【How-to】Why does my skype name have live

If you look in the Skype settings, it goes by the moniker Skype Name. People refer to it as Skype ID or Skype live ID because it is used to add contacts on Skype and also, because of the text ‘live’ before the unique username. It’s usually in the form of live:xxxxxx, where xxxxxx is their unique handle or username.