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_Vex
The story of my name is so random.

I used to have lots of username before, in other games, but one day a few years ago I was like, okay, imma settle down and think about a name that I'll use always. I came up with Vex, randomly, I really like it, and most of my online friend know me as Vex, but obviously, it's very short and normally taken in most places.

So I thought, okay, imma add a sufix. And -tron came to my mind. So here I was, with Vextron. But I ended up using Vxtron in here, and I don't really know why hahah

Looking forward to change my name to the closest thing I can to Vex ^^
quan millz
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YamichanKawaii
I chose this name because of my waifu
Silicosis
i Dont knoew
futabas
best persona 5 girl
[LS]PositoniX
https://youtu.be/KGQTkWJ5mU4?t=53

my username was supposed to be "PositroniX" but i was a dumbass and made a typo in the username when making this account... i've been thinking about getting supporter to change it to something less stupid
CallMe_Al
When I was 12 I faced the problem of choosing a nickname. And since I could easily beat my friends in games I chose Best, but for putting some numbers and technological things I made it Best02_. But when I grew up I understood it was a really bad name, so I decided to change it and use just my name, Albert. So I made my nickname CallMe_Al. And If I have to be sincere I kinda like to be "Al" also in real life. Maybe I will but the supporter for change my nickname but for now, the 12year-old-me will be attached to me...
Kama
thought it was cool
beerpsi
My username, "mrlacpeanut" had 3 parts: mr for mister (I don't know why I put that in :P), Lac being my IRL name and Peanut being a translation of Lac into English

Lac means happy, but it can also mean peanuts.
Chiru-kun
a nickname given by an old friend in a certain class.
nostalgia. would be nice to see him again.
An actual Rat
Some guy on league of legends told me while I was playing Twitch ("Jesus Christ... you're an actual rat") and it just resonated with me.
TheKingHenry

An actual Rat wrote:

Some guy on league of legends told me while I was playing Twitch ("Jesus Christ... you're an actual rat") and it just resonated with me.

literally opened this thread because I saw your name as the last poster
was not disappointed lol
An actual Rat

TheKingHenry wrote:

An actual Rat wrote:

Some guy on league of legends told me while I was playing Twitch ("Jesus Christ... you're an actual rat") and it just resonated with me.

literally opened this thread because I saw your name as the last poster
was not disappointed lol


Glad I made your day, cheers.
AsaiKentoCH
TBH my username is just an entire r/boneappletea moment. my real IGN is TanGentFish, it was supposed to be PungentFish or PGFish.

I kinda just sticked to it bc it kinda sounded cool.
Alyx Vance
pretty self explanatory. one of my fav music genres
Dialect
i think i did this already, but here we go again.


i went through a multitude of usernames, so on and so forth. we got a nintendo switch, and we played arms. there was a character named Min Min, and i honestly liked her character. obviously MinMin would be taken, so i did the most creative thing and replaced the 2nd M with a N, and that's how i got my username
Penguin

MinNin wrote:

i think i did this already, but here we go again.


i went through a multitude of usernames, so on and so forth. we got a nintendo switch, and we played arms. there was a character named Min Min, and i honestly liked her character. obviously MinMin would be taken, so i did the most creative thing and replaced the 2nd M with a N, and that's how i got my username
ahhhhh, so that's why your name is so familiar. I used to main minmin when that game first came out.

OT: idk probably through some form of evolution millions of years ago.
charlyosu
someone gave me a nickname and i just added osu after it
FloatinSardines
my old username SimplyJay14 originated when I was thinking of a username, on my head was "I can't just use simply, jay as a username" then i went back to simply, jay and it sounded nice hence SimplyJay but the 14 meant something personal for me. 14 is the age when things started to brighten up for me since my bad childhood that consisted of me being raised by the internet better than my biological mother could raise me.



my current username FloatinSardines came from FlyingTuna. it stemmed from me that a joke type username would fit into the community and help me enjoy the game more hence i just used parallels from flying tuna to use this current name.
Rusty af
Alpha Centauri is my discord username, so I just decided to use that. It was taken though, so I had to use a variation of it, and here I am
TwoWAFFLEaDay
I guess it started in 5th grade when I was the only kid in my class who preferred waffles over pancakes, then through my Xbox years I used WaffleAday, but once I got a pc I used TwoWaffleAday to be like the next step. But if I had a few extra bucks I would change it to SynDes cause that’s the name I now use on everything.
Dialect

