Denizens

This is a list of denizens of #xkcd. Anyone can be added provided they are in #xkcd either frequently or memorably. Don't screw up anyone else's stuff, and if you provide too little actual info your entry may be removed. ^{[citation needed]}

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Nick	Name	Age	Gen- der	Location	Links	PE # Solved	Nick etymology	Image
Absenteeist	Kyle	20	M	The South			I heard "absenteeism" and thought "what would a follower of that be called?"
Acegiak	ashton	24		South Australia	Site		old alias, acegikmo, ceased to be unique, generated new alias through a genetic algorithm using pronouncability and google hits to define fitness.
Ada	Huw	25	M	Canberra, Australia			My dog's name is "Ada". Ada is named after the Victorian mathematician/programmer, Ada Lovelace. My dog's inherited none of Lovelace's abilities (although she's only 6, give her time, I say, give her time).
Adams42	Not Adam	26	M	Seattle, Washington			I've read far too many Douglas Adams books
Aegis	Adam L	26	M	Northeast Arkansas, US	Email		The aegis (Greek: Αιγίς) is the shield or buckler of Pallas Athena, furnished with golden tassels and bearing the Gorgoneion (Medusa's head) in the central boss. When an Olympian wields the aegis in battle, Mount Ida is wrapped in clouds, the thunder rolls, and men are struck down with fear.
Aeneas	Chris D	32	M	Belgium	Email		The mythological link between ancient Greek and Roman mythology, Aeneas was a survivor of Troy and restlessly looking for his destiny.
AggroPanda	Chrissy K	26	F	Dallas, TX	Email		Work nickname.
agmlego	Andrew Meyer	24	M	Houghton, MI, US	Email		Ancient handle that has stuck much like Randall's
Ahrotahntee	Robert Jones	25	M	Toronto, Ontario	Homepage		'Ahrotahntee' is a D'ni Word of the Myst Universe.
airtank		26	F	Pensacola, FL	Email		Be what you speak, man, never speak on what you be.
Akranis	Mattias	23	M	Gothenburg, sweden	Site Email	20	It has no special meaning, I just thought it sounded cool. Later turns out there's an icelandic city callad Akranes, plus it sounds like Arrakis, land of sand. But seriously, made up on the spot.
Alastor	Jeff	23	M	Lexington, Kentucky	Email		An epithet of the Greek god Zeus which described him as the avenger of evil deeds, specifically, familial bloodshed.
aliaras	Ellen	22	F	Portland, OR	Email	0	Made it up as a part of a made up language, later found out it's also a word in spanish.
almostsix	George	20	M	Boston			A ruler. (Note: I am known as fiveandthreequarters when people don't complain that that's too long.)
Ambrose	Chris	30	M	Huntsville, AL			It happened to be greek name hour. It stuck.
AmishJoe	Joe	29	M	Boston			Amish was a nickname given to me in High School as my parents imposed rules on me reminiscent to High Schoolers of the Amish. The name stuck, although nobody calls me Amish in person anymore.
anaximander		23	M	Nottingham, UK, or Birmingham in the holidays			A Greek Presocratic philosopher whose ideas were similar to mine; I got his part in an IRC debate and kept the nick afterwards. As a big fan of the Ender books, posting on the net under the name of a famous ancient Greek amuses me.
Anonymoosen		22	M	Huntington, WV	Theme song		I'm a moose
AntiLuke	Lucas	21	M	Oregon			I dislike the name Luke, due to lots of Star Wars Jokes in my childhood.
Antimony-120	Sb-120		M	In a particle accelerator	Comic		Antimony is an element. It sounds like a name. 120 is a nice round number. Antimony-119 and -121 are stable. -120 is not. I found Gunnerkrigg AFTER I made the name up.
apo	Valentin	19	M	Bayreuth, Germany
Apocrypha	Michael	24	M	Ontario, Canada	Site Email		I was reading the dictionary and it was the first cool word I got to. You can also see that I didn't get very far.
AppleDash	Ryan	23	M	Ontario, Canada	Personal Email	18	Favorite MLP ship, picked it a few months back and I kept it.
Aprilis	April	27	F	Sheffield, UK	Email	1	My name in Latin. Aprilis may have come from "aperire" which means "to open" or may have originally been "Aphrilis," a Latin name which comes from "Aphrodite" since that is her month.
aqualis	Josh Frank	23	M	Central Illinois	Site		I needed a nick for Redwall based RP when I was 11. Since then I've just kept it.
Aquarion	Aquarion	32	M	Greater London, London, United Londonshire	A list of places to find me		Aquarian was taken when I was 14. I have nothing to do with the anime. I predate it. It has nothing to do with me either. I hate the sodding anime.
asarkar	A. Sarkar	23	M	Cambridge, MA		76
Ater	Liz	22	F	Virginia			"black or malicious" in Latin. Also a name meaning shut or lame, according to Wikipedia.
Aurum	Soumitr	20	M	Roorkee/Mumbai, India		0	Gold is pretty cool in Latin too.
Autocracy	Jeff	28	M	Redwood City, California		33	It seemed like a good name to use when I was 13.
Axalto	Kelvin	17	M	a data-center in Europe			Unknown, attempts to reveal this information resulted in insults, philosophical questions and the common cold.
barometz	Dominic	24	M	The Netherlands	email, OpenPGP		baaa
bearachute	skottie	32	M	Pittsburgh, PA			Nothing has changed, everything has stayed the same.
