Thread: where did you get your username from?

Question

I got this idea from a speedrun.com user. He made a thread dedicated to how you got your username. So i thought "i could apply this to the META section of pokebase" Wait... Is this even allowed? Other people made threads for your username on pokemon showdown! and pokemon online (which you could put on your profile) and didnt get flagged (as of my time on the site) so hopefully is allowed

EDIT: yay it is allowed

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I ndver knew i could get so much answers on my own thread

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He removed my "stupid-tags".

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You forget he is the "ruler pokemon" he only knows one way hitting people with rulers It's like Smeargle and sketch lol

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Lucario12432 came from i like Lucario and highest number 4 marking my fourth year of trying to do Pokémon fanart though its still horrible though i was thinking of garchomp12432...

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I don't have a username :(

Answer 1

my names come from cringe and being bored

Comments

marvelous

Answer 2

I hope I don’t regret this.
When I first joined the db, my username was thecarnapper5. Back when I was 12 or so, my friends and I used mess around on roblox “carnapping” people of their cars on this one life simulator game. We also invited people to “parties” at our houses and then locked them in our garage, because the game let you do that. Good times. There’s a 5 because I was the fifth of the six of us, and so I used that name for the rest of my online accounts because I couldn’t think of anything better.
Then, a year or so after a joined, someone misspelled my name as “cranpper” and I just changed it to that.
and yeah it was also Jimmy for a while thanks to hellfire
also im stupdi

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we're all stupdi for misspelling it to cranpper

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Yeah, we should have misspelled it to crappner instead.

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I thought you were cool until you mentioned roblox

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You should never assume Jimmy is cool

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no always assume I am

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always assume you are what? stupdi?

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i always thought it was a mispelling of crapper lmao
sorry

Answer 3

I've been here for a very long time, so I've had a ton of usernames
My first username was Lucky 2000, which didn't really have an origin (just appeared in my mind)
2nd was Dragoonair, because when I was 13-14 Dragonair was my favorite
3rd was Dragoon, which is just short for Dragoonair and an inspiration from Kirby Air Ride(Probably the username that the older users know me by)
After that, I had a lot of other usernames, like #Mega Pinsir, !<-Quagmire->!(i think), Almighty Derpados, The Trapinchinator, Mega Dragoon(old favorite), Sir Dragoon, Mosmero, Mosmic Power, and Electric Z

And currently my username is Meta Ridley, which originated from Meta Ridley

Answer 4

Hello!

My username, Nswift involves two relatively simple ideas. The N comes from Nathan, my first name. Then swift represents one of my favorite Pokémon moves, swift. I always enjoyed looking at its attack animation, especially in my first game, Platinum. That's where my username comes from! It's pretty basic, but that's fine I guess.

Thanks!

Comments

Oh dang that's cool, I immediately assumed  was Nathan, but that was only because of a dub name (Nathan Swift, I'm serious) from the anime Inazuma Eleven

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Emty you're such a weeb

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arent we all? (except for the losers)

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PX takes one to know one >:(

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Oh that’s pretty cool - I didn’t even know that it was and anime-esk name.  Also lol to the rest of the conversation : ]

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but technically we're all losers too!

Answer 5

It's username originin' time.

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Flowersun was my first name. It was inspired by the Warriors series, which I'm a fan of. I got it when choosing my username for the Warriors website, and it sounded cool, so I decided to use it here, minus whatever numbers were on the end of it.

Glazio Kawaii was my second name. Gladion's my favorite Pokémon character, and Glazio is his Japanese name. Kawaii means something along the lines of cute. "Glazio Kawaii" was kinda my catchphrase for a while, so it seemed fitting.

Gladion Aether was my third name. Once again, Gladion's my favorite Pokémon character, so I decided to name myself after him. Also, it'd make sense for his last name to be Aether.

Giru-Rūku was my fourth name. I was going through a Harvest Moon phase, so I named myself after Gill and Luke. Giru is Gill's Japanese name, and Rūku is Luke's Japanese name. The two of them are my favorite Harvest Moon boys. They're cute. The end.

