I chose my name because its a name I just really fucking liked. Simple as that. Just have your new account be whatever your new fursona will be called.

I said I wasn't planning to change accounts! XD

Not planning doesn't mean you won't. X3

i chose my name because it was something i really liked and something different. Sunktokeca means Wolf ^^ (and Skaa, my characters last name means White... though she's dark gray and blue ^-^)

Shit, I created my username years ago without any real thought. I'd swap it to something more....natural-sounding, if it weren't for the hassle of gallery-swapping and snagging all my watched artists back up again. Maybe that makes me lazy.

Honestly? A lot of name origins in this fandom are really dumb/silly/useless. Mine is from a whiiile back, and is pretty uninspired. I liked Riku from KH, and Auron from FFX. "Hey," thought my young teen self, "Why don't I stick that R in front of 'Auron' and call it a day?" The name stuck.

I don't feel attached to the origin of this name at all, but I've been using it for -AGES- and it's become something entirely different. It's no longer about the origin so much as the fact of it being me.

This is really most of why I feel attached to my former username, purely out of having used it for so long. I guess most of my uncertainty about it is stemming from a more general uncertainty about my ability to come up with decent names haha

Then don't bother coming up with a decent name. I think "gasp" is pretty cool, because I always feel like I need to say it with a gasp. Interactive names like that are nifty. Blue is fine, too, and probably feels more "you".

A potentially useful resource for finding good names and their meanings: http://www.babynameworld.com/

I honestly adored your old account's username! "Blue-paper" has a certain aesthetic ring to it and also provokes a bit of thought since its true meaning is up for creative interpretation. I'm particularly fond of this picture of yours; the concept expressed is wonderful and says a lot of (positive) things about you, both as a person and an artist! :D

I'm not mentioning all of this to compel you to return to your old account though; I just thought I'd share my honest opinion. ^^

Holy space balls... you know what I'm in the same boat as you.

My brother's name has similar origins (different game, same concept). Mine isn't from a game but also shares the fact that after being called "Claviarm" for years by the majority of people online and off, the origin doesn't matter any more--it's what I'm called, it's who I am.

General advice for anyone out there planning their name though: If it's not composed of preexisting words, try to keep it to two syllables or less. Mine's three, and people constantly remember it incorrectly. Sometimes this results in online communication never getting to me because it was addressed incorrectly. It's a hassle worth avoiding.

an impulsive decision to just make a new account. Wanted to switch to a name that I'd really like but didn't want to hassle watchers to watch yet another account and can't be arsed to rewatch and reupload art, so I've stuck with this ever since.

pac is short for pacrat, the character/alias i've had since joining the fandom about sixteen years ago.

while i like having an account name that apply to me in someway (other username/logins of other sites and services range from pac, pacrat, grunge, grungepuppy, qlown, qrow, etc) i don't consider an account name to be as important as, say, an nickname/persona, which can change and evolve over time. as long as the username is short, not complicated, easy to remember, i don't get too hung up on whether of not it's 100% relevant to who~i~am at the moment. consistency is more important to me than what the account name ~means~.

My username was meant to be related somewhat to my dA name, DanteSTONE45, while not being the same.

I chose Kgosi because it's the name of one of my first fursonas, a Botswanian Lion, and Kgosi is the word for lion in that language. Kgosi stuck even though my main fursona is now Kurgan (which was named after the villian in Highlander, but is actually an ancient Russian word for a burial mound), and now people get confused since they call me Kurgan and I don't draw Kgosi much any more.

Mmm... In my case, the name VoidChimera derived originally from a character I drew a long time ago (the character is pretty similar to this one, which is a more "updated" version of him: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6667252/), which tried to express a perception of myself.
Since a long time ago, I've started to consider myself some sort of "collage" from various inspirations, a construct built with various parts or limbs without defined congruency, which is a metaphor for having skills in various areas without mastering any. Since those skills form me, I became some kind of creature away from any natural or defined order, which also is a metaphor of being an outsider and a lonely person, so in the end I decided to define me as a "Chimera".

The part of "Void" is a little more hard to understand...
As you know, any design always has a "main idea", right? As a chair is made for sitting, a table is made for eating/working and a seed is made for growing.
This kind of potential, this kind of soul defines what kind of shape something takes.
Now, you see, I consider myself to lack that potential.
I feel that all the skills, ideas, abilities, etc... that I got, didn't answer any particular potential, and that I won't answer any for the rest of my life.
In the end, that's why I "lack a heart", a central entity that pulsates strength to the whole body.
I just "am".

My original username was Chuint which, to my knowledge, was just a random name I got from a fantasy name generator when I was 12. I needed a name for Runescape and ended up using that one as a username everywhere for years after that. Im 20 now, so it's kind of special to me seeing as how I've held onto it for so long.

