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i've noticed numerous interesting usernames being used around this site, and more than once ive wondered why this person chose this name. so i thought it'd be interesting to share our stories behind the usernames with everyone in here. so people out there who have a username other than their real name, where does it come from? it's okay if there's no specific reason or if you're not comfortable with sharing the reason, share what you like!

mine is nothing much, YB stand for my first and middle names. i've even used it as a nickname with friends and most of my electronic-related usernames contain it. outlaw stands for the fact that i'm officially an outlaw, because our constitution states engaging in 'sexual indecencies' as  a crime, which the current authorities interprete including being genderqueer. i picked the word from robin hood and i liked the idea of being something similar to him, so i've longed to recognize myself as an outlaw long before knowing the trans stuff. there goes my story..

nice thread :)

Mine is actually an angram of my name,,,but obviously also indicates how Im not exactly your normal everyday girl...

I was once a big Dilbert fan and my real name is Dale so I combined them. Now I'm just fond of the sound of it. It's like my goofy nerdy nickname. I kind of wish more people would use it IRL but it doesn't happen. I'm just Dale in person.

Well Grace is my name, I'm no stranger to using concocted user names on forums, often based on female superheroes. This time though I wanted to be me, especially so I could have others calling me by that name (and it feels great!)...

I added the Ms because I was so sick of being called a Mr or Sir I really wanted to get the feel for using Ms (feels great too!) :)

I'd think mine would be pretty obvious looking at the avatar.

Quote from: FalsePrincess on January 07, 2014, 02:46:47 PM
nice thread :)

Mine is actually an angram of my name,,,but obviously also indicates how Im not exactly your normal everyday girl...

Awesome!  I love anagramming.  My chosen name is from an anagram of my given name.

An anagram of my chosen name is "gorilla snifter"
An anagram of my given name is "Mr. Wet Orgy Organ"

Scrabble, anyone?

Tossu is actually Finnish and means a certain kind of slipper, as in footwear. I think it originally had something to do with my Dir en grey fandom craze in the early 2000s but then it kinda stuck since I use it pretty much everywhere. It even became my IRL nickname.

I also go by the name LordLauri in some places, like Tumblr. Lauri is my name and the lord prefix originates from my Polish friend nominating me as the lord of darkness of something like that. :D Then I became the Daedric Lord of Procrastination.

My dad's former best friend once described me as someone who "walks on the edge of the way the world is supposed to be."

Kia Ora YB,

I'm under the impression you already know what "Anatta" means...

BTW Zen da is just a fetish for all [no]things Zen...

Metta Zenda :)

Xhianil is the name of my fursona (or rather, scalesona) and what I plan to change my name to, though since its hard to pronounce most might end up calling me Xhi.

The state of mind i was in when i joined.
Simple yet telling..

I didn't want to use a username that I am already connected to on this site, so while thinking up a new username I looked down at my open textbook and saw that the case I was reading was written by the great Honorable Learned Hand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_Hand).

Learned Hand is an awesome judge, he's the creator of the "Hand Formula".

I like him, and there's nothing quite like his name, so I choose it as my username. He also had an awesome beard when he was young, and I'd love to be able to rock that look.

I saw your username, LearnedHand, and thought I might not be the only legal person here. :).  It's always nice to find another one. 

I've felt burned to ashes more than once in my life.  But each time in the past, I have managed to rise from the ashes.  I'm trying to do that again now because coming out as trans* has cost me just about everything.  So that makes the image of a phoenix meaningful.  I actually collect them as well, and I often wear one of several phoenix pendants when I am out and about.  So I adopted it as an Internet username that I use quite often.

I find that Phoenix is frequently already taken when I sign up for usernames anywhere.  If I make it ThePhoenix, then it is still taken by other people a lot, but not quite as often. :)

Quote from: ThePhoenix on January 07, 2014, 06:54:25 PM
I saw your username, LearnedHand, and thought I might not be the only legal person here. :).  It's always nice to find another one. 

Nice to find another one too ThePhoenix, there's at least two members here that I know of who are attorneys in the USA and one who just finished law school in the UK.  :)

Mine is a character from some Get Along Gang fanfics that I write. I don't use her as my avatar, though. I'm sticking with Portia Porcupine. Plus, the sig quote from another character from the fanfic just pulls it all together.

Quote from: dalebert on January 07, 2014, 02:59:05 PM
I was once a big Dilbert fan and my real name is Dale so I combined them. Now I'm just fond of the sound of it. It's like my goofy nerdy nickname. I kind of wish more people would use it IRL but it doesn't happen. I'm just Dale in person.