Beelzebub	Paul Hubbard	24	M	Cromwell, CT	Email		Got it from the song Bohemian Raphsody, by Queen. "Beelzebub has a devil put aside for meeee! For MEEEE! FOR MEEEEE~"
benbw	Ben W	20	M	St. Louis, MO	last.fm Email	3	5 points if you can guess.
betawaffle	Andrew Hodges	21	M	Atlanta, GA			Quite boring really, Waffle is my dog's name.
brilliantnut	Ujjwal Kabra	30	M	Bangalore, India	Site	20	The Sanskrit word "Ujjwal" roughly translates to "brilliant", the rest i just added :)
Bubonicfred	Not Fred	20	M	Middle of Australia	[1]		Closest I could get to Bucket
Bucket	Brian Ucketchester	2	:D	IRC	Email Docs		I has a hole in my heads![citation needed]
bumblecheese	cheese	22	M	Edinburgh, Scotland	[2]		First time I can remember using the name is when I made a Worms team called The Cheesers (with names Cheddar, Edam, Wensleydale...). This was shortened to Cheese for something or other, and stuck. Then someone decided I was COVERED IN BEES, I think...
bytbox	Scott	19	M	MD,US	[3] [4]		Yea, and then we shall go to the great bit-bucket in the sky, and rest for ever and ever. Except it's a cube, and it's 7 times as big.
Caffeine	Karl Fredrik	19	M	Norway	Email		When I first entered #xkcd, I was using another nick I've been using for some time with random upper- and lowercase letters. I was told that if I was to use such random case-ness, it should be a molecular formula. At the time, I was (and still is) quite addicted to caffeine. After using C8H10N4O2 for a few minutes, I ended up on Caffeine.
cameo	Cameo Wood	35	F	San Francisco, California, USA	bio		My first name.
cap11235	Charles P	20	M	Saitama, Japan			Initials, plus beginning of Fibonacci sequence. I got tired of previous suffix numbers being taken, so I use the sequence, since it is easy to remember.
CaptainPlatypus	Eric	21	M	-love	Email		Command of seagoing vessels, and a combination of unlikely abilities.
Carlington	Chris	19	M	Sydney, Australia			Very long and convoluted, I used to RP a character called Chris Arlington.
carrot	Steve	20	M	New York City
Carthage	Carthage	26	M	Vancouver, BC, Canada	Email		I have far too deep an interest in history. Really... look what I did to my name!
Cheez	Chris	30	M	Just outside London, UK	Blog last.fm	12	Back in 1995 I needed a nick to use on a local BBS where we played doom. I choose Cheezmaster_2000, over the years this has been shortened, first to Cheezmaster, then finally Cheez.
CheshireCat	Joe	22	M	Ithaca, NY			Cheshire Cat: Of course, he's mad, too. Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people. Cheshire Cat: Oh, you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here.
Chevron36	Greg Mason	22	M	Madison, WI	Email		I watched a lot of Stargate SG-1
Chrisbrl88	Chris	24	M	Akron, OH	[]		My name
cjmac	Chris Mac	27	M	Melbourne, Australia			I don't own a Mac, stop asking.
cls		23		Canterbury, UK	Lubutu
coaxmetal	Derek	23	M	Tucson, AZ	Flutter		Name of a giant iron golem from Planescape: Torment (best game ever).
cogit0	Mike	32	M	San Diego, CA			I think about thinking, and enjoy philosophical neuroscience, both as a profession and hobby
coreycubed	Will Beers	26	M	Charleston, South Carolina	e-mail		coreycubed, that's really all there is to it :)
Cortel		23		Chicago, IL			The Cat novels by Joan D. Vinge, abbreviation.
Corynne	Stephanie	23	F	Galway, Ireland	Facebook
Crayboff	Michael	21	M	East Coast, USA	Email		Play off my last name. If you really want to know the story, ask me on #xkcd. OTHER: Philosoraptor, Raptorite, NinjaRaptor
creamycentre	Nicholas Cannard	24	M	Molalla Oregon, USA			Jr. high friends were quoting lines from Scary Movie. I heard something about a lollipop with a creamy center and used that as my nick.
creature		23	M	London, UK		21	I am a great arse-creature.
crodgers	Chris Rodgers	27	M	Lincoln, Nebraska USA		9	it's my work login
Cupcake	Jessica	25	F	Toronto, Ontario	blag blargh		One of two nicknames my Mom has had for my my entire life. Seemed more appropriate than "Boobie."
Cyrena	Cyrena	28	F	Canada			It's a cool name, so I took it.
Daedeloth	Thijs Van der Schaeghe	27	M	Belgium	Site		Land of the Death, translated in Elvish according some fantasy fan group.
Daevol	Daedalus Völundr		M	#xkcd	Fublag	13	Two of the most hardcore protogeeks.
DaMullet	Addison "The Fox" Fox	22	M	Either Pittsburgh or college	My NaNoWriMo novel is on here	4	I used to have really bad 90s hair, and the name stuck around.
Danso	Dan Jones	23	M	Felixstowe, Suffolk, England	Email		Given to me by an old friend when I was 8 and it stuck. People have called me it online and off ever since.
DarkLoad	Andrew	21	M	North Carolina	Twitter Short fiction blag	8	The first image here.
davidpk	David Kendal	19	M	Clitheroe, Lancashire, UK	Awesome Awesomer Awesomest		Name.
Debaser	Tom Jackson	17	M	Wagga Wagga, Australia (no, seriously)	Blog Email		I eventually got sick of the nick I used to use, so I was looking for a new one and it happened to pop up. Worked perfectly, really.
debdrup	Daniel Ebdrup	22	M	Small town Denmark.	Website	11	Nick should be D. Ebdrup but due to limitations of wiki and irc (whitespace and fullstop not being allowed in nicks), it's debdrup
Dekoa	Curt	25	M	Mountains of North Carolina			Found using a random name generator when deciding to commit Virtual Suicide and Rebirth.
Deltantor	Aaron	22	M	Wasilla, Alaska	Email		Deltron 3030 -> Deltron -> Deltnor -> Deltanor -> Deltantor. I recently discovered it's an anagram of Total Nerd 6 years after coming up with it, wonder what Freud would say about that. Probably something about penises.
Dementex	Chris H.	25	M	Mid South			I always wanted to be a doctor. I'm not.
detcader	Joe	20	M	LI			used to be royall, a looong time ago, now I'm not
diogenes	Heikki Hallamaa	31	M	Helsinki, Finland	Email	23
DM	Kieran	22	M	NS, Canada			I used to run games of D&D over IRC. Decided to use it for my XKCD nick when I first discovered the network.
