# What does your username mean? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 9, 2018, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069 "2018-09-09T21:39:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/21 "2018-09-09T23:08:09Z")
I’m actually a chess instructor but I wanted to pretend to be something more glamorous. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/22 "2018-09-09T23:12:55Z")
It’s “Red Shirt” backwards, and a reference to a character of the same name in the _Schlock Mercenary_ webcomic. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/23 "2018-09-09T23:26:25Z")
Mine is also my name. **P** eter **K** ing **Beitz** (pronounced “bites”) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/24 "2018-09-09T23:32:51Z")
My name is Spanish for “The Kabong”. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/25 "2018-09-09T23:43:17Z")
There is much wrapped up in my name… 神野猫, how I ‘spell’ it in Japanese means god field cat. Which is a perfectly valid Japanese name…in fact, there’s an artist with that name, although she reads 神野 as ‘Jinno’, not ‘Kamino’. It’s also the name of a character I draw and RP. The origin is an inversion of Nekogami, meaning ‘catgod’, a much more common username, which I used to use, into ‘god’s cat’. As to why I’ve been using this little galaxy of names for most of the last 15-20 years… Nyan. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/26 "2018-09-09T23:48:09Z")
Mine is Swedish for ‘auto mechanic’, which I’m not. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/27 "2018-09-09T23:57:40Z")
My username is **ioioio** because **io** is not searchable, and \*\*ioio \*\*just seems stupid. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/28 "2018-09-09T23:57:43Z")
My user name means “Boomshanka”, but I spelled it wrong when I registered. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/29 "2018-09-10T00:07:59Z")
‘ **Must** a name mean something?’ Alice asked doubtfully. ‘Of course it must,’ Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: ‘ **my** name means the shape I am — and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.’ ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/30 "2018-09-10T00:21:36Z")
It means I forgot the password to my original username and the associated email, so I created a new account to look up the email from the old account, so I could request a new password. But the email I used for the new account was the same one as the old account, so the mods noticed and when I explained, they cancelled my new account but changed the user name to the old account to the one I used to open the new account. I think. Anyhow, it’s clear I can’t be trusted with anything more complicated that one letter and one number. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/31 "2018-09-10T00:21:45Z")
You would go in circles, seeing birds of the day morphing into birds of the night, if I tried to explain my username to you. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/32 "2018-09-10T00:26:54Z")
I don’t know. > [@](#): > > wit > verb (used with or without object), present singular 1st person **wot** , 2nd wost, 3rd wot, present plural wit or wite; past and past participle wist; present participle wit·ting. > Archaic. to know. > [@](#): > > Historical Examples > > Twas a wild goose chase, and I **wot not** what moved me to run after it. > The Armourer’s Prentices > Charlotte M. Yonge ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/33 "2018-09-10T08:34:44Z")
That I didn’t want to drive y’all crazy trying to figure out how to spell the double-r in the word I chopped up. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/34 "2018-09-10T08:37:45Z")
Mine means I’m the 45th person to register here named S. N. Faulkner. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/35 "2018-09-10T09:26:54Z")
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**Author:** ![blob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blob/32/489_2.png) [@blob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blob)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/36 "2018-09-10T10:04:16Z")
Beware of the… It’s also Polish for S N Faulkner. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/37 "2018-09-10T10:23:01Z")
My IRL name is Kay Aker. People often mistake my name to mean something to do with canoes and such. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/38 "2018-09-10T11:01:25Z")
Indian. Minus red. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/39 "2018-09-10T11:02:06Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > I’m not sure what my name means. I always thought it was some mash up of ambivalent invalid. Mine is the name of a crazy New Zealander who some claim beat the Wright brothers to powered flight. Unfortunately there was not a lot of documentary evidence. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/40 "2018-09-10T11:05:19Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > My IRL name is Kay Aker. People often mistake my name to mean something to do with canoes and such. 😃 ETA: Mine is self-explanatory now that avatars are allowed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069.md?page=3)