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Lanturn
My favorite Pokémon. Plain and simple. This and sometimes adding "88" on the end (lucky number) has always been my name whenever Lanturn isn't available. That's why I was previously known as Lanturn88 on here. stupid Lanturn_old

From Neopets (my first online game), to the Nintendo Forums, to MMORPGs like Gate to Heavens/WoW, and every other website you can think of. I've always used Lanturn/Lanturn88


Also, if I ever made a female Character on an MMORPG or something, I'd use Lantina as the name for it. So I guess I kinda have this as an alias too.
Choco x Mint
FROM MY FAV ICE CREAM FLAVOR AND A MANGA MUNYAHAHAHA ( ・`ω・´)
Myxo
just chat with me and you'll notice, lol
xxdeathx
^ and dkun shortened this name and made it his?
phaZ
good-looking letters/characters as the main priority, then somehow it became a mixture of phase and face. pronounce it as you wish or call me Zahp or whatever, lol
troke
from s-Troke-
Kirinodere
Valkyrie. But with another rie because Valkyrie was taken ;_;
olivia272
My first name is Oliviya, but I 'westernized' it by removing the y. The numbers also bear a meaning.
Infernocash
I had a friend that I would game with a lot. When we first started he suggested our names match in some way. So he gave me Infernocash, and he would use Blazebucks. Been using this name for almost every game ever since.
AbsurdDive
i just happen to like ninjas... the reason why i added 1 and 4 to my name: "ninja" was already taken.. and the meaning of the number 14 in my country's lottery is "drunk" (i laughed when i realized that.. because i hardly get drunk...) lol
Trash Boat

n1nj4 wrote:

i just happen to like ninjas... the reason why i added 1 and 4 to my name: "ninja" was already taken.. and the meaning of the number 14 in my country's lottery is "drunk" (i laughed when i realized that.. because i hardly get drunk...) lol
Think it like this, most letters can be replaced with numbers because they resemble them visually
AbsurdDive

Trash Boat wrote:

n1nj4 wrote:

i just happen to like ninjas... the reason why i added 1 and 4 to my name: "ninja" was already taken.. and the meaning of the number 14 in my country's lottery is "drunk" (i laughed when i realized that.. because i hardly get drunk...) lol
Think it like this, most letters can be replaced with numbers because they resemble them visually
that.. and.. i was out of ideas.. haha
plus i wanted to use a nickname that couldn't be misinterpreted (i used unnAMD in a couple of games..which led into people asking me in-game "are you an ADMIN?" in spanish ...believe me.. it happened a lot of times... even in games that the admin is clearly labled "ADMIN".....)
Gekido
My former username was "TheRageGamer" (because of my temper while playing osu seriously).
I just took the japanese word for "Rage" and got "激怒" (Gekido). But since someone already took the username "Gekido" I added "-kun"...
Cool story, bruh.
Factorial
[google:1337]Neil Leo Ross[/google:1337]
ShiroNekomura
My username originated from a vocaloid.
p a n t s u
my username didn't originate from anything special. I just like panties that is all
and I like to be refer to as senpai. hence pantsu senpai? besides I have been using this
same username for all websites I go on.
[ Ash ]
my username is basically my name ^.^
Riyukii
Random Japanese Name. ;_;
eepydeepy
my name came from my pet gerbil named squirmey because he squirms i have been using this username for 9 years :)
froggydojo
Back when I was 10 I was trying to think of a new username for Minecraft (it was 2010 :/) and I had a dream about a Dojo that trained frogs. My OTHER username, Stupid Frog Monster the 3rd, is a combination of about 3 to 4 different names. Frog, being froggydojo. Stupid coming from a story my cousin told me about a bird him and his friends called Guardian Stupid because it would always fall of off the branch it was perched on. Monster came from the picture I use on Steam. I'm not sure where the 3rd came from though, I'm only a 2nd in my family.
Chocolat
Mine was from a character in the anime NouCome