Penguin wrote:

ahhhhh, so that's why your name is so familiar. I used to main minmin when that game first came out.
i wish arms got more updates
Superzod
Mine originated in a DC game and I put Superman and zod together
scene
well uh, it wasn't taken so i just decided to take it :)

oh and my previous names, I have a backstory on those. c u p c a k e was an inside joke between my best friend and I who passed away, and since cupcake was taken I just went with it spaced out. - Yoruka - was one of my first ever waifus, so that's why that name was that. But, I prefer scene. This user is such a great username and I will always go by it from now forth.
ZHENSHIDE
zhen shi de is the pinyin for the chinese characters 真是的, which is essentially an exasperated sigh put in words.
South Korea
theres this kpop group i like called fromis_9, their fans are called flover so flover -> revolf -> revolfer cuz why na
qwt
You shouldn't ask that question
haha i rolypoly
iclick_squares
Zelzatter Zero
"Zel": My name I'll use in the Internet since I don't want to use irl name.
"-zatter": The combination of my Internet name mentioned above, "Zel Zatterson"
"Zero": Taken from "Hikari Zero" god I play Arcaea too much
Aextra
Hello there.
Over the years I used many nicknames, most of them in minecraft exclusively. In the following post I will focus on the four major one. On osu I just used one name tho.

It all started with my YouTube Account I guess. I registered at YouTube around seven years ago with the username FriendzoneLp, not yet knowing the meaning of "Friendzone", but I thought it sounded kinda cool so I took this name. LP of course, as many in that era, because of me wanting to make some Lets Plays and I wanted to upload them on YouTube.

My second name, N00bieLP (only Minecraft): I took that name when I was creating a Mojangaccount. I was using that name because I just started out with playing (online) games and I took that name ironically. I was about 11 to 12 years old back then.

My third name, the name I use for the most time and the name I am currently using on osu, Battle net and many others is Aextra. One day my Dad and I were driving back home to the place where my mother and I lived and I wanted to use the time (it was an around two and half an hour ride) to think about a name I could take. I still had some YouTube stuff in mind and I thought of some introduction. I came up with the german phrase "Extremes Hallo" something something what kind of translates into "Extreme hello" or something like that. I then thought of that by itself as kind of boring and then I just took the beggining letter of my real name and put it in front of "Extra": Aextra was born. I then proceeded to use that name for basically everything. So basically this name was made up with this weird phrase / word play in mind.. xD unironically. I was around 11 to 13 years old back then.

My fourth and last name I'm focusing on right now is the name "Ultimate Wassakocho".
I currently am using this name on my Twitch account and my YouTube channel. It comes from my former chemistry teacher who pronounced the word "Wasserkocher", translates to water boiler/kettle/water heater. She was from either a north-west part from germany or north-eastern part, I cant recall it correctly. Anyways.. I really liked that pronounciation and I made it my name. This one was meant to be taken ironically I guess. I was around 13 to 14 years old back then.

That was a good summary of my name history, I hope I didnt spam here too much.
osuproroblox
well er i play osu i play roblox im good at osu so osuproroblox there we go
MajorGamer
I'm a cringey kid, I chose name a few years ago when I was still playing minecraft, I chose it as my username on ps4 minecraft, because I thought it rhymed, now my accounts have names like, "themajorgamer", my youtube is called "themajorking", when i played roblox it was "themajorkiel"etc etc
q9za
smashed my head onto my keyboard. Got a 4 letter name.
abraker

q9za wrote:

