Trans people, how did you pick your new name?

>>7837196
I had a Latin first name and an Irish last name, so I stuck with that but chose names that held more personal meaning for me.

>>7837196
I asked my parents to name me again

I took the name that my mom would have given me if I were born a girl.

I took my grandma's name

>>7837318
This.

I almost named myself "Angel" before I realized how pretentious that sounded. I'm not even Hispanic, so it wouldn't have worked culturally either.

Sorry if there's any Angels reading this :x

My girlfriend named me.

my grandpa had a bad stroke about a year and a half before he died and started calling some people different names... he started calling me "andy" and it stuck and everyone calls me it now... which was good cuz i had a hard time with the idea of naming myself, and we had been really close... so even though it's not a name i care for it's got sentimental value and kinda chose me so i'm cool with it + andrew is completely normal and works well with my birth year

I choose based on my preferred name's relation to my birth name... So how common it was and it's origin... Both were similarly common for their given gender and both have origins similar to each other... Though preferred has a lot of different origins.. then i picked my favorite from a short list of what was available

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Used a common nickname (Kicki/Kiki) for a common female name nationally (Kristina, Kristin, Kerstin) to represent my girl self when I was 16 because it sounded very close to my made up internet handle. (Keke)
From there on it just stuck.

Mom got to pick my middle names because she wanted to.

>>7837318
I say pick within the number your birth name was... So for my birth year my birth name was within the 500s... No one ever looked at me and questioned my birth name due to its uncommonality for my age, so why should i be shorted into the top 100 for my preferred name??

It was a nice pretty feminine sounding name I didn't hear too often.

After I picked it I started noticing it everywhere and keep noticing only porn stars or pathological liars/manipulative cunts in movies are named it.

Feels bad man but I don't want to pick another name

>>7837651
What is it? Betting on something eastern european sounding.

>>7837196
Asked various separate people what name I look like, and they all said "Samantha". Then I ask people if I look like that, and they all agree "I can see you as a samantha". So society named me, based on what name I look like. Think it's a bit weird to randomly pick a name yourself

I picked a top 100 birth name from birth year

Went with something unisex so i could use it in boymode

I had a name in mind since I was like 10. My mom chose my middle name based on what she would have named me.

>>7837196
My ex and I went through a list of top 100 girl names from when I was born. I wanted something not completely out there, but different enough I wasn't running into people with my name all the time. We ended up deciding on Leah, which I liked since it was the same amount of letters as my previous list. Later when I got my name legally changed I decided on Patricia for a middle name, cause it just sounds believable.

>>7837364
For some reason a transgirl named Angel is hilarious to me.
Good thing you didn't, although you can use it as a nickname I guess.

>>7837196
I modified what my mom would've named me because it was truly awful
>Mary Sue

Yeah nah. I chose Rosemary

>>7837915
>Japanese on a non-Asian
I hope you're just trying to be a sarcastic asshole... Either way only morons would pick a name that obviously didn't fit their ethnicity or cultural background at all... But that doesn't mean you can't be a white person with a European name that's top 500 instead of top 100

I identified with a character on a tv show and decided I liked her name.

>>7837196
Picked the name of an attractive and succesfull actress. Made sure the name was semi popular in my birthyear to make sure I didnt meme name.

my name is Alex

>>7837196
The day I started accepting I woke up from a dream which I was in other genders body and I just knew what my name was the nickname for this name is the same as the nickname of my current name

I was gonna go with whatever my parents had as a girl name back up... they didn't have one though

So I'm going to use my last name. It's unisex so if I fail girlmode at least it won't seem ridiculous. Pretty annoyed that some dumb AGP youtuber has the same name but w/e

>>7837196
Was an effeminate faggot, just picked the name people called me already.

>>7837215
>>7837233
These

I just found a huge list of near enough every English female name there is, and filtered through them.
I had one section for fully Female names, one for unisex, and a very short section for names like Lindsay that used to be male so I could still try to bluff it if I'm in boy mode. I also included the girl version of my old name and what I'd've been called if I was born with two X chromosomes.
From there I just whittled it down to a few contenders, and tested them out for a few weeks each.

