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jacksonisiah
11 years ago, i mispelled my real name on an online RPG. stuck ever since.
Enzie
From my favorite singer lole

Also this is currently my favorite song of his album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REOpGdnJa1I
Puri_old_1
PuriPuri (プリプリ ) It's the SFX to express freshness (prawns, young girls etc), it also means chewy and tender. But that's not why choose it.. I like it because it's fun saying puripuripuripuri really fast. :>

Penguin
My old name used to be Penguinsanez. That originated from when I played club penguin back in like 2005. It's just the combination of penguin and insane. Very few people were able to pronounce it correctly, and a few people actually thought it said Penguin Sanchez, so that kinda stuck as a nickname of mine. Then I changed my osu name to that.
Yabuki
My name originated from Runescape a long time ago when Celestial SurgeBox's existed and then it eventually got banned and I kept the name cause I liked it and yeah
Sonagi
Kafka means jackdaw in some language (Czech?) and I like birds :D
radioactive329
my username came from when i was creating a psn for my PlayStation 4 i dont know why i picked it but its became my username for everything
ZodiacLyfe
uhm;;
I'm really into stars and the zodiac, so I wanted to use something like that lol
But "Zodiac" and "Zodiak" was taken so I added something to the end of it.
Sounds decent imo
Jemzuu
since i didnt have a sense of creativity, i just combined my firstnames "Aren" & "James"
i tried to make it sound cool tho so i thought of replacing s with z yea im really creative
Brainage
Two words: Brain + damage. BOOM SO CREATIVE IKR
Penguin

Brainage wrote:

Two words: Brain + damage. BOOM SO CREATIVE IKR
hmm. I thought that you were going for Brain Age, like the Nintendo DS games
n00bUltima
Honestly barely have a clue. I used to talk about how much of a noob I was at games a long time ago, and then I thought of ultima as ultimate so it's a like "Ultimate Noob" type of thing (even though ultima means last or something) I still suck at a lot of things so it's valid in a way.

It's really lame and I use it for everything nowadays so that's why it's my osu! name. I used to be called Vortexium, but I don't know where that came out of.
EdgierScroll
I realy like the Elder Scroll games and this was the best I could do without using numbers and other letters
Natu
from my real name
Hickacou
It's a mix of Ikari (According to G trad : anger) because I'm salty and kuro (black). kuro because I like black, and in her star guardian skin, Jinx names one of her guns kuro on League of Legends and I love her. After that I just changed the spelling because I didn't want it to look too Japanese !
- Mia
My nickname is my real name. That happens when you have no originality and opt your name as a nickname. ; w ;
KWYJIBO
the simpsons season 1 episode 2, bart the genius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGWCSVRAzo
Hoppy
If i am being honest i don't really know actually
my original name was "skillisinmyvein" I got it from playing ROBLOX believe it or not (i was a cringy shit back in the day)
exsemipro
I was thinking of a pro name, but not very pro. And I want a former title so yeah here I am
HyperDeath99_old
this one is easy. undertale
Karrae
Im Demon's gf and im tiny (almost like a loli)
uv937
Of all the things, an old Mac serial number. Because that was my alias at the time.
sleepwalking
NekoDex. I want to change my name since its pretty dumb.
Mamba_old_1
Who knows ? :’)
DJ Enetro
I was looking for a cool, original, unused username. So I first cane up with “Bonanzai” (Bonanza + Banzai).
But some other people took it, so I became darker and went by “Pentagonizer” (Pentagon + Agonize + r).
That name eventually got old, and also I wanted to have a spaced name so it would fit with gmail accounts.
At the time, i thought, well I love music and i’m pretty weird!
the music part became DJ, and the second part of my username is a corruption of “entropy”
(You pronounce it e-ne-thro). *claps hands once*
HawkAussie
For me, its because I support the Hawks in the AFL (Aussie Rules) and as I am an Aussie that is where the second part comes from.
pechhi
i once changed my name to "peachspike" on other websites, but i liked when people called me "peachy" so i wanted to make my name short and simple, but with my own lil' twist, and so the username "pechhi" was born.
nikky
It's from a manga named Kenja no Majo. The guy named Diseum there is actually a king and old but I liked it so I stole it. :D
ChibiDesu
At first, I was calling myself Hanachi. Then I decided to visit one con in Czech Republic and yeah.. I am not tall, so people just started to call me Chibi, haha. I used to hate it so much, but well, I kinda got used to it. UwU
ChibiDesu

