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Title: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: FelixFox on July 06, 2010, 11:01:06 PM
I took my name (Alex) and my species (Fox) and an anagram later and an extra letter (i) i came up with Felix the fox

A little boring of a name, but I thought it was clever at the time, so it stuck  :P
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Crevan Fox on July 06, 2010, 11:05:20 PM
I guess pulled something out my head and i liked it and Coleo was came up by my forum Bro
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Righteousbro on July 07, 2010, 12:05:39 AM
Well, I'm a pretty Righteous Bro.......


And the sir is just for part of a forum clan thingy. :P
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Fenrir on July 07, 2010, 04:02:40 AM
Fenrir is a prominent figure in Norse mythology.  Sure he's a murderous monster, but he's cool.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: kayle on July 07, 2010, 06:04:36 AM
I wrote a story way back in the eighth grade, and the main character was an anthro wolf named Kayle.  This was long before I discovered the fandom, and when I found it, the name had kinda stayed with me.  I thought it was appropriate, seeing as it came straight outta my first furry story, and I like the name.  So I use it.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Golge on July 07, 2010, 07:17:57 AM
I got my name from the Turkish word for shadow. took me awhile to find a good name with a meaning that I liked but it was a great success!
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: ___ on July 07, 2010, 07:21:19 AM
Oh! Golge! My old name ment "defender of mankind" but it kinda went against my charater.

I asked someone, and they said Mina. Before I found the fandom, I had a anthro character named Lexie... I like Mina better. :P

As for ShadoWolf800, it was first darkwolf8000, but on this site, it wouldn't accept all of the 8000, and on another, I wanted something cooler sounding, so I chose ShadoWolf.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: flames on July 07, 2010, 11:30:26 AM
Well, Flames has been a name for several (both antho and non-anthro) characters of mine when I was younger and it was a name I liked as it linked in with the fiery nature of my characters (plus it rhymed with my real name XD)
Then when I made my fursona, HoKaze no Flames, I kept the name of Flames but wanted something that sounded warrior-like and a little exotic. I decided upon "Flames of FireWind" and then took this and took "Ho" and "Kaze" (fire and wind respectively) from Japanese along with the "of" usage of "no" in Japanese and boom, HoKaze no Flames. It's probably massively incorrect in Japanese but having it true to the language was never part of the plan, I wanted something that sounded good to me, was unique and fit the character ^^;
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: The Past on July 07, 2010, 01:17:58 PM
In 6th grade, I wanted to learn Norwegian and needed my new fursona's name and a new username to go by online. I went over to an English-to-Norwegian translator
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: WingedZephyr on July 07, 2010, 02:40:32 PM
A book I was reading at the time used the word "zephyr" for "breeze" and I liked the sound of it.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: FelixFox on July 07, 2010, 07:43:33 PM
these are interesting, keep em coming
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Timmy Fox on July 07, 2010, 07:54:20 PM
Hehe, easy, but not maybe ad you'd expect :P

Youtube user: feralkuriboh (Feral Imp + Kuriboh from teh times when i loved the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG)
Feral + Fox = Feralfox :3

When me and a friend was making up pokemons and then drawing em, i drew a wolf and named it.....Wolfone!

Im pretty much of a loner..so...
Lonely + Dragon = LonelyDragon
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: wastelander16 on July 07, 2010, 10:19:35 PM
I was gust thinking of a cool name and I came up with Heshimaru. I have no idea what it means but it sounds cool
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Self-sain on July 07, 2010, 10:39:30 PM
Well my out look on life and things are not always "normal" and I was always told I was insane. I simply answerd I'm not insane I'm perfectly self-sane meaning that I'm perfectly sane for my own mind and that every one else is just crazy. And I just changed the spelling of it, and it became my name.  :P
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: ___ on July 07, 2010, 11:28:14 PM
I like that one Self-Sain. XD
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Self-sain on July 08, 2010, 12:03:30 AM
O why thank you  :P
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Righteousbro on July 08, 2010, 01:35:13 AM
Well, I'm a pretty Righteous Bro.......


