I like the name ICKLE as it is much easier to refer to someone by a mudcat Nom-de-Cat and both Jane and Myself know exactly who the subject of the conversation actually is. That said the name we have most problems with is Chris - we and our children seem to know hundreds of them, and some are male, some female, so when somebody in the family says It's Chris on the phone.... it is usually followed by minutes of trying to define WHO actually is there.
Also, there is a certain charm of somebody being who they wish to be rather than who their parents decided to call them.
In my own case, I was known across the country as Geoff the Duck for a long time before I ever heard of the Mudcat Cafe, so I don't have any problem whatsoever with my usage of the name.
As Tyke says, there are possible perils in putting your own name in a public forum, it may be safer to just teach the rest of the world to call you Ickle!
Quack! GtD.