DoubleAW	Eugene B.	19	M	Illinois	Site	44	Some doodle I drew once. See my site.
drey	Tom	25	M	'Greater' London			Also a squirrel's nest.
drowsyturtle	Simon	20	M	UK			I genuinely can't remember, I started using it a long time ago and never stopped. This nickname is my heroin. If you see this nickname on twitter, it's some low life who stole it without permission.
Dubcroster	Allan	27	M	Copenhagen, Denmark	Site Twitter		My idea for an electronic band name, but wanted to use it, before someone else. Also, almost Crop Duster anagram.
Duo		28	M	Utah			It's been my alias for the last decade or so, originally came from an anime.
Dysaniak		23	M	Santa Cruz, California	Site.		Dysania: The inability to get up in the morning.
Ebby		21	F	Utah, USA			Ebb: To fade away
ecthros	Rebecca	23	F	Chicagoish	Site		Ask me, it's too cumbersome to type here.
Eizan	Bryan	28	M	Silverdale, WA
enauv		21	M	Williamstown, MA			Long story. More importantly, I don't remember, but it probably involved liberal amounts of numerology and seductive women.
ephphatha	Andrew	25	M	Bathurst, NSW, Australia	web		Aramaic (or possibly greek) word meaning 'Be Opened'.
etalli	Cameron	19	M	Ann Arbor, MI	twitter		Synonym for et cetera, but nobody knows it.
etaoin	Anschel	20	M	Jersey City, NJ, USA			I am not shrdlu
Euphemism	Mitch	23	M	Queensland, Australia			Blame Seth, my pervious nick was typoman.
excelangue	Andrew D'Angelo	17	M	Wilmette, IL	site		My favorite Pokémon -- in French! (Note: I am not French)
f4hy	Brendan Fahy	27	M	Whale's Vagina, Ca	site	n	Last name, altered so I could register the domain
fahadsadah	Fahad Sadah	17	M	London, United Kingdom	page		/me glances at name
fantasyprone	Jillian Hunter	24	F	Melbourne, Australia			Derived from accident-prone. fantasyprone: one who is prone to fantasies
fatty			F				In west philadephia, (where I was born and raised), in a playground is where I spent most of my days learning about File Allocation Tables, so I chose that. Simple.
Feriority / MatCauthon	Aneesh	22	M	San Francisco			The opposite of inferiority, but less so than superiority./I'm a big fan of the Wheel of Time series, and Mat is my favorite character. I switched nicks after snark kicked me for rolling dice with ferret and not getting all 1s or 6s.
Feureau		31		Java, Indonesia	Site	0!	A rare archaic french surname.
FishCake	Gadiel D.	16	M	Sydney, Australia			Portmanteau of Fish (real life nick) and gotanysparecake (internet nick). Not at all based on GLaDOS' cake recipe.
Flibberdy	Dan	29	M	Leeds,UK			One day, many years ago, I just decided to change by nick to Flibberdy (I may have had too much sugar at the time). It replaced a horrible 1337 nick, so it stayed.
flicky1991, flicky		21	M	London, UK			"flicky" comes from when I joined my first forum, was really into Sonic, assumed all the cool Sonic characters were taken, and chose the worst one imaginable.
fridge		23	M	Ayr, Australia			It was my nickname given to me when I entered College and it just stuck. If you want the full etymology just ask.
freelancer	Kim Johnsson	24	M	Sweden	Site Email	15	I was 12. I wanted something cool. When I realized it would be pretty hard to get that nick on most forums/whatever it was too late :(
Frowardd	Fred	24	M	Salisbury, MD	soup last		Ancient jew wisdom
FsM			M	The frozen north(Minnesota)		1	I used to IRC as something longer, and someone got angry and said make it shorter, so I chose 3 letters.
ftr	Chris Finlay	27	M	Isle of Man	Email	5	Shortened form of an old SoAworld nickname
FunkyTuba	Funky Tuba	41	M	In the shadow of either Oracle or Apple	Email		Shamelessly stolen from another player in my section
gameprey	G. Reynolds Quincy Prey	22	M	Michigan	Email		I am Tom Clancy
geaireee	Gary	21	M	Los Angeles, CA	Email LastFM	1	geaireee = Gary, which is my name.
Geekthras	Colin Stanfill	16	M	Lincoln, MA	Email Site	47	Geek · thras \'gēk-,thräs\ n [From slang geek and b5. zathras] (ca 2005). Also, that's not actually me. I got it from some Finnish site.
Glench	Glen Ch.	23	M	Massachusetts	Site		See "shoofle".
google	google	14	M	Mountain View, CA			I am the most sophisticated chat bot ever.
halkyardo	Richard Halkyard	24	M	Auckland, New Zealand			See my last name
Hat Girl	Bree	20	F	Florida, USA			Fond of hats, Completely unlike Jason Mraz.
heero	Greg	27	M	Sydney			zee-ro/hee-ro
Hermiene	Håvard Skjæveland	27	M	Stavanger, Norway	site comic email		An old German name. Inspired by the deviantART image Hermiene Heinrich (you need to log in to see it). I chose it because it's super-pretty. (Also, it is NSFW.)
HeyLuke	Luuk van der Vleuten	24	M	the Netherlands			it's a Star Wars quote
HH117	JC	23	M	Virginia, USA			Shortened from HellHound117.
Hillblah	Hillblah	20	M	Wellington, NZ	site		I went on this camp and the group I was with was called the Wellington Hillbillies (horrible name I know). We had branded gear (hats and shirts) and I wore the hat at a different camp, people started calling me hillbilly and then it got shortened to Hillblah and stuck.
Himerius	Paul	21	M	England
hooloo	David Delony	29	M	Ashland, Oregon			Taken from "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," from "hooloovoo," a super-intelligent shade of blue. I dropped the "voo."
hurristat	David	19	M	Michigan			Hurry! Stat!
