What is the origin of the little number behind your name?
Is it something in sequence i.e. the lower the number the earlier you registered?
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A BattleTag™ is a player-chosen nickname that identifies your Blizzard account in our games, websites, community forums, and more. Only one BattleTag can be associated with a Blizzard account.
BattleTag friends are not available cross-region. You must add friends to each region’s friend list when you log in for the first time.
BattleTags do not need to be unique. You can use any name you want, as long as it follows our Naming Policy. Each BattleTag is assigned a numeric ID to create a unique identifier (for example, FallenSlayer#3592).
from their site
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That doesnt quite say the number increases or not. Have there been 2227 people also named Ivanzephyr before me? It seems unlikely.
Its just a random number I believe assigned to your name with no other meaning at all.
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Urza is correct. It is just a random number to make your BattleTag unique for your account. Should someone else decide to create an account called Ivanzephyr, they would get a random number as well. It is possible that they have a way to insure the same unique number is not generated for the same account name.
It is possible that they have a way to insure the same unique number is not generated for the same account name.
What ? It’s a fact that’s how it works … Otherwise you’d have multiple people with the same account, that can’t work.
Ok I know enough. Thanks all !!! Especially Urza. You seem a very wise man. You probably know what the dead sea scrolls are too and what they represent. I just don’t know things like that.
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In fact I do. The dead sea scrolls are what happens when you queue into pirates into BG. I.E. And im dead to 31 damage yarr again. Time to go scroll me up some forum posts asking for pirate nerfs. This is it for sure. 
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Pretty sure there needs to be a stack of shuffled numbers stored on their servers to be dealt when the next account is created. Interestingly, I’ve seen someone with battle tag Player#26XXXX (millions) so this number’s range probably grew larger in time.
That’s a reference to the number of shamans you can expect to face in any one gaming session in standard.
i thought necroing was forbidden
it isn’t that random, the first btags were 1xxx and 2xxx, now they have 5 or 6 digits
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My observation as well. I think lower the number - earlier you started playing (but it’s just a guess).
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well, don’t forget btags were created during/at the end of wotlk whereas blizzard games existed before that