the name "viba"

the name "viba" is more of a moniker or a screen name than my actual name. I do, in fact, have an actual name, but I remain very hesitant to reveal it on any public internet profile of mine, due to certain possibly irrational anxieties.

"viba" is pronounced /'vibə/. it is not pronounced /'vaɪbə/. the name should preferably be written in all lowercase, because "Viba" looks weird to me. or, I guess if you're shouting in all caps, you could also write it as "VIBA". that doesn't look too weird to me in context.

the name originates from the Sanila word for "color", which is "viba". the way in which this name came about is actually rather embarassing to me now, so I prefer not to go into detail. but I will say that it arose during a time when I was a confused teenager who thought she was a plural system due to being in ma pona pi toki pona (happens to the best of us!)

"viba" also happens to be the BreadSpeak word for "anti-sand". according to Wiktionary it is also apparently a slang word in Finnish derived from the English word "vibe". which is also what some people seem to initially assume the name "viba" is derived from, even though it's not.