In the end I went with Elizabeth because it has like 20 short names and I'm incredibly indecisive.
For real, it's a great name. It can fit near enough every age range. Plus, if you get two months down the line and decide you don't really like Beth, you can switch to Liz, or Elle, or Libby, or Betsy, or whatever other name fits what you're looking for.
If I'd gone with just Zoe and didn't like it, I'd probably have to go for another completely new name.

Ps, remember to take into account other people you know. Just in case it's hella awkward coming into work after stealing someone else's name.

>>7840590
I really liked the name Ally but I knew way too many of them for it not to be awkward.

>>7837196
I have a gender neutral name
>namecucks will never EVER know this feel

>>7840924
>keeping your gender neutral birthname
it's like you want to be misgendered
>>7837196
i was 13 so the first thing i picked was some special snowflake bullshit, but nobody (myself included) really liked it so my therapist suggested another name that stuck
the name she suggested was one that could work as a full name alone but is usually short for something else, so i picked my preferred long variant
it also kept my first initial and syllable pattern

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>>7837196
>older brother used to call me Melon head when i was like 3-4yo to make me cry
>Melon becomes my nickname
>in my twenties and family still call me Melon
>came out to older brother and he calls me Melony
>Melony is my name now and i love it :)

>>7840929
it's jamie though, that's pretty girly as is. easier to keep it then get used to an entirely new name.

>>7840940
ive seen u post this before and it was adorable then and its still adorable now

>>7837196
The teacher of my ex girlfriend was named my current name. Just liked the sound of it, so I chose it. Then asked my parents what they would have called me when I was born the other gender. Chose that as my middle name.

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>>7837318
>>7837915

>FTM
>tfw I was planning to make my new name Slade Leonidas when I was 12-13

>>7837982
t. Aiyden Skyllar

>>7838258
Your last name...?
Are you aware that you'd still need a legal last name so your full name would end up being the same thing twice?
Or are you planning on changing that too?

>>7841587
I'm going to use my grandmother's maiden name, over here you can change legally change your name (first, middle, snowflake and last) once a year so long as it's approved by the magistrate.

>>7837382
awkward if you break up

>>7837915
>Ophelia
I like that one.

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My boy name was Cameron so I kept it but changed it to Cameryn

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>mom just calls me by a pet name
>dad calls me by my new female middle name
>siblings call me by birthname
>friends call me by old nickname
>tfw no one calls you by your desired name

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>>7843495
I'm sorry to hear this
You should get name tags and just wear them around

>>7843562
What do you say to Simba when it's taking him too long to get to the water hole?
[spoiler]Mufasa[/spoiler]

>>7843310
How so? Tons of people were named by their parents and don't have good relationships with them.

My male name means king. The story of picking my girl name is kinda funny. I was working one day and a call came in, and right when i saw her name i knew it was "mine". Kind of a weird moment, i remember being kind of annoyed that it was her name and not mine. Anyways i looked it up and i shit you not, it means queen.

Pretty neat, cause its even a semi feminine sounding version of my male name.

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name me anons. hit me with something unisex

>>7844832
LL Cool J

>>7844832
Mrs. Manly McDudebro, Duchess of Androgyny
Alternatively: Sir Princess Pusspenis

>>7837196
i went by my initials and then i met my gf and she picked my name for me. turns out the name she picked was feminine in her country but masculine in mine. ppl just think i'm weird/one of those dykes who changes her name to something androgynous because its hard to be called Florence with a shaved head and septum piercing when you're into fisting

>>7844832
Logan
Ashleigh
Max
Avery
Drew

It was the name I used to hide behind in chat rooms. When I came out, it was the first name I tried. I've tried other stuff, but nothing's fit better yet. It's white bread American instead of Eastern European like my birthname, which annoys me, so I'm still figuring it out.

>>7843742
how is that even the same thing?

I took the name that I used to pose as the opposite sex on the internet in middle school.