IceKarma	Ice Karma		F	Metro Vancouver area, BC, Canada	Email		A friend was playing with an anagram generator one night, and this was one of the results. I liked it so much I made it my own.
InitHello	E. Daxvxid Bouvier	30	M	Johnstown, PA	site	3	At the tender young age of 13, young InitHello wanted a name that symbolized the juxtaposition of destruction and creation. After a moment of thought, he settled on the Apple ][ command for the reformatting of a floppy disk. Since INIT by itself was too short to satisfy (pun intended (or premeditated)), he added the most common suffix, "HELLO"
Intermediate	T_____y __l_c_	20	Q			11	Old nick. No longer in use. Berate me if you find me.
InTheBlue	Dan	21	M	Nottingham, England			Some things come out of the blue...
irokie		25	M	Dublin, IRE			The etymology of this name is really dumb. The entomology, on the other hand, is awesome.
Izanagi	Tyler	21	M	Seguin, Texas			Japanese god, and the starting guy in Persona 4.
J_Spade	Josh		M	Baltimore area, Maryland, USA	Blag e-mail		J from Josh, Spade because of my favorite suit in cards. First used for a TimeSplitters2 game file, but used all over the internet now.
jabagawee	Andrew	15	M	Southern California		5	derogatory term invented by a bunch of school friends. I left the school, so it's lost its bad connotations, and it still sounds catchy and unique.
jackault		20	M	Southeast Asia			Considered a generic name at first, so Jack but then I wanted it to be unique and started morphing it. Sunlight appeared though the window and naturally I made a hand shadow of a jackal. Jackault was the result.
Jaga		25	F	Europe			It is a play on my given name and a reference to Baba Jaga, a witch.
JaggerG	JaggerG	26	M	IRC			SMRPGLotSS
jamesbeebop	James	43	M	Woolwine, VA USA			Chosen pseudo-randomly and seems reasonably unique. I only found out about the Cowboy Bebop series a year or so after choosing it. Happy coincidence, I liked the show.  :)
Janook	Jon S	23	M	Silicon Valley, CA			Jew + Canuck = Januck ~= Janook
jeek	T.J. Eckman	32	M	Roswell, GA	Site	162	from "Snow Crash"
Jeet	Sarah!	19	F	Pittsburgh, PA	Whoa.		My cousin couldn't pronounce midget correctly. It ended up as Mejeet. I shortened it to Jeet.
Jenzipan	Jen Makin	20	F	Suffolk, UK	Email		I'm like marzipan. Only... alive.
jercos	Jeremy Sturdivant	22	M	Felton, CA	site	14	Unrelated to the fresh prince of bel-air
joannac			F	the future
JoeBrain		30	M	CA
Joker	Nick Staros	22	M	Chicago, IL USA			I honestly pulled it out of my ass in the early days of my interweb usage. I sat there for all of thirty seconds at my first ever "username" field and typed out Joker_87. Then I just hacked off the number and there ya go!
JSund	Jonas	25	M	Stockholm, Sweden	Site		A contraction of my given name's initial and the first half of my surname.
Kaepora	Nadim Kobeissi	18	M	Beirut, Lebanon	Site Email	12	From Kaepora Gaebora, the Owl avatar of the Sage of Light from the Legend of Zelda series.
kakos	Turing Eret	25	M	Boulder, CO			Greek for "evil, wicked, ugly, bad", etc.
Kalivha	Susanne GET E	22	F	Hampshire, UK	email	31	random string that sounds like a name. The 'vh' was sort of inspired by Medivh in WoW. The rest was facerolling my keyboard.
Kasu	Dylan Spector	14	M	Not Texas, IL			A corruption of "chaos" and a game of telephone gone wrong.
katiedid	katie	23	F	Seattle, WA			Patience, Grasshopper. It'll come to you.
Katrie	Joan	25	F	Toronto, Canada	Email		The name "Katran" comes from the Myst novel series. "Katrie" is a nickname I acquired when I was more of an avid MUDder.
Kederaji		23	M	Daytona Beach, FL			An alias I've used for years.
khmer		29	M	ntrnt	website
killings	marisa b.	24	F	NYC	blog		No good reason.
Kliment	Kliment Yanev	28	M	Cologne, Germany			I never got the need for a nickname after my early teens, so I've used my real name since. It's unusual enough.
Lander		25	M	UT	Email		Homage to the old windows game
LarryGiggles	Meg	27	F	Natick, MA	Email		It's a combination of two nick names: Larry B. (which is a play on my last name) and Mr. Giggles... because I like to laugh.
Latis	Emily M.	26	F	Vancouver, BC, Canada	[5]		Celtic goddess of beer and water. (One for the celebration... the other for the hangover )
letusgothen	Matt	23	M	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	Email		One of my favourite poems: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot: "Let us go then, you and I [...]"
Lhyzz	Elizabeth	29	F	Brooklyn, NY	Email		It's my name, spelled all funny-like.
Liam	Liam	16	M	Sunderland, England			Ireland? I hear it's quite popular.
lilmisschaos	Caity	17	F	CANADA!			Well the first time I came into xkcd I was under the nick Caity...but I think I kinda pissed off Khmer so the next time I came in I decided to use this nick....and well I guess it stuck! Also I am a little bundle of CHAOS!
lily	Star Lily		F	Texas currently (Ive wandered far from home)	Site		a.k.a. lilyth, starlilyth
lingrush	Dennis	41	M	SoCal or PA, depending on my mood.	Hats More Hats		"Zergling Rush," my patented Starcraft strategy before that damned patch.
littlefoot	Maxwell Vu	17	M	Troy, NY	Email		Land Before Time ...old nickname.
llrcombs	Rodger Combs	16	M	La Grange, IL	Email Social Maps		My middle school assigned us all usernames: last 2 digits of graduation year, first letter of first name, first 5 letters of last name. IRC doesn't like the first letter of your nick to be a number, so I used l instead, since it looks close enough.
logic / theleica	Josh	24	M	UK	Site Twitter		I wanted a nick that did not in any way describe me. I'm also a.k.a. "theleica".
