namaste

"what makes people want their name to be someone something and then a number?"

yahoo email made me put a number after my name in my email addy... I don't have it here, though.

My understanding the number is typically something they hold as significant. For example... the graduation of school, their age or year of birth, the year they joined. And then there's the so called "cool numbers" you know... 69, 13, and lucky number 7. Then some time the number just means they couldn't get the name they wanted... so they added a few number for example...

Sideshow_Freak12 (as in one also)
Sideshow_Freak678 (just consecutive jumble)