My name is a cross breed, I suppose. I originally coined the name many, many years ago and it came from a combination of two words, Zephyr and Cipher. I was on a quest to create an outstanding and original username that no one had yet come up with. I at first thought of naming myself Zephyr, being a bad ass word as it is, but that was far too common. At the time I was just getting into ciphers, which are strong encryption algorithms. When you combine the sounds of the soft C and hard Z, you get a hard X sound, very similar to an SZ sound, hence Xypher.