My old name was Shaymin of the Skies because I was a HUGE fan of Sheimi back then. (Still a fan, but just a fan. I feel sad now, I gave up my poor Sheimi goals!)
But everyone was getting there name changed back when you could and they were mostly just shortening them. I will admit though, that I did it because I thought the mods doing it made it cool. Yeah, first year of interwebz I was rather cliche'.
Though I was constantly called a girl by being mixed up, and sometimes people I thought I was SotH (the one they mixed me up with)'s brother. XD I was like, "You're the sixth person to confuse us lol," but after that sixth, no more. I always found it funny for some reason.