i chose mine because i wanted it to start with exe so that people in mmos would just call me exe and i wanted it to sound vaguely feminine so i played with every collection of syllables i could imagine until something stuck. now this has been my primary username/character name/blog name/whatever on basically everything for like 20 years. lol
we iterated through every morpheme we could think of for the ending, evaluating it on how we liked the sound of it, on how many people were using it per cursor searches of social media (preferring fewer), on whether it was diminutive (preferring not), and then we came up with one that has a hidden meaning that people with the appropriate background sometimes recognize but that typically goes unnoticed although its connotations may have subconscious effect.
so we went with that one, because we're all about that sort of thing.
I think of concepts I like and then look up words related to them that I think sound neat. Ring was actually a name I used for a while when I was younger, but naturally it's taken on most sites. Plasma Ring was kind of a happy accident because I started looking up stuff related to ionized air and ran across this. Trying not to get famous ever so my porn doesn't come up in search results for the people working on very normal stuff like fusion power.
I used to use the English <-> Sindarin dictionary to find several words that resonated with the project / character i was trying to name, and then smoosh them together and massage the syllables until it sounded pronounceable in English.
I took the word "arboretic" from a Bon Iver song I liked. This was not a unique username.
Later, when I realized my gender, I made the name more femme-sounding. I tried a bunch of variants that sounded wrong. Then I saw "arboretic" misspelled as "arborelic" in a twitch chat and it got me to "arborelia", which sounded enough like me that the "elia" part became my actual name.
i'm iris. i would've just gone with "irisjay" on here but i'm "irisjaycomics" on every other social media site, and also if you don't like my comics then don't fuckin follow me lol
Used my partner's Python program that randomly generates names based on linguistic parameters you give it. I created a bunch of parameters of names that I felt were orc-like (which is a bit different to how other interpretations of orcs do orc names). I liked the idea of these longer single-name names that would be shortened, and I went with 'Dzukhaerun', or Dzuk for short c:
I might change it in the future because I'm now in a location where I'd want to talk to others and make local friends, so I'm working out what name I use in meatspace (probably not this one???) I'm still trying to work out how I reconcile my meatspace name and internet name while knowing that I do business and generally almost everything under this name right now, which is a complicating factor.
I've been using this name for about 7 years. I've had others in the past.