I have often wondered, especially on a multinational forum such as this one, and on my own forum too, how people come up with thier nicknames and usernames.

It may be interesting to hear what your name means, background behind it, or weather it is a private thing for you only. A real name, a nickname from school, or a dedication to someone... all would be interesting to hear. And for names in different languuages what is a translation ect. Even if the names meaning is private to you it would be interesting to know this if not the reason why.

I shall start with my name. I use 2 main usernames on the Internet, my gaming name is "Fragsey" and my other more formal name is MPfreeUK.

The name on this forum "Empethree" is a mashup of MPfreeUK and the word empathy. I found it nicer to use for my art stuff than the other 2 names. MPfreeUK seems far too formal a name to use, and Fragsey is well, to gamerish. Indeed you will often see me in the chat room as MPfreeUK or on the Voice chat as Fragsey.

MPfreeUK is the name of my radio station. It is an obvious mash up of "mp3" and started out as a music file sharing service. I started the radio station part of it back in 1999 as a sister station to older stations EJND and EjackNet Radio which i started in 1998.

Ejack14 in turn was my original AOL screen name. (it still is my AIM/Ichat name). Ejacknet changed name into my business EJN Media which ran the stations and my web design company, which sadly only now exists in name. (i sometimes use ejnmedia as a username too).

Fragsey is taken for the gaming term for a kill, a frag. My original online gaming name was "Major Frags" as i played World War 2 FPS games. i joined a clan and became [FuN]Frags, then [FuN]Fragsey. I then co-founded a world of Warcraft guild called Ascendance and am currently [AsC]Fragsey, which also can be seen in chat if my irc client drops and reconnects.

So my usernames don't generally reflect my real name "Carl Jackson" apart from Ejack which was supposed to be Cjack, but the name was taken on the AOL system and i thought the sugestion "Ejack" sounded far funnier.

Well, my name is no mystery, since it's my first name, and I try to use it in all forums where I'm registering. If it's not available, I add my surname as well. I don't really have a nickname, and I never got one as a kid as well (apart from some not-so-nice names I got from school bullies and the like ). My mom and my brother call me "Andrew" occasionally (I don't really know where that came from), but I'm not that fond of it, and I really hate "Andi", which is a German short form for "Andreas", but only folks who don't know me call me that now and then, and they always get an evil eye from me for that.

My nickname is a name of a character from some old fantasy book I've read many years ago. I don't even remember the plot of that book now... but the name I liked, and used it as the nickname. Much later, I found out that DagdaMor has another meaning - Dagda Mor is an old Celtic god of plenty and fertility. LOL, that's definitely not about me...

Hehe, I'll keep that in mind if I ever decide to play a first person shooter with my non-existant skills. "Lisa" would be appropriate, I guess.

Well... my first Nickname ever was "KANG"... I liked this green alien very much and he got his name because of the sound >kang<, therefor I wrote it in capital letters. 


The nickname CargoOfDarkness I am wearing now is the name of my spiritual son Cargo Of Darkness. The deepest charakter I?ve ever created for my novel Rail Of Destiny.



*LOL* @ Andreas... "Andi"... I love to call you that... ^-^

Gazmanafc - Comes in two parts. And is once again the primary username I use now. Gazman is an old nickname I was called when I was in school, by a friend (he was the only one to call me that) and afc stands for Arsenal Football Club, the team I support.

AwwLilMaggie - A Homer quote from Virtual Springfield. "Awww Little Maggie, whatever happened to you.... oh yeah" Nick Wright suggested it for AIM and I used it elsewhere.

ALM - Is the shorthand version of AwwLilMaggie that was used by various SMF Team members.

Mine is short, sweet and simple, I love teddy bears!   

Interesting topic, I'll write about Omochao at first.
The first forum I registered was sonic the hedgehog-dedicated. As almost everyone else there I wanted to choose a character from the Sonic video games as my nickname. The only one I knew back then that wasn't already chosen was Omochao, a bothersome robot chao which guides you through the tutorial of my first Sonic game. When I registered @ another Sonic forum I used chichaaaooo as my introduction thread title (Omochao can talk but normal chao can't and chichaaaooo is hello in chao language) everyone found it funny, so I used Omochao for the next 6 months or so everywhere I registered.
Now Mal?fix: I registered in an Ast?rix community then, and didn't want to take Omochao as my nickname because it was Sonic-related. One day before someone who lives in my neighbourhood and gave me lots of nicknames in elementary school called me Malafax once again. That name then jumped into my mind when I registered, but i wanted to alter it so that it ends with -ix. That's the origin of Mal?fix.
When Malefix or Mal?fix is already taken I use Mal?fixOmo, Mal?fix94 (birthday 13.5.1994) or Mal?fixOV (V for Violantis, that comes from a joke about favorite colors, too complicated to post here) as my nickname.