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?

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    2 days ago

    I had a job doing QA where I had to create user accounts. Some Guy was one of the three that I created every day.

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Resol - can mean a number of different things. It’s the first 5 letters of the word “resolution”. It’s also the word “loser” spelled backwards. It’s two notes on a keyboard (D and G in Anglo-Saxon music notation). And it just looks and sounds cool in my opinion.

    van - the Dutch word meaning “of” or “from”. Note that I am not referring to actual vans (the German equivalent being “von”, which also appears in a lot of names). Also I prefer spelling that word completely in lowercase.

    Lemmy - isn’t it obvious? It’s this wonderful website.

    Put them together, and you get “Resol van Lemmy”. It sounds pretty nice, don’t you think? Especially since I really hate my real name.

  • Vandals_handle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    CB radio user names are called handles. One of my nicknames is The Vandal. I think Subterranean Homesick Blues is one of Dylan’s best. Violà.

  • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    I opened a physical dictionary to a random page and pointed to a word without looking.

    First attempt was diarrhea

  • 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    2 days ago

    I studied abroad while the Two and a half Men season with Ashton Kutcher aired. A guy at a pizza place always wanted to chat but he barely spoke any English and somehow he really wanted to tell me that I look like Ashton Kutcher. Had similar length beard and hair at the time. A few days after that I signed up on Reddit.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    51·
    4 days ago

    Mine stands for “Divided by Zer0”, based on the programming error “division by zero”. Amusingly, people keep assuming it stands for “database zero” or “dragonball zero”.

  • LouSlash@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    2 days ago

    I used to play GH3 on PS2 a lot and i played boss battles quite frequently

    One time, in another game called Soldat, when a clan was recruiting they told me to change my old nickname since it was bizarre (i was 15 yo). I was looking for inspiration and quickly came up with Lou (final boss in GH3), added ` so i would be recognised easily while also not impersonating anyone unintentionally.

    Few months passed by and i saw someone on some Soldat-related IRC channel chilling with my nickname and that person wasn’t actually impersonating me (he/she used that nickname for much longer time than me since “Lou” is actually a first name which for me, as a native polish speaker, wasn’t that obvious at the time) so that huge coincidence made me come up with an addition to my nickname - 2nd boss in GH3, famous guitarist - Slash. In the end i started using LouSlash`

    As time passed by, in some places/websites/games i couldn’t use ` so i drop it occasionally.

  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    38·
    4 days ago

    My username is literal. I’m literally a wood scientist. Or more specifically, I’m a current PhD student in civil engineering and wood science. Identifying Wood by Hoadley was actually a textbook in one of the courses I took.