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Taikah
12 posts
Joined November 2018
Taikah
I've been through numerous usernames in my lifetime on the internet. Though the most recent one, I wanted to be called Tiger, course in a unique way.

Turns out that google translate was my best friend at the time because in Maori, they had a really cool way of saying Tiger
or ahem"Taika". If you searched just Taika however, you would come across the director from Moana and so smart thinking with my big IQ brain... added the "h" to the end of the name so it's silent and still pronounces the same.

At first I didn't like it, but it's grown on me and this is my favorite username to use by far.
jacelife
23 posts
Joined November 2020
jacelife
Naruto
SongJoon
9 posts
Joined January 2020
SongJoon
well, mine is Song Joon. And basically, my name is Joon Song which is Korean, but I'm taking Mandarin courses right now, and everyone in class calls me Song Joon, not that good of a story but yh
Simon12
1,952 posts
Joined March 2018
Simon12
s12 because it looks cool in-game and it's short for Simon12, which was my former username
and - in front of that because s12 was already taken
eveline04
15 posts
Joined September 2019
eveline04
alias~
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Lionex220
12 posts
Joined June 2016
Lionex220
I just liked lions and i thought adding "ex" would make it sound cool.
Tiddy
3 posts
Joined November 2020
Tiddy
Just tiddies, you know.


If Tiddy is taken, then I rotate - Right Tiddy, Left Tiddy, Whole Tiddy, Tiddies.
f0rtuna_old_1
3 posts
Joined December 2020
f0rtuna_old_1
A Roman goddess c:
AngelicK0
67 posts
Joined April 2019
AngelicK0
AngelicK came from my obsession with playing healer classes in RPGs. I added the K bc Angelic was taken in most games and the name didnt quite ring. Added a 0 if AngelicK was still taken.
Ryoko
Ryoko
I like animals, so I googled feline animals and found fossa, I thought it looked nice. I just regret putting the 7w7 in there lol
Phantonym
462 posts
Joined May 2019
Phantonym
Phantonym
A phantonym is a word that appears to mean one thing, but in fact means another. The term was coined by Jack Rosenthal in his 2009 article for the NY Times.
Quaze
Quaze
i created my nickname after playing "Quake", but i back in osu, my nickname (VedG), was not very pleasant, so i buy support and change my really nick.
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DIY
3 posts
Joined October 2020
DIY
I really just thought of this username on the whim. It does sound like one of those "random generated names for games" website that gives dumb wacky usernames like "SoaringBird402".
wsxdrfvyhn
38 posts
Joined March 2020
wsxdrfvyhn
well uh i just liked how skins can customize almost everything
[RUE]Bambinex
343 posts
Joined October 2020
[RUE]Bambinex
from fortnite well originally it was from fortnite but now it's just my username and I didn't played fortnite for 6 months so yeah
kinda proud of it tbh, found it in math class lol
ItsZeanKun
23 posts
Joined November 2020
ItsZeanKun
My username is originated from Yandere kun or ItsYandereKun. So I decided to match if my username fits. So, here I am. ItsZeanKun
CtrlAltDel
28 posts
Joined April 2019
CtrlAltDel
My username is a just a popular command. Though I added the "2" because at the time when I created my account, CtrlAltDel was unavailable.
wowcake
Global Moderator
1,179 posts
Joined February 2020
wowcake
It was 2015, at night, i was hungry, and asked my dad if he could buy something for me, then he came with a various-flavored cake, and when i looked at it, i was suprised, tried to taste it, my reaction was like "woah..", hence my name.
viagra
187 posts
Joined May 2015
viagra
i like weed
Iamn00bish
17 posts
Joined April 2015
Iamn00bish
I hit top ten in my schools network for some kind of space invaders rip-off and I thought it would be funny that a noob was better than the 800 other people who had attempted the game. The name didn't age too well but I still think seeing someone with that sort of name crushing leaderboards is pretty funny. So let's hope I start crushing leaderboards!
Kano Mahoro
738 posts
Joined February 2020
Kano Mahoro
People say i have the most memorable
name because it's 2 common words that i sandwiched together on a whim to find a username on the spot and it's been with me for 2 years
minatoec
8 posts
Joined November 2016
minatoec
6 years ago when I was obsessed with naruto, my favourite character was minato. So I just added toe after it cuz toe is funny word. The c comes from this old YouTube called gradeA underA. I just decided to stick a c after minatoe; leading to minatoec.
Watervapor
36 posts
Joined July 2019
Watervapor
My username from Geometry Dash account
Itellia
69 posts
Joined January 2021
Itellia
the pokemon
Riae
Riae
R A idk but I and E is in my actual name M"ei"
Takeless
4 posts
Joined September 2020
Takeless
I got it from a friend named "giveless", he told me he had another friend who's name he had given "giveful"

