Cannot login to SSH - Authentication failed due to incorrect username

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Cannot login to SSH - Authentication failed due to incorrect username

I am attempting to log onto my DigitalOcean droplet SSH but consistently get the error:

No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey)
Authentication log (see session log for details):
Using username "root".

Authentication failed.

I get this error when I enter username "root". I have tried just about every username I think it could be (root, the username for my machine, etc) but I am getting no clear answers online what it should be besides root - as I understand it, this should work. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I entered my public key into my Droplet just fine. I'm a noob so this is all a little overwhelming! Any help is appreciated.

Running Windows 10, WinSCP version 5.17.6, trying to connect to a machine running Manjaro.

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