Chocolat is bestest <3
-SayaKai
Mine was guessing/requested by [NorthernAngel] and K A O R I from groupchat(facebook)
BeyondNero
My name is a Hunter X Hunter Manga spoiler Beyond Netero, son of Issac Netero, all i did was take the 'te' in netero and made it: Beyond Nero.
FadedLamp
I used to be in a clan on PSN called Faded and everyone was choosing really badass sounding names like Faded_Spirit, Faded_Hunter, Faded_Killa. So, me being me, I ruined the badassery of the roster and went for Faded_Lamp and everyone facepalmed and laughed at the same time. It kinda stuck and now I use it for almost everything.
Boomkin_old_1
i got my name from many different MMO's
O2MasterFX
Originally my username starts from GTA modding, called IMasterFX.
Then I played O2Jam, and a new username poped up on my head. Which is currently I'm using right now.
Zyakan
I smashed keys on an Al Bhed translator and thus Zyakan was born.
nein, wir sind die jäger
Recondito
When I was 9 years old, I had no idea about what does a "MMORPG" was, so my cousin showed me a game named "RuneScape" and Recondito in spanish means "Very hidden" so I used that name because I found something that was absolutely unknown for me.
I liked it, so I keep it nowadays (Got 6 years using it).
Spaghetti
A meme that was circulating lol
Vialle
Monster vial, my favorite item from castlevania. It is a shit item actually, but to look at the effect feels nice. Back then i like names with double L because "omg double L names r so kulz omg xd". I want to kill myself.
ayygurl
i like potatoes, don't juge.
Cylencer
My name's initials are CYL. So I added a few more letters behind to make it sound like a word. It also suits me because I'm usually silent.
nekojanaiyo
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FuZ
I pressed 3 random letters on my keyboard and it looked.nice
olivia272

FuZ38100 wrote:

I pressed 3 random letters on my keyboard and it looked.nice
Not because the letter "u" appears in the word 'baguette' and thus is surrounded by the initials of the Roman God Fornax and the Greek God Zeus? The numbers surely correspond with a certain code, too.
FuZ

olivia272 wrote:

FuZ38100 wrote:

I pressed 3 random letters on my keyboard and it looked.nice
Not because the letter "u" appears in the word 'baguette' and thus is surrounded by the initials of the Roman God Fornax and the Greek God Zeus? The numbers surely correspond with a certain code, too.
It was supposed to be a secret
Ochinchi-sama
Ochinchi is my real name
Zuikaku
The first part of my name was stolen from this guy that used to play Roblox because I was super un-creative back then (when I was like 12 that was my life) and the second part I got was when I was in hospital for an operation and when I was watching TV there was this comedy show on about this guy thats hobby was to smash watermelons open with his head and I couldn't stop laughing and since I just had an operation it felt like I was getting cut open each time I laughed. Yeah a fair journey for just a username haha 8-)
In_Disarray
There was a game on the lego website which was about hacking and you had these different powerups and programs and viruses you could use to defeat the 'enemies' on a grid format. The villain had the nickname disarray and I liked the definition of the word.

But it was taken, so I made in_Disarray instead.

That game also had nothing to do with lego at allxD
andeh
From the animu, Persona 4 ;)
that -san is random.
BusterBeachside
A long time ago, I was on a forum about Sonic the Hedgehog that was commonly frequented by people who liked to do spriting, and a bunch of them had original furry characters as their usernames/avatars. So I came up with my own character and recolored a sprite of Tails (My at-the-time favorite Sonic universe character) to be blue. A friend of mine did my current avatar. Since then, I've kept up with the character in stories of mine, although it has NOTHING to do with Sonic, and he doesn't have two tails anymore, but nobody I know is able to draw me a better avatar of him. :p He has the power to control water and ice, and my favorite color is blue... dunno if it's my favorite color just because, or if it's because I've themed everything blue ever since I came up with the character of Buster. :p

PS: I need to change my username to BusterTheFox, I never use the "Blaze" version anymore. I added that in for only gaming sites like XBL, but I've abandoned it. Blaze also happens to be one of my other favorite Sonic characters... Before this username, I was Blaze14, then Blazefire14. The first because of the aforementioned character, the number being my age back then. The second was the same thing, I just added fire because "blaze14" was taken at a lot of sites. Ironic how I went from a character who manipulates fire to one that controls water like that... Okay, I'm rambling. It's kind of a long story, though, and I like my detail. xD

EDIT: Final note, I halfway came up with this user because the "blaze" usernames were always taken everywhere, so I needed a unique one! Okay, I'm done!
DOUBLE EDIT: Hooray, I was supporter at one time, so I was able to change it! xD Hooray for searching the website for options before making a new topic asking about it! ;)
Nyansuke_old
My name is Daisuke and I'm a cat... so yea...
mingmichael
mine was from my real name, Michael Ming
didnt have any ideas for making an account ;w;
IamKwaN
I AM KWAN.

kwan is my real name in cantonese.
Fycho
"FY" is my real name's abbreviation, and "cho" is from.....from......(actually I forgot where it came from;_; :( )
Xinely
xin means heart in chinese and ely is my real name lol
Bayley
my name for almost everything was taken which was Mythify. I got that name from just adding ify to random words and at the time I had a mythology book in front of me :)