LogicalDash	Zack Spec	25	G	White Plains, NY	blog email		A DanceDanceRevolution song I like. I don't play much anymore but the nick has stuck.
LolCam	Lolarious Camfais IV	23	F	Louisville, KY			A WILD LOLCAM APPEARED!
Loquacius	Jesse	26	M	Providence, RI			My favorite word, respelled to look like a Roman nomen gentile because "Loquacious" is almost always taken.
LordOfWhales	Robert	17	M	San Antonio, Texas	Site Blog Email		I needed a nick for IRC one day, and all I could think of was whales. I guess I had whales on the brain that day. Prince of Wales -> PrinceOfWhales. I then decided that Prince was a boring title and so I changed it to lord.
Lu-Tzao	Patrick	22	M	Palmerston North, NZ			An old D&D character of mine, modified from the Pratchett character, Lu-Tze
Magus		27	M	San Diego, California, USA			I first saw the name in Chrono Trigger, liked the character (fair amount in common), then did some research. I use it due to the old Latin definition, which means "magician", specifically "deceiver". Also a gun nut.
maLLee	Mallory Smith	22	F	Iowa City, IA, USA	Site Email		Mallory>Mally>maLLy>maLLee
marc	Marcus	22	M	Paoli, PA	Email		well.... it's my name
Marenz	Mathias L. Baumann	26	M	Germany, Bavaria/	site Picture		Mathias + Laurenz = Marenz
Marvin		27	M	Croatia, Earth	Email		42
massina		24	M	Amman, Jordan			I used to RP as an Italian gangster called Massina Vicci.
Matt	Matthew	20	M	Michigan, United States		[6]	Tis my name.(Formerly TheChaos92)
Maximinus	Mr Taximinus Hax	25	M	New Zealand			Six-human matrix.
meeko	Christina		F	the States			That raccoon from Pocahontas? Yeah, I look like him.
melody	Melody N. Abmajor	21	Q	Utah -_-			<3 Music.
mewshi	?	?	?	?			?
mewyn	Mike Crawford	30	M	A certain university in Illinois.			Wouldn't you like to know?
MihaiG	Mihai G	18 1/3	M	Atlanta	Email		My legal middle name?
mike	Mike	21	M	Romania	Site		Take a guess.
mint	Adam Kenneth Dean	21	M	Manchester, UK			I booted into Linux Mint, loaded IRC, the default name was "mint" and I stuck with it.
MissingNo		20	M	Hampshire, UK	Info!		I needed a change from 'kick52', and had been playing Pokemon Blue recently.
Monarch	Not Monarch, but something else. I'm not going to put it here for all you wackos to see.	15- 25	M	West Country, England, UK		1	God Save The Queen and all that! Something a little suprising: I have faith in my country's government and Monarchy; and this was the logical choice. Go Voyager! Seriously: Bring that back.
Mooquack	Cristi	22	F	Southeast USA			I combined a cow and a duck.
morner(†)	Simon McKernan	21	M	Glasgow, Scotland	Site Email		God rest his soul
mrkman	Matt	25	M	Ohio, USA			Created in highschool, a shortening of the word Marksman, aka a sniper. my favorite FPS shooting style
mudo	Maurizio	21	M	Maracaibo, Venezuela			Formerly quit. Now nobody. Because I've felt like that lateley, and it's not all bad.
Mullet	Matt Lake	23	M	Hammond, IN	Blog	2	Hey, I'm Mullet. I'm just called that. My hair's long.
muze	Will	23	M	Canton, MI	Site Email		Evolved from MuzakMan back when I though elevator music would be edgy.
nameless		18	M	Pembroke Pines, FL	Site Email		I doesn't have a name, but I do. That makes me a paradox...
natjo	Nathanael L	27	M	Lavonia, GA	Blog Email		It use to be natjo1986 but it was unnecessary and I felt I was getting flak from it so I changed it.
Nautilus				Massachusetts			I honestly don't care much for the golden mean but the name stuck anyway.
Nek	Ian	22	M	Ye Old Englandialand			Short for "Nekromans", from "Necromancer" but JAZZED UP to be COOL and ZAZZY. I was, what 15? Don't judge me! ...Also, nothing to do with corpse sex of any kind.
Nemo	Nemo	38	M	South East Queensland	www.thorx.net		I have been 'nemo' since long before the movie. ...and if I hear that joke again, then I'll find you! … (and ask you not to make the joke again :)
Neoinr	Robin	18	M	Fremantle, Western Australia	Email, [7]		Neo, as in new, in, R (the letter). What more do you expect? I was 8...
Nick	Nick Hose	22	M	Pennyslvania			It's my name. I don't even respond to Nicholas anymore.
Nikc	Nick Burdick	19	M	Phoenix, New York			My first name with the letters screwed up. I used to think it was cool.
njsg	Nuno J. Silva		M	Espoo, Finland	gopher, web	20	my initials
NMcCoy	Nathan McCoy	26	M	Portland, OR	http://nmccoy.net		First initial, last name. And habit.
no-genius	John	26	M			[8]	My hotmail account was doesnt_take_a_genius, from 'Genius' by the dandy warhols, but no-g is shorter.
noamsml	Noam Samuel	22	M	Ann Arbor, MI		3	My first name + the consonants in my last name.
Nougatti	Daniel	24	M	Norway	[9]		Giving kids cavities since 1969! [10] Could also be a portmanteau of nougat which is awesome and Bugatti which is a really fast automobile.
OptimisticCynic	Opti	22		Wisconsin, USA	tumblr		Descriptive of my personality.
orbit		31	F	Australia
Oriza	Alice	19	F	St. Petersburg, FL			I slice people's heads off with sharpened plates
Overand		32		South-east Connecticut (CT), United States	Site
paharwell	Phil Harwell		M	Lotta Rock, Arkansas	Site	-1	Abbreviation of my name. You get three guesses as to what the A stands for.