we met in a Minecraft PVP server :3
Dundee
23 posts
Joined September 2018
Dundee
Welp, update on my name. It's just an original name once I found out that every name I wanted was taken LUL
spliff
59 posts
Joined July 2017
spliff
my original user, (watermelonchomp) was kinda inspired from cookiezi (now chocomint) since they were bith food related and i was like, "he is a good player so why not.." i was 10 at the time so i was stupid xD
peradigm
4 posts
Joined September 2020
peradigm
This is a long one, oh boy...

My first xbox profile was named Dondon843, because my name has a "don" part in it, but not in the way you think. I guess I just liked the descending set of numbers in 843 so I stuck with it. Then, my accounts email got hacked(?) one day and I had to make a new account, it was no biggie though because all my games got switched over. I wanted to take advantage of the name change I had because of the new account, so I named it something I learned in school recently (I was in elementary school at this time), the word Paradigm. I kept the numbers, and therefore Paradigm843 was born! (to this day I still use this xbox account). I got on discord as soon as I hit the age 13, and after jumping around a bunch of don related usernames (ones I remember - Dontheguy, Dondo) I settled on Paradigm843 since I wanted it to be easy to play with me on xbox. After meeting friends, and time passing by, I liked the abbreviations called me during R6S matches (faster to say "Para flanking to cash" than "Paradigm843 to your right") and I changed my discord username to Para. Then, when my friend changed his 4 letter user by one letter, and so I followed suit. Pera was born!

Any other alteration (peradigm, paradigmu, paradime) are whimsical one time things
munga
85 posts
Joined November 2020
munga
Sailor from Sailor Moon (I don't even like Sailor moon i just the thought the names are cool) and and Pennie from Peggy, a nickname i had in 3rd grade (my name isn't Margaret, people just called me peggy for some reason.)
octavia
8 posts
Joined August 2017
octavia
Roblox
Amanetsuki
6 posts
Joined October 2020
Amanetsuki
I was at a loss on what username to think, so i just thought up which video game character to first come up to my mind, and link from zelda botw was the one to pop up. And since link in botw was kinda lost in the world without memories, i though to myself, "Why not lost-link?". And so i typed in lost-link (the dash was there since i kinda want the words to be kinda connected).
Dypie
1 post
Joined April 2018
Dypie
My name was originated from game called Agar.io it was like a circle game thing back then, i used to type my name mypie but i changed it to be Dypie when i typo my name, but i like the name that i got from the randomness
Appelsiinin
6 posts
Joined September 2016
Appelsiinin
Huh, this is interesting. I had a period of time where I couldn't find any name that felt like "me" so I was struggling for a long time until I chose this name.

I've always loved oranges, and it eventually became my unofficial trademark after I started using the emoji when texting to people. I liked the way the word sounded and was written, so I thought to myself: why not? And here I am, the Finnish version of orange~

(Appelsiini was taken by someone who hasn't been active in years, so I added an n, sniff. At least it's cute.)
oloH_floW
5 posts
Joined June 2020
oloH_floW
I thought it would be kinda funny to spell Holo_Wolf backwards,
So when I look in the reflection of my pc glass panel and see it I
remember I am alone, and there is no wolf girl waifu to save me ;_;

Just kidding. . .
Alaudia
2 posts
Joined July 2018
Alaudia
I got this name from a name generator
Z_o_r_e_e
2 posts
Joined September 2019
Z_o_r_e_e
From my elder brother, one day I saw him play PUBG with this username and I thought it sounded cool so I literally stole it. He also found out after lol
Jaegii
236 posts
Joined October 2020
Jaegii
my name means Resurgence in Korean, I chose this name because it was the name I switched to after returning to a tournament I was banned from in League of Legends.
Soulix
2 posts
Joined October 2017
Soulix
I got my name from a name generator i found on a site.
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-Nadir-
29 posts
Joined May 2019
-Nadir-
my name
Designer1900
13 posts
Joined January 2021
Designer1900
Designer because I like to play building games etc. Designing stuff and being creative in general, 1900 because of the interest in history ( I like to read historical fiction sometimes ).
VexedSteak
35 posts
Joined August 2017
VexedSteak
VexedSteak30274

