I have a character in a campaign right now who's known to his teammates only as "Sarge", on account of that he's ex-military, has the sort of bearing that makes one think of an old sergeant, and protects his legit SIN too fiercely to give his real name to anyone in the shadows, ever.

For the fake I.D. he used most of the time while travelling around, I chose the name Richard Sergeant. Not only does it give a convenient excuse if anybody ever blurted out my street name at a bad moment ("Hey Sarge!" "...Everybody always thinks they're the first one to think of that little nickname.") but I figure after over a century, nobody's going to remember sitcom actor Dick Sergeant.

Another one of my favorite Streetnames was "Jack The Slipper". Jack TS or JTS for short, wich was often mocked on (but never in-game, mind you) to Jack the Slip (roughly translated)

He began as a "Arh, I really can´t decide which character to play, just give me 20 Minutes and I´ll build a new one!"-character of mine, that I only played once.
Than he developed into a regular NPC-Decker, as I tend to GM more, than I can play, by opportunity. After some years I finally played him again and he developed into one of my main PC.

Edit:
In the end he also had 27 fake ID´s of varying quality, one of which was Ares Jhonson.

Had a decker npc named Pizza Boy cause he always delivered.


I got a small Miami phone book from a friend of mine. I now keep it at the gaming table whenever I run to grab quick names. We call it the book of random names.

This backfired on me once. I put up scenario notes on an unlisted website for my players. About a week later I got an email from a guy whose name I grabbed from that very same Miami phone book. He wanted to know how I came up with the name for one of the bad guy groups. Tough to explain.

The elven fixer. Living in a decadent basement resturant/office/appartment in Tarislar:

Conny Connoisseur (why should all elves have Legolas type names?)

eh? isn't she from some of the old SR1-2 SBs?

The thing about it is that Street Names are rarely if ever self applied. Usually those PC or NPC'w we come accross as blusterous like "Deathstrike" and "Buddah Assasinator" are self imposed and have better have a ton of cred to back it up or they are point and laugh material.

Its always a great idea to have the team give each other Street Names after the introductory prelude. This lends to the effect that the Street Name should reflect the way others view that character.

So if a character is from Aztlan has a real name like Xuixopalopichytl Moyarxiarez by birth. Her buddies might want to call her Mrs. X or Moya for short. Even though she would much rather prefer she be called Xuixopalopichytl since it is her name and she was named after a Aztec god by a high priest of her village. But silly anglos have a problem with names with more than to syllibals. *SIGH*, but I do digress. In a Cyberpunk setting rep is everything and having a silly or bland name is pointless ass long as you have the street cred to back it up.

That´s very wierd. I may have seen it and subcosiously remembered it when trying to name this character, thinking I made it up myself. Although, even though it´s less likely, I actually think I never saw it before. Not that it matters much.

That is supported by the fact that I don´t own any location books from 1-2 edition, only rules and adventures.

New character in my group just earned his street name. The poor guy's been in two gun fights. Both times got shot up before he could really contribute, (due to nothing but bad luck.) Now we call him "Red Shirt."

In my main game that I have lots of planning time for and record everything online, most characters (PC and NPC) use either their real first names or fairly obvious nicks (the street doc named Edgar Allen is usually referred to as Poe, the voodoun shaman is Voodoo, the ganger with the band is Amp, etc). However, the game I run for newbies at the bookstore near my campus tends to be almost all improv (I go in with a run outline, the opposition's stats, and a map of the target, nothing else prepared), and so I have to get random names from somewhere. My usual source is Dumpshock. I know I've used Blackjack and Kagetenshi thus far, but the last game was a month ago (winter break), so I've probably forgotten others.

Now that I think about it, I did play in one on the fly one nighter game that had some people by the name of Carplane and Saltshaker and Juicebox or something. I think that the person was looking at magazines and random objects. But i know this person was a good GM from the past so I think that it was used as more humor.

I had a few characters with names like:
Ville 'Vallaton' Laaksonen: A Ville Vallaton is an actual drink in Finland. Since his name was Ville, and he was a severly ciggarette addicted, mildly alcohol addicted weapons specialist who had the Annoying Neighbor flaw(think Simpsons meets the Family Guy...and a lot of you helped me make them ...explained his addictions). Thus, he was nicknamed after a drink.

Kryztof 'Vader' Gregorcyk: A Polish merc, whom nerds in game were sad to find out his nick wasn't Vader from Star Wars, but after one of the death metal bands of the 20th century which he so loved. Most people in the US couldn't pronounce his name, Vader happened to be the shirt he was wearing at the time, so it stuck.

I've used everything from Gemini(first character ever made, heh), to learning how that in other languages, common words sometimes sound cool for street names. Stian Andersen uses the nickname of Mørke, which means the dark/darkness in Norwegian. They usually just call him Stian at the club.

or maybe he's just a n alternative rock fan... one of the songs i hear alot is called juicebox i think, but i cant recall who it's by, white stripes maybe?

Juicebox is by the Strokes.