rd, 2018 12:05 PM

Current username i use on PC is a character from the Warcraft series

otherwise my regular alias, TY, came as a shortened form of Tyranitar.

pastelspectre September 3rd, 2018 12:57 PM

i'd rather not talk about my past usernames lol. my currently username basically means star child in japanese. i wanted a username based off rin hoshizora from love live, so i figured why not take part of her last name and see what other japanese words fit with it. and thus hoshiko was born.

strangerhypno September 3rd, 2018 2:15 PM

stranger + hypno. Stranger cause I thought it sounded cool, like Stranger Things. Plus I feel like a stranger in real life because I have no close relationships with anyone. I chose Hypno as the 2nd part of the name for no real reason. It's not even my favorite pokemon.

Percy September 3rd, 2018 11:26 PM

i think i used the name percy because i have this pun of name + avatar combo. my name was percy but my avatar was michael jackson. percy + michael jackson = percy jackson. it was a stupid pun that no one got ;-;

that name+avatar combo is gone now though. kinda stuck with percy because its simple

tranceking26 September 4th, 2018 9:41 AM

Trance is my favourite genre of music.

I started with the name on my xbox 360, tranceking was taken so I picked 26 on the end as it's my lucky number.

Yue Han September 4th, 2018 11:31 PM

Yue Han is the pinyin (pinyin: system for romanising Chinese characters) for what my real name translates to in Chinese.

Palamon September 5th, 2018 11:53 AM

This is my main username online & Palamon is some knight from A Knight's Tale. This username is pretty much my identity online, so I can't move away from it lmfao.

Midnight Umbreon September 5th, 2018 6:51 PM

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uN9zTb3YUQI/TgobI9-MH0I/AAAAAAAACF4/GeGYAMpHpRY/s1600/Calzone.JPG
I dunno. Kinda popped in to my head one time when I was on a Different forum was my username. Until I got banned. Then I came here after I became 13. Anyway, I just happen to like the word calzone. The 407 is just a random string of numbers

Tsutarja September 6th, 2018 4:29 AM

hi my username is the Japanese name for Snivy :>

Amyrakunejo September 7th, 2018 3:14 PM

My username?

It's my actual name; roughly translated to English from my native tongue, it means 'Fairest Lady'. It holds true; I am very fair, but not always nice. I try to be, but don't push me...lol

Quote:

Originally Posted by Calzone407 (Post 9922235)

That delicious looking image has now made me hungry, lol

lilbluedemon September 7th, 2018 4:42 PM

I have my own character how original started out as a "Little Blue Demon"

But, he's recently grown into a large blue demon.
But "lilbluedemon" is still a hecking cool name.

Reyzadren September 7th, 2018 7:04 PM

It's an online username that I would like have as a character in a fantasy/fictional setting as well has having the spelling/sounds that I like.

Sheep September 11th, 2018 6:02 PM

i actually took it from someone on a pokémon-esque website that used to exist called paladore because it was cute, lol
now it has stuck and is my identity ♡

Enpatsu Shakugan September 11th, 2018 6:13 PM

It's the title of Shana, the lead from Shakugan no Shana.

"Flame haired, burning eyed"

Love the sound of it, its association to heat, red, fire, and the series, so that's why.


I can't think of anything I'd ever want to change it to either.

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Originally Posted by Caite-chan (Post 9921063)

HeroLinik - Not gonna lie I never even noticed the spelling until I read your post...lol.

Curiously, me neither.

Starry Windy September 11th, 2018 8:28 PM

I got first half of my current username from my make-believe personal anime (Starry Wings), and the Windy because some tend to call me Windy here.

Fairy September 12th, 2018 3:29 PM

I am a Fairy.

Bidoof FTW September 12th, 2018 4:43 PM

When I first went to the battle server, I wanted this name that was like funny and ironic, and was like "Haha bidoof is a terrible pokemon and HM slave but like I'll add FTW for 'For the win' that's so clever". I was a youngin back then so I guess it makes more sense but it kinda stuck.

And now Bidoof is my favorite pokemon, kinda weird how that worked out.