idk i made that name when i was registering my xbox live account
mozawa
4 posts
Joined February 2019
mozawa
AH ive always wanted someone to ask this but here we go! it came from my other username im known by and senzawa, since i created the character mozawa as her opposite
baapbaap
2 posts
Joined February 2018
baapbaap
a paul blart meme
2ezlma0
7 posts
Joined June 2020
2ezlma0
Honestly kinda just decided this would be a good name as i use lmao quite often and 2ez because its ironic as im pretty bad at osu lmao. also made lmao with a 0 because you know cool edgy number in name
Kyonkichi
66 posts
Joined December 2015
Kyonkichi
From Fruits Basket character, Sōma Kyō. His male classmates tease him with the nickname "Kyonkichi", much to his chagrin, as well as protesting to no avail. I really relate with his character so much and it was worth spending my first username change for. XD

ayLeon
6 posts
Joined May 2020
ayLeon
a lot of autism
XxtraFlaminhot
1 post
Joined March 2019
XxtraFlaminhot
mine came from a bag of hot cheetos
DeletedUser_13957006
DeletedUser_13957006
mine came from this guy. dont ask how, it just did.
DeletedUser_6767276
DeletedUser_6767276
In 2015 after getting my first job and working for months, I managed enough funds to afford the fees for a school trip to China. We went to a sister school in a "small" city of 3 million people by the name of Binzhou, and stayed there for five days. It was a blast, and I made tonnes of friends and had a wonderful experience overall.

Decided to make Binzhou5 my username for a while using the city and the amount of days I stayed. Come when I went to Twitch however, nobody could pronounce the name correct (Bin Joe), saying Binzoo, Binzow, Binz house (reading the 5 as an s), and most commonly Binzo.

Eventually the streamer group I followed just shortened it and read my nickname to "Binz", with one of them later calling me "binzy", and the trend of slapping "boi" to end of it came shortly after. So I just decided to rebrand myself since everyone else had already done the same. Mind you, now some people in Discord are now reading my name as "Blinzy_Boi", all completely unrelated to each other, so that's odd.
gooberbaby
1 post
Joined November 2020
gooberbaby
so sophomore year of high school i think (?) i was in a cooking class with some upperclassmen. one of them i always thought was cute but he used to call me tallstuff because i'm 4'9 so legally i'm a midget and people love to pick fun at me for that since i'm 21. but online i normally go by talllstuff because tallstuff with two L's is always taken
GasterMaster70
4 posts
Joined August 2018
GasterMaster70
My username actually comes from my channel name on YT, which comes from UNDERTALE. I was really interested in Gaster9especially since seeing the Glitchtale rendition of him), and so I had that name pop up.

If I knew my channel would be predominantly Touhou and Minecraft, I would have chosen something else
Green591
5 posts
Joined April 2017
Green591
I like the colour green, and my dumbass 12 year old self thought that five-nine-one was a good addition to that. Incredibly original, that much's clear.
spliff
59 posts
Joined July 2017
spliff
like
MishaG4mer
5 posts
Joined December 2020
MishaG4mer
Irl name + Gamer + 4 instead of a cause i thought it would look cool. I have some regrets now, but eh.
Ryoko
Ryoko
play despacito
xclps
1 post
Joined March 2014
xclps
just made some random letters mesh together well
Pikku Masa
157 posts
Joined January 2015
Pikku Masa
Mazsaa was a play on my actual name to make a nickname, although these days I think my actual name is more suited as a nickname
Epinephrine is a synonym for adrenaline, and cooler sounding. I picked it because of me wanting a nickname that described how I played CS. I'd like to think it's adrenaline filled :)
cai0
60 posts
Joined July 2017
cai0
k like is literally my name
jaackharm
29 posts
Joined November 2020
jaackharm
jackhammer
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Destinyly303
8 posts
Joined January 2021
Destinyly303
best friends and I tend to give nicknames related to our lives. Mine is Destiny, since once, I thought I would never find someone there for me but it changed. I have three best friends now.
And the username 'Destinyly303' is a bit random. I decided to make it rhyme with number 3 as my favourite number. I might make a new username after this but for now, I'll stick with this.
FaceLessBoi_1
59 posts
Joined February 2021
FaceLessBoi_1
this was my minecraft ign from 2014
Ghuulken
5 posts
Joined December 2018
Ghuulken
my name is a character that initially came from a guild wars 2 build then started appearing in some collaborative writing projects. Basically it's just a cookie cutter op berserker named Ghuulken Skullcrush. he not so smart. smash with fist.
Synphonica
176 posts
Joined July 2019
Synphonica
My name synphonica is broken down to Syn - phonic -a
And why is that? This is because I was addicted to the word sin back in the day partly because it sounded good and also because it connotated to something malicious since after all that is what the word meant. However, sinphonica certainly does not look appealing so I decided to go with Syn-phonica with a y. After all, Syn and Sin are pronounced the same way. The phonic part is there since phonic in Latin roots means sound in which I was going for something like sinful or deathsound which is contradictory to my preference of music. But I mainly chose the word phonic since it sounded cool LOL. So now we have Synphonic... I looked at the name and I thought the word looked unfinished so i decided to add an a at the end making it Synphonica. If you read this you have a lot of time on your hands :D
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Lequd
14 posts
Joined August 2020
Lequd
xbox live gamertag xd
Sugar_owo
586 posts
Joined August 2020
Sugar_owo
my old cringey online name with owo in the end >~<
AkiShizuha
55 posts
Joined May 2011
AkiShizuha
LoL this came from Touhou project.