And the sir is just for part of a forum clan thingy. :P


Oops,
That's my screen name's reason, my fursona's name is Terry Bear because my real life last name means bear.  :P
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Chroin on July 08, 2010, 05:30:56 PM
Well, I did a rearranging of my name, Cameron, and my last name, and took my favorite word, fail (lolz  ^_^) and I took letters from each and came up with Chroin. :D
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Ares the Ram on July 08, 2010, 05:34:15 PM
way back when, my friend and I were playing legend of mana for ps1 and he decided my guys name would be macid. its been one of my alias' ever since.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Ryffnah on July 20, 2010, 09:36:47 AM
Ryffnah was the main character in a novel I wrote the first fifty pages of way back in high school.  It was about first contact with a tiger-like race of aliens.  She was the captain of the alien ship, and she had kind of bronze on copper stripes.  I completely lived in that novel for the first two years of high school, but then it got eclipsed by all the college-prep classes, applying to college, and then, eventually, college.  By the time I had enough free time to really think about working on it again, my writing style and perspective on the world had changed too much for me to be able to write an end that would match the beginning without a serious rewrite.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Srgntcuddles on July 20, 2010, 05:18:27 PM
Hmm...Looks like a lot of people's forum names are their fursona's name.  o.O

But as you can see, hopefully...I am a different case. My fursona is not named Srgntcuddles xD

It's Reno O' Malley. Some might recognize the name, it's a place in Nevada, the state I live in. Ooor, if you are a gamer like myself you might recall the name from the Final Fantasy 7 story.
(http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/8/finalfantasy718.jpg) (http://img59.imageshack.us/i/finalfantasy718.jpg/)
This is Reno(Red haired guy) and his partner Rude(Bald guy). Reno is kind of a cocky and care free guy. He's also a bit clumsy, probably a comic relief character the way he's portrayed in Advent children. But my Reno, isn't really like him.
(http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/6814/renoreal1.png) (http://img8.imageshack.us/i/renoreal1.png/)
This is my Reno. He's a rabbit. As you can see, not much in similarity other than the name and dressy look. Art done by our very own Mortis Reptus. Thanks again.

But onto the last name. O' Malley. Reno, being Irish, needed a defining last name. At least one that screamed Irish. So I chose O' Malley. It was purely at random, I don't know if it means anything significant or anything. It was just to make Reno appear more Irish without much effort. You also might recognize the name O' Malley from from a web show called Red Vs Blue. O' Malley is an evil Freelancer, but they're all pretty evil...

Well, that's the story behind Reno O' Malley's name.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Gen on July 20, 2010, 06:21:25 PM
ceil's a gray-blue color. Plus I was listening to "It's Nice to Know You Work Alone" by Silversun Pickups and thought I heard its name(I didnt) so I thought that'd be cool.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Karma Moonshadow on July 29, 2010, 02:05:34 AM
Dander was originally short for Dandreline, but Dander stuck because it became a pun, as dander rubs off on people. Ever since I was in preschool my furry games and roleplays were always adopted by my friends, who joined me in everything from guarding our eggs to dressing up TY animals for roleplay.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: DatFox Coleo on July 29, 2010, 02:20:13 AM
My fursona name is Datfox Coleo because
1. No one else used it
2. I always like the first part of a name to be Dat, don't know why
3. I dunno
4. Coleo is the name of the fursona family I joined, don't know why it is called Coleo.
5. Datfox is pronounced dat-fawx. lol
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Goblin Cat 😸 on July 29, 2010, 07:27:46 AM
Well, my name went through many stages. It was RigorMortis. I was known by that alias because of my main character in my stories, RigorMortis.
RigorMortis came from my love for forensic pathology; it's the first stage of death where the body stiffens.

