LJ names not used

[pegkerr]

Have you thought of a great LiveJournal name you are not using--either because you're happy with your own or it doesn't suit your interests or personality?

Here's my suggestion: foxydoxy. Free to the first user who grabs it.

Your ideas? And what are some of your favorite LJ names that have been used?

Comments

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

One of the cutest I've seen used was 'respectabiggle' which is a reference to book four in the Narnia series.

[chamisa.livejournal.com]

Puddleglum! :-)

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

Ha! That is so cool!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I actually like names that are something like their users' names. I like meeting people and having some clue that I already know them. I've had at least one occasion of not knowing I was supposed to know somebody already when I meet them in real life. It's a little socially awkward to blurt, "Oh yes, you're my friend!" at someone upon meeting them -- it feels about four years old, really -- but it's better than having a baffling conversation with someone who seems to know several particulars of one's life for no reason and only belatedly get informed that you actually have carried on several private e-mail conversations and read each other's public posts for months.

That said, I do understand why people don't always want to use their "real life" names on lj. I just almost never think, "Oh, how clever!"; I more often think, "Who is that?"

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Simple. I don't want my LJ to show up in Google searches for my real name.

Two employers ago a hiring manager, having Googled me, asked me about my baby's colic and about my science fiction. That was when I decided to go semi-hidden. P.S. I got the job.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

I had a similar experience. A client of mine asked me how the quilt I was making for my grandmother was coming along. I went crazy removing my name from my LJ and webpages after that.

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

I feel fairly secure in the fact that Marie Anderson is such a common name as to be slightly insulting. And since I intend to have my name on the covers of several novels one day, I figured why bother?

[thewordoffred.livejournal.com]

My guilty secret . . .

Once I signed up for an online dating service. My user ID was DreamerOfFlames. I sometimes wished I had used that one here.

That or FatBaldGuy. That suits me, also.

[aminaofzaria.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I think of a great username and go over to see if it's free. It usually isn't, but I like seeing what kind of people would also think to use those names. I found the whileaway community that way. Some other ones I wanted.

fuligin The name of a matte black in Gene Wolfe's Shadow of the Torturer.
psammead The name of the grumpy sand fairy in E. Nesbitt's Five Children and It
pusteblume Dandelion in German. "Puff bloom".
distelfink "Greenfinch". An actual bird, and the name of one of Heidi's goats.

[cedarlibrarian.livejournal.com]

My favorite LJ username ever: faith_accompli. And she's a pretty cool person, too.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I rather like the couple of variants I've seen on bet_noir for similar reasons.

[shusu.livejournal.com]

All of them. I'm on my tenth created journal. hpop, sprogs and rfp, to name a few. My secret journal is one of my favorites, but uh it's a secret. My longest and most telling name is choir_invisible, for an RPG.

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

If I weren't using skylarker I'd probably use my legal name, which is unique enough that I think it would be pretty weird if anyone else took it for an LJ username.

[byrlakin.livejournal.com]

If you discount my own tag, I'd say that jiggery_pokery is my favorite.

[kishmish.livejournal.com]

I've used disarminglycharming in other places, and I'd like to use my nickname, mishi, but its taken.
I always thought the book, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, would be good for fun names. If I was a math major I might have fun being a mathemagician.
Sometimes I like to put a Princess in front of my user name on msn but after a while I always feel like some wannabe and get embarassed and get rid of it even though I do love the username.
I think Lady Disdain is a fun username, you know, from Benedick's line in Much Ado About Nothing. In fact, thanks for making me think of it . *goes off to change her msn name*

[elisem.livejournal.com]

My favorite online name ever is not an LJ name, but a WELL login. I don't remember whose it was, but I'll remember the name forever, since it makes me giggle uncontrollably: evilsofa.

[oneminutemonkey.livejournal.com]

Mine actually comes from the idle bastardization of a book I ran across during the course of work. The One-Minute Manager Meets the Monkey... some sort of business guide. My addled brain managed to throw out half the words, and voila, OneMinuteMonkey was born. When you don't have time for an infinite amount of monkeys, I'll take the case. :>

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I really like names that come from some somewhat obscure source but that in context and meaning say something that's very right for the person to whom they belong, such as [ so well as I can tell without really knowing the person ] mudandflame.

I also have a sneaking affection for damned_colonial's usename.

rysmiel was not my first choice, but someone had already taken balberith.