I mostly use name Enpo. It came from few girls in 5th grade. They had some kind of "gossipclub" and gave nicknames to some boys. I got name Enpotso, but decided to make it a bit shorther so I became Enpo, and it has stuck with me.
In AM, server I use name DocMartin, because I love that TV- show
KR I use name Amantur. That is Latin, means: You are being loved. Had to make name and we just had passive in latin lesson, and I liked that word.

virpi

Germany3599 Posts

July 15 2013 07:26 GMT

#165

I always liked the name "virpi". It's actually a finnish girls' name, but I just love the look and sound of the name.
Other names I've used in sc2: piko, HappyDrone, Kafka

Chairman Ray

United States11903 Posts

July 15 2013 07:27 GMT

#166

I was playing Age of Empires II with some friends. I was using the Chinese, so my ID was Chairman Ray as a parody of Chairman Mao. I guess it just stuck after that.

DarkPlasmaBall

United States46629 Posts

July 15 2013 07:40 GMT

#167

On July 15 2013 02:38 Daswollvieh wrote:
Anything with "dark" or "shadow" is fine.

I use plays on words, because I´m slightly obsessive that way.

Good call

When I was young, I would come up with a few different nicknames for AIM screen names. My BW and Diablo names were DarkPlasmaBall, although I had to create PlasmaMango for SC2 (lower character limit x.x)

ChrisCross88 (name, birthyear)
DarkSilver007
DarkMerco (named after a cool Mischief Makers character)
DiabloPhoenix414 (birth day/ month)
DarkPlasmaBall
PlasmaMango (name)

Wow, that's even more darks than I realized o.O I swear I was a happy and energetic kid, rather than some brooding, quiet loner lol

ejozl

Denmark3561 Posts

July 15 2013 08:15 GMT

#168

Basically I needed an original name back when Counter Strike just came out.
I searched unused names and found some ridiculous random ones, one of them was Joz..
So I put E at the start and L in the end of it, because my real name is Eric Lassen.
Back then the idea was to have it say EjozL and then because there's 2 big letters you could 2 * 5(numbers of letters in name)
and it would be 10, the month of October and the 2 big letters is the day number 2 and my birthday is 2. October.
Back then I thought it was really cool and guys from my class wanted me to make up ID's for them.
But now it's rather lame I think, but since I still wanna stick to the name i just type it ejozl.

TheFlexN

Israel472 Posts

July 15 2013 08:25 GMT

#169

On July 15 2013 07:23 FabledIntegral wrote:

Show nested quote +

I thought names couldn't be taken?

You can have only one original name, no duplicates on the same server. I wanted to have FlexM but it was taken, so I am FlexN.

Malehonnete

France20 Posts

July 15 2013 08:25 GMT

#170

My aka is DeathFinger. I use Finger in almost every game I play (it's an old surname of mine, because I'm tall and thin), then I add a prefix depending on the mood.
(Semi OT: Malehonnete was my CS 1.6 aka because of a pun. Basically, "Mâle" was my team name, and Malhonnête means dishonest in French, while a "mâle honnête" (an honest male) means the opposite. Quite a few pun we made :D)

Big-t

Austria1351 Posts

July 15 2013 08:28 GMT

#171

t is the beginning letter of my first name and Big because I was the tallest among my friends when we thought about our nicknames together. Not very creative tbh^^

corpsepose

1678 Posts

July 15 2013 08:33 GMT

#172

its corpsepose, its partially taken from a song by a band named unwound. i guess its also a yoga body position or something. idk it just sounded cool at the time

Aunvilgod

2653 Posts

July 15 2013 08:34 GMT

#173

I thought iloveoov was a really cool name so I changed it a bit to ilovegroov which is my current name.

JoeCool

Germany2520 Posts

July 15 2013 08:35 GMT

#174

When I was around 12/13 we got our first internetconnection, at that time I was a pretty big Lordi fan. So I choose "BloodRedSandman" as my name almost everywhere, ICQ, Forums, Email.... Later I changed it to "TheBRS".

Dingodile

4139 Posts

July 15 2013 09:02 GMT

#175

my name comes from crash team bandicot (CTR) ps1 game. dingodile is by far my fav there.

laggikoN

Sweden213 Posts

July 15 2013 09:07 GMT

#176

I've had my nick for somewhere between eight and ten years now.

Was playing Quake 3 with a friend and my connection was acting up, which in Quake is represented by an image of an unplugged network cable over your avatars head. My friend simply said "You have one of those lag icons above you" (In swedish) and I changed my name accordingly (In Quake you just typ '/name whatever_name_you_want' to change name).
It just kinda stuck and I never changed it back after that.

Back a couple of years ago when I was smoking alot of weed I called myseld behindTheMoon whenever I was playing while I was high. I stole it from my crush at the time, who was using it on some social media site, because it looked pretty and me and my friends sometimes called drugs 'rocket fuel' and taking them 'going to space'. (Yes, I do know that this is really lame...)

kaluro

Netherlands760 Posts

July 15 2013 09:30 GMT

#177

I just chose a nickname a looooong time ago, namely Kaluro.
I use that nickname everywhere and anywhere, it's my (non literal) trademark.

It's a made up nickname os the odds of someone walking around with it, is close to 0%. Therefore people will always recognise me in games.

anatase

France532 Posts

July 15 2013 09:44 GMT

#178

On July 15 2013 02:27 Mackem wrote:
I need some inspiration as my current name isn't very unique. How did you come up with yours?

Mine just refers to the term used to describe the people from my area.

Open a book of botanics/gems/rocks/ w/e sciences

pick some name from there.

Mine for exemple, Anatase, is a stone that enter into the composition of Titanium, from a book of gems i believe

targ

Malaysia445 Posts

July 15 2013 09:51 GMT

#179

my game name is noobilly (used since dota days)

so my real name is billy, and i started out quite noob, so....