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The Fire Tiger
17 posts
Joined October 2015
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
Kirika
92 posts
Joined July 2016
Kirika
My username "Kirika" is actually a character called "Kirika Akatsuki," from the anime Senki Zesshou Symphogear.

A picture if you are interested.

https://imgur-archive.ppy.sh/Z1UkExd.png
Buramie
4 posts
Joined May 2017
Buramie
My username N1ghtmareKnight is the username I used when I created my PS4 account when I was 12-13. I tough it sounded cool so yeah I chosed that.
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otsuki
9 posts
Joined June 2017
otsuki
My name (Tsuki) + Soraka (my favorite League of Legends champion) = Tsuraka.

I love this name tbh.
Kirika
92 posts
Joined July 2016
Kirika

Tsuraka wrote:

My name (Tsuki) + Soraka (my favorite League of Legends champion) = Tsuraka.

I love this name tbh.


Soraka is my favourite champion too! Your name is great.
diseum_old
diseum_old
the old king from Kenja no Mago manga. lol
Whats Skill
502 posts
Joined July 2016
Whats Skill
Uh.. Wanted a new username because the one i had before sucked ass. (Urjustbeats2me) So i decided to change it. Couldn't think of anything for a while, then came up with this. And this is what i've stuck with for a while now.
Lexporxti
59 posts
Joined March 2013
Lexporxti
Sorry bad english*
My real name is leila and (lexporxti) it occurred to me to dedicate the name to an old friend. :D
curiosity: the x in my nickname are spaces, but I did not know what could be used u.u

So lex (leila) porxti (for you)

Leixporxti is more horrible
Ghastly56
2 posts
Joined November 2016
Ghastly56
My nickname came from childhood to be honest Gastly Was pokemon and i wanted to call my self that but deiced To change the spelling of it to Ghastly Then the 56 on the end of my name was from my Bin weevils Name at the end of it.
Tada?
ANY115
3 posts
Joined April 2017
ANY115
my ussername came from a random gammertag that xbox gave me back when i only play COD online, and a friend from online just started to call me "Any" because of my gamertag (Anyrocket477) and it like me for some reason, it becomes a simbol of me as a player and also decide to put it here on osu!
[pGA]Remilia
31 posts
Joined November 2017
[pGA]Remilia
The tag came from a SA-MP community called [pGA] Pro Gaming Arena and Remilia is a character from Touhou.
koemada
188 posts
Joined April 2018
koemada
my username originated from komaeda, who is from danganronpa lol,,,
Alf is Alf
9 posts
Joined September 2014
Alf is Alf
idk i just thought of something random and i played a bit with the first syllable of my first name.
I thought "this looks cool i guess" so Im stuck with this username until I can come up with a new one :3
exsemipro
66 posts
Joined July 2017
exsemipro
Just thought about being a pro but not really a pro maybe a former pro but less than that so yeah
Maze
57 posts
Joined March 2016
Maze
It's a long story actually. But in short, my past username used to be mazewalker which I thought of because of the movie maze runner, but I hate running. And then I just adapted the name maze for short. Unfortunately it's taken on osu.
night-owl
5 posts
Joined April 2015
night-owl
well, i was mostly playing the game at night, much to my parents' dismay since i was making (vaguely consented) love roughly to my keyboard

edit: hey there fella!
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- Aoki -
6 posts
Joined May 2016
- Aoki -
I was just wondering what name should I get. And this was the first cool name that passed through my mind. :D
vault_thug
9 posts
Joined May 2018
vault_thug
well i think i was inspired from every vault names in the fallout series then added "thug" at the end to look cool... if it is really cool
beachTurkey
49 posts
Joined July 2016
beachTurkey
oh I forgot to say where my past username(s) both came from

