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This has probably been asked before but I wanted to add another layer/an alternative.

So, I ask, where did your username/pseudonym/nickname originate from? What's the meaning behind it?

Or alternatively, which is the most creative/interesting nickname origin you have come across?

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[–] LNSS@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's related to my first name. But some letters removed and others rearranged.

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[–] Disco_Dougie@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Ambian, maybe? I don't especially like disco, and my name isn't Doug. But I felt it in my heart at some point that isn't exactly clear to me.

[–] Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

i like the swapnote girl so i borrowed her name

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

HEXN3T stands out and was only taken on PSN, apparently.

[–] fakir@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

It means bare, naked, possession-less.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Do I really need to spell it out?

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[–] YourAvgMortal@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I love the phrase “your average Joe”, but it doesn’t translate very well, or I couldn’t think of a translation quickly enough (English isn’t my first language), so when I was talking with my friends one day, I translated it as “your average mortal”, and I liked it

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[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

I‘m doing a 6-2 job in finances on autopilot while mentally at another place to not be drained when I follow my hobbies after work

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

The Reddit API debacle that killed third party apps.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

School nickname

In Portuguese "zero hora" is the midnight shift, people started making jokes when I slept in class and the name got stuck.

[–] kubica@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago

I used to see the F1 in the so called boring years.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

I am terrible at names

The name i used before was "youtuber", which i "came up with" when creating my youtube account

This is the first name that wasnt already taken in Minecraft so i kept it

[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Calvin and Hobbes. I added a 'y' to the end because I could.

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

I love frogs and was hungry when I made my account.

[–] zippythezigzag@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

The way I drove and the papers I used for rolling joints back when I was a teenager

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I was playing some crappy F2P MMO (Perfect World, maybe?) and I made a warrior of some werewolf race. Just played with random wolf-related combinations and settled on this. Quit after two days and the username carried on for probably 15 years now.

I don't even really know all that much about Stalin. I just pulled it out of my ass.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

My page name, ShinigamiOokamiRyuu, is an amalgamation of different anime characters from anime whose characters I have cosplayed as.

My nickname (the thing that says "Call me Lenny/Leni") is based on one of my nickname preferences. I have quite a few, my birth name being Valentina, which allows for a lot of nicknames (including Leni, which is one of the shorthands for Valentina, though Tina is the most popular) that get changed around depending on who I communicate with.

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Remember that mobile game that was popular a while ago, Neko Atsume? It's that, but with Etna from Disgaea, because at the time I first made this username (years ago) Neko Atsume was taken and I was playing through Disgaea D2.

[–] Pissmidget@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago
[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Ranidaphobic; but going with Frog-Man was a too on the nose rip off of Bat-Man (and it’s taken anyway).

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Title of a book by my favourite author Jonathan Carroll. Almost all of my various handles over my time online have been some variation of one of his book titles because they're so unique. I used one on Reddit and some Nazi started stalking me, and it turns out some lady on Twitter uses it as her handle there, so he kept messaging me and calling me Stephanie.

[–] urata@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

What about you pip? My first thought was the main character of Kid Icarus.

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[–] weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

I'm fatigued in more ways than one and people joke that I'm fae because I'm allergic to metal.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Shakespeare and Serious Sam.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I have no imagination and my legal name is Tanis Nikana.

It scans like a username when it’s all lower case and jammed together though.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Sometimes I get kinda pedantic.

When i joined the fediverse I decided to make a break from my old usernames.

[–] DM_Me_Boobs@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

You really want to see this thing everybody talks about?

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Someone else took karl first and I want to know which one of you it was

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

My display name is a short-version of my nickname which is a phonetic amalgamation of my first and last name.

[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Just needed a name and combined a word with an animal

[–] tht@social.pwned.page 2 points 5 months ago

I liked playing tachanka on R6, tht is short for TheHolyTachanka

[–] Braz666@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Surname plus 3 random numbers

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

From a famous Australian poem called... "Said Hanrahan"

https://www.australianculture.org/said-hanrahan-john-obrien/

[–] Hominy_Hank@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Hank likes hominy.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

Redditors are stupid in very specific ways and it annoys me.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 5 months ago

Used to live in Norway when I joined reddit, and the whole Norse lore resonated with me. Back then I had a number attached, that wasn't needed on Lemmy anymore.

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