Kitty September 12th, 2018 5:28 PM

Churarara was for a comeback thing so it started here in pc and i was v much into league of legends and sorakas banana

And i still like jirachi and pikachu

So i combined it into churaka bc i was that clever

Then jay decided to make the nickname chura and it stuck and evolved to churarara

I get the name kitty when i can tho obv bc i love cats

LadyJirachu September 12th, 2018 11:14 PM

Jirachu:
Pikachu+Jirachi (old time favorite pokemon of mine xD)

Lady:
Come's from Korrina's 'Lady Korrina' title in the pokemon x and y games :P

Cordeline September 13th, 2018 8:10 AM

My real name (Cordelia) was taken so I had to change it to something else, and came up with Cordeline ^^

Homeskulled Kid November 18th, 2018 5:28 AM

Maths:

> >

Bammo.

Okay, well I did that completely wrong but I am psyducking horrible at maths.

Sorvete November 18th, 2018 7:38 AM

My username literally means "Hot Ice Cream" in portuguese. :P

starseed galaxy auticorn November 18th, 2018 7:43 AM

My name comes from the fact that I love Tom/Loki. The name for Loki's fandom is "Loki's Army", and I added girl to make it more interesting.

Aslan November 19th, 2018 10:28 PM

The lion from Narnia! Chose it because the name I had before that was Narnia so I just rolled with it? It grew on me and now we're here :D

baire November 19th, 2018 11:33 PM

idk it just sounded really cool


starseed galaxy auticorn November 20th, 2018 1:27 AM

My new username comes from the fan nickname given to Tom Hiddleston. I thought "Hiddles Girl" sounded cuter than using "Hiddles Fangirl", especially since it's already pretty obvious. XD

acatfrommars November 20th, 2018 8:24 AM

I was eating a bunch of popcorn, and that reminded me of jigglypuff. Then I went to watch a movie and that reminded me of ducks. Then I took a nap, and that reminded me of "isa". And that was that.

And that's how "jigglypuffduscksisa" was born.

RickGrimes November 20th, 2018 11:23 AM

Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead, played by Andrew Lincoln.

Palamon November 20th, 2018 3:03 PM

He's a character from A Knight's Tale. Which I didn't know until maybe 2013 or 2014, lmfao.

Makes a bit sad, I thought I made it up.

Amy May November 20th, 2018 10:52 PM

Sorry for the lack of creativity when choosing my username.

well... the "Amy" part is my honest to god real first name (don't tell anyone :p ) but "May" is completely fake. The "May" part is just a cynical joke at myself when it comes to how much I played original Ruby/Sapphire and ORAS.. as the "May" sprite... so, a play on words. xD

Hands November 21st, 2018 2:24 AM

Mine is shortened from my main user handle on consoles which is SpecialHands which is a little joke between me and my friends about my Dyspraxia

smocks November 21st, 2018 6:43 AM

because smocks is a great username duh

alisaie November 21st, 2018 8:47 AM

Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town lol.

Quantaris January 16th, 2019 1:57 PM

My username is actually my real name! I don't know where my name came from though.

malanaphii January 19th, 2019 6:46 AM

a username i used to use all the time is apparently one my mum's friend used - i couldn't think of a username when signing up to stardoll aaaages ago and my mum suggested it. my current username was sorta inspired by max malanaphy, but also it's just cute

Zarude January 19th, 2019 8:48 AM

I don't really remember, as it has been like 2 years.
I think I just came up with some random words,

Noblejanobii January 19th, 2019 9:54 AM

I have multiple usernames across the internet, but Noblejanobii specifically harkens back to my days in chatrooms when generation 5 was first being released. I really liked Servine and the site I was using misspelled its Japanese name as Janobii instead of Janovy (though I've been told the pronunciation is similar/the same). So I stuck with that for a while but as I joined bigger forums that name would be taken so I needed to make it a bit more unique and just picked a random adjective to toss in.

starseed galaxy auticorn January 19th, 2019 1:32 PM

From the fact that people always think I'm adorable... so I thought "Adorbz" was cuter, and I added to "fangirl" since I am one! :3 Thus, AdorbzFangirl was born! It's my favorite username, and I often try to use it wherever if I can.

Tsutarja January 19th, 2019 1:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Noblejanobii (Post 9969576)
I have multiple usernames across the internet, but Noblejanobii specifically harkens back to my days in chatrooms when generation 5 was first being released. I really liked Servine and the site I was using misspelled its Japanese name as Janobii instead of Janovy (though I've been told the pronunciation is similar/the same). So I stuck with that for a while but as I joined bigger forums that name would be taken so I needed to make it a bit more unique and just picked a random adjective to toss in.

Ahh another Servine fan :D

Noblejanobii January 19th, 2019 3:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsutarja (Post 9969667)
Ahh another Servine fan :D

Yeah! I love the whole line! They're great pokemon for sure.

