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Zangston
27 posts
Joined May 2015
Zangston
I was very nomadic with my usernames and came up with pretty much a different one for each account I made. Then, when I had to make a name for my League of Legends account, I had to come up with something original, since the one I was planning on using was taken.

I just took a simplified spelling of my last name and the last part of my first name.

Winston + Zhang = Zangston

I'm so creative.
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Loli_Samurai
1 post
Joined March 2016
Loli_Samurai
This manga I read, forgot which one. There's this guy who had a t-shirt that said loli samurai on it. I thought oki den i'll take that, not very original I know.
Kyujuroku 96
245 posts
Joined August 2010
Kyujuroku 96
A spanish rock band that I heard about on the news. Ive just taken the name because its cool. Never listened to them though
-Yuni
112 posts
Joined January 2015
-Yuni
It's an abbreviature of ''Yunibāsaru tensai'' which is the romaji of the japanese translation of ''universal genius'', i thought it sounded cool so i took it.
HoboFromHell
8 posts
Joined May 2016
HoboFromHell
It was actually a running joke among my friends. I made jokes about becoming a hobo in school even though I didn't mean it, but for them it was funny, and eventually when I got Xbox Live for the first time the only thing that came to mind was HoboFromHell21. I thought they wouldn't like it, but my friends loved the name so I stuck with it. It's a good reminder of middle school, and the name still sound okay to me.
Alexander_Weird
1 post
Joined February 2017
Alexander_Weird
Well, I really want my name to be called Alexander irl, and I'm weird af. Boom! Username born
Kuen
6 posts
Joined January 2017
Kuen
It's just my first name 5 times, i'm not really a creative person.
rya
4 posts
Joined May 2016
rya
I liked japanese word akuma and added ry to it (idk why, lol), now I'm using just three first characters of it.
Yakutatazu
1 post
Joined July 2014
Yakutatazu
my name comes from self-hatred...

役立たず (yakutatazu) = useless, deadbeat
Acr0h
67 posts
Joined January 2016
Acr0h
My names origin is a bit wierd and a bit long as well.

i was once sitting in my room with my friend and we were thinking of a xbox live name because i didnt want the name that xbox had given me anymore.
then my friend said ''i got it'' and he wrote Acroh (which did not work but he added a 0 instead) it sounded cool so i went with it and i asked him why he chose that name and the reason for it was because i sounded (when he said it and its also the correct way to say it) ah-crow.

then i used that name for a long time but then at some point in time i changed to pc gaming and i did carry the name over. it was just that acroh was almost always taken when i wanted to name myself. then when i made a lol account i couldn't name myself acroh or acr0h so i was desperate for a name. i then put on 'TheBeast' and thats how this name came to be. (i actually got mocked because i was really bad at lol and then they thought 'thebeast' didnt fit me. now they think im a 'TheBeast' of osu! funny how things goes huh?)

also if you see me in chat then dont write the whole name in chat only acroh because its so much easier :)
Wakatteru
3 posts
Joined February 2017
Wakatteru
Needed a name that didn't have any connection to the last one I had. Whew.

The name came to mind after failing to complete Difficult stepcharts on Dance Dance Revolution A. Anna is the girl that is (hopefully) my avi.
IAmRelapse
6 posts
Joined April 2015
IAmRelapse
I just wanted a name that sounds cool, and Relapse came to my mind and just added the "I AM" to it.
Jackertud
18 posts
Joined March 2016
Jackertud
Came up with it when I bought an official Minecraft account on 2010. I just got the name Jack and then added some random syllables. I kept thinking "er" as it is a thought when trying to come up with a word to say, and so I ended it with a tud. I kind of regret the ending syllable, because people simply consider it to say turd. :lol:
Keep
32 posts
Joined February 2015
Keep
My real name is like super long and complicated so people usually just call me kate but then in this one group chat. one of my friends tried to call me out but then it auto-corrected to keep so I was like "that's gonna be my new name now" and then I had to wait like 30+ days to rename.
ulrichfaniOSU
21 posts
Joined September 2015
ulrichfaniOSU
I came up with my name from my YT channel. But i wanted my name to be something related to osu! aswell so i just put in "ulrichfaniOSU". Sure people wonder where i got that name but its a long story anyway :P

