What's in a name?

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A lot of people here have intresting display/nicknames...would any of you care to share the meaning behind your name?

mine is an anagram (plus a lifestyle)

I came up with an anagram for my full name:

O, fleshy and ambitionless.

Wow, that's kind of cool!

It was a short term obsession

Still. it has meaning.

buryuntime = bury you in time = "I Will Bury You In Time" by Jeff Mangum (song)

I like the concept of things being buried with time as well but I've been told it's a poor username.

Caterina is the translation of my actual name -- Caitlin -- in Italian. The Italian language, culture, and history is one of my obsessions (I lived in Florence for a year from 2000 to 2001), and I always loved the way the Italian's pronounced my name -- Caht-er-EE-na.

~ Caterina (aka Caitlin)

Phoenix is the name of my lovebird that I love so much ^^ Ker is a name of a evil ghost I am mildly obsessed with ghosts and I like how that name sounds. I liked how they both went together so I just joined the two names

My display name is my nickname at school. My friends started calling me Squirsh about two years ago, but my nickname was originally Squirshi, which is a combination of my name and the word "Squircle" which is apparantly a cross between a square and a circle.

Anyway, this is the full story about how I got my nickname:

The first time somebody called me Squirshi was when I was 11, I saw a girl weaving something that looked like a friendship bracelet except it was plastic strips instead of thread. She'd started off weaving it so that it was cylindrical and had a circular cross-section, but then about halfway through she'd changed the weaving pattern so it had a square cross-section. I was quite interested in what she was doing and, being quite oblivious to the fact that she was trying to concentrate, I started asking her "What're you doing?" over and over again until she said "I'm making a squircle, Squirshi!" It seems she'd been trying to say my name but accidentally combined my name with the name of the thing she was making.

When I started Secondary School a few months later, one of the tasks in my English class was to go up to the front of the class and talk about an interesting or funny experience so I talked about my experience of being called Squirshi. My classmates found it hilarious and some people started calling me Squirshi. When I properly settled into school and made a few friends, they started calling me Squirshi and eventually it was shortened to Squirsh. Now I use it as my display name.

It's from the movie "The Zero Effect," one of my all-time favorite movies. He's the world's most private detective. He's the best private detective in the world, but has horrible social skills when he's not working. In many ways I identify with him more than I'd care to admit (if you've seen the movie you know what I'm talking about).

Acacia is a genus of trees, native to tropical and subtropical locations throughout the world.
I chose this name because I love these trees. Covered in sharp spines and delicate, almost fern-like foliage, they seem otherworldly to me. They are also incredibly tough, and can live in deserts with no problem. They convey strength and solitude to me. I also grow one in my garden, which I'm quite proud of.

I was stuck for a name, so I decided to skim some ASD info for inspiration.

"The active but odd type will initiate interactions with others but in an odd ... way."

Strangely appropriate

Atomic + Kaiju = Godzilla (my favorite monster)

Sure.

Polymath as in adept at many subjects (me: music, art, statistics, baseball, languages, etc.) and Pool as in individual sport (Billiards to those of you across the pond and at the Anti-podes).