PaladinSL		23	M	Blue Mountains, NSW, AU			Too much D&D
Palomides			M	OH, USA	photos	32	Aliens tell me things.
paparatti	Natali	28	F	UK/US	Blog
Parabox	Floris	18	M	Heukelum, Netherlands			Paradox. Box. Go figure.
permagreen	Donovan	23	M	Portland, Oregon			It was a nick that formed an understandable word which I had never seen before, making it unique.
phyzome	Tim McCormack	28	M	Boston, MA	Site
Plastic_Railgun	Michael	20	M	Houston			Plastic derived from the Mythical hero "Plasticus Gunnerrailum", known for his inherent design flaws.
plonk	Ned Forbes	28	M	San Francisco			onomatopoia
Poiesis	Adam	27	M	Berkeley			^_^
Poshepocket			F	Auckland, New Zealand	Deviant Art		A bag in Final Fantasy Unlimited, described as "Scarily Cute".
Posiden	Ross	20	M	Connecticut			I was kinda into Greek mythology at the time
postmodern	Ian Spik	25	M	Berkeley, CA	Email	5	There's a snake in my boot!
Potassium	Duncan Ross	20	M	Dunedin, new Zealand			Warning: Cat-like behaviour detected.
presorted	Matt	20	M	Florida, USA			It was on a letter on my desk when I needed a nick.
Protoform	Robin	19	M	The Netherlands			Before anyone asks, my nick has nothing to do with the Transformers Universe. I'm interested in all sorts of human-enhancement technologies and the like, many of which are not yet widely available, hence the name 'Protoform'. Also, Protoform == Negrebskoh.
PSOAddict	Ross		M				Been playing PSO for 10 years. No way I'm stopping now :)
psud	Adam	31	M	Canberra, Australia			Tried to register for an online service, all monosylabic pseudonyms I thought of were taken so I used "Polysylabic_Pseudonym". That's since been abbreviated to monosylabicism.
Puddle		22	F	Tennessee			I am liquid fun!
PurplePoem	Ask me	19	F	Toronto, Canada			I am a Canadian engineering student who writes poetry. In Canada, engineers like to dye themselves purple and sing the Godiva's hymn as tradition.
pzich	Peter	21	M	Chicago, IL			First letter of my first name, followed by my last name.
quine		24	M	PA	last.fm		I output my own source.
Quoth	Doug H	25	M	Laramie, WY	Email Site	15	I was reading Poe's famous The Raven and it occurred to me that Quoth would be an awesome nick since I love to quote information.
Rabe	_______	∞	✮	Vienna, Austria			I'm a bird.
Randall	Randall Munroe	28	M	Camberville, MA	Site Email	39	It's awfully convoluted.
Rawrmage	Ryan	16	M	Maryland			I honestly don't know.
Rena		25	ℂ	Midwest Alberta		i	.hack is awesome. See user page for why I took her name, if I ever get around to writing that.
res0	Bill Kramme	29	M	St. Louis, MO, USA	Site Email		Abbreviation of resolute0, wordplay on 'absolute zero'
Revan343	Stephen	18	M	Deadmonton	Dropbox		Darth Revan is one of my favorite Star Wars characters. A friend and I were playing C&C Generals and, at the time, 343 was his clan name. It stuck.
Rhys	Rhys	18	M	London			Music♪Love♥Life
rival	Dave	29	M	Kent, OH, USA	Email		Shortened From rivalarrival. The origin of that is lost for the ages.
RK	Probably not Summer Glau or Ray Kurzweil.		i	Pitcairn	Bacon	119	"notch, groove, slit," 1483, nyke, of unknown origin, possibly infl. by M.Fr. niche "niche." The verb is first attested 1530. Sense of "to steal" is from 1869, probably from earlier slang sense of "to catch, take unawares, arrest" (1622). Nick of time is first attested 1643, possibly from an old custom of recording time as it passed by making notches on a tally stick, though the general sense of "critical moment" is older (1577) than the phrase. [11]
royall		16	M
rusef	manuel	25	M	Augsburg, Germany			You dont want to know.
Saturn	Andrew Bell	26	M	St. Andrews, Scotland	Evoludo		I'm obsessed with moths and insects in general. I have a furry character who is an anthropomorphic comet moth, the taxonomic family of which is Saturniidae. Yes, it's unoriginal and obvious. Also, I will eat your kidneys if you call me a planet.
Saucepain		23	M	Cork, Ireland			I mis-typed "saucepan" and thought it was funny. That is all.
scgtrp	Mike	21	M	Right here.	Email	30	Σ:>) I made a kitten.
schwal	Andrew	24	M	Boulder, Colorado	Email	23	Part of my overly long last name. Not, in fact, a pharmacy.
Science	Science Starkweather	17	M	The Internet			My name is Science. Fuck you, yes it is.
Scouto2	James	19	M	Charleston, South Carolina			Way back I used to play Runescape. I made the account "Scouto" after my dog's name. I forgot the password, and thus Scouto2 was born, a sufficiently unique name. Alternate aliases are Internetmeme and iMeme.
seggy	Mitch	34	M	Massachusetts	Blog	73	Formerly known as mizhi, segfaultzen
Seiun	James	29	M	Upstate New York			"Seiun" (say-oon) is Japanese for 'Prosperity.' But depending on how it's written, it can also mean "nebula" or "blue sky," which is my favorite color.
Senji			M	Bulgaria			A Malcene sorcerer.
Seriously	Aron		M	Sweden			* Seriously, I just wanted to have a good nick for using with /me. After a while it became my main nick on the channel.
sheepbat		29	M	USA			An almost entirely sheeplike bat.
shifuimam		28	F	NOVA	[12]		Google it.
shoelessschuler	Jess	25	F	Ontario, Canada			It's fun being shoeless.
shoofle			M		Site		See "Glench."