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSz_sto0zuMzVb-YaGwW9fg
Sandy Hoey
3,605 posts
Joined October 2015
Sandy Hoey
My name came from a made up world me and some of my elementary school friends came up with. Don't ask any more, it gets wierd
Lyorek
1 post
Joined February 2017
Lyorek
A combination of the word "Lore" (which i love for whatever reason) and the name of a character from my favourite book series
Amaineko
14 posts
Joined April 2014
Amaineko
brain cancer
Satalia
Satalia
my mind :o
Pachiru
Global Moderator
2,957 posts
Joined June 2013
Pachiru
From a osu!map about a song that I misunderstood... I thought she said Pachiru ;-;
Akira Ishioka
45 posts
Joined September 2016
Akira Ishioka
my youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO_8J7RM1bGtNnGGmiwXYdw
Nattsun
537 posts
Joined September 2016
Nattsun
Touhou. I just like Cirnos personality, a character designed to be a punchingbag, what can be more appealing?
Bobbles
8 posts
Joined December 2016
Bobbles
Well, I took my Minecraft IGN "Bobbles" and added "OwO" after it
AnimatedAndy
3 posts
Joined June 2013
AnimatedAndy
Cloudy cause I like cloudy days + Kino because of this stupid guy from Maplestory
Comfy Slippers
194 posts
Joined April 2015
Comfy Slippers
well.. i like my slippers
LEMEME123
15 posts
Joined January 2017
LEMEME123
My enjoyment of meme
kai99
1,123 posts
Joined July 2013
kai99
i think it came from nintendogs my first dog was named kai...
maybe im the dog idk
but i likey
Pochacco
137 posts
Joined July 2013
Pochacco
changing IGN too much so i decide to go with this...

basically a fan of sanrio series and this was my favorite character of the whole dear aside from Dear Daniel
Hai Tai
Hai Tai
$ko^zvl*xH7b9hDRxi_4Tx^OIbq4xL2c
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Axel
222 posts
Joined July 2008
Axel
Well.. Its my real life name!
Ton_old_1
1 post
Joined September 2016
Ton_old_1
Im friends with fantasy, so yolo
Tohru of Shadow
15 posts
Joined April 2015
Tohru of Shadow
I was hardcore P4 garbage when I created this account, so that's where this mess of a username came from ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
MAGNIFIA
21 posts
Joined January 2017
MAGNIFIA
I'm a competitive gamer by nature

I use MAGNIFIA for every online games I played and excelled at

MAGNIFY THE INVINCIBLE AND ALMIGHTY

That's pretty much about it
Megumj
70 posts
Joined November 2016
Megumj
I have choosen my username, cuz my real name is Gerard. And some people call me: Geertje. So actually is that the reason for it. XD
Tophat Pigeon
2 posts
Joined June 2016
Tophat Pigeon
One day i was just googling random pictures of random things until i somehow got to googling 'birds in hats' and i came across a very cool forum.
This forum had many many pictures of birds in hats, as the name implies, I really really loved the pigeon in the tophat, plus I was also in need of a name change on steam so from that point on I decided that 'Tophat Pigeon' was going to be my name.
(Don't know why im replying to posts that are 2 years old :P)
NestLover
27 posts
Joined November 2016
NestLover
from a game called Dragon Nest Online
i love thats game.
AlienSushi
18 posts
Joined October 2014
AlienSushi
Well. I was 13 when I made it, BUT I LOVE SUSHI, &&' I don't fucking know where I got the "alien" from :o
Taj
48 posts
Joined December 2015
Taj
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AltoPelado
20 posts
Joined May 2016
AltoPelado
Gonzo from The Muppets :V
Kondou-Shinichi
1,042 posts
Joined September 2015
Kondou-Shinichi
google translate
Keiger
328 posts
Joined December 2016
Keiger
I honestly don't know how i came up with this, i think i thought of the word surrealism, then got rid of the ism and added an Its i guess
lol
145 posts
Joined November 2014
lol
:)
Shaper
42 posts
Joined October 2016
Shaper
I was looking for a clean, simple name because my previous name(s) in general were a huge mess. Anyways, I saw this name being used on some Call of Duty 4 server, I immediately liked it and sticked to it.
Rhein Kraft
52 posts
Joined December 2016
Rhein Kraft
Well, my username was NaruAyase2195. It had "NaruAyase" without spaces since it came from Naru Ayase from Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live.