Mortis.Reptus came along after I realized I didn't want to be tagged with my main character Rigor. Looking over my cast of characters they seemed to all have the generalness of being dead or morbid reptiles, so I retained Mortis and went into latin. I coined the name "Mortis Reptus" which meant dead lizard. I thought it suited me, so I stuck with it.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Something on July 30, 2010, 08:04:42 PM
My fursonas name is James Fisher
I chose james Because i Found it very related to my real name, Also the name also means ''May he protect'' which suits me quite well^^

Fisher symbolises my patience and tolerance. i wanted to have a name that was a kind of reflection of my personality
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Tatsu on July 31, 2010, 12:25:13 AM
my fursonas name is siya
well one of my friends mentoined the name and i feel in love with it so i made it fursona name!
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Takarah Luna on July 31, 2010, 02:48:06 AM
My fursona's name is Takarah Luna Ravei... Uh... I'm assuming it's Japanese, but I don't know... I came up with the name after finding out/becoming a therian and meeting my spirit animal (a black wolf) who looked like she should have that name...
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Self-sain on July 31, 2010, 05:07:09 AM
my fursonas name is siya
well one of my friends mentoined the name and i feel in love with it so i made it fursona name!

Cough cough "stole"
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Tatsu on July 31, 2010, 05:09:13 AM
im sorry gosh..
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Self-sain on July 31, 2010, 05:11:14 AM
Lol :p
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Kitt_R_Beesley on July 31, 2010, 10:31:28 AM
Mine started out as Kitt red fox Kitt because i look young and a Kit is a young fox red fox because its my speices then it becam Kitt R Beesley r is the inital for renard a male fox and beesley is my last name irl well because of a mix up thats now my legal name as well so yeah...
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Crevan Fox on July 31, 2010, 02:13:35 PM
CoCo= Random

Coleo on the other hand is the first two letter's from CoCo and the first three letter's from Leogon7 (The Co-founder) and thus being 'Co-Leo', I have Leogon7 to thank for the name  ^_^
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: josh_down on August 03, 2010, 12:08:27 PM
josh down is a bit of a mystery to be honest .  i remember creating the lion character in my head and randomly picking out a name from my school register, but then i have no idea where the down bit came from. it just kinda happened somehow. i would like to know.

if i was to make another character that i identified with (i have an idea in my head for one) his name would be Shwari which means "Quiet" or "Serene" in swahili. either that or just flat out call him Serene
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Seko on August 03, 2010, 08:38:41 PM
CoCo= Random

Coleo on the other hand is the first two letter's from CoCo and the first three letter's from Leogon7 (The Co-founder) and thus being 'Co-Leo', I have Leogon7 to thank for the name  ^_^

so thats why our family name is coleo! that makes sense!  ^_^

sekoshiba

the "shiba" is probably from the name "kiba" (naruto ftw) but i don't know where the seko comes from....
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Crevan Fox on August 06, 2010, 08:26:37 AM
Yep, that is how Coleo came to be, Nice name btw
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Arrant on August 08, 2010, 03:14:40 AM
Mine came from when I used to play WoW, once I heard Death Knights were coming out I tried to use all the fitting names I could think of, then looked in an old dictionary and found Arrant meaning infamous; vile, etc, used it, eventually it stuck.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Æ’yreblue Æ’ox on August 12, 2010, 03:30:31 AM
based off a part from a certain song that i like
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Harlequin_Felis on August 16, 2010, 02:05:37 AM
Well... I chose Felis, since it's a nice easily recognisable cat name, but the Harlequin came out of a twisted sense of irony...

My great...great.. ... Okay I'm not sure how far back - the family tree is my mother's hobby, not mine - grandfather was a nice Italian bloke by the name of Joseph Grimaldi. Also known as Joey the Clown. The first clown, in fact. And it was his style of entertainment that pretty much killed the Harlequins off as a profession.

