How do I come up with a good username?

Provoked Gamer@lemmy.ca to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 49 points –
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Depends on what you'll be using it for. ie: 'UrGranny' could be fun for games but it might not work as intended on OF.

"She is the Ultimate Nan...the Epic Octogenarian...the Ur-Granny."

Naming things is the hardest part of everything.

That's why I'm never going to have children.

Just pick the 15th most common name of the previous year. Then your kid will be fine.

This is legit a really good move. Not too common, so you need a nickname because there will always be five children with the same amen on the playground. But also common enough that they will very rarely have to spell it out.

Just name your kids after your richest favorite relatives and wait for that sweet sweet inheritance dosh to come your way

a cool 3-letter username can be neat

Found out when I tried to get a domain name for my initials. Very fucking expensive.

Just don't add any random numbers to the name, which I see you haven't done, so I think you're good.

https://wutangclan.net/name-generator/

worked for childish gambino

My nickname got me 'holly bell toad'. My name got me 'wacky officer'.

I think I'd take wacky officer honestly lol.

I dig my result and it will be my future username for something one day

I will save mine should I ever become a vigilante or something like that.

Just toss some stuff you enjoy together. It's not like you only ever get one- I've had a few over the years.

Mine is just a combo of two mythological figures that also have to do with stars/outer space. I like Sci-Fi, and I like mythologies.

Yeah, this. The 2 usernames I currently use both include types of Japanese mythological creatures, and before that I used basically whatever was on my desk with some random numbers

I originally tried to just use Orion, and it was almost always taken.

So SolOrion was originally a fallback choice that just kind of took over.

Provoked Gamer is pretty baller. Are you asking for a friend?

I wanna have two usernames, one for personal and one for online so I don’t want people to be able to google search my username and see everything. I do like this username though lol.

Usernames aren't good or bad. It can be "you" or it can be anything. Just follow your heart or your gut.

What's wrong with the one you made this post under?

Nothing, I just want another username that I use to separate my personal accounts (like discord, Snapchat, etc.) from my online accounts (lemmy, Reddit, etc.)

I ask chatGPT. Just give it a theme and it'll start stitchin random words together

i find that whenever i’ve done that it just comes up with some philosophical shit that doesn’t work as a username

Ask ChatGPT for a list. Give it some basic guidelines.

A hex number that is meaningful to you.

Or just find a D&D name generator and use that, idk.

i got mine from using a random word generator until i hit one i liked the look of

My username has been some variation of monster since I first decided to use it on Mario Kart DS

Look in the mirror. Ask yourself what you see.

Then feel free to be ironic, literal or whatever. The world will never know

Whenever I think of a cool name or word, I add it to a text file. I use that file when picking names for games etc. I remove or mark names I have used.