And I put 2195 for some reason...just because I felt nostalgic about the first NT build of Windows, which is Windows 2000 build 2195...


And yeah, I'd just stick with it until I can think of the username change for now.
My Angel Kitten
121 posts
Joined September 2015
My Angel Kitten
because i love cat and catgirls
Kyujuroku 96
245 posts
Joined August 2010
Kyujuroku 96
The yugioh card Number 96: Dark Mist and one of the main antagonists of Yugioh Zexal, pretty much because after finishing the anime is the only number I can write and pronounce
sleampy
14 posts
Joined April 2017
sleampy
When I was younger (2012 or so?) I would watch a lot of the Minecraft let's plays on Youtube (cringy I know..) and there was a guy in one of them called "neonninja" so I just kinda stole his name as my own. Yeah, pretty great story I know.
gaming epic
47 posts
Joined August 2016
gaming epic
Honestly, i don't even know where it came from. Me and my friend were searching for a good main username for me and he came up with it. Should ask him where he got it from though. I'm pretty curious too.
Nanonii
2 posts
Joined May 2016
Nanonii
So it was a name of this Echo(from Pandora Hearts) rip-off OC i made when I though that nanonii was a coolieo nickname. I used that as my Osu user and I kinda wanna change it cause heck I have too many online aliases.
WingSilent
2,982 posts
Joined August 2012
WingSilent
Mine came from a keys combinations of my keyboard, right-left-righ-left
Kujar3
48 posts
Joined June 2017
Kujar3
I didn't come up with my username myself, it also doesn't mean anything really. From my understanding it's also a name used in some foreign countries so eh. in 8th grade my friend invited me into an online game "bitefight" (terrible game but we didn't know any better :P), I was strougling with my character's name, chose a vampire. Out of nowhere my friend was like "why not Kujar" so I went with it. I made a friend in game called "Kraven2", we became good friends so I renamed to "Kraven3", on my second character I went with "Kujar3" and that stuck with me for well... like 10 years now. I use this username in any community ever since.
DJ Enetro
88 posts
Joined January 2017
DJ Enetro
Ok. First post in G&D, feel honored.

Anyways:

There's this game based on browsers but playable on mobile called Neptune's Pride: Triton. Back then I was using the name "Pentagonizer" (portmanteau) as my real name. Wanted to have a different username though, it was taken by someone else.
One day I decided to make an alias: my username. Enetro is a corruption of "entropy", but I put the DJ to make it sound cool, like DJ TOTTO and others
hope my posts will be quality enough
Neitel
341 posts
Joined October 2015
Neitel
Well it was totally created from my mind, just think some nickname that is weird and that nobody has it and ready xD
Kongou_San
Kongou_San
Kancolle my favorite character :D
Dustytuft
48 posts
Joined October 2016
Dustytuft
My real name
Ryoid
250 posts
Joined May 2017
Ryoid
Hmm Let me think..........................cant think of anything
it just pop up on my brain thats all
burningapple
813 posts
Joined March 2012
burningapple
i burned an apple
Buster
945 posts
Joined April 2016
Buster
my name was found after look at cute lolis being fucked

this name popped on my head after i realized lylian was a girl name (i was in PokemonShowdown at the time when it started)
blackenanan
544 posts
Joined March 2014
blackenanan
I went by sparky (and for some friends spark-chan) in chat rooms few years back.
Honestly I don't like the name anymore but oh well.
KWYJIBO
91 posts
Joined October 2015
KWYJIBO
Im a bleach fan
Takeshyeen
2 posts
Joined May 2013
Takeshyeen
Because I like rabbits and the name has a nice ring to it. Sucks that I couldn't spell it with two b's in the rabit though
riunosk
1,190 posts
Joined January 2015
riunosk
i stared at my keyboard and magically generated this name
zero manners
9 posts
Joined July 2017
zero manners
I am from the french side of Canada which is not the same as France itself.
In my opinion they are so much fancier than quebecers (not an actual word) and since i'm from QB myself, i named myself zero manners..
and it's an ok shitposter name imo
Guzma_old_1
17 posts
Joined June 2014
Guzma_old_1
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/guzma
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nonamereaper
10 posts
Joined June 2013
nonamereaper
a bad naming habit :c
Husa
176 posts
Joined April 2016
Husa
Originated from my real name but I shortened it a bit since not too long Cx
hypercyte
Elite Mapper
741 posts
Joined October 2016
hypercyte
I thought of a real word, then made up a random word, and put them together. Took me a grand total of 42 seconds. :^)