Shrdlu	Reuven Lazarus	26	M	Portland, OR	Email		From ETAOIN SHRDLU and the various derivatives.
Sigma	M	25	M	Nicaragua			Σ <-- DUH!
SirEel	J	25	M	Bristol or Portsmouth UK	Site	31	I am a knight, you know.
skat_	Nga aka Kitty	28	F	Golden Triangle, TX	Email		KittyKat96 => KittyKat => Katarin => Kat => kat => kat_ => skat_
slav	Zwarte Piet	21	M	Flevoland			I was sleaw, but then I fell in love with a Ukrainian kitten.
Slinky	Kat or Katrina	21	F	Bay Area, California			o/`... It's Slinky, It's Slinky... o/`
smikims	Mark		M	The South	Site		I was naming my laptop, and wanted something completely nonsensical yet still pronounceable. And palindromes are always cool.
SmilinBob		30	M	Orlando, FL USA	Email		I was drunk and needed a new nickname, an Enzyte commercial came on, and the rest is history.
snark	Thom	27	M	Los Angeles			Burnt Carrolian Xenomorph of Complete Irony.
sneakums	Sean Neakums	32	M	Wellington, New Zealand	E-mail Site		I can't remember, but it was obviously something stupid.
SNYKE	Ian	24	M	Sydney, Australia			STRYKE -> S__YKE -> SNYKE :D
Solet	AJ	27	M	Topeka, KS			None to speak of, really... it's just "me"
SophieHirsch	Sophie Hirschfeld	34	F	Hermiston, OR	[13]
sparkywtf	Dan	23	M	St. Paul, MN			Had a jersey for paintball with Sparky on it. Kinda just stuck around online.
Spaztick	Chris	25	M	Houston, TX			It was suggested by my mom when I was thinking of an alias for StarCraft. It took me 6 years to realize she was making fun of me.
spenguin	Richard Munroe	26	M	Newport News, VA			Itsaspenguin!
Spork	Andrew Curtis	22	M	Seattle, WA	Email	4	A nickname I got when I was about 10 years old.
Sretsam	Rod Masters	27	M	Sin City.	Site	6	Look at my lastname. Don't think too hard.
stalagmatite	Alex	22	M	Ottawa, ON, Canada			Misspelled stalactite as stalagtite and had already registered. Mused "I should have named myself stalagmatite" and had at least three people tell me "DO IT." in channel. Did it. :D
StandOff	Pat	17	M	Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia			Something to do with gaming, WWII, and sex with Debaser.
Steef	Steven Allen		M	Escondido, CA			Steven, being my real name, quickly gathered the nickname Steve, from there it took a couple folks to mis-pronounce that to leave me with a nickname like Steef..F off, eh?
Stereo		25	M	Ontario			stereophonic sound system
stiglet	Jasmine	24	F	Canadia			I am not named after the Stig nor Diglett nor anything remotely related.
stump		30	M	Virginia			You wouldn't understand. It's a secret.
sudonotplease	Vikram Verma	18	M	Singapore	Email		I know all the codes. All of them.
Surreal	Kristin	27	F	CALIFORNIA SOMEWHERE			After a character from a book
Syne	Greg	24	M	Israel			It's just a misspelling of 'Sine'. It's nothing special.
synvilla	Ella	22	F	New York Norway Köln Shanghai Stockholm Warsaw	blag		It's Swedish for "optical illusion"
taixzo		23		USA	Blog		First combination of syllables I found that gave no results in Google.
taoistextremist	John	18	M	Sterling Heights, Michigan.			I solve problems by being as apathetic as possible. Also, my name is not taxidermist.
tapiocapudding	Mark	19	M	USA! USA! USA!		0	it's tasty!
Tawnos	Tim	∞	M	Bellevue, WA			I played M:TG when I was 12 and liked the character.
tea	Tea Kew	22	Q	cam.ac.uk			See name
Teknobo	Conrad	19	M	Chicago/Toronto		17	Terribly Economical Kluge, Not Often Bothered, Obviously
TelErusva		20	F	New Zealand	Email Forum Fleet		I got Tel'Erusva from Tel'Mithrim Elvish. It means The One Broken. It's a long story.
ten	Alan	25	M	Florida	Email		Binary for two, the number of non-derivative irc nicknames I use regularly. Rather boring.
terran	Niall	25	M	Hertfordshire, UK			Used in various sci-fi shows, I took it primarily from Warhammer 40k.
that_guy	Hank	22	M	Minneapolis, MN (mostly)			Name I used on junkmachine (RIP), before I realized it was taken just about everywhere. Comes from Futurama episode 53 "Future Stock."
thatAndrogynous	Barna	21	?	Kane'ohe, HI			Keeps you guessing
thatGuy	Schmidty	20	M	Davis, California			I really and truly am.
TheAngryPun	Austin	26	M	Chico, CA, USA			This nick came from playing TF2. I made lots of puns as I played, and I was part of "The Angry Community," so it clicked.
TheTimeBeing	Chris	38	M	Florida, US			People are always doing things "for the time being"...figured I'd cash in on that.
Thopter	Drew	35	M	Colorado, USA
Timi	Plamo	17					Tim Ninja > Timinja > Timi
tinc		26	M	Florida	wiki		acronym
ToiletNinjas	Patrick	29	M	Philadelphia Suburbs			I thought being plural would increase my popularity and toilets are a ubiquitous assassination position.
tomatosalad			M	Southern California	Site		was eating some caprese salad and I wanted a new nick
Tommy	Tom Crosby	26	M	In or around Keele, UK	Site Email	27	Entirely unoriginal derivation of my real name, which has since become my preferred real name.
tonyb	Tony Biondo	21	M	Long Island, New York	Box	12	First name, last initial. Usually tonyb486 elsewhere, because there are other 'tonyb's that are significantly less me.