Kafka wrote:

Kafka means jackdaw in some language (Czech?) and I like birds :D
Yeah, in Czech, haha xd Nice one!
marimonika
its my first names combined, maria monica
Nifty
best adjective
Icekalt
i like when its cold outside lol
Amaineko
brain cancer
i think its a repost
Dilectus
I could not think of anything. So, I just used my name and added "ed" like you do with verbs.
yuhaii
my old username was "elainex13xvii"
it was just my name then some random ass characters my friend had in another game username.

my new username....
idk. i thought of something random and weeb,
kingo1_old
Hmm.
Well, my main username is "kingoo1"
The "king" part is because I first made it relatively soon after I found out my family actually was part of a royal family (nothing major though) and it was also first made for a game in which I controlled a kingdom, so I decided it makes relative sense.
the "o" is the first letter of my name
the 2nd "o", which isn't always used, stood for my best friends nickname. We used to share the same savefile on many games, so when we decided to play an mmo we played on one account. Hence two o's. He didn't want to play this game so I simply went with one o.

The '1' has two meanings. The first was that after playing together for a while, we became friends with someone else and when he found out the reasoning behind the name, he called himself "King1" because he was the 1 king. Fast forward a bit and he also sometimes shared this name with us and so it became kingoo1.

Sadly, both of my friends died in a car accident last summer so my name doubles as a memorial to them now.
HippityHope
Mine is actually really boring but whatev.

My username is actually from my Minecraft ign, since Minecraft was the first game I was serious about, most of my other in game names is HippityHope or something with Hope in it.

How I made it up was, since my irl name is Hope (prob knew that by the time you read this) I was trying to think of something catchy. Thought of a rabbit somehow, thought of hippity hoppity, and in about 3 minutes the name HippityHope was born.
Kasiastrofa
My username is a mix of my name (Kasia) and "Katastrofa" (catastrophe in english). My friend made a pun about it once and I just kind of stuck with it.
Achromalia
On osu!, my name had initially been "Xuequinox", a name I used about 6 years ago now because apparently 8-years olds like me get fascinated by the word "equinox" and like the letter "x". I don't know what the "u" was for.

After a while I got tired of it, so I've changed it today!

I had been thinking about a producer name for about a year or two, since I didnt think I'd be comfortable with the name Xuequinox as something for people to try to spell and pronounce.

Eventually after a large period of time, I thought of using something more meaningful to express myself. A lot of the time, since depression was a thing, and apathy tends to drain you of emotion and energy, I felt like life felt... boring. I felt that life was just a greyscale palette. I came across a word that described the quality of lacking color-- "Achromatic".

I also felt pretty nice about the word "Anomaly". In spanish, it's "anomalia". Basically, by putting them together, I wanted it to define the irregular feeling of a colorless world, or the sort of feeling that says that you dont belong here, that you're the cause of that lack of color.

In a way, I meant for it to represent a bit of depression, but I thought it was an interesting concept on its own, and that it didn't have to represent my depression and apathy.

So far, my only problem with this is that it's a bit of a feminine name (since I'm a guy), with all the "a"s and the "-ia" at the end. I dont imagine many guys would have a name with "-ia" at the end.
kingo1_old

Achromalia wrote:

On osu!, my name had initially been "Xuequinox", a name I used about 6 years ago now because apparently 8-years olds like me get fascinated by the word "equinox" and like the letter "x". I don't know what the "u" was for.

After a while I got tired of it, so I've changed it today!