my teddy bear no joke please don't hurt me
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Kinushima
2 posts
Joined January 2018
Kinushima
My original name was a combination of 2 different anime girls and a video game girl (Hestia, Kinushima,and Mythra = Kystia -{somehow}.) I found my true love a few days ago in a weird event and now its Niyah from Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I like the spelling of the Japanese way lol.
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Niccy
77 posts
Joined March 2017
Niccy
I made my username rains because I like the rain. It's relaxing.
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ChaikaHQ
9 posts
Joined June 2015
ChaikaHQ
When I started learning french I really liked the word "cirque" (circus) and it eventually became my username.
Contrenox
2 posts
Joined February 2015
Contrenox
Contre from "contre-jour" the photography technique
and Nox is just night in latin. I'm considering other usernames.
leftforkilling
102 posts
Joined June 2018
leftforkilling
once i was playing tf2 with my retarded username pmi2rfq and i decided that it would be a good idea to change my name to left for killing to try to trick people (i was 8 at the time) and absolutely no body talked about me on the portal trade server map (honestly i didn't care i forgot about it and instead had fun getting a boat load of sniper kills) i never changed the name since (forgot to mention i got inspiration from left for dead that i loved a lot)
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Destinyy
26 posts
Joined April 2017
Destinyy
I'm using this nickname arround 9 years ago for every single game, The 'Destiny' its just because when i was 8 i use to like the idea that we all have a destiny, and we're here for something (i think i see that on a movie or something) nowadays i think we all have a destiny, but you can decide wich destiny u want to have, its not something prepared, its something you prepare.
the 611 its because that's my birthday date (june 11th)
i just wanted a cool username and i thought destiny was cool, was alredy used :(
so i added my birthday :)
MyztikOSU
4 posts
Joined February 2017
MyztikOSU
From the word "Mystic" or "Mystical", but those were taken
Apple_iFry
11 posts
Joined September 2017
Apple_iFry
My name originates from my like of french fries, and my experience with technology. I wanted to sign-up for minecraft a few years back and I've had this account for a while, soo... (Also iFry was taken and thats where the Apple came from. People think im a fruit)
Ravenmann_old
2 posts
Joined May 2018
Ravenmann_old
I came up with it myself, combining "Ackerman" from AoT and "Raven"
Xettai
12 posts
Joined January 2018
Xettai
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Satsuki - desu
Satsuki - desu
Actually from a chara name of an eroge VN that I really like, but it turned out that Satsuki is from the Japanese word "tsuki" which means moon and I happen to like moon a lot =w=
desu is just an add-on since the original was taken >.> and back then I tought adding desu would tell people to call me Satsuki in-game instead of desu (which obviously backfired because people called me desu instead REEEEE, but oh well) XD
MoltenMango
14 posts
Joined May 2015
MoltenMango
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ghostlyghosty
9 posts
Joined May 2018
ghostlyghosty
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Halokinesis
7 posts
Joined November 2017
Halokinesis
I'm gonna be honest, but I had a can of Baja Blast with me when I was making my account. That's how I got the name.
Z-Coffee
1 post
Joined June 2018
Z-Coffee
First post so heyy uwu

When i was a wee child i used to play S4League and i was really into zelda, so my name ended up being zleda since zelda was obviously taken. That stuck for some time and then there were countles variations on it, e.g.
Zledaren
Zlayrus
Z-Senpai
Z-(insert anyting tbh)

And now im pretty settled with either z-coffee or CoffeeForLunch :^)
Pheromosa
58 posts
Joined July 2016
Pheromosa
dinosaur
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Suisei Hosimati
3,049 posts
Joined March 2013
Suisei Hosimati
http://atelier.wikia.com/wiki/Firis_Mistlud
roshan117
145 posts
Joined April 2016
roshan117
my real first name and my birthday
Lapluie
1 post
Joined February 2014
Lapluie
My first username in osu! was "Rain_wing". It's just because I like rainy days and Im always wondering to have a pair of wings to fly. So I combined them up.

My current name is "Lapluie". Its meaning is "rain" in French(actually "La pluie"). I think my current name looks nicer than the older one so I changed my ID.(PS:I cannot speak French at all:P)
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nasutiya_old
nasutiya_old
my first name in japanese
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DeletedUser_8734694
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efina
10 posts
Joined November 2017
efina
I think I spent 2 days trying to think of a username
Although I don't remember exactly where my username came from I remember it having something to do with the weather outside and weeb stuff
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Scrooper
8 posts
Joined December 2014
Scrooper
LOL my waifu
VinZentVanDough
174 posts
Joined December 2017
VinZentVanDough

[-takanashi-] wrote:

LOL my waifu

it's that obvious
OneTrueDuceOK
91 posts
Joined October 2017
OneTrueDuceOK
I watch anime, and I watch No game No life. There is the character Ted held the name One True God. So I switch the God with Duce and add an OK at the end and there you go.
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Israfil
8 posts
Joined May 2013
Israfil
one song one sip that time
Dialect
1,551 posts
Joined May 2018
Dialect
rip my username from an arms character but change the spelling a bit..
FranxxHiro02
4 posts
Joined August 2018
FranxxHiro02
I got my username from my favorite anime, Darling In The Franxx. Since I saw the first episode I was drawn into it and I'm happy at where it ended, but it doesn't hurt to get a season two.
Meguro
557 posts
Joined June 2017
Meguro
from the PnF cartoon
andrewUL
andrewUL
Real name plus two random letters. About the other two names I had, one of them is a word, the other is a nickname I used to use in other games
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frutiger aero
331 posts
Joined October 2017
frutiger aero
i have absolutely no idea
and no it's not from league
sheepfish
3 posts
Joined June 2018
sheepfish
so. my username "sheepfish" is actyally pretty simple. "fish" because im pisces and "Sheep" because i was born during year of the sheep.
orangesunrise_old
13 posts
Joined August 2018
orangesunrise_old
Most of my usernames/nicknames on various places of the internet are weather/nature related. I like the sunrise, so I decided to choose a username that reflected it.
tgnehs
110 posts
Joined February 2018
tgnehs
i was thinking of a name to use for a throwaway spam gmail, when i somehow came up with tgnehs
my last name is shen, so i took that and flipped it over to get nehs.

the tg stands for "that guy", as i was called by my friends as "that guy shenpai" in public (ahh my friends are weebs). turns out tgnehs looked pretty unique and collected that i used it as my main.

meh, it sounds better than my old usernames TheShadows3dge and 5H33P_H473R
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Pheromosa
58 posts
Joined July 2016
Pheromosa
dinosaur
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ZisonZishen
20 posts
Joined February 2018
ZisonZishen
my Chinese name called Wang zishen,and i was called Wandown in English...and I have to.say it's strange
so I got a strange idea:to use my name in chinglish（half of Chinese,half of English）:zison
zison reads just like zishen in chinese..
so.zisonzishen
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Xirai
72 posts
Joined October 2010
Xirai
I once read a Manga and one of the main characters name was Rai.

I was playing online games back then and the name Rai was taken. So I chose Xirai sounds nice and used that.

But in some games Xirai was also taken, so in some games I am known as Xirain. The "Irritant" / "lightly acid" rain, which is fun, cause I am working a lab and I know that Xi is short for irritant...
Rakuyo
26 posts
Joined October 2015
Rakuyo
Mine came from a weapon from one of my favourite games, Bloodborne(specifically from The Old Hunters DLC). It means "Falling Leaf" and thought that It'd be a nice name go by. Also because I originally wanted to use "Naikou"(meaning Introvert and how I usually go by) but someone else already took it so Rakuyo it is.
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_MarcoPolo
4 posts
Joined July 2018
_MarcoPolo
My name is kind of my real name .. My name is Marco sooooo I thought MarcoPolo sounds funny and there it is _MarcoPolo =)
SolarCell27
28 posts
Joined March 2018
SolarCell27
It's really easy to figure it out.
Everyone should be familiar to Solar Cell, which means "solar battery" :D I have a big impression to that word (and that source of electricity, probably) so I chose it to be my name.
And "27", hmm... 3x3x3. Illuminati confirmed :D
Compose these things, and we have "SolarCell27".
im cute
259 posts
Joined June 2017
im cute
I liked the name Moko and my nickname is Kobe so it goes hand in hand
Not from rafis
l1mi
335 posts
Joined July 2011
l1mi
My first name on the Internet was my real life name but that was around 1995-96 and then the use of alias became more and more popular. This guy, I think it was a clan mate kept nagging at me that I had to get an alias. So one day when I launched q95.bat it said "loaded 1mb image" in the command lines and there it was. My very own alias. Laziest name pick ever.. you cant beat me there.