Fenton Force was my fifth name, suggested by Talos and victor of the vote. I was going through a Danny Phantom phase, and Danny Fenton's last name is... Fenton. It's also a play on the move Phantom Force.

Yuya the Goggles was my sixth name. I was going through a Yu-Gi-Oh! phase (literally how all of my usernames came to be), and Yuya Sakaki is a favorite character of mine. And he wears goggles. However, I thought "Yuya the Goggled" looked weird, so I went with Yuya the Goggles. I prefer it, even though it sounds like Yuya is his goggles.

Strawberry Shortcake was technically my seventh name, though I kept it for only a day. It was a nickname based off of a nickname that was transferred to me or... something. I'm not sure anymore.

Pogokira was my eighth name. I simply combined the names of my favorite Live A Live characters, Pogo and Akira. Don't ask why I'm such a huge fan of a green-haired caveboy and a psychic teenager guy. It's because I'm weird.

Shallot was technically my ninth name, and the second I kept only briefly. Apparently it's the name of the protagonist of Dragon Ball Legends, which is fitting since I'm going through a Dragon Ball phase. After making a remark that "I'd rather be named Shallot", I decided to change my name to Shallot for a bit.

Gokutenks is my tenth and current name. In a continuation of my Dragon Ball-themed names, it's a combination of Goku and Gotenks, the latter of which is a fusion of Goten and Trunks and a very bizarrely endearing character. Seriously, that's a face only a mother could love. At least that's my take on it.

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Wow, hit the double-digits if counting Strawberry Shortcake and Shallot. I feel old.

Answer 6

My username at the moment is ~MegaCharizardY~ (I want to look back at this post and regret everything :P). Despite my name having "Charizard" in it, I don't like Charizard at all in its base form. I like Gmax Charizard and both Mega's, but Y has gotta be the best.

On April 3rd, 2020, I decided it was a good idea to name myself ~MegaLucario~. I changed my mind. I was thinking of what else I could name myself. Then I remembered a book I wrote when I was in 3rd grade, and have continued writing to this day. In the book, the main character chooses a Charmander as her starter. She gets a Mega Stone in the lab that just so happens to be Charizardite Y.

Surprisingly, a lot of people don't know this but, I used to love X and really hate how much Y looked like regular Charizard. But while I was looking at their designs and stats, Y really grew on me. And you know what site I was looking at? This one. Actually, this site has supplied me with everything I know about Pokémon. But enough about that. Anyway, while looking at their stats, I was wowed by Y's SpAtk but really disappointed that such a physical powerhouse like X has the same SpAtk as Atk.

So, this is why my name is ~MegaCharizardY~ and not ~Mega Lucario~ or ~MegaMence~ (this was actually an option) or ~MegaCharizardX~. Hope you enjoyed this "incredible" story :)

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OMG I DID REGRET EVERYTHING CONGERS TO ME FOR PREDICTING THE FUTURE!!!

Point is, my name is ~Chocolatte~! Well, soon it's going to be! Why, you may ask?

This name change was interesting. A few months ago I had decided on *~SerperioritY~*, but recently I started playing Among Us? Anyway, I love Odwalla Mocha Latte protein shakes so I made my Among Us username Chocolatte (chocolate + latte...). Then I really liked the name and made my Discord username Chocolatte~. Finally, for db, I had a poll, ~Chocolatte~ vs *~SerperioritY~*. Right now ~Chocolatte~ has... 4 votes? So I think it's going to win.

Yes this was a weird explanation I know.

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It doesn’t feel right not being Y.

So name changes just happened and I decided on ~Bandit~. She’s kinda my “mascot”, you could say.

Who is she? Well, she’s my Yveltal from Pokémon Y. Yes I know Yveltal’s are genderless but sHe’S sPeCiAl.

You see my original name change was going to be ~BanditTheYveltal~, which had a Y in it so I could be Y again. However, that was too long of a name. So I shortened it to ~Bandit~.

After some discussion about being Band YouTube, I decided that people can still call me Y even though there’s no Y in my name.

Fun.