Just kidding I put a lot of thought into the name also I was probably like 11 when I made this name ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Arctos Sagittario
227 posts
Joined August 2011
Arctos Sagittario
This account was created when I was just graduated from high school so the username may look quite silly.

Arctos is romanized άρκτος in Greek, meaning "bear";
Sagittario is Italian for "archer"ーwell, I was going for Latin initially, but sagittarius doesn't look as cool.

So there you have it, archer bear, combination of my favorite traditional military branch and 2nd favorite beast in an 8th-grader-syndrome way.

Btw my favorite beast is tiger. It's been turned down because tiger in Greek (τίγρις, or tigris) looks not very far from English, which is less cool imo lol.

N-No... i-i-it's not like that... that... bear... *sigh* what can I say...
Natsuzjehh
20 posts
Joined July 2011
Natsuzjehh
Natsu is obviously from Fairy Tail. (Never watched a single episode, only AMV s lol)
Well... -zjehh is from my former Xfire nick Vodkazjehh.
I copied zjehh (zje) from bananzje, a CoD2 player back in about 2k8.(?)
Here's the guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6MHdKMUq0o
Then I changed it to DelFaz(random), and when I started playing AVA and CS:GO I changed it to Mivan? (means What? in Hungarian)
Mivan will be hopefully the last one :)
Kitsunex
70 posts
Joined July 2013
Kitsunex
I had a fox plush toy that I liked

and Kitsune was taken on most sites lol
GenericPNP
1 post
Joined November 2016
GenericPNP
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PotatoJet
217 posts
Joined December 2016
PotatoJet
I like potatoes and jets

and that's pretty much it.
Suisei Hosimati
3,049 posts
Joined March 2013
Suisei Hosimati
http://atelier.wikia.com/wiki/Firis_Mistlud
RealRinkashime
14 posts
Joined February 2017
RealRinkashime
My username is literally my real name translated into Japanese Kanji, making リンカシム
R34pling
9 posts
Joined December 2015
R34pling
I will show you an example of "The law of Evolution" for my username:
adrienhh (my name+stuff)
Creepy Killer (yeah I was young at that time)
Cr33p1K1ll3r (so much regret)
Creepy Reaper
Yoshi Reaper (cuz I have an insane Yoshi collection)
Reapling (I like everything that finishes in "-ling", especially zerglings from starcraft)
R34pling (It's short, its sounds cool and looks better)

I used the first one and the last one only for osu.
NeTsune
72 posts
Joined April 2016
NeTsune
My username is kinda interesting since it comes from two japanese words: "Neko" and "Kitsune". I just removed 2 letters from the end of Neko and 2 letters from the start of Kitsune and combined them, resulting to NeTsune.
Fuyusch
17 posts
Joined April 2016
Fuyusch
2 words: Loli and Elixir, lolis are elixir of life, Loli + Elixir = Lolixir. Simple.
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raszka
63 posts
Joined September 2015
raszka
My name is basically the same as one character of Dome x Kano Manga. I didn't really think much about usernames so I picked whatever came to mind at that moment, I thought it was a funny name so I picked it. After 2 years of using it I would definitely like to change it but oh I don't dislike it.
Horrifying
237 posts
Joined January 2015
Horrifying
Back in the day i was obsessed with pokemon (still am) and i loved skitty, and usually on everything my username was BlueSkitty(something) so it turned into BlueSkittyMusic and i then shortened it to BSM.
AeroElecques
4 posts
Joined April 2017
AeroElecques
Well...'Aero Elecques' is just the incomplete form, it's actually 'Aero Sivirian Neoro Elecques'
Aero is a Greek prefix for 'air' or 'flight' , in a way it shows that...sometimes I just want to be free from binds, to embrace what I am, heck I want to be writer but there's a load of things that makes it impossible.

