What is the meaning of your ingame name?

[|7th|Nighthawk]

Knowing nothing about the Tolkien series feels like burning the Koran in Medina or Mekka.

Besides, thank you for your replies so far; there were some interesting stories

[Surfbird]

For Surfbird many things came together.

First I tried to get inspiration by reading through names of ships and airplanes, because they sometimes have really cool names. And indeed, the ship in my profile picture is the USS Surfbird. It was a minesweeper boat and my grandfather was Captain of a minesweeper suquadron for himself after the war (in Germany though), so I thought that it fits somehow.
Then Surfbird is a real bird- being a bird fits my character a little, but this did not lead me to my nickname. Then theres that song from The Trashmen called Surfin' Bird I learnt to love by playing Battlefield Vietnam Ah yea, and I rarely do it, but I like surfing.
I think that's it

[mopskind]

My silly name is actually the username of all my spam accounts.. this way it was easy to remember the password who could have thought i would be stuck with this damn game for so long

[Fuchs]

I used to as Invictus, based on the old god Sol Invictus, but then I joined a clan somewhere in 2008 called the 130. Panzer Lehr Division and so I picked a German surname; Fuchs. Over the years I did found out it's the hardest thing to pronounce for non-Europeans. In-game I go either as [130.Pz]W.Fuchs or NotFuchs. Usually the latter.

On other places I try to use the surname of my favourite director; Kubrick.

[Kalkalash]

My ingame nick is Niko1992, which is just my name and birth year. I first used it with Battlefield 2 and it was the best I could come up with. Nowadays I use Kalkalash everywhere. If you've watched the Simpsons you'll recognize the name; it's meat on a stick sold by some Turkish guy. You enjoy this fine meal with either Mountain Dew or crab juice.

[Butcher]

I have that nickname since 2003:

- There was a Butcher in Diablo 1
- In GTA Vice City you could reach the rank "Butcher"
- Read stories about aircraft and saw the FW190 nickname "Butcher Bird"

I was young, impressionable, lazy and needed a nickname for Lan-Parties with friends... uncreative as I was, I copied and never changed it.

[Biiviz]

Beavis in '02 -> Be4viz in '04 -> Biiviz in '06

I originally had a buddy named Butthead that I played with in America's Army: Operations (1.0). After that I was on my own.

[CHRISTIEFRONTDRIVE]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_Front_Drive

[Tedacious]

Tedacious

IRL name is Björn. Same word as "Bear" in swedish. Around 2004 my friends started calling me Teddybear, or Teddy. I needed a nickname for several websites, preferebly unique. I don't know how, but I assume I just thought about the word "Tenacious" (No, not from the band Tenacious D) and just tried saying "Tedacious" and liked it enough.
Mostly I use it 'cause it's unique and never encounter a problem with someone already using it.

[Butcher]

Haha @ Andrew ... I always thought your nickname was a reference to the Christie suspension .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_suspension

[RAnDOOm]

Means something along the line of "Unpredictable Destruction".

Thought about it when i started to play online games almost 14 years ago, used it has my first nickname and it got stuck ever since.

[Smiles]

Mr Smiles All Day - Mr SAD.

I was drunk (or high) and needed to come up for a name (1942) and this was it. Im a happy person, but ofcourse im not smiling all day. I can be sad too.

[th_battleaxe]

Haha @ Andrew ... I always thought your nickname was a reference to the Christie suspension .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_suspension

thought the same

[Mud Buddha]

Haha @ Andrew ... I always thought your nickname was a reference to the Christie suspension .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_suspension

thought the same

Yep, same here.  You learn something new everyday...

[Archimonday]

A long time ago i spent a week of nights playing Warcraft III's singleplayer on its hardest difficulty. At the time i had no single nickname, but typically used one associated to Vasili Zaitsev. After winning, i used Archimonde as my nickname, after the biggest baddy in W3. Over time clan mates, and even friends at school began to call me "Archi" for short. It stuck. I shortened it to Archi, and later began using days of the week behind it, typically Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.