But sadly Mythify was taken so I just took my irl name Bayley (I know I'm boring :o)
Gero
Gero is an abbreviation of my real name also because my friends in real life call me that.
Elicchi_old
As much as I want to put something cool about my username, I don't know if there are significant facts for it lol.
Elicchi is a nickname given to Ayase Eli. I thought she's the best character in the series so I decided to go with her name, but "Eli" is too short so I just took the nickname her bestfriend calls her.
Mati_old_1
From my name.
Lagel
My thought process when i was 7 playing world of warcraft
Keihyan
Kei is from my real name and 1koh2 is from ...from .. I cant remember :)
Kiiwa
Kiiwa is an altered version of the Maori name Kiwa. Duh.
Wind_14
My name ?? if my surname is translated to english, it means "Wind"...and 14 is taken from my year's graduation of highschool and also my generation (my generation is the 14th generation in my highschool LOL)
Friendan
Brendan + Friend = Friendan
too bad I hate the kid who made it up
chaee
Nickname an old friend gave me
-Seren-


and also


it's a nice name
[Polybius]
It was a joke from back in my xbox days.
troke
S-Troke
wow newpage
XinCrin
Xin is a nice word and Crin from my real name ; Cristian
deletemyaccount
Gave the h from philanthropist away to charity.

So now I'm just Philantropist ;_;
E14

Lenfried- wrote:

My username? Just google it *lenny face

ayyy lol i know what you mean..

the sexy cosplay goddess :3
Lenfried cosplayer
Improv
I originally thought of it when i was watching family guy a couple years ago.
It was the episode when quagmire was doing Improv and more unfunny stuff. At the time i was also looking for a alias to be known as, and as any 12 year old would do I took the chance and took the stupid name of "Improv". Acting without a skit.

I kinda regret it.
Hartree
[Deleted]
Dilectus
It's my first name + the first two letters in my last name.

Creative right.... right?
VINXIS
i was 12 and i was bored
nxthxn_old
I just replaced the A's in my name with X's. Nothing really special.
DeletedUser_5202775
Well i loved playing black MIDI on my pc and i loved potatos and i made MIDPotatoe
Nathanael

nxthxn wrote:

I just replaced the A's in my name with X's. Nothing really special.
Another Nathan spotted.. :>
AdayJr
Um, I'd wish to change. Anyway, my usernames comes from my real last name.
It's a "no-spaced" last name be my username. ._.
Dovahguiin
Please look at my avatar... now look at my name.
"Thank you for the explaination!"

Ah well, it was a name I made up when playing Dillo Hills 2, where I made the Penguin character wear a helmet that looks a lot like the one known from Skyrim.
(The avatar is taken directly from the game, actually.)
Thus, the Dovahguiin was born and has so far been seen in several universes and dimensions.
Mafuuu
A nickname my online friends gave me since I have scarf fetish an addiction to anime characters sporting scarves.

Mafuuu = Mafura = Muffler/Scarf
fuc ppy
My username is from my last name, which will not be disclosed, but my last name is very hard to pronounce and people just wound up calling me Paz, because those are the first three letters of my last name. Then Paz turned into Paz the spaz because I have ADHD and I'm very spastic. Lo' and behold: PazTheSpaz
Railey2

PazTheSpaz wrote:

My username is from my last name, which will not be disclosed, but my last name is very hard to pronounce and people just wound up calling me Paz, because those are the first three letters of my last name. Then Paz turned into Paz the spaz because I have ADHD and I'm very spastic. Lo' and behold: PazTheSpaz
if you got this name from friends, its a surprisingly cute one.
if you didn't get it from friends, it could turn into a pretty nasty thing. I guess its the former though, since you voluntarily chose to use it here?

Regarding my name: It came from a discussion about rails, I shit you not.
fuc ppy

Railey2 wrote:

if you got this name from friends, its a surprisingly cute one.
if you didn't get it from friends, it could turn into a pretty nasty thing. I guess its the former though, since you voluntarily chose to use it here?
Yes, your guess is correct, it did come from friends. It actually came from my 3rd grade math teacher who miserably failed to pronounce my last name ;)

What was the rail discussion about? lol
Railey2

PazTheSpaz wrote:

Railey2 wrote:

if you got this name from friends, its a surprisingly cute one.
if you didn't get it from friends, it could turn into a pretty nasty thing. I guess its the former though, since you voluntarily chose to use it here?
Yes, your guess is correct, it did come from friends. It actually came from my 3rd grade math teacher who miserably failed to pronounce my last name ;)

What was the rail discussion about? lol
thats good then. I never had a nickname tbh, might be because its absolutely impossible to do that with my real name :>

About rails.. if only I knew. If only I knew.
RemiFlan
Remilia + Flandre Scarlet

My first username idk where pickle came from but bmp is initials
Carr1ck
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Elusion
took "e" and "fusion" and put it together
DakeDekaane
Dake Dekaane is the name of one of my alter egos, used on a "small" story I was writing (and haven't finished :().

How did I create that name? I'm going to be honest and just put random sylables in my head, then the name formed itself, probably my obsession with names beginning with the D letter played a role there? idk, lol.