Arsenic January 19th, 2019 4:13 PM

Back when I was finishing up Highschool, when CSGO had that huge revival in popularity, my friends thought it would be cool to start a clan based on the periodic table.

Criiiiiiinge

I've been working on giving my username a different but equally cringy meaning.

Overlord Drakow January 19th, 2019 4:21 PM

My username was born from the depths of hell itself! Only by combining Dark, Black and Shadow is Drakow born! Hahahaha, weep in despair at the terror of my might!

Nah January 21st, 2019 6:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Overlord Drakow (Post 9969740)
My username was born from the depths of hell itself! Only by combining Dark, Black and Shadow is Drakow born! Hahahaha, weep in despair at the terror of my might!

ah, there you are Owain, I've been looking for you everywhere

Stumpy. January 21st, 2019 10:57 AM

Funny story (not really xD), but my username comes from a Pokémon!

Phantump to be exact xD Phantump is known as the "Stump Pokémon".
So I took the Stump and added 'y', to make it roll off the tongue better.

Harmonie March 12th, 2019 5:40 PM

My username's real meaning will go completely unnoticed unless I actually explain it (which saddens me, but oh well). The word "harmonie", as I chose it, doesn't refer to 'harmony', but is still musical in meaning. It is a term used in Europe dating back to the Baroque era and on which refers to an ensemble of woodwind and brass instruments. In my reading, I also recall it referring to the wind section of the orchestra. (I stumbled upon this term while reading a history book on the bassoon. lol)

I love woodwind and brass instruments. I play/have played quite a few. I also own quite a collection of them. I'm obsessed. This username is kind of perfect for me. It also can reflect on me being a musicology student. lol I just wish this meaning weren't so darn obscure. Oh well.

Treecko March 12th, 2019 6:47 PM

Treecko is my favorite Pokemon. So...Treecko. I usually go by AWsquared online and simply put it's my initials AW and squared. Originally i went by AWolfsquared or AWolfAWolf. I hate typing all that in so I just shortened it to AWsquared.

Decibel575 March 12th, 2019 8:01 PM

So, I have had 4 accounts on this forum. One of them I just lost access to due to password reset things. Two I just forgot about, and this one.

My first was PokeHunterBlack, because back then I really wanted to make my own fan game. It would have been based around hunting valuable pokemon, selling them for money, and killing trainers you beat. Quite dark for a 14 year old. I can't exactly remember why I chose Black, I guess because I was at an edgy phase.

The other two were literally just Neo in front of one of my favourite pokemon at the time.

My current one I actually got from another fan game, Pokemon Rejuvenation. The character I'm using, their name is Decibel. I thought it was a cool name. Since someone else here has that name, I added 575 to it. Not much to it really. XD

EmTheGhost March 14th, 2019 1:51 AM

My name is Emily, which I like to shorten to "Em". Ghost is my favorite Pokemon type, and if I had to compare myself to a fantastic creature, no contest - I'd be a ghost.

Zankew May 2nd, 2019 10:49 AM

God knows
When i was creating this account, this word suddenly rung in my ears(i know thats extremely weird)

starseed galaxy auticorn May 2nd, 2019 7:03 PM

Autistic + Unicorn = Auticorn

It's something I came up with for some reason. I love unicorns lately, so I wanted something that represented this a lot. :3 That, and the fact that I'm also autistic as well.

Child Amnesiac May 2nd, 2019 9:09 PM

Mine came from 2 Album Names
The name itself is a verbose version Radiohead album name, That being Kid A, where the A here is the name of another one of their albums

hotsushi-kun May 3rd, 2019 6:21 AM

Hot Sushis and kun is an common male used in jaapn.

Sawsbuck May 3rd, 2019 7:59 AM

A Pokemon

Aldo May 3rd, 2019 11:23 AM

It's from a DLC character of a game-making engine

juliorain May 3rd, 2019 12:56 PM

My brother memed about his user midlsleet and then I counter memes with juliorain as in the rain on your parade the end to your happy day because I have arrived for victory. It was also July and raining.... instead of July I thought the Spanish Julio was much more interesting and doubled as an actual name. I decided to keep rain English for the multilingual effect.... a lot of thought went into this xD

Flowerchild May 3rd, 2019 3:53 PM

The gays

Pig May 3rd, 2019 3:58 PM

Pigs

smbmaster99 May 4th, 2019 10:58 AM

When I was about 11 or 12 I registered on a Mario fangaming site. I was, at the time, proud of my ability to complete the original super Mario bros in around 7 minutes, so "smbmaster". The 99 has no elaborate story xp

Sammi May 5th, 2019 12:38 PM

This username is just a nickname for Samantha.