Also, Harlequin sounds slightly cooler than Clownblood.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: josh_down on August 16, 2010, 12:07:55 PM
Well... I chose Felis, since it's a nice easily recognisable cat name, but the Harlequin came out of a twisted sense of irony...

My great...great.. ... Okay I'm not sure how far back - the family tree is my mother's hobby, not mine - grandfather was a nice Italian bloke by the name of Joseph Grimaldi. Also known as Joey the Clown. The first clown, in fact. And it was his style of entertainment that pretty much killed the Harlequins off as a profession.

Also, Harlequin sounds slightly cooler than Clownblood.

you serious man? clownblood is awesome!
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Crevan Fox on August 16, 2010, 12:15:55 PM
New name, Crevan means Fox in some other language but i forgot which one XD
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: josh_down on August 16, 2010, 04:01:19 PM
New name, Crevan means Fox in some other language but i forgot which one XD

quick google search shows me that it's irish for fox.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Crevan Fox on August 16, 2010, 04:41:54 PM
Thank's Josh
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Harlequin_Felis on August 16, 2010, 11:54:28 PM
you serious man? clownblood is awesome!
Yep. Alpha Clown, to boot, xD
Means I can give small children nightmares just by walking past them.
...
Or was that my own superpower? I forget
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: josh_down on August 17, 2010, 12:08:49 AM
you don't even need to walk past them. children just have nightmares with the knowledge that you exist... even without the knowledge that you exist, they have nightmares about the possibility of your existence. *nods*  B)
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Larka on August 19, 2010, 05:14:05 PM
well i was reading dis book and one of the main characters was a white wolf called Larka. so... yeah thts where my name from xD  :P
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: RedWolf "lucifer" Guevara on August 19, 2010, 05:16:22 PM
my fist name- basicly threw it together on the spot
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Inouva on August 27, 2010, 06:40:12 AM
blah... mine is so lame... heh

an old Anime i used to watch, i was OBSESSED with the one character Inouva... and towards the end of the first season, its revealed that hes actually a giant White Wolf that was transformed into a humanoid so that he could carry a sword to defend his master... and being that my Fursona is a wolf, it just seemed logical that that should be his first name. His last name is Wulf, for well... obviously reasons ;)
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Morticia on August 27, 2010, 11:55:43 AM
Morticia's name is derived from the Addams Family (as if that wasn't obvious. xD) which I've always rather enjoyed-- but the real meaning was that it was a nickname of mine for a short while given to me by my baby cousin. He was only-- I think three at the time, and there was that MnMs commercial with all of the characters at Halloween time and he had pointed to the screen at Morticia and said "Emilee, Emilee!" Which is my real name. Apparently the way I look and dress correlated with Morticia. (Which it sort of does, I guess. xD) Since then, I've used the name as my fursona's name quite happily. It's the mix of gothic and beauty that perfectly defines Morticia.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Hijiku on August 27, 2010, 11:06:42 PM
The name Hijiku came to me in a dream once in 2005, and I've used it ever since then.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Birlioz on August 31, 2010, 01:54:11 AM
Well, my favorite movie as a kid was the Aristocats. I play piano, so I took the name Birlioz from the little black kitten that played piano in the movie. It's spelled differently, but I like the way I respelled it.

DeLou. Well, after reading the Anne Rice vampire series (It's absolutely nothing like Twilight. It's a beautiful, very victorian-renaissance-like vampire story) I learned that I loved things with "De" in front of the names and such. One of my favorite characters was Lestat De Lioncourt, and my favorite part was the "De L.." So I mixed it with my most favorite character from the book, Louis. So, DeLou.

Birlioz Delou.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Zephri on August 31, 2010, 02:41:57 AM
Well I'm not too good at story telling so I'll keep it short.

Years ago I used to day dream.... a lot. I was a pretty hardcore sci-fi fan too (still am) and would day dream about anything with space ships in it.
Basically I wanted a unique name for the captain of the flagship 'Europa' (loooooong story, never written down). Now I really love names beginning with z and I liked the name Zephyr, but it tends to be a female name and is not totally unique.

