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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Hank likes hominy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Just needed a name and combined a word with an animal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Kona + Loki + accidentally changing an O to an A = Kolanaki

And then it turns out, it's also the name of a place in Greece.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Shakespeare and Serious Sam.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Every time I go to make a new username I just choose the first 2 words that come to mind

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] ThunderChunk 2 points 5 months ago

Mine comes from the intro to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Bitwarden username generator 👍

[–] [email protected] 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).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Bit warden made it for me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I was making a silly joke on Reddit...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Mothman+StarWars+Back to the Future

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I was promoted from the rank of Commander.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You really want to see this thing everybody talks about?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I like the word argyle and I'm angry

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