And in case you're wondering, it's spelled Dake as in sake, and Dekaane as dekaa-ne.
FlyingNeko
I got my name from a guy I met on chatango 5 years ago this is what happened:

FlyingNeko: Hey
Me: Hello
FlyingNeko: How you doing?
Me has left the chat

I proceeded to use it on every account then. I don't know. It's just... The original is probably wondering right now why "FlyingNeko" is taken on every site he goes to
Ayesha Altugle
I have recently changed my name now so here's why.

Last March 23 2015, one of my students told me to play Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed (Akiba's Trip 2 in Japan) and for some reason, I changed all my avatars to the one I have right now. Her name is Shizuku Tokikaze (刻風雫)

As for the hyphen (-) at the end of my username, it is because I really wanted my name to be inspired from the banned account Shizuru-. :)
burningpipe
mine is self explanatory ?
BrightPolaris
I used to study stars for fun :D because I had nothing else to do besides watching anime
So.. ya' know.. Polaris - North Star .. Bright means.. well.. bright.
Antiforte
The World God Only Knows.

As for my original name...
You see, it's a bit complicated.
Back then (and even today, but not to that level before), I had a really big imagination for things I like.
And this one thing I liked was a certain anime. For that reason, I decided to create something based on the complicated stuffies of that anime, a new "system" that would surpass the canon "system", basically the power of the characters. And I named it "Instrument Ceremony".

Then when I found osu!, I wanted to be called "InstrumentCeremony", but the name is too long, so I had to find a neat way to shorten the name. I took the first 5 letters from instrument "Instr" and added an a inbetween the t and r to make it look better, so that explains the "Instar" part. The "Cerem" part is pretty straightforward; just cut off the last three letters.

Then boom. I got InstarCerem.
A28_old
I was feeling very uncreative when I was asked to join osu so my username is the number of my house and the letter of my room at uni... I didn't realise you couldn't change it :P
The Gambler
Been using this name since Midnight Club: Los Angeles as I used to play a lot of wager matches.
Valskiel
The first one is Hunter_Point, before i started play osu, i played many games and always pick assassin or hunter, and in this game u don't kill people but kill someone's rank or first place, so i pick Hunter.

Because 3 years ago this game ranking system is ranked score, i got the last, the "Point"

The second is Valskiel , idk, this name just came up in my mind around january, wwww i can't say much about it O(≧∇≦)O
LoliPantsu
i put waifu in my name so i would look like a weaboo and 420 so i would look like im 12
-SayaKai
Maybe it was my friend, North and Kao's idea :/
DJ Yuu
my name is from other ign game :D
and also sounds cool n easy to remember... x3
Pituophis
Couldn't think of a good name that was not taken so I just put one of my favorite genus of snakes.
-SayaKai

Pituophis wrote:

Couldn't think of a good name that was not taken so I just put one of my favorite genus of snakes.
ok
slamakow13
My username originated from me and my childhood friend until we both just learned about the popular minecraft animator slamacow. .......
EshkushMeh xD
From an inside joke
LukaXGAMErs
Uh, I think the Luka from the vocaloid Luka Megurine (<- I don't really like her actually) and XGAMErs... jjust a finishing touches (lol my sister made dis username)
Closed_dreamer
lol
esnx
Nothing really
-ryusakihatsue-
Well, let me start with my former name:

Rin Kurigaya
well, Rin is a nice name and it's part of my real name written in Japanese
Kurigaya, well, came from nowhere but it seemed like a pretty nice match for Rin....
UNTIL
Rin is too much of a popular name ;w; people think of so many anime characters everytime i go into multiplayer
I seriously lost it when someone misunderstood my name and thought that I was trying to be Kirito's waifu
Kirigaya Kazuto not Kurigaya goddammit

I got so pissed I went to create another account (yes multi accounting) and I got a name from a random japanese name generator
i kept spamming on the generate button and I got the last names "Ryusaki" and "Hatsue" which both caught my eye, I couldn't decide which to be as my last name so I decide to combine them (they seemed like a pretty nice pair too) so technically my name should be "Hatsue" but since everyone sees "Ryusaki" first might as well be called "ryu"

So that new account got called "Ryusaki Hatsue"
upon 3-5 days of creating that account the guilt killed me and eventually i came to confess to the osu (supreme court) and luckily they let me off with a warning.
one of my osu friends (Flareeee <3) was really nice and gifted me supporter so I could change my name. "Ryusaki Hatsue" was still active at that time so I could only change my name to -ryusakihatsue- and I added in the hypens cause it's cool ;)

I still get called "Rin" by my older friends and I liked "Ryu" too so now my name is like "Ryn" <333
TAT2_old
I stole the name 'TAT2' from a magazine. So... Yeah, i love tattoos.

I want one so bad.
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