Most other places I'm shinydwebble now.
I like shinies and I like Dwebble.
Enough said.

Taemin May 14th, 2019 10:23 AM

It’s the name of one of the members of the k-pop group Shinee, and I’ve always liked it. It used to be my username elsewhere too, so I used it here!

Nina May 14th, 2019 10:47 PM

me.

well to be more specific, my parents.

though if I can't use my name I use misnina, which is just a different way of saying miss nina

Fairy May 15th, 2019 4:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fairy (Post 9925172)
I am a Fairy.

I'm still a Fairy.

moon May 15th, 2019 9:42 AM

I've been all kinds of things at this point tehehe. But I seem to always end up with adventure again, ever since I first found out it was available in 2014.

Solez May 15th, 2019 11:50 AM

I've used Solez on practically every forum I've been on. It's Zelos - Wilder, from Tales of Symphonia - backwards.

Tsutarja May 15th, 2019 12:39 PM

still the grass snek

Sydian May 15th, 2019 1:36 PM

in like 2009, i was joining a friends small forum to mod a section and i thought i needed a username that was 'mod-like'. at the time i was trying to think of a username before joining his forum, i was playing pearl and hatched a scyther. the name sydian came to mind and, well, here we are now.

Cherrim May 15th, 2019 8:38 PM

Eventually I gave in and realized Cherrim was my favourite Pokémon and now I am Cherrim.

Well, everywhere that matters anyway.

"Erica do you not use instagram because you couldn't get the username on it?" Yyyyup.

Emilia May 16th, 2019 9:22 AM

Well.. I forget when but it was certainly a long time ago, but I was playing this MMO called Mabinogi and I wanted a cool sounding name, so I brainstormed for about an hour and got Meyling. It sounded cute so I just kinda stuck with it. Also it reminds me of Hong Meiling from Touhou (a favorite character)

If I can't use that name, I usually call myself Mizuli. Strangely enough, it was also from brainstorming a name on Mabinogi. I was gonna be a Battle Alchemist who specialized in Water so Mizu and I added the 'li' part cuz' it sounded cute (and wasn't taken. EVERYONE uses the word Mizu).

Recently I've adopted the name Crow, but I only use it on things such as Discord, Steam, etc. because there isn't a 'username taken' system to them and I can just use whatever name I want. I like crows, but it also came from a character I made up (Prince Crow). Basically to summarize him, he's a crazy dictator of a country called Skyvania and he outlaws dumb things (like cars) to keep his people safe.
I would explain more about all that but it's off-topic and I doubt anyone cares. :P

I go by more names but I doubt anyone would want me to go on and on. unless you do then I will edit this post i guess

Eleanor October 8th, 2019 11:20 AM

Cyan + Breloom :)

moon October 8th, 2019 10:12 PM

I like usernames starting with A or a, and I like space c:

Soaring Sid October 8th, 2019 11:05 PM

Sid is the shortened and slightly English sounding version of my name, unlike Siddh, another contraction. Also, the Sunrisers are the league team that represent us in cricket and I am a huge fan (got to meet the entire team). I also wanted it to feel like I'm rising, getting better at life. The 07, it's kinda random.

Sylphiel October 12th, 2019 9:52 AM

I stole it from an anime. Sylphiel is a character from the anime series Slayers, which I was really into at the time I decided to change to this name. Not even a favorite character of mine, I just liked the name.

FEDARK_GG May 19th, 2021 5:17 PM

Sadly from roblox

Megan May 20th, 2021 9:15 PM

I was looking quite a while for a name I could give my main OC. Since a lot of her character is based off of the Erynie Megaera I ended up with Megan.

Nick May 21st, 2021 10:18 PM

Nick is my nickname, and my preferred name.

My main username for many years here was Patchisou Yutohru. It came from four things:
1. At the time, people here seemed to have aliases using full names.
2. I wanted a name that had a similar flow and close enough syllables to Hiroshi Sotomura .
3. MSN Plus was created by a guy who went by the name Patchou.
4. Tohru came from Tohru Honda from Fruits Baskets.
5. From there, it was just adding some more letters to make it similar to Hiroshi Sotomura.
6. So I split Patchou into Patchisou because it had the same syllables as Hiroshi.
7. Didn't quite get 4 syllables for last name, because when I added Yu in front of it, I really liked how it sounded.