You will always be Dalebert (of the bad jokes) to me!  ;)

Quote from: LearnedHand on January 07, 2014, 06:45:30 PM
I didn't want to use a username that I am already connected to on this site, so while thinking up a new username I looked down at my open textbook and saw that the case I was reading was written by the great Honorable Learned Hand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_Hand).

Learned Hand is an awesome judge, he's the creator of the "Hand Formula".

I like him, and there's nothing quite like his name, so I choose it as my username. He also had an awesome beard when he was young, and I'd love to be able to rock that look.

If you are going to be a lawyer, or even a judge someday (how awesome would that be?!), you have to have a memorable name.

Kenesaw Mountain Landis comes to mind.

I think mine is self explanatory. I'm Lord of KATs.

Quote from: Malachite on February 18, 2013, 04:11:07 PM

I chose Malachite because I was watching the Sailor Moon Abridged series and Zoicite was saying "Oh Malachite, you're so dirty"  and I like the way she emphasized the "Malachite" so I figured, why not go with that when I made this account.  Plus, I like his hair and I couldn't think of a better nickname.  Nephrite was going to be my name but I have the hardest time spelling it right.

^ This

Mine is kind of a term of endearment I use for my dogs :P I just thinks it's cute to call them anything with 'pants' tacked on to the end. cutiepants.. sugarpants.. pumpkinpants. puppypants.. it could go on and on.

Also, how do you pronounce your name Xhianil? I'm reading it as zee-ah-nil.

Quote from: muffinpants on January 07, 2014, 09:59:50 PM
Mine is kind of a term of endearment I use for my dogs :P I just thinks it's cute to call them anything with 'pants' tacked on to the end. cutiepants.. sugarpants.. pumpkinpants. puppypants.. it could go on and on.

Fatty McButterPants?

Quote from: muffinpants on January 07, 2014, 09:59:50 PM
Also, how do you pronounce your name Xhianil? I'm reading it as zee-ah-nil.

X-han-nil, or close to that,

Quote from: Casey Danielle on January 07, 2014, 10:23:33 PM
I still have no idea how to pronounce it.  Not sure how X by itself as a part of a word is pronounced in this situation.  Is it like "ex" or like "z" or something else?

ex

Quote from: Anatta on January 07, 2014, 04:24:06 PM
Kia Ora YB,

I'm under the impression you already know what "Anatta" means...

BTW Zen da is just a fetish for all [no]things Zen...

Metta Zenda :)

well to be honest i had to look it up in google, and it turns out that i know it alright, it's just that we use a different word for it here. not much difference, we call it anatma

Robin is a perfectly acceptable male nickname derived from my given name.   It's also a pretty female name on its own.

I chose it because I'm realizing my female self is more me than I've realized in the past and I want to acknowledge m the same person, just expressed differently.

I used to use Wendy as a female name, but can't stand it now

Particle is a name I've used forever.  It's from the They Might Be Giants song, Particle Man

Quote from: Jamie D on January 07, 2014, 08:15:58 PM
You will always be Dalebert (of the bad jokes) to me!  ;)

I've practically taken over that thread. One day everyone's just gonna say "SHUT UP!"

Quote from: dalebert on January 08, 2014, 10:10:23 AM
I've practically taken over that thread. One day everyone's just gonna say "SHUT UP!"

SHUT UP LITTLE MAN!!

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My username is shades.ogrey and it comes from the fact that I try to see issues in more than just binary options (this or that, right or left, black or white). I've since changed my display name to be my first name because I'm out of the closet.

Simple i am BlonT :)   ok ok  grey  :'(

My username is based on my real name - first initial, middle initial, first 6 letters of my last name.  The university I attended suggested this format when I registered, and I kept the pattern but changed the first and middle initials.  Actually, my username here is based on the name I was considering taking before I even found "Anna" (I wonder if I can talk somebody into changing that?)

My display name (Anna++) is a reference to programming.  The "++" operator increments a value by 1.

a = 1   # The variable "a" holds the value "1"
a++     # "a" is now "2"
a++     # "a" is now "3"


Tiffols is one of the thousand nicknames my wife has given me in 8 years. :P

Mine is a mix of a few different things.

First,it is the name of the devil persona by my fave video game charactor
(Vincent Valentine from Final Fantasy:Dirge Of Cerberus)
And Second,I use it as well as a roleplay charactor of my own on IMVU and
Third,I been known to cause a lot of Chaos when angry lol though I try to avoid that at all costs.