Sivirian is a reminder of my dog, who is a Siberian, Rest In Peace my feline companion.

Neoro is also a reminder of my old username, Neo.

And finally Elecques, is like my actual real name, hard to pronounce.

So...yeah, that's how I got my username, shame I can't use the full one.
FstMario
15 posts
Joined August 2017
FstMario
Quite a long story to be honest,

but to put it short, childhood dream game, supersmash brothers brawl, i'd always choose mario, owned basically every single mario game before selling it all, and "FST" being the name of a company an old accomplice used to own... pretty strange tbh.

Before this I was under the alias of "Mariofan1" as seen in my signature. Pretty obvious what that means :3
Hund
5 posts
Joined March 2016
Hund
Hund is the german word for "dog". Yeah. That's pretty much it.
Cahyono29
57 posts
Joined January 2017
Cahyono29
i can't think of a good name,so i just copy name from ecchi anime protagonist
just search Basara toujo on google
Zekks
395 posts
Joined March 2016
Zekks
minecraft youtuber I watched when I was 9
vizzy
671 posts
Joined September 2010
vizzy
It is short for 'Vizard' from Bleach. Someone in my mIRC channel called me that back in 2009; it stuck ever since.
Iyouka
Visual Architect
110 posts
Joined September 2015
Iyouka
From my mind that has really quality type of creativity~

jk lol...i got it from main character in a video game that i already forgot the title...
NBA YOUNGBOY
561 posts
Joined November 2013
NBA YOUNGBOY
Bws is my irl initial
And it was taken
Had to add smth behind
AyeAries
880 posts
Joined June 2015
AyeAries
Obviously it's the first zodiac sign in horoscope and it can be consider as a constellation.
twistedclever
22 posts
Joined April 2017
twistedclever
i still remember i took this username from a review about "SAW" movie years ago. i cant remember which SAW but when the 1st time i "saw" (get it?) these words, i just get it off of my head :D
Sound008
7 posts
Joined August 2016
Sound008
One day, my brother and I signed up for an online game. He named himself SUPERSON007, but clueless young me had no idea what to name myself. I just took a "cool word" and added "008", hence the Sound008.
TheMeq
91 posts
Joined June 2013
TheMeq
My name is from my favourite book "The Meq" by Steve Cash. Good read!
linkmaster647
10 posts
Joined November 2016
linkmaster647
me its simple i love the franchise tloz and well since ''linkmaster'' were aleadry used, i just put random numbers after
YotSugoiDX
18 posts
Joined August 2017
YotSugoiDX
It was a pun on Yotsugi Ononoki and how she had this thing where she said, "Wow!", every now and then.
I used to really like her until i found out about sleeve dickings.
[- LenoxHD -]
53 posts
Joined March 2016
[- LenoxHD -]
some stranger had Lenox as a name on a CS Server. i just added [- and -] ....


0% ORIGINALITY
abratasas
5 posts
Joined August 2017
abratasas
From here

Or if you don't want to watch the whole video,


:^)
Teh Kotak_old
Teh Kotak_old
Pickle Rick
11 posts
Joined December 2016
Pickle Rick
The name that I use for most things which is "kaede" I got from shuffle. I'm not original at all
Joobels
1 post
Joined December 2016
Joobels
My middle name is Bjorn (pronounced Byorn). It's Norwegian for bear. I found a random adjective generator and just kept going until i got something that applied to me and sounded decent. I also go by Jobless Ducky(I just like ducks) and Joobels. I almost always use Joobels now. pretty much everyone who didn't know my real name would call me jobless so I just shortened it to Joobels cause I though it sounded good. Pretty boring I guess.
Jun Maeda
272 posts
Joined July 2016
Jun Maeda
"iSlodinx" like "Slodinx" originate from spain idk what that means but i like it ;)
KupcaH
2,830 posts
Joined January 2016
KupcaH
KupcaH is KirsaN in Russian letters, main protagonist of Дорога домой book series.
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