smashed my head onto my keyboard. Got a 4 letter name.
Do you regret it?
DeletedUser_5153421
well for rename i had a similar format to a player who i used to look up to, kind of ironic how it's the opposite now, but hey, it fits.
'tors' is supposed to mean mountains, btw
as for my previous name, i made that up when i was way younger and stuck with it, shiney because i couldn't spell (and i liked sunshine or shiny objects, i dont rember actually) and 01 because 1 was usually taken.
pizzamaster901
I got my username from myself prtty much since i have the same username in geometry dash, roblox and of course osu! so yeah thats where my username originates from! UwU
Chappell Roan
I had a favourite bandori character...moca aoba, I decided to give her a little nickname and slowly it became my username.
Vincent1370
Just a dumb username when I was 13.
Changing it at this point feels pointless.
spcl
So i change my username alot and i have different identities for different games ex. minecraft is skydun and discord is skyde but for osu, i choose lightnight because idk honestly one night 3 am wanted to change my username and did lmao
Eifuyu
EI - initials of my favorite Japanese/Filipino artist: Elaiza Ikeda
fuyu - fuyukai-desu: Kuriyama Mirai
Arm
I have a couple so i thought "ah heck" and yeah
KimAriel
My first nickname was "NiOsu", and "Ni" came from the nickname I use irl.
Later I changed it to KimAriel because I like the name Kim, and Ariel is just my actual my name.
sindoku
Lmao i got my name from a friend who's called Extra Mayonnaise
Nuuskamuikkunen

Extra Ketchup wrote:

Lmao i got my name from a friend who's called Extra Mayonnaise
Epic.
Zelzatter Zero

Extra Ketchup wrote:

Lmao i got my name from a friend who's called Extra Mayonnaise
I... kinda like your friend.
vinicius2007
it´s my name + the year i born
i was out of ideas for names when i created my account :v
Bonesinflames
My username originated from a child games site where you can radomize your name and i got this nome wich i tought it was really cool back in the day so i sticked with it XD.
saccharine
puwwi is the word "pummi" which means homeless in finnish but the "m's" flipped upside down
kabertan
the first two letters are from my first name and the next 3 are from my last name. I then added tan at the end lol
Joseph_Lis
Привет всем. Мой ник: Joseph_Lis
Его я придумал в 4 классе, когда у меня в сарае жила маленькая лисичка. Назвал я ее Joseph, так как на тот момент смотрел Аниме JoJo. Но... Она погибла... Ее перехала машина прямо около моего дома...
С того момента я стал очень сильно любить животных, особенно Лис. Сейчас я ежедневно хожу в приют животных и кормлю их.
Вот как то так. Спасибо за внимание :3
segji
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Kazusa Touma
I liked boeing747 5 years ago xd
rosewaters
skai was formerly my nickname, and skypaws was the name of an oc i had in a rp so i just combined the two and it turned out pretty nice
DeletedUser_6709840
(New username)

I like the character Wei Wuxian from MDZS and the username I wanted "HyakkimarusFlame" is too long for osu! QwQ
brit
i like fish :)
obv "fish" would be taken everywhere, so staring at the account creation screen gave me "tooth"
Asphiee
came from the word "aspire" and the "phyre" came from "fire" which can be interpreted as passion.

i know.... just effing call me "usfire" not "assfire" idyett
sobakinkie
this was actually a username i used for an art account back then
soba+cookie = sobakinkie

i want to change my username now but i cant pay for osu supporter rip
rezzvy
atneserureborn was here
jiyeon
eunwonbi comes from a mix of the Gfriend members Eunha, Sowon, and SinB, I just combined all of them together to make eunwonbi!
Lycanroc
pokemon
silverkatana
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Vickywar
Well my mom call me vicky soooo.....
SA ST
Mine is just my real name shortend
b4rq
Just dog noises lul
Sakisagee
club penguin profile, 9 years ago
NeonYandere
Random username generator i used a few years back, liked the name and used it on everything
tenma
yes.
OsuKiih
mm it just came on my mind! ''Osu'' because it's the game xD
nd ''Kiih'' because I have an OC named Kiih
Dialect
time to reply to this again because my username changed


literally Li Syaoran from cardcaptor sakura. that's it. that's all. nothing else.
haha i rolypoly
I was new to osu so yes I used to click squares
Shinjuko
I thought Username is like user id,But i was wrong. And thhere it goes my name
z0z
i wanted to try out osu! at the time, realized i can't change username or anything a day later when i quickly started loving the game, also though it was a nice username
Slush
7/11
-ANMi-
If you used to play mobile gacha games or any other mobage and knowing well it's character artist, well it definitely similar o/
BRUHBA
i go by bubba online, and people kept on saying bruhba lol
JustABeginner
Oh no. I hate it. What did my 13 year old self thinking about this username...

Read it with caution! Maybe secrets revealed?
I played a game called "Pixel Gun 3D". I changed my username to "JustABeginner" to show that I'm a noob at that game.