This thread is really interesting.

I settled on caleb. as a username because, I like the name Caleb, and...a guy already had an account with the name so I added a period at the end of mine. *trollface*

I'll go on and say why I have the username that I do. I've seen it posted before about the probability of late transitioners to have larger heads and long faces. So I figured what the heck, lets go with it...

Quote from: Xhianil on January 07, 2014, 10:09:43 PM
X-han-nil, or close to that,

Thank you for clarifying. I had interpreted the xh as a voiceless aspirated alveolar lateral click as in the Xhosa language.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Alveolar_lateral_click.ogg

Quote from: Gwynne on January 09, 2014, 06:00:39 PM
Thank you for clarifying. I had interpreted the xh as a voiceless aspirated alveolar lateral click as in the Xhosa language.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Alveolar_lateral_click.ogg

... i suddenly feel dumb...

Emmaline was the heroine in my first novel.  I wrote it before I came out to myself, and realized it was a metaphorical version of my battle with being trans. 

My chosen name is Delaney - an irish surname that is now a unisex first name.  It is shifting to female in popularity though.  It means dark challenger-though I picked it not for meaning- but it is a form of the name laney, which I love and keeps my D initial from my old name.   Being unisex and mostly female describes me perfectly.

Well, I'm a big hockey fan lol kind of self explanatory.

Quote from: Mr Hockey on January 11, 2014, 08:29:38 PM
Well, I'm a big hockey fan lol kind of self explanatory.

I instantly jumped to this dude:

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Quote from: Gwynne on January 11, 2014, 08:41:38 PM
I instantly jumped to this dude:

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I love Gordie Howe! Lol, he was some of the inspiration for my username I guess. ;)

Quote from: Mr Hockey on January 11, 2014, 09:00:59 PM
I love Gordie Howe! Lol, he was some of the inspiration for my username I guess. ;)

He was the man!

This dude's always been my favourite:

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Quote from: Gwynne on January 11, 2014, 09:05:35 PM
He was the man!

This dude's always been my favourite:

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He was a pretty good player for the Leafs I guess, don't know much about him.

This is my favorite player ever:

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The great Terry Sawchuk!

Wendel was good, but he's worth big-time nostalgia to me and every Leafs fan between the ages of 28 and 40.

Man, that dude has war wounds. I see why you dig Gordie.

Quote from: Gwynne on January 11, 2014, 09:14:50 PM
Wendel was good, but he's worth big-time nostalgia to me and every Leafs fan between the ages of 28 and 40.

Man, that dude has war wounds. I see why you dig Gordie.

Oh, so you're a Leafs fan, eh? I know a couple. I myself am a Sabres and Senators fan. :)

Yeah, wasn't old enough to see either of them play but Gordie and Terry were absolute beasts!

It's my middle name.......I know, boring.

Not boring at all.  Nice name too!

thanks hun!

Michelle is the feminine form of Michael. I love the name.

My screen name is my... well... name.

   My old name BUDDY is actually my cats name he is everyone's buddy and a big 20lb pest.What I go by now since I started HRT is JustPat which is for Patricia Jo Ann.  I would not use my feminine name before HRT it just did not seen right for me till I was truly on my way.  Pat

Well, my new username comes from the fact that ultimately I'd like to stay on this side of the gender divide, but I recognize that this may be a useless task of great effort.  I'm very likely TS and probably going to wind up on at least low-dose HRT.  But I still try to roll the rock of transgender up the hill everyday.

Sisyphus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

Cisgendered: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender

Cisyphus.

One of the many puns I can make with Jess, which is a bit easier than trying to do so with Jessica. I've also used Jesstrogen, around the 2nd half of last year, when the estrogen started to really kick its initial drive in, from like 6 months HRT to 11 months. Now I feel rather pretty most days, and I came up with this one, to represent both I how see myself, and my name, in one!

Quote from: GorJess on January 20, 2014, 07:59:27 AMI how see myself, and my name, in one!

You're ridiculously cute you know that?

Aww, thanks, hehe. That's always good to hear that in the early morning. Or at least, I hope it's a good thing. :)

Quote from: Cisyphus on January 20, 2014, 07:55:32 AM
Well, my new username comes from the fact that ultimately I'd like to stay on this side of the gender divide, but I recognize that this may be a useless task of great effort.  I'm very likely TS and probably going to wind up on at least low-dose HRT.  But I still try to roll the rock of transgender up the hill everyday.