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Okay so a bit late but we have moved on to ~Greyscale~. I honestly just like the way it sounds. I went by the name Grey for a bit so yeah. No backstory here I guess :)

By the way, it’s weird reading the rest of this answer, its like a year old now? Fairly cringey writing lol.

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im a pansexual who loves pancakes. what more is there to say? - me as ~pancakes<3~

Comments

When the next name change period rolls around, you should name yourself -VMaxChazoirdZ-. XD

...I'm gonna be killed for that, I can see it. XD

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Surprisingly, a lot of people don't know this but, I used to love X


OH MY GOD I KNEW IT- no just kidding this joke is dead im sorry

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Excuse me what Flaweon

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i said nothing. also who's flareon?

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good job x

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Hey hey hey guess what
I knew it

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Frick you Flaweon


We both predicted the future tho congers!!!!!

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this comment section is utterly confusing

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I have to say, (and I am not necroposting,) that I always thought when you said you loved x, you meant umm.... That one guy we all know. Now I know that's not the case

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damn cool

Answer 7

My username is quite boring in origins.

Aurelius is my middle name and Reyes is my “other” middle name. Basically in Filipino culture your Mom’s maiden name becomes a sort of pseudo-middle name.

I’m planning to Change my name and then the origins will be listed

Answer 8

Kyogre71: In Alpha Sapphire, I have a level 71 Quirky Kyogre, which also happens to be my favorite legendary (yes, it's still level 71).

KyogrePulse: Origin Pulse is Primal Kyogre's signature move, and Water/Dragon Pulse are some of my favorite moves. Pulse is also just fun to say.

Iridacea: It's "iridaceae", the name for a family of flowers, with just the last e cut off. I chose this because a lot of my favorite flowers are from this family, and one of my favorite words, iridescent, has the same Latin root word, 'iris', meaning rainbow.

Answer 9

About time I answered this. One Day, I had to create a name to play an Online Game I liked. I didn't like any of the pre-chosen names,an Adjective and an animal, so I started typing random letters. About 3 or 4 times of that and I got Jhnfui. I liked it, so I started using it for everything.
Apparently, it sticked, so here I am today. Anticlimactic, probably. Boring, most definitely

Now my name is J™. I deciding to hop on the ™ train like half of the database with the name changes in October. I just kept the J from Jhnfui and added the ™. Well, boring again lol.

Comments

Relatable.

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there's no way your username is more boring than mine lol

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I'm sure mine is more boring. XD

Answer 10

So, BlazeGamer came from the fact that my favorite element is fire, and 'Gamer' is that I like video games. Enough said.

Answer 11

Here's the origin of my name.

One Christmas, I got Pokemon mystery dungeon explorers of darkness. I really enjoyed it, so one day, I did what any kid would do: make a toy version of it. I had some pokemon toys and some other random toys that I used and after a while, I stopped. (Starter was Chansey and partner was Carbink, but that has nothing to do with this.) I had been coming up with loads of ideas in my head for dungeons and stuff, so I wanted to put my ideas on paper. I'm not finished yet, only a couple pages in, but here's the cover. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Oa65i7E-hn6ZpnAjz5TG2nsMo_tIr444/view?usp=drivesdk.

Now let's take a trip to Honey Hive treetops. During the main story, you would get 2 eggs. One which would hatch into a Igglybuff (which also isn't important), and one that would hatch into a Cutiefly. It's a different colored one, but not shiny. You take it to Honey Hive, beat a Vespiquen's workers, and heal Cutiefly, and get a Shiny Combee. Skip after the post game and you go to another dungeon. I don't know the name for this one yet, but you go to the top, fight in a Arena, beat a level 70 Ribombee, and it's revealed that the Ribombee is the mother of Cutiefly. Now how did Cutiefly get lost?

Wyndi Cliff Valley.
You go through the plot and find that an enraged Mega-Absol set off some strong winds that blew Cutiefly's egg away. Noticed how I said enraged? How did Mega-Absol get enraged?