Then, I got introduced to osu!. Before this name, I wanted to name something - which is even worse, "HowToSurvive". I mean, the username had taken so I named it JustABeginner.
Yeah, not that interesting, but rather my wild imagination.

Speaking of usernames, maybe I should create a survey whether or not I should change my name.

Also, how did you find your username, to the person below me?
Zelzatter Zero

Uraomote Error wrote:

My username originates from the parody song of Two-faced Lovers - one of the most iconic wowaka songs back then in 2016. As a 12-year-old me at that time, I found this interesting so I took it as my first name to sign in to the game.

Zelzatter Zero wrote:

"Zel": My name I'll use in the Internet since I don't want to use irl name.
"-zatter": The combination of my Internet name mentioned above, "Zel Zatterson"
"Zero": Taken from "Hikari Zero" god I play Arcaea too much
I already answered them in this thread but my dumbass self want to combine them here.
JustABeginner
Well, at least it's complete.

JustABeginner wrote:

Speaking of usernames, maybe I should create a survey whether or not I should change my name.
Update: I think I should keep my name but I'll make it shorter.

Also, how did you find your username, to the person below me?
Turtleh
I liked turtles but the name turtle was already taken so I put an h on the end xd
Ashton
My birth parents
Winnyace
I saw 2 bottles of bleach in the bathroom while doing my business. on 1 of them it was Winny, on the other Ace.
ICanNotDoSlider
[deleted]
q9za
No idea. I just had this name forever and never really changed it.
NinjaMeals
When I was younger, I used to climb all over everything "like a ninja." My name IRL is also Mila, the beginning of which sounds like "meal." In an attempt to annoy me, my parents started calling me "NinjaMeals" and it has just stuck with me. I started using it for everything due to my inability to come up with anything else, and now I just don't have the heart to change it.
minhperry
minhperry

Originates from my Minecraft username, I was very active on an gamemode on a Minecraft server called "Hypixel Skyblock". Then I got bored of it and switched to osu!.
"Minh" is my irl name. "Perry" is my nickname when I was in a primary school
VanillaKeksik
Cake and drugs
Nilocnus
Pretty funny story. Back in late 2014-2015, I found that my previous name was just visually unappealing and difficult to say. So I wanted something that resonated with me. Of course I played Minecraft for a while, and I've always wanted the implementation of a sapphire ore. So I named myself after it. Except I completely misspelled the word and ended up with SapFireMC. It wasn't until a year later that I actually found out, but at that point it was already too late. I never did end up changing from there simply because of all the people that knew me by this alias, so that's how I've kept it to this day
Adinda
Huh you probably can know my name come from, by just seeing it
Negroloid
Imagine a vocaloid such as Gumi with an afro and black Air Forces. That's me but better.
Lebros
uhm alright, once i started playing "Geometry Dash" (GD) in around 2015-2016 i didn't have a constant username, so i was using TNT, Diamond Block because i played "Minecraft" these days also. So, in GD i looked at a catchy nickname - "Zobros" and I found it interesting w. i just took ending of Zobros -> "bros" one and i come up with smth at start -> "Le"(idk why) this how my nickname was born. Now in other games i use my new nickname and I want to change it in osu! but i have no money rn :(
Anyway sry for my bad knowlenge of English im trying to improve it by forums like this ^-^
qwt
Don't ask
noioiu
Until like June 2019 I used this username for pretty much every site I used. The yuki part comes from an old friend that, for whatever reason, used to call me by that name. I can't remember where the reido part comes from tho.
Tbh by now I regret choosing that name. It's kinda gender revealing and it sounds stupid :/
- Isla -
anime.
Worm_old_1
strky
Kuroko's Basketball the movie. In the first 20 maybe minutes.
Neko [OwO]
Random Name Generator

Then I added two z's because I thought it was cool at the time
Memory-
I felt edgy 1.5 years ago and use this name pretty much everywhere at this point
NexuCheckuso
It came from part of my nickname and japanese pronunciation of checks,also because it's my game name for every game
ninore
I took "edd" or "double d"'s name from ed, edd n eddy (which was one of my favourite shows as a kid) and added an "n" to the front of it, nedd.
83 is the first number that comes to my head when i think about numbers.
SkylarJeff45
It all started with Red Porcupine from happy tree friends
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