I had been thinking about a producer name for about a year or two, since I didnt think I'd be comfortable with the name Xuequinox as something for people to try to spell and pronounce.

Eventually after a large period of time, I thought of using something more meaningful to express myself. A lot of the time, since depression was a thing, and apathy tends to drain you of emotion and energy, I felt like life felt... boring. I felt that life was just a greyscale palette. I came across a word that described the quality of lacking color-- "Achromatic".

I also felt pretty nice about the word "Anomaly". In spanish, it's "anomalia". Basically, by putting them together, I wanted it to define the irregular feeling of a colorless world, or the sort of feeling that says that you dont belong here, that you're the cause of that lack of color.

In a way, I meant for it to represent a bit of depression, but I thought it was an interesting concept on its own, and that it didn't have to represent my depression and apathy.

So far, my only problem with this is that it's a bit of a feminine name (since I'm a guy), with all the "a"s and the "-ia" at the end. I dont imagine many guys would have a name with "-ia" at the end.

Only appropriate solution to your name sounding feminine is to fully pretend to be a girl and become an internet trap.
Lememes
I can't think of a better username even though i spend so much time brainstorming... lol

Soo... I just think of memes then use "Le" because back then, the most popular memes are rage comics then it uses the word "Le" that is a substitute for "The"

Then... I just put them together.. "Le" + "Memes" = "The" + "Memes"

I'm ashamed and regret it...
- Incarndine -
Use to love Pokemon and all the main characters (idk I've stopped playing) had colors as their names so me being me thought of all the colors i knew of and "Incarnadine" popped into my head so to be original i removed the second "a" in the word and made Incarndine and I've been using that for everything including osu!
LyanPlaysGames
My 1st username was Behemoth12....... i know, weird. I chose that name because of a game a played. Its called point blank (an fps like cs:go). I got bored and played a game in p.b. where i went against AI. It was easy until i kept getting rekt by a bot. A bot named "Behemoth". Soo, thats where it came from. My current username is just a meh username. Thats it.
Brainage

Penguin Sanchez wrote:

Brainage wrote:

Two words: Brain + damage. BOOM SO CREATIVE IKR


hmm. I thought that you were going for Brain Age, like the Nintendo DS games


I hate it when people think that's where my name originated from
Fortunately, most salty 12yro Minecraft kids make disability jokes about my name after they lose a fight, they obviously can see where the name originates from
Radiohead
I just thought it up + I love cats so much.
Jetpuffed
I looked at a bag of marshmallows and thought "hey, that's a pretty cool name."
Quibbly
Mine originated from me! No lie spent two hours at the screen to create an account on Minecraft trying to figure out a good name. Ended up with Quibbles. I still use that name but use Quibbly, Quibz, or McQuibbly (in order of availability) if Quibbles isn’t available. Apparently it’s an actual word too so there’s that.
Prunia
Just a cute character from Breath of the Wild, hadn't nothing better for now.
anneasparagus
I just had asparagus for lunch when I created my Twitter account... then here came a commonly used name "anne" that sounded good for me as if saying "an asparagus!" So almost all of my social media accounts use "anneasparagus"

~nothing much
Miraiichan
This shitty name is inspired by minecraft kms. When i was a child and had cracked vers. Every time i chose my rl name i see some chicken skin lo
But my new name (Mirai) came from spamming google translate
Li77L3
A few years ago, my sister had me take this quiz that tells me my Korean name. After the quiz, she said my name was, Bin Su Park. I really liked how it sounded, so I started using it for my accounts. It started with just BinSuPark, but then I had it shortened to, Binsu. There's also a different variation to my username, which is Bondy. My friend was typing my name in Discord, but it auto corrected to Bindy. So then he started calling me Bindy as a joke, but one day he accidentally typed Bondy. I liked how it sounded, so now my accounts consist of the usernames, Binsu & Bondy.
DaRKMaRoWaK
Well, I liked Marowaks, and it had to be a cool and interesting name, so... yeah.
ShySnek
So, the Snek part is because I find the snek meme adorable and also because I have a snake. The Shy part is because I'm rather shy.
Mackenzie
mine's from the tv series Lost Girl, which my fav character is named Mackenzie Malikov
raszka
A Polish tennis wta player
UnFocused
My dark past.
Nao Tomori
the worst anime ive ever watched ww
Stjpa

