For me Its quite simple. My brain decided it. Literally. The days I found out I’m trans, my brain would do this weird thing, where I could think about completely different stuff and suddenly my now chosen name would “fly” into my mental Field of View, like an asteroid in star wars or so. I told that name a close friend and 4 weeks later when we went to the club together I told him, that I will stick with it, because I didnt had a better idea (and it was the only name I really felt comfortable with).
my butch great aunt born in the 1910’s hated it and went by her middle name
SO I FUCKIN STOLE IT YOINK
I downloaded mine from a silly pink hedgie :3
You wouldn’t download a name
I just kept asking people if I may have their names and they kept giving them to me
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I was thinking about Satan on my walk and figured that “Lucy” is short for “Lucifer”, and then was like “Lucy actually sounds pretty nice…”
I returned home and told about it with my friend (also trans) and she was like “wow so cool!!!” so I went with it. That’s it :3
And I just thought of random names until I found one I liked. lol
I kept my name. It’s unisex, and a search of it on LinkedIn actually shows like a 70-30 split of female to male respectively. I’m comfortable with it and used to it and, living in the US rn, I don’t want to deal with all the name change issues.
Ayy, samesies. I love my name, and like you said, it’s a very common female name. There’s also a certain sense of power that comes from being un-deadnameable.
My government name is 99% masc, but I only hear it at work and it isn’t worth the hassle of changing it. All my mates and friends just call me “Cat”.
I dont get it
It’s a character from Attack on Titan. Iirc the character is called Sasha and she gets shouted at for eating a potato during a military drill. Her response is to offer the drill sergeant part of the potato. (Been a while since I watched AoT)
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Yeah that’s it lol, I like feeding people.
It’s not really the reason, but she was at least part of what drew me to it, and it’s really funny tbh
I used it since I was 13 on IRC ““catfishing””, well it was not catfishing actually, it was me expressing how I wanted to live, but I didn’t realised at that time. Then, I came out at 27 and remembered those days and rescued the name.
read a cute reddit story where person asked mom to rename after transition.
I’m not sure I qualify for this (relevant username) but I do have two names I think about using if I ever crack my shell. One is just a name I always liked and one is part of an online pseudonym I used a long time (and that I still use sometimes) that has a totally different backstory, can be used kinda androgynously but is mostly used by women with one noticeable exception.
And no one is stopping anyone from choosing more than one name.
That honestly took me over 6 months. I tried a number of names on for size, but none felt quite right. The ones that felt right were in use by close family or friends. The one I really wanted is used by both my ex-wifes, so that would’ve been weird for the kids even if they’re not kids anymore.
It was much easier picking out names for the kids actually. Otherwise I followed the advice I got to take a name that is sorta common in my age group so I went through all the lists multiple times until I decided. I now officially have a girl’s name, even if I’m nowhere near passing. It isn’t as bad in my country as in many others and I must say it went a lot better than I expected, but I’m still proud of myself. 😊
i didn pick my name…,.,…,.,.,. nt yet…, ;(
That doesn’t have to be something you need to be sad about Smorty! Look at it this way, you’ve got a world of opportunity ahead of you for what you can pick! It’s such an exciting and fun time figuring out what name suits you best, what feels most comfy! That’s !!! super exciting !!!
yisyis, i didn say iss a bad thg, im jus - rlli thinkin bout it n - eh - i guess i will be maria. cuz yea - eh, feels gud… but is sadly christian name so thad makes me sad… bt alsuu conveys a sense of… purity which i like.,.,
Maria is really pretty!! I think Norah can similarly be considered religious but I like that it means honour :3
I wat just going to suggest that name, too :D its a really pretty name. It still sounds good in other languages, too (maryam in arabic, for example). Top 10 names imo
For a while when I was a kid I wondered what my name would be if I chose it myself and that was the only one that felt like it fit. Totally forgot about it until after my egg shattered and realized that it’s gender-neutral and I really like the cutesy nickname/diminutive forms
I just took my birth name, shortened it and that happens to be gender neutral. Then I expanded it but the female version of the name.
swapnote girl is adorable and always stuck with me
i have no strong opinions on names. most probably i’ll buy an -e and put it at the end. :)