(q95.bat = single and muiltiplayer that featured multiplay over the impressive TCP/IP protocol)
(quake.exe = only singleplayer)
zKillock
1 post
Joined July 2018
zKillock
I love Killua so...
Orofil
73 posts
Joined February 2018
Orofil
I tried to write "profile" really fast.
Gehnter
1 post
Joined May 2018
Gehnter
[REDACTED]
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magalphs
17 posts
Joined March 2017
magalphs
my cat's nickname
pentaqola
43 posts
Joined May 2018
pentaqola
i combined pentagon and cola... then i just changed c to q... simple as that...
plus it has 4 syllables... and coca cola has 4 of them too so i think why not?
Acerbus_old_1
22 posts
Joined April 2018
Acerbus_old_1
I was searching words in Latin and I picked the first one that sounded good to me, although I don't feel identified with the meaning of the word.
Regurus
1 post
Joined July 2017
Regurus
only mushroom comes up when i think about favorite vegetable
Moebytes
46 posts
Joined July 2018
Moebytes
It comes from Pie (way too common a word to use). I actually don't like names with numbers but I haven't come up with anything better. :)
Skid3422
4 posts
Joined November 2016
Skid3422
My user Is Skid3422. I got it from my Cousin, who kept on calling me Skid.
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Jackagate
2 posts
Joined May 2014
Jackagate
I was 12 and making a PSN name and my dad spitballed a random combination of my first and last name and it stuck.

Thanks, Dad.
KayRift
11 posts
Joined August 2012
KayRift
I put the first letter of my real name "K" in a random generator and it gave me trash names. The best out of them was "Kay". It is basically the sound of the letter spelled out. I then put Kay into the generator and it just put a bunch of stupid words at the end such as "KayMeister" and "KaySpoon". I went down the list and chose the one that sounded easy to remember and could eventually lead to cool art work. Such as a rift opening up in the earth in the shape of a K. Rift means like a crack, split, or a break in something. So I went with KayRift because i would be able to bring it a lot of places and not have it be used by 100million people like my usual one is lol.
shinra
24 posts
Joined June 2018
shinra
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KogekiOsu
1 post
Joined September 2018
KogekiOsu

drum drum wrote:

Inspired by the question from ztrot's interview on osu!talk: http://youtu.be/8COmLt0IBRs?t=54m38s[/notice:1337]
A bunch of times people will think of a username related to their childhood, whether they do it by intention or not. This is not always the case, however, some people chose theirs because they either liked the way it sounded or thought it was cool. Everyone is different, of course.


For me, I chose "drum drum" for a reason I don't entirely remember. But I believe it's based on my past fascination with drums of all sorts. When I was a child my grandmother bought me a cheap Indian drum which I loved a lot (and then it broke of course). Around middle school I had a Djembe drum that I loved to play a lot. And finally in High school my parents bought me an electric drum kit (which I never anymore use because it lacks a tom and doesn't sound that great). Now here I am playing Taiko on osu!, funny how life works.

Nathanael wrote:

I'd really like to see replies from the staff
Staff replies
Writing...
Note: all bolded names have channel operator status on the chat service
HeatKai
Maeglwn
Stefan
Krah
Desperate-kun
BeatofIke
IamKwaN
DakeDakaane
Fycho



Just a japanese traduction of "offensive"
DireWoof122
2 posts
Joined March 2017
DireWoof122
My username originated from me just liking the word "Dire" so I was like okay that'll be my username from now on and now this has been official for about three years now, almost everyone I've ever met and became friends with on the internet knows me as Dire. A few call me by my real name but that's it
Professional
10 posts
Joined December 2015
Professional
My current name comes from a song
https://youtu.be/BVLw59jxm-c?t=45s

Around 1:50 :
"DiscoDop regner inni bussen for å si det mildt"

Basiaclly translates to:
"Disco Dope (mdma, lsd ect) raining in my crib to put ut blunt"
Aidan
24 posts
Joined March 2018
Aidan
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MisakiSakaki
692 posts
Joined March 2015
MisakiSakaki
Another!
My ship Kōichi and Mei's last name.
It's been 3 years since I have this username and I still love it!
When i turn support i'll think a similar ones.
Disappear
96 posts
Joined February 2015
Disappear
My old username, Yami Yami chan originates from the one and only To Love ru character Yami, and I was thinking of a name for my Xbox Live account years back. And apparently I thought of that and it was the best decision of my life cause everyone would be saying my name saying it's funny or cool or whatever. I would have other versions of this name like just Yami or what I use a lot more recently Yamisu~ which is a kind of a slang in Japanese where you would say your name and add "su" at the end of your name. In english it would kinda sound like someone sayings "name" here! or something like that.

