This is a question that I received a few times: Peli is my nickname, which was given to me by my parents. Their memory on the reason why is somehow vague:

• It could comes from the pelican (the bird) because of the movie "Jonathan Livingstone the Seagul", which became a pelican,
• because Pelican have a big mouth,
• because my mom did not like "Jonathan"  with the french pronounciation

Cheers,

Peli...