(Only because I luckily chose a completely normal age- and ethnicity-appropriate name.)

>>7844832
Sam
Dan
Mal
Nat/Nate
Micheal

>>7837196
My nickname through my whole life is a girl name so....

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>>7837196
I picked Jane, although I havent changed it yet due to still not being out to my parents.

I chose this name because I thought it would be funny to legally change my name to Jane Doe just to fuck with people I know whenever they watch the news. I decided against that and will probably use my birth last name. Whenever people who dont know me ask about it I just tell them I got it from Jane Lane from Daria.

>really like the name Abigail
>good friend named the same thing
>she's the only person in out to

What do?

>>7845002
How isn't it? It's not awkward to to be named by your parents and then decide to never talk to them again, it's just a thing that happened. Likewise I don't think it'd be awkward to be named by my girlfriend and eventually end up never talking to her again(though I hope that won't happen). Hell I'm actually closer to my girlfriend and have known her a hell of a lot longer than I knew my parents whenever they named me.

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still not out so im still considering. im mtf. recently started liking Jill. heard it in a song. maybe Gillian, since more syllables would be better when saying my full name. dont know if thats a weird one though. its in the 900's for my birth year so yeah..

i find this very hard desu. i considered Grace before, but i feel like its too "pretty" for me. i'll be a hon for sure.

>>7837196
I picked Diana.

I like the way it sounds, I read a book with a character thusly named that I was particularly fond of, and it is close to the name my parents gave me.

my real name is unisex but if i had to change it id probably pick a somewhat normal sounding name off a mtg character

>>7840984
Thanks :)

>>7837364
Bulky vampire guy?

>be transbian
>be born graham
>try the name meg because it sounds cool and butch and it reminds me of neil andrew megson (gen porridge)
>watch the movie but im a cheerleader
>immediately change my name back to graham

thanks dad, graham was a good choice after all.

>>7837196
Trans fem names come from one of three categories: Greek and Roman mythology like Athena and Diana, Varsity Cheerleaders like Vivian and Cynthia, and Virtues like Grace and Chastity. Trans Masc names also come from three categories, Early 2000's futurist names like Aiden and Gage, Frontier names like Issac and Elijah and also virtue names like Chance and Sage. Someone told me this years ago and it is uncanny. I'm MTF and picked a greek mythos name btw.

>>7845550
One of my besties name is Daria but she didn't ever see the show actually.

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>>7848369
>tfw none of these snowflake names apply to me
Feels good.

>>7848369
>Trans fem names come from one of three categories: Greek and Roman mythology like Athena and Diana, Varsity Cheerleaders like Vivian and Cynthia, and Virtues like Grace and Chastity
Maybe for like hons? How many decades ago was "Cynthia" a varsity cheerleader name and not a grandma name?

New meme names are stripper names/crystals, videogame names or alice

>>7848779
I'm betting you have a Varsity Cheerleader name.

>>7841431
I would watch the CW superhero show where the Flash had to fight Slade Leonidas

Uhm... In early childhood, i asked mum how would she name me if i were girl. She said that they have chosen me a boy name, and decided that if it were girl, she will get simply female counterpart of boy's one. I tried to accept it for myself for nearly a decade, but I realy hate both names - female and male. Somewhere in my teens i realised that "what the hell, i don't need to choose the name i hate for myself!"
While male one was nearly on the top of names list in my country, feminine version not even in top-100.
I asked mom once when she was drinking vine with her sister, were there any other ideas? I wanted to get new name from her, but all the names she said (Veronica, Valentina and few others i cannot remember) totaly sucked for me.
So i tried to choose by myself from most popular ones, but i knew a lot of people with nearly each one of them and didn't like idea of "stealing" name. Or they simply didn't fit surname/not being liked at all.
So I came up with just choosing my favourite one, also the one my mom realy liked in her childhood for heroine of favourite film.
I asked some friends who new about myself for advice, and they liked it, lol.
>>7848783
Yup, another Alice here, lol. But not for wonderland or something similar, not for ave in internet, but for being grown up on books about "a girl-nothing-can-happen-to" C:
For real, I realised that there is some hype only in 2016 0_0

Oh, and yes, it sounds pretty cool with my surname .

