Another one of those “That name has already been chosen” frustrations years ago.
I just looked at the ceiling, and pecked out random letters (Was not a touch typist - still not a touch typist) and when I looked again I had typed ‘cytopiu’.
A quick edit to delete the last 2 letters, and I’ve got something short, memorable and never had a problem when registering since…
Laziness. I had recently written my one-and-only-ever review for the Internet Movie Database, and for my user name I chose to play on “Pauline Kael”. I think I rendered it slightly differently there, with a couple of apostrophes to more closely match her name.
Honoria is a small twig on a distant branch of my family tree. It’s easy for me to remember and almost always available in instances where I need to come up with an online user name - perhaps due to the historical connection with Attila the Hun.
That might also explain why the name stayed a twig on a distant branch rather than making its way to successive branches as the tree grew over the decades even as other family names showed up repeatedly through the generations.