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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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[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Because I like these little guys: Grasshopper Mouse

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

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

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

[–] DM_Me_Boobs@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

You really want to see this thing everybody talks about?

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Just needed a name and combined a word with an animal

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Sometimes I get kinda pedantic.

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

[–] Braz666@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Surname plus 3 random numbers

[–] tht@social.pwned.page 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 months ago

Less common anglicisation of Samyaza, first amongst the nephilim; a group of Angels that fell by marrying human women and teaching them knowledge.

Yes I am clearly a bit pretentious.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Shakespeare and Serious Sam.

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 2 points 3 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.

[–] weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 3 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.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] improvise3020@ani.social 2 points 3 months ago

Bit warden made it for me

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 2 points 3 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.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Mothman+StarWars+Back to the Future

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I was making a silly joke on Reddit...

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I saw a watch company use the name Omega, before I even knew it was the name of a greek letter.

[–] pip@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

👁️ω👁️

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 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.

[–] Masamune@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago
[–] ChaoticCookie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I’m chaotic and I like cookies, nothing more to it!

[–] hollerpixie@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

My husband’s nickname for me. I was born in the holler in Appalachia and am a woodsy pixie. It stuck and is now my trail name.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Way more years ago than I would like to admit, when I was in my teens, I learned to play a Fender Mexican Stratocaster. It became my name on my BBS, and has stuck ever since.

Most people think it has to do with FM radio.

Edit: Also, this question has managed to get replies from almost all of the prolific participators on Lemmy. Nice.

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[–] antiquity2038@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

Bitwarden username generator 👍

I was promoted from the rank of Commander.

I was eating something when I made the account. Make a wild guess what it might have been.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

M is the letter my real name starts with, and 137 has been my favourite number since I was a kid, and I still think is the coolest number (has nothing to do with 1337, as some people have previously thought).

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Just a greeting used in an RPG I really liked. As pretty much the only formal greeting in its setting, it seemed very overused, so a friend and I started using it in our friend group as a meme, and I decided that it actually goes pretty hard as a username.

Finn from Enderal

[–] callyral@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

Tally Hall (band) → callyral (pseudonym + username) → cally (nickname)

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

First shiny Pokemon I ever got. Basculin carried my team a lot, hence the name "CaptainBasculin".

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I love airplanes and was excited to see a “modern” one where you could slide back the canopy just like in all those old WWII movies! It’s even ok to fly with it open (a little)!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_American_AA-5

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago
[–] Patrik@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Patrik/Pat is just my name, sometimes use Legendbird on sites because once it was the first thing I thought about (Zapdos, to be exact).

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