>>7848814
Uhm, truly it's more "Alisa" then "Alice", right. But still seems popular in internet C:

>>7848783
>alice
BRB gotta go find a new new name ;~;

>>7849186
Yeah I've liked Alice for years... Luckily I'm not out yet so I still can decide :'(
I adore lewis carroll though

>>7849221
I chose it because I saw the name was becoming popular again, and I really like the name "Ally" but I know WAY too many of them for it not to be awkward.

my (male) name is Quinn. I notice it's a trending girls name right now. Should I keep it or change it?

>>7849241
Make it your middle name. Change your first name to Harley. At that point, you could date just about any nerd you wanted.

>>7837209
I went with what my parents would have named me if I were afab.

My birth name is Danielle, but I sorta-kinda came out as a kid (though no one really knew what transgenderism was then) and I went by Danny. I also tried briefly to get my parents to call me Dennis at around 7ish, but they refused. Good thing, it's not my fave name now.

I went through a brief period of trying to conform harder and spelled it "Dani" for a bit so that other people would leave me alone about having a masculine name. Changed it back when I gave up on that.

In high school, it matured into people calling me "Dan." I hated it at first and kept asking people to keep calling me Danny, and people kept telling me, "But that's a kid's name." Eventually, Dan stuck and I started to like it. When my mom took me to change it legally, I made it Daniel because it flows better, but I just go by Dan now.

>>7837318
This is honestly the smartest method if you don't want to go by things like, "what my parents would have named me." When you pick fictional characters and whatnot, you can end up with a bizarre, clockable name. I used to know about five Aidens, and that was from a really small online trans community. I also knew a dude who named himself Raven, and I wanted to smack him upside the head.

Luckily for me, Daniel (being Biblical) is the 12th most common male name in America, and the 6th most common boys name from my birth year. I couldn't have gone much more unremarkable.

I DID end up picking two middle names because I wanted to outright pick at least my middle name and then I couldn't decide between them. Which is kinda snowflake-y, but my friends were all, "Why not both?" when I asked them which they preferred. They're both relatively common male names, though (one is in the top 100 for my birth year, one isn't but is closely related to some names on that list and middle names for most people can be a bit odder anyway) and most people who find out that I have two middle names just assume they're my father's/grandfather's names on both sides or some shit.

Jay.
My birth name starts with J.

Should I do Alyssa or Olivia? Olivia is newer than my birth year, but I like it much more than Alyssa...

>>7849870
Honestly go with whichever one makes you happier. Neither of those names are snowflake-y, so I doubt either of them would clock you.

>>7848783
Why the hate for Alice? I never understood this. I know plenty of cis girls with this name.

>>7849870
alyssa is a shit name, the only alyssas ive known have been cunts

>>7850065
How do your personal experiences make a name better/worse for someone else?

>>7849882
I have LITERALLY IN MY LIFE never met a cis girl named Alice, but I've met 3 trans girls named Alice.

I found an old diary that my mom kept around when she was pregnant,she expected me to be a girl before I was born and thought of some names.My name is one of the names she would have given me originally if i had been born as a girl

>>7848622
I didn't think there where any real people named Daria.
Cool.
Tell her That I think her name is awesome!

>>7848788
>the Flash had to fight Slade Leonidas
Season 4 finale!
He's working for Psycho Pirate!

>>7851487
Depends on place, desu. I know at least 4 or 5 with it. IRL, i mean. Not just on the internet, lol.
Pretty common name here.

>>7849870
Olivia is a god tier name, saving it for my daughter.

Went with the 350th most popular name of my birth year.

Though my deadname was 1st...

>>7837196
I picked a random name that was popular around the time of my birth, because people don't get to decide what their name is.

>>7837196
I'm so trutrans that I already had a feminine name.