ShwintyKat (Shwinty being my fursona's new name, if I even have a proper 'sona) comes from how an old friend once decided to pronounce Chuint and ShwintyKat became an affectionate nickname for me on the forum I met said friend on, the 'kat' part coming from meerkats. I've actually grown to like Shwinty a bit more than Chuint.

I chose two words out of a dictionary and combined parts of them to get Akwin, haha. At first I wasn't very fond of the username, but I wanted something that wasn't taken, or common, and I didn't want to have to use numbers in my username. I thought it had a nice sound to it though (even if it is very simple and unimpressive sounding) but eventually it grew on me. <:)

Well, my character's name is Tom.
I guess I don't need to add anything more~ :P

Well, you might recall that I'm a poet, so I based my fur/account name off of a writer's need to implement "creative details": hence the name D-Tail! As you can see, it also doubles as an animal pun through the visual focus on "Tail". =D

I chose my name because it is my real name (plus beast), and I'm actually kind of surprised that more users are not the same. I suppose a higher level of anonymity is important?

I don't think "Gasp" sounds bland at all, although I also don't think it matches you, either.
I chose "Ferret Williams" a year ago because my name is Garrett Williams and nobody can spell my first name correctly. My previous username was "WillYums", which is a phonetic spelling of my last name. I came to it because I was writing my name in a script and I always slurred my last name as "Wi'yums", so I spelled it as "Willyums" so I'd enunciate it better.
Unfortunately, telling people my old username/url verbally led to confusion AND some people have called me "Will" online. I don't go by "Will" ANYWHERE. So, my goal for a new username was something that I don't have to spell out for people. Everybody can spell Ferret Williams, and I don't mind if people call me "Ferret". I've been called all variations of "Garrett" for 31 years, anyway. Since then, I've felt more and more comfortable with the name and finally premiered an actual fursona in October, followed by him taking over as the main character of my comics this month. Before Ferret Williams, people have associated me with Kenny, the main character of my comics. Some even call me Kenny, which I'm okay with, although he's not meant to represent me at all, even if I do go by Kenny Panache on Second Life.

When I joined my first forum, I saw some advice being given on creating names. It was specifically advice on picking a name that didn't seem stupidly generic like rainbowfoxxxy18, and it went something like 'pick a real name and flair it up a bit.' I suspect that's how some of the more oddball names people actually have come about though.

But anyways, my own username came about through some odd trains of thought. I was thinking of picking a sort of theme to the names at the time, and I picked it after objects. Roureem was derived from 'mirror' ran backwards of what I thought it would in Japanese phonetics, then stylized a little. Kayes was based on 'key,' and Egas was based on 'sage' being reversed, though it is an actual name. I just happened to like the way the names sounded, so I went with it.

For my (main) character's name, I just picked some names I liked, then ended up building connections through that. Also, Asians rather like basing names off things. Or I do at least. :p

It was a random name I used long ago. I just entered random syllables and there we go, a username that's stuck with me since.

I wonder if I should come up with something better.

I made it up on the fly. when i first started i wasn't even serious about it.

Your username serves as a sort of a default nickname, especially whenever no other name is provided. Though I think that if there's another name you prefer if you come up with one later, if you tell people that's what you want to be called then that'll likely stick over your username.
With the origins of my user name, in the stories I write there is an endless ocean on a separate plane of existence that thoughts pass through called Seyora, and I came up with Seyorrol as the masculine version of the name.

I received my name back in late 98. some time ago I attended my first furry con ever, and had no nickname to go back when (and no internet, so it was all new to me). there, I decided to pick up the black-maned lion anthro which is my fursona since then. one of the friends I made there is married to a lady from ethiopia, and in her language (amharic) the name literally means, "lion". if you google it you'Ll find a bucketload of referencings to places and people there, including a reggae musician. :)

so, since then I'm known as Anbessa, and I have no intentions to change that, though I did think about it; but it doesn't feel right. that silly lion just seems to be too close to me to be abandoned. I don't even really consider getting a fursuit costume of him, it would be like "me, but with fur". it doesn't feel... right.


gasp is a noise, but why not? I think many people gasp when they see your art. :)

In my case, I chose this user name somewhat unintentionally. In most Korean websites, account IDs and usernames are seperate things, and when I made an account here, I was expecting the same. I usually use plant genus names for IDs as they are easy for me to remember, and Phyllostachys, name of a genus of bamboo, is not an exception.

I picked "stigmata" because I liked the idea of naming myself after something that, while very real, is of supernatural consequence, and outside of one's control.

The full story behind 'ProphetEKA' is over here -> (Link) The Cliffnotes version: I earned the 'Prophet' part and added the 'EKA' for easier identification online. = )

I still use the handle because, like the character, it has become as much a way for folks to recognize me as my true name. "He" is Me. I am "Him". I've tried to distance myself from that cat but I always come back to him being my "face" online. He's my go-to character to draw when I'm bored. People I've known offline for years call me "Proph". I guess you could say I'm kinda' stuck with it. = P