Sisyphus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

Cisgendered: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender

Cisyphus.

That is an awesome SN! That being said, my first connection was with Camus and it made me worry you were debating self-harm.  :-\

http://sharepoint.mvla.net/teachers/HectorP/SoPol/Documents/The%20Stranger/Camus%20Myth%20of%20Sisyphus%20and%20other%20readings.pdf

Quote from: GorJess on January 20, 2014, 07:59:27 AM
One of the many puns I can make with Jess, which is a bit easier than trying to do so with Jessica. I've also used Jesstrogen, around the 2nd half of last year, when the estrogen started to really kick its initial drive in, from like 6 months HRT to 11 months. Now I feel rather pretty most days, and I came up with this one, to represent both I how see myself, and my name, in one!

I was EstroGwynne, briefly :)

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sephirah

QuoteNoun

sephirah (plural sephiroth or sephirot)
1.(Kabbalah) Each of the ten attributes that God created, through which he can project himself to the universe and man.

:)

Quote from: Sephirah on January 20, 2014, 02:47:21 PM
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sephirah

:)

Thanks. Now I what I'd really like to know is where your wonderful avatars come from  ;D

I'm a huge comic book fan and Donna Troy is the name of Wonder Girl. My favorite female super hero is Wonder Woman but "Diana Princess Of Thymescara" does not have quite a ring to it.

Eeeerr. This might be a bit of a no brainer. How about, my name?  Takes all the guess work out of it. Keeps it simple, for a simple girl.

Crap, did my username give it away?

/snark

It's part of my middle name.

Hi.

An user name , well never used one nore will , yet my name is used by every one who knows me that will be in the many 1000's of people who know who i am, not including those on the many forums im on,

birth name is . was noel = no-el  both female and male,  over 20 years ago i was thinking about my name and how it would be more like a female name though i thought just stay with no-el, 10 years ago our Dr had said since your becoming a woman what are we going to call you,  oh dear , well noeleen will do i spos,till i went over to Phuket and a RN = nurse said no it has to be noeleen'e'  oh , okay  thank you,   so every one knows just noeleena . i do have two other names as well they are Prussian

so,     noeleena,    edwina,    Loch-head,  from NZ.

...noeleena...

At primary school I was asked my name. I said Cindy, life went downhill from there on. An all male school in the 1960's was not enjoyable for a 'boy' called Cindy.

But I won.

Cindy

I know that I am unusual and I am always searching for meaning.  Aisla resonated with me at a number of levels as it is usually associated with a lovely but quite remote island, Eisla Craig off the Scottish coast half way by sea between Belfast and Glasgow.  Currently a bird sanctuary the name is also said to be the anglicisation of the gaelic Aillse meaning fairy; but the tuetonic meaning is good humoured and German meaning is noble.  Once a common name for men it is now regarded as a woman's name.

The English teacher in Azumanga Daioh.

This is for five good reasons:
    1. I was an English student who eventually did become an English teacher (once upon a time)
    2. My pedagogical style was as unorthodox as the character
    3. My driving style has been described as a tad... aggressive?
    4. Despite my protests to the contrary, most friends think my true place is in academia as a professor of History or Literature.
    5. My temper and temperament was also quite similar to the character.

To be perfectly candid though, I find my temperament has mellowed alot as of late. I'm not certain if that is psychological or merely hormonal. I think I'm a bit sweeter... even if a little bit more catty than I used to be.

Quote from: Donna Troy on February 08, 2014, 11:56:20 PM
I'm a huge comic book fan and Donna Troy is the name of Wonder Girl. My favorite female super hero is Wonder Woman but "Diana Princess Of Thymescara" does not have quite a ring to it.

Heh.  I'm strongly considering Diana as a middle name.  :)

I'd love to use Jennifer (Note my avatar, Jennifer Walters, She-Hulk) but I have a cousin with the name, and  kinda hate her.

Every forum that I join I use the name "pinkkeith". Keith is the name that I was given at birth. I used the word "pink" before it to show my homosexuality and femininity. Katie is the name I gave myself while in girl mode, so it only made sense to use that name here rather then my birth name.   

I've been feeling very comfortably non-binary recently, so I decided to try the Q on for size. It feels right in a lot of ways.

Q + Gwynne = Qwynne

Hikari (光) is Japanese for light. I picked it for Hikari from Strawberry Panic, who is quiet and devoted. It also has no relation to my chooses or given name.

It's my first name.