How did you come up with your artist name?

[adambomb337]

How did you come up with the name you compose or produce under?

[suzumebachi]

i pulled random letters out of a hat

[Chernabogue]

I took it from here and modified it a little.

[luhny]

just used my nickname i always had since childhood - last name plus y... or i... or whatever

[Moseph]

My parents gave it to me.

By which I mean, I use my real name as an artist and my forum name as an internet person.

[Level 99]

I used the name based on the levels that my gameshark made my characters in FF7.

[Dissidia]

Should be easy to tell eheheh.

[PROTO·DOME]

My real name is Protosphene Domeus.

Look it up. It's science.

[Brandon Strader]

It took a lot of thought and weeks of confusion before I settled on the name.

[Flexstyle]

I try to be flexible in the styles I create, musically, hence "Flexstyle."

[Benjamin Briggs]

I came up with "chthonic" by browsing a bunch of dictionary.com's words of the day, and I liked that it had four consonants in a row

Benjamin Briggs, well, my mother came up with that one... props to her

[Ramaniscence]

+ x -

[JH Sounds]

My name is JH, and I make sounds.

[AeroZ]

A and E together is cool.

SAAB Aero

Aerodynamic

Z - lame and misused.

AeroZ

[Cyril the Wolf]

Cyril comes from me using a naming etymology site to find what it meant for a short story.

The wolf came becuase I thought wolves were like dogs, but cooler.

Of course now everyone things I'm a legit furry, but I think its hilarious so it stuck.

[Anti-Syne]

As a teenager i was in a band with some friends, called 'the signs', it was later changed to 'the synes', then we made 'the anti-synes' which was basically purposefully bad, comedy electronic music.

So when it came to making my own electronic music i just took the singular of the anti-synes

In short: The Signs -> The Synes -> The Anti-Synes -> Anti-Syne

[BardicKnowledge]

Combination of a Dungeons and Dragons joke and the fact that I was a music major in college.

[DragonAvenger]

Too much DragonLance. Wanted Dragon-something, and a friend of mine came up with Avenger. Just kinda stuck.

[BardicKnowledge]

Too much DragonLance.

No such thing, imo. I own all of the Weis/Hickman books

[WillRock]

my name is will and I like rock music. Boom.

[DarkSim]

I started playing UT99 online and needed a name... I was also playing Perfect Dark at the time, and DarkSims (Simulants) are the hardest bots in the game. Strange to think I've been DarkSim for over a decade...

[MkVaff]

Easy - it was my email addy, which was a smushing of my first and last names. At that point I didn't think it was necessary to come up with anything more cool. And now do I regret it...

[BlackPanther]

This was a name that I've been using before I even had access to the internet. I was playin DDR and my friend for whatever reason called me BlackPanther so when I did hear about the internet, I decided that was gonna be my username everywhere xD.

[Unstable Hamster]

Told my friends one time "Ok! We need extremely small firearms, grenades, C4, and an unstable hamster" So that's when I decided to call my self extremelysmallfirearms.

Edit: Oh, and for my PSN name, that was given to me from a friend, he even put in a little jingle about it.

[Brandon Strader]

Some people knew or know me as Oinkness due to being afraid of change, so for them I will say the origins of that name. When I got on the internet at age 10, I was playing Worms Armageddon online. I went through a lot of names like DiscoDuck and chickendcc (of the Drunken Chicken Clan) but ultimately I loved pigs. So I came up with a name that I now use as my password so I can't really say what it was. A friend of mine in school named Charles helped me create a series of stories or comics called Pig Cigs, a propaganda piece about pigs who were cool because they smoked. Eventually I went off on my own as a freelancer and created a story called Oinkness, and I began eventually using it as my online username... for the last... over 13 years?