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?

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    1 hour 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.

  • legopika@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 hours ago

    I liked Legos and I liked Pikachu at the time(I was 11 or so? Trying to make a Minecraft account lol)

    I don’t think I’ll be able to use this name for anything commercial if I wanted to do that…

  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    At first I lurked on my boyfriend’s account. We had both left Reddit during the API debacle, but I wasn’t ready to rejoin social media yet, so he hopped on Lemmy first.

    But as he shared links and news and memes with me, and I scrolled the comments, I started wanting to participate. The first few times I felt drawn to comment (but didn’t yet), I wanted to ask people what the reasoning was behind their thoughts. That stuff is interesting to me.

    So when I finally sat down and made an account for myself, it was the first thought in my head. I haven’t found myself asking anybody about their reasoning since then, but I still like the name.

  • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours 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.