The Different Names for @

@ is an interesting little symbol. It started life as a short form for "amphora" - a kind of large jug in the ancient world. The, in our modern world, it has become the international symbol for usernames.

English is unfortunately quite boring, we simply call it 'at' or the 'at symbol'.

However, in other languages, the names for this little symbol are much more creative:

German: "spider monkey"(Klammeraffe)
Dutch: little monkey’s tail(apenstaartje)
Italian: snail(chiocciola)
Danish: trunk-a (like an elephant’s trunk)(snabel-a)
Polish: monkey(małpa)
Hungarian: little worm(kukac)
Russian: little dog(собачка)
Greek: little duck(παπάκι) 
Hebrew: strudel(שטרודל)
Korean: sea-snail(골뱅이)