Trab	Tedd Johnson	23	M	Orange County, CA	Site Email		First name is Robert...Robert Backwords is Trebor...which to a dyslexic person, might seem like Trabor...which sounded cool if you dropped the or.
trimeta	Randall Wald	27	M	Ft. Lauderdale, FL	Email		It originated as "MetamorphoseIII", a reference to this Escher print, but was subsequently simplified
TuxedoRabbit	Stuart	16	M	London, UK	Tumblr		A random nick from waaaay back. It stuck. (It's nothing furry related.)
Typewriter	Brandon	26	M	Chicago, Illinois	Site Email		I collect old typewriters. I have two. :)
uberushaximus					Site Email		A mangled version of Gluteus Maximus
Val	Garrett Fidalgo		M	Coachella Valley, California	Site Email		Valdrone => Val. Keep on guessing.
vD_ng	Ivo		M	Westland, The Netherlands	Site		Based on surname, further change reasons lost
Vebyast		23	M	Atlanta, GA			Back when I started using the internets, I decided that my nick should be unique and easy to remember, so I generated a few hundred names that fit English morphology and selected the one that sounded best and had the fewest google hits.
Velociraptors	Velociraptor mongoliensis	41	F	Australia	Email		A pack of 9! Velociraptors.
Vespers		24	M	Auckland, NZ			I used to not know the difference between "latin" and "derived from latin". Vespers = evening prayers, comes from the latin for evening. I'm sort of gothy. Used this too long to make it more accurate now. Voila.
viridian		24	F	OH	Email		The mundanities of life.
Vossy	Tom Vos	25	M	Australia		19	Vos -> Vossy... It's not rocket science. But if it was, I'd be explosive!
VT220	polemon	29	M	Germany	Site Twitter Wikipedia		A green phosphor VT220 is the terminal I use for IRC.
Vulcanis	Dimitri Komans	22	M	West Hartford, CT			God of fire and forge + wolves. It was made ~5 years ago. No startrek relationship :(
Waldo	Ryan	24	M	California, USA	Site		Contraction of my surname. Acquired as a nickname in meatspace, carried online. Where's Waldo jokes are irritating and unoriginal. So there.
Walther	Veeti Haapsamo	20	M	Helsinki, Finland			My second name spelled in English.
WassPord		27	M	Ljubljana, Slovenia			No real logic behind the nickname, just PassWord switched around a bit.
Wetmelon	Paul	22	M	London, Ontario, Canada			Old nickname that means "Wet Head". Don't know why, just remember it was 6th grade.
Whtiger	Josh C	17	M	Detroit, MI, USA	Site Email	27	Rawr, I'm a white tiger >:3
Wicks	James Hooker	22	M	Staffs/ Hants/London - UK	Site Email		From the Iron Maiden song Wickerman... not the popular Hardware store.
Widdershins	Kent	20	M	USA.WA	Site Email		1513, chiefly Scottish, originally "contrary to the course of the sun or a clock" (movement in this direction considered unlucky), probably from M.L.G. weddersinnes, lit. "against the way" (i.e. "in the opposite direction"), from widersinnen "to go against," from wider "against" (see with) + sinnen "to travel, go," from O.H.G. sinnen, related to sind "journey" (see send).
wilfish	Wil Hall	20	M	Connecticut, United States	Scripty-things, Work!, Email		My name is Wil, obviously. And fish is just fun to append to things. No mystery here.
willzzz88			M	Near Ann Arbor, MI, USA	[Email: Take my nick,-2 characters from end, send to Google's service.]		Mystery Man.
woddf2			M	USA	Site
wsa	William S. Armstrong	30	M	St. Paul, MN	email		my initials
wst	William	21	M	Bedfordshire, UK			w from William, St from the start of my surname. I first used it on www.albia2000.com.
x2x	Jashank		M	Sydney, AU	homepage		Chosen for obscure and now irrelevant comedic value. It's sufficiently identifying now.
XanT		27	M	England		24	Shrunk name of a character made for a uni module. Plus its got an X, Xs are cool. ¬.¬
xaos11	Ray	20	M	St. Louis, MO	Email		xaos fractal zoomer
Xeio	Josh	25	M	Pittsburgh, PA, US			I'm not sure, it seemed random at the time, and now it stuck.
Xenos	Tor	31	M	Oslo, Norway			Xenos (Greek: ξένος, xénos, plural xenoi) is a word used in ancient Greek from Homer onwards that has a wide gradient of meaning, signifying such divergent concepts as “enemy stranger” as well as “ritual friend”.
Xidarian	Sam	23	M	Layton Utah	Email
XtremD	Winter G.	18	M	New York	Email		"XtremD" was actually a longer username, but had to be shortened to accommodate the horrible character constraints of early PC multiplayer shooters. As the years wore on, I started to get attached to the name. Now, "XtremD" has only one meaning: a bastardized past tense of "to make extreme."
yazdmich	Michael Yazdani	16	M	Greater Toronto Area, ON, Canada	Email		My school assigned us all usernames and they were the first four letters of our last name followed by the first four letters of our fist name, I liked it so much that I chose it as my one and only username across the web.
YellowOnion	Daniel Hill	24	M	Christchurch, New Zealand			I wanted something original and fail miserably .
Ykstort	Joe Doyle	21	M	Cambridge, England			Trotsky spelt in reverse
You	Michael	20	M	border of Campbell and San Jose, CA		2	I'm You, simple enough.
Zarek_	Zarek	16	F	Auckland, New Zealand	Email GitHub		I can't actually remember where I got the nick from, but I've had it for a while.
Zed	Zed	47	M	NYC			The last letter of the alphabet.
Zeot	Zach	19	M	Dublin, Ireland			My initials... I don't have a lot of imagination.
zigdon	Dan Boger	40	M	Berkeley, CA	Site Email	103	zigdon used to be a commander of mine in the military... thought he was very evil, so when I was GMing and needed an evil NPC name, I used his.
Zing	Zach King	21	M	Syracuse, NY	Email		Shiny.