Nao Tomori wrote:

the worst anime ive ever watched ww
weeb

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my russian uncle likes to call me Stjpa, which is the "russian version" of my actual name

in case anyone is wondering, it's pronoucned Sti-oppa with a strong emphasis on pp
Poggerz
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Aelin
Throne Of Glass enough said
Meguro
From my Xbox Live account =)
BloodNova
ι'νє αℓωαуѕ вєєη ƒαѕ¢ιηαтє∂ ωιтн "вℓσσ∂" αη∂ "ѕρα¢є" ѕσ ι ¢σмвιηє∂ נυѕт тнє ωσя∂ "вℓσσ∂" ωιтн тнє ωσя∂ "ησνα" ωнι¢н ιѕ α ѕтαя тнαт ѕнσωѕ α ѕυ∂∂єη ιη¢яєαѕє ιη вяιgнтηєѕѕ 0ω0
bobbathan
It all started long, long ago when I had to name my character for a different game and was feeling too lazy to come up with something cool, so I just decided to come up with something completely average. At first, I wasn't sure whether or not I wanted to name my character Bob or Johnathan, so I just decided to combine the two and went with Bobbathan. Since then, Bobbathan has been my go-to username for almost everything.
Reva
I got my username from a visual novel I read and I was very fascinated by the name so I started using it in every forum and online games (If "Reva" is taken, I'd just go with "Revasence")
iiBeanzEatNiqa
Bαʂιƈαʅ ι ϝυƈƙιɳɠ ʅσʋҽ ҽαɳʂ αɳԃ ιƚʂ ʂσ υɳԋҽαʅƚԋ αƚ ƚԋσιʂ ρσιɳƚ. I ҽαƚ ιƚ 3 ƚιɱҽʂ α ԃα αɳԃ ιɱ ɳσƚ ʂυɾҽ ԋσɯ ƚσ ʂƚσρ.
The_Loli_Hunter
*Cough*
Pillwow
My Name was NierA2. The game Nier:Automata and Character A2

My current Name originated from a stream ive done on YouTube. No one believed me i played osu! on a pillow on a couch so they watched my stream. The pillow was a running gag that turned into my new username.
jak0b_old
can you guess? i'm curious.
Huzzah
My nick is from a game that i like very much, called Deponia. Every chapter starts with a music, and at the end of the song the scream: "Huzzah" and the name of the chapter. I think it's cool so i used here.
lirua
i forgot
anim
RaduAnim
Radu ~ Real name
Anim ~ Internet nickname / comming from anime but i delete the e.
Ron Weasley_old
So I thought of a Name and I came up with Klovne *mindblowing*
Akidene
I uhh


well i let my inner weeaboo decide for me.
preperation
I did a name snipe.

My old username was my fandom profile before it got disabled. DONT ASK WHY
Gengarr
I was 14 years old and i thought that this name was cool, how to waste a free nickname change.
victini
i thought it looked nice & cute.
D_Loomz

ki-ki-ya wrote:

i thought it looked nice & cute.
aww, thats a kawaii reason
FactoMan_old
I guess it was from when I was testing, the name of it was similar to Facto, so I just went with that and added 1335, then my Steam username came out as Facto Man, so I just went with FactoMan.
beachTurkey
both (or 3) of them are all from my youtube shitposts, I stuck with beach turkey because it sounded good
Jumps2Much
I played alot of cs back in the day and when i first started playing my friend who was a way higher rank then me just to jump and spray with a mac 10. so after a bit i decided to change my user to Jumps2Much. And even after my cs days i guess the name stuck
Dinomi
When I was six or seven, me and my siblings used to pretend to be fictional characters in a fantasy world.
I was a sand goblin and my sister had named him Dinomi.
I decided to stick with that name for all my online Aliases :)
Akazukin-MK2
When I registered in 2014 it was shortly after I watched the second season of YuruYuri and I love Akarin a lot so I wanted to use her as mascot for this account, she innocently loves her oneechan who also loves Akarin but with a "deeper" kind of love as you know if you watched the series. I thought it was funny, but I decided to not use her anymore since there're already so many players using Akarin and YY characters lol. I'll probably change name when I get osu supporter again.

Fun fact: the post above is the 1337th
cinnaronpa
Mine doesn't really have any sort of special meaning. I thought of two things I liked: cinnamon, and Danganronpa. So I just kind of mashed them together... to end up with cinnaronpa. I thought this sounded kind of nice, so I just went with it.
thegoodguy1234
Honesty I have no idea where it came from but it just sort of poped in my head and I just liked it so I entered it as my username
ABD007
My brother suggested it ! :)
Nigrod
Mine came from calling random people Nigrods.
donghans
i like kpop and i stan(ned) jbj, my fave was donghan so... yeah
Bonk
When I made an account for this game I ran out of names that made sense so I just combined a bunch of letters then made "Bonkzor". Then a couple months later I bought supporter for the first time and shortened my name to Bonk. Now I regret it because I am getting mentioned in osu! when people are talking about bonk.io.
Fraught
I used to use various different usernames that I randomly came up with, which usually had numbers tacked onto the end, but when I found (and started going to) The Escapist's forums, I felt like I needed a staying moniker, because the forum was more...high brow than the forums I'd been used to at the time, and I felt like all my previous usernames were temporary (which I didn't want for this forum 'cause I really delved into the whole sub-culture the forum had etc) and pretty childish (since I often used names like "Alien54" and "-Buzted-"etc). Since my English was much weaker back then, I thought of a random, cool word from my native language (which, when translated, is essentially something like "charged"), put it into an online dictionary, and it came up with "fraught".
Enchourex
From mishearing a song and some creativity
:P
Ruukiro
Button smashing.
Smashed some buttons together then tried pronouncing stuff, then magically it became Ruukiro, of course someone had to take "Rukiro" so I did what every person that's ever had their dream name taken do, add an extra letter.
blobdash
When I first had to pick a username, it was on the minecraft launcher page. I didn't know what to put, so I looked on my desktop behind the launcher and the first thing I saw was FL Studio there. FL stands for Fruity Loops, add a En in between, and good job, here I am.
Poidachii
I inserted the term "poi" in Yuudachi's name in loving memory of my favorite shipfu in the game "kancolle" and to remember that mostly any community gets hilariously autistic when someone say "poi"
but in osu I was too late to use the name so I just added an extra i so it'll be okay :D
Alot
diablo 2
Regay
I found this name when I was deciding my username at SA:MP (San Andreas Multiplayer). First name was RageQuit, then Ragey (in a matter of months) and then finally Regay. Dunno why I chose this name, but it seems gay for me :>
cla7997
Got my first videogame on my psp and said that i have only 7 characters for my nickname. So "cla" part of my name and "7997" because the brother of my best friend was born in " '97 ". I didn't really understand what was the meaning at the time because was a young child, but looked cool. "79" for symmerty
oof-sama
Oof came from the roblox meme/death noise and I added sama to the end because I'm a weeaboo.
TheGuillaume
I put ''The'' before my name
The Fire Tiger
uh i was like 14 or smthn when i came up with this name xd

Honestly I got so uncreative when I wanted to make a name for myself and I realized that "randomperson8802" just wouldn't cut it anymore so I had to compromise and think of an animal and a rhyme

If I could change my name I would go to something like Pacha Kamaq (was my name on a few forums before I discovered osu!, originates from inka mythology) but I already grew as furry trash with the tiger so
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