>>7841460
Underrated

Chad

>>7837196

>Lia

I don't remember where I got it originally, but I've just always used it for D&D/video-games/ect since i was, like, 12

I picked my name based on these rules
-Not too different from original (Ellie), so that family/friends would have easier time getting used to it
-Gender neutral, if possible
-Something as normal as possible (To avoid this shit >>7837982 from happening. You can never be too careful)

So I ended up with Elliott. Been using it for about 2 years now.
My only problem with it has been people writing it with just one t, but other than that, I've been happy with my choice.

>>7849882
desu like personally i think the hate for meme names is pretty silly, like if your name is alice you're still far more likely to be cis than trans because even if 90% of trans girls were named alice they're still a nothing percentage of the population.

like unless your name is Candii Amethyst Darling take w/e name you want even if it's a meme

if your name is going to make or break your passing... you don't pass

that said the meme names are still funny

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>>7837196
I constructed my own name with syllables from different languages that resonates with my soul.

>>7852271
haha what is this BG1?

>>7851934
>but I've just always used it for D&D
I'm all for immersion but this is really getting into character.

I liked my deadname, it is unisex so I could have kept it but everyone associated it with boy me so I picked a similar female version of it.

I always hear the stereotype for Transwomen having weird names but I have yet to encounter. What are some you guys have seen?

>>7841460
t. i laughed

>>7849870
FTM here, my birth name is Olivia. It's shit, couldn't say it properly and it didn't fit me at all...I know why now but at the end of the day, if you're content with having a really common name like that then go for it. I know another MTF called Alissa, it's a nice name. But you gotta pick what you want, I picked a name I didn't love when I was young and now since I've chosen to be stealth with the friends I've made since then, I'm stuck with it. Pick what you love.

Is Lily alright? Thinking that or Sophie.

>>7852298
That's a cool name. You got Tim Drake and Wolverine in one name. Neat.

>>7852591
>I know another MTF called Alissa, it's a nice name.
I bet she read Christopher Pike.

>I picked a name I didn't love when I was young
;_;

>>7852602
>Christopher Pike
The... USS enterprise captain?

>;_;
Yeah. I picked [spoiler] Oliver [/spoiler] of all things

I'm a bit of a tard.

>>7852610
>The... USS enterprise captain?
The author. The main character in his Last Vampire series is called Alissa.

>Oliver
Funny, when you said your birth name I thought huh, one of those names with an easy opposite gender version.

You could start saying a name you do love is your middle name for a while, and then say you prefer it and ask people to call you it instead.

What's it like having a name you don't love? I wonder if cis people feel that way much, but can't regret it and don't feel they can choose a new one, while for transitioning people it's a choice that's got to happen.

>>7852619
>What's it like having a name you don't love?
Eh, it's not so bad. I haven't gotten it officially changed so I guess if I really wanted I could make up some explanation for my friends. I picked something so close to my old name so it'd be easier on my family and so if they were uncomfortable with it the could just call me my old nicknames, but I don't even get along with my family and never really have, I now realise. They weren't worth the compromise. I wanted something more grown up and masculine.
To me it sounds like one of those kiddie-ish names that doesn't transition as well into adulthood, like Oscar or Lucas or uh... Ayden. I'm heavily considering picking something else.

So ultimately if you can learn anything from my experiences, really think about the name you want and if it's something you really love then don't pick something else for anybody else or because of any outside factors, because it's your name and your thoughts are all that's important here.

>>7852631
>Eh, it's not so bad.
But what actually is it like? Like feeling a little bugged when you hear it or see it written?

>So ultimately if you can learn anything from my experiences, really think about the name you want and if it's something you really love then don't pick something else for anybody else or because of any outside factors, because it's your name and your thoughts are all that's important here.
Thank you. I see a lot of people saying how they don't want a name because they know somebody else with that name.

>>7852723
>But what actually is it like? Like feeling a little bugged when you hear it or see it written?
Yeah, sometimes. The main reason is cause I sometimes cringe internally when that happens cause it sounds and looks just like my old name, so if someone's calling me and I hear it I often think that I'm being called by that name again. It's a knee jerk reaction and I'm still getting used to the newer name. Maybe I'll get more used to it in time, who knows.