Akishizuha and Akiminoriko (秋静葉、秋穣子). They usually ranked lower than other popular characters in annual Touhou voting so they were also nicknamed "无人气姐妹". (It means no-popularity sisters?)

I don't like this - so I took the name and I tried to get high ranks in easier difficulties using all 4 mods. (this was from 9 years ago.) So people will see the name and they'll have some exposure. XD
qwt
965 posts
Joined January 2020
qwt
Teletubby semen I meant custard
Sugar_owo
586 posts
Joined August 2020
Sugar_owo

Tubby Custard wrote:

Teletubby semen I meant custard
what the-
salve123123
25 posts
Joined October 2016
salve123123
I thought there's a difference between a username and an ingame username in this game just like steam. i was gonna put my name to SalveDragon. but i didnt know. i thought there's a difference between a username for login and the username ingame.

talking about how my username originate from. "SalveDragon" is my most frequently picked username for everything basically. its kind of a funny story actually, so my dad doesn't buy me games and such, so on my "minecraft kid" era i was looking for how to get minecraft for free, and then i stumble across this video (this guy was saying bullcrap stuffs for views) but the way he made the username to .....Dragon and then i was like... Hmmm SalveDragon sounds pretty cool. the salve came from my middle name which is Salvatore. (SALVatorE).
zesteas
202 posts
Joined May 2019
zesteas
I was once in this retarded clan with my friends called zesty but they all left and the name just stuck with me. I changed it to zesteas in june 2020 because its unique
Necroticalex
1 post
Joined January 2021
Necroticalex
Irl I'm alex.
However I don't often do anything at all with emotion in my face even if I'm excited.
So everyone used to say I looked dead inside.
And I rolled with it. ^_^
(Also go by nekro)
Meseta
113 posts
Joined March 2019
Meseta
well, from this cool guy SWAGGYSWAGSTER
Baguette2Pain
100 posts
Joined February 2018
Baguette2Pain
Was playing on Hypixel and one dude was called Fromage2Chevre (Goat Cheese in french) and i liked it so i changed my username to Baguette2Pain (French Baguette in... well in French).
climb
4 posts
Joined December 2020
climb
I thought it was cool I suppose/
Vallejo
335 posts
Joined April 2020
Vallejo
Just a random username I came up with. And my PFP is the katakana character shi (シ) cuz it looks cool.
JakeBlade2017
72 posts
Joined March 2019
JakeBlade2017
I just like Jake Blade, it's a good username :)
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Regality
1 post
Joined March 2018
Regality
-
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ShinRun
269 posts
Joined November 2020
ShinRun
Well I liked my old username because it rhymed but my new one is just how you pronounce my name in Chinese (which I am)
Sugar_owo
586 posts
Joined August 2020
Sugar_owo
To be more specific, I really like Sugar. I made that my YouTube name more known as “mostlysugarstuff” and my Xbox was “Mostlysugarstff” my osu was made after those, so I shortened it to “Sugar” I randomly said “owo” and since sugar was taken, I put them both together. “Sugar_owo” is what I came up with. So yeah *^^*
Rebel_Fox
15 posts
Joined May 2020
Rebel_Fox
i was gonna go with some username related to SAO, but i liked KISS more. and SAO kinda sucks.
now onto the more specific reason why i chose my username, i'm basically a rebel in some ways and my favorite member of KISS nickname was "the Fox". so i combined stuff and the result was "Rebel_Fox".
Nek1i
7 posts
Joined April 2015
Nek1i
I made a typo and it stuck B)
ZeRoX
4 posts
Joined June 2013
ZeRoX
Most ppl in America continent use or know this cleaning product called Clorox, so one day I was joking about drinking clorox then I thought why not combining my nickname Blade-Zero and clorox then ZeRoX was born XDD **I thought about ZoRoX at some point too xp**
yarWe
285 posts
Joined August 2019
yarWe
yes
onecantwocan
23 posts
Joined December 2016
onecantwocan
the can-can, i was thinking of that song when i made my acc
heg-
64 posts
Joined April 2020
heg-
when i got an xbox, i spammed in a bunch of numbers and those numbers were 41765555. my username was a generic one i was using where its just my first name and the first 3 numbers from my gamertag. i plan on changing my name though
Vioxen
6 posts
Joined December 2017
Vioxen
a
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DigitalKraken
5 posts
Joined June 2019
DigitalKraken
Kraken5516 was a random generated minecraft name,so osu have alot of number so i just combined Digital and Kraken = DigitalKraken lol
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Sugar_owo
586 posts
Joined August 2020
Sugar_owo