Then I had depression and bunch of other garbage and changed my name to Disappear, not only liking HD at the time but how I felt at the time. Now Disappear has been another username I use to this day for other things. So I kinda switch between Yamisu, Yami Yami chan, and Disappear.
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Wachininko
165 posts
Joined October 2016
Wachininko
My first nickname was AllFiles, because i was almost 7 and i made my youtube channel planning to review all games on earth. then i decided to change it to a misspelling, which was OllFilez.
Now it's Wachininko which is konnichiwa backwards (if you reverse the order of konnichiwa in japanese, then it will be wa chi ni n ko)
Geromu Keretem
32 posts
Joined December 2016
Geromu Keretem
Well, I wanted my name to sound asian, because asians get a lot of respect just for being asian. I created the name, after 3 months I finally decide to check what asian names look like. Then I realised Geromu isnt asian AT ALL, but by the time of mi realization ive started being known as Geromu in the community, so I think im gonna stick with the name as it is.
Hitsuki
2 posts
Joined August 2015
Hitsuki
My name comes from the lead singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, but I added "Skrrt" because it sounds similar to "Kurt", hence SkrrtCobain. I don't why honestly.
chashuramen
141 posts
Joined May 2018
chashuramen
I just really like char siew ramen.
RhagnarrL
8 posts
Joined September 2017
RhagnarrL
My name originates from 2 mythology's Ragnar Lothbrok from the vikings and L in the name stands for Lucifer Morningstar ( aka the devil ) .
AngeLicAlisa
5 posts
Joined May 2016
AngeLicAlisa
My username is a combination of "Angelic Layer" (title of a very old anime) and Alisa Bosconovitch (from Tekken since I main her in the game). Somehow, the main character's angel' from the anime (a robot toy) had a very similar design with Alisa then decided I came up with this username.
[-Shi-]
10 posts
Joined December 2017
[-Shi-]
Mine came from the inspiration of the word joker in german, which means witzbold, and I stuck with that name till I found out that witz was another german word meaning joke, and since my life is a joke, that's why I chose the name Witz.
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Addict_old_1
4 posts
Joined February 2017
Addict_old_1
My addiction to osu
- Sphinx -
9 posts
Joined July 2018
- Sphinx -
Yu-Gi-Oh GX (good old times) the Sphinx deck / monsters
Theinen The Great Sphinx, Andro Sphinx, Sphinx Teleia....
Lumyh
83 posts
Joined July 2018
Lumyh
i've had the name Clubby since summer 2015.
i was playing Geometry Dash, and there was this song i really liked, "Clubstep".
so i named myself ClxBStxP

one day i decided to make an account on Geometry Dash but ClxBStxP was taken, so i shortened it down to ClxB, and that was taken as well, so after a bit of thinking, i Added -by and changed the x back to a u and it gave Clubby!
Dialect
1,551 posts
Joined May 2018
Dialect

Clubby wrote:

i was playing Geometry Dash


you play gd? i guess i'm not alone.

so you know that girl from arms named Min Min? i changed the M in the 2nd Min to Nin and now i'm minnin for no reason at all
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linkfire
34 posts
Joined February 2018
linkfire
My username is from Ocarina of Time.; I loved that Fire Tunic a lot, so Link+Fire gave me Linkfire. Pretty random I guess.
yea
262 posts
Joined August 2015
yea
I was agreeing to something..
Shawntell
59 posts
Joined November 2015
Shawntell
from a member of a group of mine
JayD3vo
6 posts
Joined September 2018
JayD3vo
My username is my entire dox, simple
Grim
10 posts
Joined October 2014
Grim
Iomu
2 posts
Joined November 2015
Iomu
Mixed 2 japan names
blvknight
blvknight
from the lofi artist blvk. that's it
Slyme
658 posts
Joined February 2018
Slyme
Minslime, because… Minecraft 7 years ago ^^'
Pheromosa
58 posts
Joined July 2016
Pheromosa
dinosaur
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Poidachii
18 posts
Joined June 2017
Poidachii
originally came from Kancolle which means yuudachi, but then I removed yuu and replaced it with poi so it becomes more cuter <3
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