Charles Iliya Krempeaux's Names

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Most of his life, most people have known Charles Iliya Krempeaux as by his first-name — “Charles”.

However, his father, mother, brother, and many family members call Charles Iliya Krempeaux by his middle-name — “Iliya”. In fact, before Charles Iliya Krempeaux became a teenager, everyone called him by his middle-name “Iliya”.

More formally, because of his mother's side of the family, his full name (with title) is — Mirza Charles Iliya Krempeaux.

And because of his father being named “Charles”, and his father's father also being named “Charles”, Charles Iliya Krempeaux is also known as Charles III — pronounced “Charles the third”.

Nicknames

Charles Iliya Krempeaux has gone by a small number of s over the decades.

The earliest nickname Charles Iliya Krempeaux may have been — tnt.

The story behind the tnt nickname is — Back in the 1980s and 1990s — if you got a high score on an arcade video game machine, many of them would let you enter a three-character name next to you high score, for all to see. Many (perhaps most) people usually just entered the initials for their high score full name. For Charles Iliya Krempeaux that would be have been — “cik” — which he did use for a while. But later, he started entering — “tnt”. He continued using this nickname tnt when he first got onto the Internet in the mid-1990s.

In 2008, he started using the nickname reiver. reiver is by far the nickname he has used most of his life. A small number of people have even called him “reiver” in person. Due to certain social-media conventions — the reiver nickname is often written as @reiver.