Nek1i wrote:

I made a typo and it stuck B)
i mean-
u can change it by contacting osu support if u want..
PolterBear
8 posts
Joined June 2020
PolterBear
In my infinite creativity I decided to make a pun on “polar bear” and “poltergeist”!
Nek1i
7 posts
Joined April 2015
Nek1i

Sugar_owo wrote:

Nek1i wrote:

I made a typo and it stuck B)
i mean-
u can change it by contacting osu support if u want..
Already tried, apparently some chinese cheater had it as their name so it's technically "in use"
Sugar_owo
586 posts
Joined August 2020
Sugar_owo

Nek1i wrote:

Sugar_owo wrote:

Nek1i wrote:

I made a typo and it stuck B)
i mean-
u can change it by contacting osu support if u want..
Already tried, apparently some chinese cheater had it as their name so it's technically "in use"
rip that sucks
Iyarita
Iyarita
I saw this name on another site, liked it and decided to use it here.
-Line-
125 posts
Joined February 2018
-Line-
I was searching words in a dictionary, found antimatter and thought it was cool. Sadly the name was taken so i had to make a typo and ended up with antimater
Xubix95
36 posts
Joined July 2015
Xubix95
Tbh when I created this username (I was 14 now I'm 18) I thought it sounds cool, like: "Wow, Xubix95 what a guy!" but now I hate this username but also no money for supporter.

no money = no support
no support = no chance to change username
no chance to change username = sad_pepe.png
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- patchi -
1 post
Joined April 2016
- patchi -
i just really really like patchouli knowledge
SA ST
79 posts
Joined August 2018
SA ST
mine is just my real name SA ST = Simon Alexander Svensson Thunman
Zazzu
6 posts
Joined July 2020
Zazzu
I was renting a house with a number of friends. One of the friends had a cat they called Simba. One day this friend decided to compare everyone in the house with Lion King characters and I was given Zazu which I liked. It was also a much better username than what I had been using for games up to that point so I switched.
Frangly2600
1 post
Joined April 2020
Frangly2600
'Frang' is my nickname.
'Frankly' is a word.
Play with words and BOOM! 'Frangly'

'2600'?
My first student number was 13
My 7th Grade student number is 26
13*2=26
and i can call it 'twenty-six hundred' which i think it's really cool.
and also dream video game console that i want to collect is Atari 2600 so.. yea.

I have a 'Frangly', I have a '2600'
uh! 'Frangly2600'
username is too long, man. next time find something shorter.
Mytho
2 posts
Joined January 2019
Mytho
From the weapon "Vex Mythoclast" from Destiny. Since "Mythoclast" is to long imo I shortened it to "Mytho" and it also derivates a bit from "mythos" and "mythic".

Now if only german people can properly pronounce it because the ones I met until now couldn't...
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