Viper Plains.
Now we're getting somewhere. The leader of this place are three Seviper, the boss being shiny. I decided that the name of this sly snake would be The Viper. I really like Seviper and it's shiny, so this is why I decided to go with Seviper as my mascot. Back to the name. It's kinda a playoff of Randy Orton's name that people call him, but I wasn't thinking about him. I just liked the idea of The Viper. Now for the "Da" part. I just thought Da sounded and looks a whole lot better than The.

This is how I got my name. (Spoilers: The boss is Darkrai.) As for Showdown, I'm a master with Kirbys in Smash Bros 64, so yeah. I was going to go with MFT, my fictional character that has a ridiculously overpowered Fearow (based on my Leafgreen Fearow, but I never got a chance to use Kirbymaster64. (BTW, MFT stands for Mysterious Fearow Trainer.)

Thanks for reading all this.

Comments

Very interesting.

Answer 12

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PlBUH8zMZng

Nuff said

Answer 13

My username came from Zeraora's Classification/Category/Species name, the Thunderclap Pokémon. Zeraora is also my #1 favorite Pokémon, so naturally... I named myself Thunder Clapper. :V

and no it has nothing to do with butt cheeks...

Answer 14

My username, Potato41518, comes from my favorite food, potatoes. 41518 is my Trainer ID in the only Pokémon game I have, Pokémon Pearl.

Answer 15

my username fits my personality and taste in pokemon, dark and misleading

Answer 16

I got my username from my OC, Raiden Nakano, and TheSworded because I love swords and plus I own one, a katana :]

• Raiden (Rai 雷 + Den 電 literally mean "Thunder and Lightning" in Japanese)
• At first, I wanted to name it like this: RaidenTheSworded 【雷電剣】but it wouldn't fit :(

Answer 17

I chose PKThunder (previously Pkbeam) because I like the Earthbound / Mother series. 10 is because 10 in my opinion is the first "actual number." I'm now Revolving Broccoli because that is what a youtuber I watch calls green shells in Mario Kart.

Answer 18

Matthew is my irl first name. Matt is my nickname, but both names were taken already, so I just made my name "Matt." with a period.

Sorry, it's not really interesting :/

Answer 19

I guess I'll answer this, and probably get downvoted because of a certain game that I'll mention.

The "A Noob" part of my name dates back to when I used to play Roblox (pls don't hate me for that lol, I stopped playing it two years ago). In late 2017, I really wanted to change my username, because my old one had started to make me cringe and question what I was thinking (and I will not mention it here), and I began using the Noob skin, forming a Noob Gang among some friends. Two months later, I saved up enough to get my username changed to "JustAnElementalNoob", referencing my favourite Roblox game at that time, Elemental Battlegrounds, and that fact that I still had the Noob skin, except with cosmetics representing fire, ice and electricity. About a year later, I stopped playing Roblox.

Then the "Without A Name" part of my username. In April 2019, which was around the time I lost interest in Roblox, I started playing Pokémon Showdown. I didn't really know what to make my username. Even if my Roblox username didn't go over the character limit (which it did) there's no way I would've went with it. I wanted to keep the "Noob" part in, but had no idea what else to put in my username. Eventually, because I couldn't think of a name, I settled with "ANoobWithoutAName". That name has stuck with me since.

Ever since I created my Showdown account, every username I've made since then have been either the same as it somewhat similar to it, depending on the character limit. Part of the reason it's stuck with me is because of the potential for jokes. I remember once while I was playing something, someone said to me: "I'm gonna call you Billy" (I don't have a screenshot sadly), and Frozen Inferno 火 has already made a few jokes about it, including but not limited to this:

When you become a AHaxerWithoutAName XDD
commented Mar 26 by Frozen Inferno 火

So, yeah. That's how I got my username. I'm not very creative so it's likely that I'll never change it. If one day I do change my username, it'll probably be something related to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, my favourite video game of all time. But no guarantees.

Answer 20

my name used to be KirbyCuteKing which i liked but the problem was it has 13 letters and the name limit for most games are 10 to 12. so i shortened it down to KirbyKing and i stuck with the name cause i liked it more