I grew up reading about people from Xanth. But that looked funny to me as a name, so I like to think of Zyanthia as “Woman from Xanth”. =D
My surname reversed
Gleena is my WoW main character - or she was, before I stopped playing.
She"s a pink haired little cutie pie gnome girl. She’s crazy, and will melt your face off while giggling about it. She has a pet kitten that follows her everywhere. She’s really quite mentally unstable, though, in a mass murderer sort of fashion.
I miss her, truly I do, but law school before WoW!
Chappachula isn’t me…it’s my cat.
She loves to hang out here-- I just help her with the typing.
Jeff Buckley’s first & only (real) album was called Grace. He started off one gig with saying: “bigger…fatter…gracer…” I liked that.
Sefton is the main character of the movie Stalag 17.
Morwen Edhelwen is a Tolkien character from The Silmarillion, the mother of the tragic hero Turin Turambar. The thing is that the spelling “Eledhwen” is a mistake. JRRT changed the word for “Elf” from “Eledh” to “Edhel” so he also changed the spelling of the nickname. Christopher Tolkien mistakenly used the older spelling and it stuck. The name should be spelled “Edhelwen” and that’s how it’s spelled in the Wikipedia article about the character of Morwen.
The name literally means something like “dark maiden elven-maiden” or “dark elven-maiden”. “Elven-fair” was a common way of saying that a woman was beautiful and the character of Morwen was “dark-haired and tall.” She was also Beren son of Barahir’s niece (yes Beren who fell in love with Luthien).
Mine is obviously a play on words of the popular fighting video game Mortal Kombat, but involving cuddly marsupials. Possible idea for a spin-off games. Came up with the idea because I needed a unique Gmail for my new phone and it wouldn’t let me use my full name or any of my other usernames.
I’m told there’s another person goin by the name of Mortal Wombat on Cracked.com, so it appears it’s not that unique after all!
I originally signed up using my real name, Kay Aker, but inadvertently left out the space.
I used to be jr8 and got tired of people asking me how to pronounce it.
Mine was my middle name before I started my gender transition. I don’t really care enough to change all my online user names – most people wouldn’t identify it as a male name anyway.
In Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, the Color of Magic is Octarine. It’s the eighth color on the spectrum, visible only to wizards and cats, and its presence signifies magical energy. It’s described as being “a sort of greenish-yellow purple.” 
Cal Meacham is the name of the scientist-engineer hero of Raymond F. Jones’ The Alien Machine and other short stories that were eventually collected and welded together to make the novel This Island Earth.
The novel was turned into a big-budget science fiction film that was released in 1955 in widescreen and color. Hero Cal Meacham was played by the tall, dark, and handsome actor Rex Reason. That’s the perfect name for an actor playing a scientist hero, and it turns out to be his real name. He’s still around, as of this writing, and looks better than I do, and probably sounds better, too, dammit. My choosing the name is obviously a form of overcompensating.
The book has its flaws, but they seriously it dumbed it down for the movie. They screwed up the point of the opening section – the only part remotely resembling the book. Cal isn’t handed the alien schematics for the Interociter, as if it were an intergalactic Heathkit - he has to work it out for himself from the descriptions of the components. The book has no “Metaluna”, no giant-exposed-brain mutants, no planet being bombarded into a star. “Exeter”'s name is different, sounding like a cross between Indian and Swedish. And it bugs me that when they used it as the basis for the MST3K movie, they clipped it down, making the movie shorter than an episosde of the TV show!
I have always been fascinated by snakes, and rattlesnakes are the most fascinating snakes of all to me. Most rattlesnakes belong to the genus Crotalus.
Hell if I know.
My IRL name.
It literally has no meaning. It’s not my name or the name of anyone or anything I know. I was just entering “mr smith” (with some random numbers) because it was the first generic name I thought of. But I mistyped it leaving out the “r”, so sometimes people with poor reading skills think it’s “Ms Smith” or “Ms Mith”.
Intentional misspelling of Canadian (which I am).
Way back when I first joined I used my first initial and last name, but decided to go for semi-anonymity and changed it to something less obvious. “Semi-anonymity” because I know (and don’t care) that I can be traced by someone with enough time on their hands.
By the way, there has been at least one and I think two previous threads on exactly this topic. I’m sure someone more “energetic” can track those down.
Like many other people, my user name is literary. It’s from Jane Eyre, the name that Jane uses so she won’t be discovered.
And what did you name the other 324 pets?