So I changed the y to an r and the r to a i ( took a bit of experimenting to get the right combo) which made Zephri.
Zephri was pretty much me but with far more self confidence and was far better with words than I am, not to mention stronger faster smarter and more agile (pretty much everything I'm not).

Oh he was also a cyborg to and could body swap with other 'spare' bodies if the first one was destroyed and some of these bodies were anthropomorphic cats.

So that's the back story to this name, kind of corny I know but it kept me entertained when bored and at school.
I use it for all of my aliases so chances are if you see the name Zephri while browsing google it'll prolly be me (most of the times, it's not 100% unique) I also use it for my email and aim/yim.

Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: ZergDaeva on September 03, 2010, 11:20:36 PM
I had a lot of trouble choosing, but I decided finally on Sindiris (Sin-deer-iss),  Sindi (Sin-dee) for short.  I use the name for just about every online avatar i've every used.

I got that name from my original avatar name, Miridis (Meer-id-iss).  I got tired of it so I tweaked it for a Blood Elf I made on WoW one day so it would sound more diabolical or something.

Anyway, I like it so I stuck with it... Sindiris the Serval. 

There you go!  :P
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Akula Filiko on September 11, 2010, 03:38:48 AM
Akula is Russian for shark. I always thought Russian was a cool language  :)
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: RedWolf "lucifer" Guevara on September 11, 2010, 08:55:16 AM
yay for the ruskies!
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: The Past on September 11, 2010, 08:57:42 AM
I have a new secondary fursona, so I guess I'll say something about hers now.

Riley(It can be used for a girl, don't flip out :P) used to be the name of my old persona (human), who was pretty much an insane version of myself. She was a character in a story I scrapped because I felt I couldn't do anything very original and interesting with it.
My new fursona is not the same as that character, I just liked and wanted to reuse the name Riley. :3
And her last name, Latiri, is simply a warped version of "Laterale", the second part of her species's scientific name.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Raphial on September 13, 2010, 07:29:11 PM
Raphial Marshall McDuffy

Well, when I was little, I kinda just through the "Raphial" together. Marshall is a part of my name, and McDuffy is a play off of McDuffie which is a popular name in my family.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: CrazyCat on September 18, 2010, 02:20:06 AM
I came up with the name Crazy Cat because I couldn't come up with anything better at the time.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Crevan Fox on September 18, 2010, 07:34:07 AM
I got crevan from Lita Julgaupe and it was awesome,  B)
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Gabag on September 21, 2010, 07:11:03 PM
Gabag was the most unassuming name for a psychopath pyromaniac who also was a gun aficionado.

Also its the same spelt forwards and backwards

and capital letters are the exact same as their lower case ones, just bigger, so shut up
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Self-sain on September 30, 2010, 09:15:22 PM
holy shiz I just noticed that about gabags name XD
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Monster Mash on October 01, 2010, 12:50:12 AM
Well Nox means night (my favorite time) and Luna means moon (my favorite thing about night) so the two just seemed to fit. Plus I just like how Nox sounds. c:
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Smitty the Airship Pirate on October 01, 2010, 02:31:49 AM
Smitty is the nickname given to me by everyone because it is a variation of my last name and since I am a clever rogue and I like pirates thus my fursona got his name.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Flyin' on October 01, 2010, 01:58:32 PM
My fursona's name is my internet name. MB is just it shortened, and it kinda grew on me.
Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Matrilwood on October 17, 2010, 10:37:41 AM
Reeve means Wolf in Edensporian. It's also a Britannian official, but that is just coincidence.


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Title: Re: How did you come up with your Fursona's name?
Post by: Lucky on October 17, 2010, 10:16:47 PM
well my last name is huiqing, which means  liberal good luck, i just took that and made lucky. Plus most brits and americans  cant say my full name so i ask them to call me lucky