# What's your alias? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207 "2016-03-26T04:51:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/21 "2016-03-26T21:25:15Z")
Ethilrist. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/22 "2016-03-26T21:54:09Z")
> [@araminty](#): > > My Starbucks name is Stella, or occasionally, if I’m feeling it, Zelda. I learned once how embarrassing it is to give a silly name while wearing a nametag with your mundane real name on it. The coffee seller gave it a good loooong look, nodded at me, then wrote “ZELDA” extra big on the cup… :o That happened to me too. “Gwen” is surprisingly hard for folks to understand, so I go with “Wendy” or “Amanda” or something self-explanatory. Of course I did that once when wearing a big “Gwendolen” tag. Thankfully, they didn’t seem to notice. ---
**Author:** ![heartsplayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d9b06d/32.png) [@heartsplayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heartsplayer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/23 "2016-03-26T22:47:31Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > **Do you have a name you give for when you don’t want to give your real name?** > > I have a few: > > Will DiCoca > Mike Johnnyranger (usually when there’s a sign-in sheet) > Onowa Ugundalé (online sign-ins) > > I’ll mix things up with different spellings or first names, like Mike becomes Mick or Michael, or Will becomes Walt, or Ugundalé becomes Ugundelay, or I’ll throw a middle initial in, etc.) Oh so that’s what an alias is! I’ve always wondered! Yes, I could probably think of a couple, if you gave me enough time. One of them being “heartsplayer” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/24 "2016-03-27T03:42:15Z")
Otto Iris ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/25 "2016-03-27T04:10:50Z")
I’m also fond of Johnny Cockrocket. It’s pronounced, ca-CROCK-et. ---
**Author:** ![InsomniaMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ad7895/32.png) [@InsomniaMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InsomniaMama)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/26 "2016-03-27T12:47:08Z")
For years I’d sign in at restaurants as Vladimir. My real name is a pain, so I needed something else. The gender bending was just a perk. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/27 "2016-03-27T14:32:48Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I signed a friend’s wedding book **Hugh G. Rection**. He later told me he knew it was me right away. The new Mrs was pissed. The marriage lasted under five years, including time in counseling. I guess the problem was that she realized she’d married the wrong guy from his circle of friends; she shoulda picked you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/28 "2016-03-27T14:34:24Z")
> [@InsomniaMama](#): > > For years I’d sign in at restaurants as Vladimir. My real name is a pain, so I needed something else. The gender bending was just a perk. My last name is a PITA like that. So I use “Fox”, especially if the host(ess) is bad at English. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/29 "2016-03-27T15:20:17Z")
Pickles Beaversnatch. Well, not really, I just wanted to try that one out. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/30 "2016-03-27T15:34:00Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Buck Naked That’s **Dr.** Buck Naked to you. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/31 "2016-03-27T16:14:52Z")
My favorite is Oliver Faltz, as in “I love my wife in spite of…” If you’re going to be served in alphabetical order, Baldwin Aaberley is good. For a restaurant where the hostess calls out “the Jones party,” go with Donner or Wilde. Finally, there’s Hanover Fiste and Anita Nothershot. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/32 "2016-03-27T16:26:09Z")
Hojo Hominigrits ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/33 "2016-03-27T19:46:11Z")
For a few years now I always use “Donner” at restaurants just to hear them announce “Donner - party of 5. Donner - party of five”. (And sometimes I pad the number by one or two if it looks like a long wait) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/34 "2016-03-27T19:50:37Z")
Bob B. Bobb. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/35 "2016-03-27T20:49:03Z")
My IRL first name is the same as a book of the Bible (OT), and my last name is that of a Napoleanic battle, so I usually use a variation of those, like Samuel Austerlitz, Amos Borodino, or Jeremiah Marengo. I’m easily amused. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/36 "2016-03-27T20:58:07Z")
Waay back in the 70s I knew a guy who did that. He always picked very ethnic names where the first and last were utterly incompatible Jose Fujitsu was one of his favorites. As was Vladimir Rodriquez. Nowadays real blended ethnicities aren’t so rare. Back then? Lots rare. And since he was a he there wasn’t even the out of the last name being her married name. Good fun. ---
**Author:** ![AuntPam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@AuntPam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntPam)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/37 "2016-03-27T22:27:02Z")
I’m female. For years, I used to visit a commercial building on Manhattan’s West Side that had the sleepiest security guard I’ve ever seen. And I routinely signed, fairly legibly, in as Adm. Horatio Hornblower, RN (Ret.) I mean, I did this for about four years. Finally, one afternoon I stepped off the elevator on the 5th floor and the receptionist at Martin Audio looked up and said sternly “Admiral Hornblower?” They still sold me the tape recorder, however… On a related note, when telemarketers call, I just explain, in French, that no, my name is Jeanne d’Arc, and “Parlez-vous Francais, M’sieur?” Out of the last hundred calls, I’ve gotten one telemarketer who blurted out “JOAN OF ARC?!” ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/38 "2016-03-27T22:32:50Z")
MaryEllen Blopchik. Taken from [cuteoverload.com](http://cuteoverload.com) ---
**Author:** ![candide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/46a35a/32.png) [@candide](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/candide)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/39 "2016-03-28T01:37:35Z")
Nicola Bonanno. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/40 "2016-03-28T01:46:33Z")
I always use the name of one of the old high-school bullies back in West Texas. He may have a lot to answer for by now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207.md?page=3)