DJ NAMES: How did you choose yours? Ever wish you'd chosen a different one?

my name is common but its an interesting story. i started when i was 9.back in 1981 and in hip-hop at the time everybody was using their names in their tags. my name is robert but i didnt want to use “dj robby rob” i thought it was kind of corny,so for the first 2 months i was djing i didnt have a name. one day i was cleaning my room when my uncle came in an we stared talking and as i was asking him about what name i should have i said i wanted a cool name and at the same time i picked up a x-men comic off the floor and it had iceman on the cover. i looked at my uncle and he said “whos cooler than iceman?” and i decided to take that name, thus dj iceman was born. i actually have been “re-christened” the name “iceman” over the years, once for my ability to “snow-job” people into getting what i want,and once again cause for some reason no matter what the situation i never seemed to get rattled,i stay “cool under pressure” and in my biref career as an mc i actually turned it into an acronym I.c.e.m.a.n. Infinite,Creative,Energy,Manifests,Allthroughout,Nature. being that energy cannot be created or destroyed,its infinite,and i seem to get energy from everywhere so i just seemed fitting. so thats my story hope you liked it lol as far as choosing a different one nah i like it

My last name means Hell Fire in German. So instead of my last name with DJ in front, I picked DJ HellFire.

Real first name, but i am norwegian/german and i wanted to show that in my name so i took a popular norwegian last name…. Oscar Berg 😀

I started music production with software and only software (when it wasnt actually the mainstream thing to do) so i figured my name could reflect that so I used “Softcore”…..Also thought it was a cunning idea to use a word which is usually used to specify the soft categories of….ahem…ermmmm…..porn. I was wrong on that part judging by the fact that :
1. daily traffic on my website shows me that too many people on this planet like softcore porn and not electronic music (lol)
2.some social websites (Facebook anyone?) have words forbidden to be used as names for pages.

Oh well, too late for that now…..I think I have posted on this forum again this joke..but here goes…I always laugh thinking I should name one of my future releases “Softcore – Audio Porn EP” lol

Still don’t have one. I started recording my mixes under Odd, and figure that will be my producer handle if/when I start producing my own tracks. I went by DJ Cole for a short period of time as Cole is a derivative of my last name. But googled it one day and… you know the story. Anyway, still trying to figure it out.

way back in 2001. I was in 5th grade in class drawing(i haven’t drawn in ages) and I came up making this character. he had spikey hair with a piece strayed in front and a big sword(i had basically copied the buster sword from final fantasy 7) but i had to think of a name and Jet Riza popped into my head it stuck. and I put that on everything from my gamertag on xbox360 to my music making name but I like being called jet riza like with a “E” or a long “z” like the rza from the wutang clan

Hello, I would like to share with you my story about my dj name and asks you what you think of the name.
Since i was a little kid the people call me Baby(on portuguese is bebé) because i´m the younger of the family. When i became dj I thought my name would have to have intercourse with my nickname, but I always thought that dj baby was to much feminine and did not sounds good to me. My friends just started calling me Dj Baby until one day a colleague called me dj babs (in English I think you write like this, because they do not pronounce the “y”), but in Portugal the pronunciation is different and because of that I decided to write so that we can pronucia it as Dj Babs, this case will be dj Baybs. 10 years have passed since I started on dj but in the meantime stopped because of personal problems. Now I want to return to the game but I think if this name is correct? if I should keep it or if I should change it? possibly ask i myself because I tired a little of it, but at the same time I think that this name has already been shot in some venues and has already done some work. So I like to know what you think of my Dj name, how it sounds to you. Let me now, I appreciate your opinion. I´m a RnB/hip hop & Dance hall dj, but like o pass some funky/soul hits and recently started on electronic music(dubstep, house).

Peace
Baybs