Patch-eee-sue You-toh-roo is how I pronounced it.

_pheebee June 8th, 2021 1:45 PM

pheebs is my nickname in real life. Short for Phoebe. (my name)

pheebs was taken on alot of websites, so I added an underscore.
_pheebs was taken on twitter by a locked inactive phoebe from friends roleplay account and I forever hate that

MiamiHeat305 July 17th, 2021 10:16 PM

Guess 🤣🤣🤣

Adam Levine July 27th, 2021 2:44 AM

A musician I thought was cool.

Retek July 27th, 2021 5:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MiamiHeat305 (Post 10382866)
Guess 🤣🤣🤣

Lol!

Roni July 30th, 2021 8:34 AM

Last syllable of my irl name, then I added an i to make it sound cute. I don't know if it worked.

WanSko September 16th, 2021 1:25 PM

I was eating a bunch of popcorn, and that reminded me of jigglypuff

Crimson Stardust October 13th, 2021 11:58 PM

Hmm, it is almost a decade ago, but from the name, I am pretty sure I get the name from the Yu Gi Oh 5D dragons. Anyone still remember them!?

RadEmpoleon October 29th, 2021 8:09 PM

I came up with RadEmpoleon in my first year of high school. Combination of Rad (short for radical, as in the term from the 80's that meant cool) and Empoleon (my favorite Pokemon). I used to have 395 at the end, because Empoleon is 395 in the Pokedex, but I dropped that a bit later.

Retek March 1st, 2022 6:30 AM

Retek is short for Retekcorp, but now it's my main name. 😂

Retekcorp is reverse of Procketer, but I don't like to speak of that name now ever again. 😐

Zorana March 1st, 2022 12:24 PM

Mine is the name of a dragon character I made. Thought I made the name up but it turns out that it's a real name.

ZeoStar March 1st, 2022 5:37 PM

I don't remember if I posted here already, but oh well.

https://galactic-creatures.fandom.com/wiki/Zeostar

That's all it is.

Ivysaur March 2nd, 2022 1:13 AM

Well there's this videogame series about small monsters you can collect and...

My main username everywhere else, Went, features my initial + the first four letters of my surname, mashed into a word that actually existed.

Lycanthropy March 2nd, 2022 1:14 AM

Back in high school me and some friends first tried out a game called Werewolf (also known as Mafia). My first three ever games I ended up being a werewolf and ever since there has been a joke among friends that I am in fact a werewolf. (And people often killed me in Werewolf just for that reason smh.)

"Lycanthropy" is the curse/infliction that makes someone a werewolf, so it very much feels like me. And also 17 year old me simply thought it sounded super badass.

Fairy March 2nd, 2022 3:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fairy
Quote:

Originally Posted by Fairy (Post 9925172)
I am a Fairy.

I'm still a Fairy.

Eeyup.

Sushi-Chan_ March 2nd, 2022 4:36 AM

nickname from a summer camp I went to and got the nickname cause one of the counselors had the nickname.

Ghost Owl March 3rd, 2022 10:09 AM

Once I was an owl. Then I died, and now I'm a ghost.

moon March 3rd, 2022 12:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crimson Stardust (Post 10416790)
Hmm, it is almost a decade ago, but from the name, I am pretty sure I get the name from the Yu Gi Oh 5D dragons. Anyone still remember them!?

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZeoStar (Post 10476244)
I don't remember if I posted here already, but oh well.

https://galactic-creatures.fandom.com/wiki/Zeostar

That's all it is.

more star name friends :D

ZeoStar March 3rd, 2022 2:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by starwalker (Post 10477156)
more star name friends :D

I noticed a ton of star related names lately.

The more the merrier.

Fairy March 5th, 2022 2:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZeoStar (Post 10477188)
I noticed a ton of star related names lately.

The more the merrier.

I keep sayin, space collab when? I’d happily change my name to Ziggy Stardust for a while! :D

faf March 6th, 2022 9:58 PM

It's a combination of two Norse mythology: Fafnir and Fenrir. So basically a dragon and a wolf, two creatures I adore.

FUN FACT: This was an older username and while I was experimenting with others, none of them stuck so I just used this one and it stuck. Cannot see myself with any other name tbh.


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