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>>7837318
>>7837915
>>7837982
This cannot be understated. It is so ridiculous how some people name themselves. Not only is it some next-level snowflakery, it perpetrates the stereotype that transsexuals are doing it as a sick fetish or lifestyle choice and don't actually want to become women. What's worse is that there is no shortage of people defending this shit.

That one example from the Baldur's Gate mod actually look like satire, but apparently it was a genuine attempt at social justice by the developers.

>>7837364
>>7849836
>That MtF who named herself Rain
>She said that she recently met another woman named Rain
>It miraculously turns out that she was MtF too

Moral of the story: People shouldn't pick their own name. They should be given help to pick one if possible.

I was really hoping my parents had a girls name picked out before I was born, but they didn't.

Mine was luckily easily covertable to a common female version though and I actually like my original name so I took that route.(Kyle->Kylie)

Picked out a name with a childhood friend. Chose it cause it was both pretty, and it matched my ethnicity, as well as having a cool story behind the origin as well.

Went with Callista, which means Most Beautiful and is a Greek name.

>>7853431
I've known lots of other Kyles, even a girl or two named Kyle but its much more common as a guy's name and I don't want any unnecessary tells.

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>tfw mom gave me a snowflake middle name
Bambi is cool and all, but will it be a problem? Should I just basically never use it formally?

>>7853457
I remember a girl from high school whose first name was Bambi if that helps.

>>7853457
Bambi is a stripper name.
Don't use it professionally or men will never take you seriously.

>>7853550
I mean honestly, it isn't like they were going to take you seriously regardless of your name, so THAT should hardly be the reason not to go with it.

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>>7853550
>men taking women seriously

I'm ftm and I really wanted to go with "Alex" , but i have a close cousin named that. I still kind of want it though. But everyone calls me Thomas, which is a name my friends tried and it stuck.

>>7837334
Ayy same,
Funniest story about my name choices.

My Father(I had his name so let's just use Redacted) was hate by his Mother-In-Law(Connie) so much that she kicked him out and never wanted to see him again due to his background as a gangbanger.

My older brother was the first kid named, who would have been my father's Namesake ha his name changed by demands of my grandmother because she didn't want to hear my father's name in her house.

Few years later, my dad cleans himself up and proves he's good and productive, my Grandmother is fine with it, sort of and takes him again.

My father named his second child(me) after himself, throughout the years, I was called Junior for a majority of my life.

Then comes 2 years ago where I finally come out as trans and decide to use my now late grandmother's name for myself. My dad is absolutely livid from me using this name, as this would be the first time someone named Connie removed his namesake from him.

He still won't forgive me for my name choices.

Also, tfw SU Connie got me to liking the name.

For my first name, I took one from the same language group as my current name with similar roots to my middle name. For my new middle name, I took something more eccentric but not weird or outside the language group or anything, just v old fashioned, and which is also a name of an historical figure I like (although people don't usually know her by that name). I think it came out pretty artfully and all in all is tasteful and inoffensive

>>7853723
And I made my middle name a neuter version of old name. All in all, a huge fuck you to my father. And also the fact that my legal name will be your typical long hispanic name that people won't question and a short hand name that is simple and not too clockable.

I chose the female version of my original name.

I really didn't wanna complicate things.

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Spent a month or two writing names down on paper and thought about how they sounded. I also thought about how believable they seemed to others and whether or not my choices were not only age appropriate but also complimentary to my last name. I ended up choosing a one syllable name starting with a consonant because it was reflective of how my previous name sounds. I choose my mother's middle name as my middle name too because, despite our differences and past, she's been there for me during the worst times of my life. I'm glad that I gave it a lot of thought and time though, and I recommend that you try writing a signature with the name you are considering. I found that it helped me feel things out.

>>7853305
What happened to
>>7837318
>>7837915
>>7837982
?
Social justice mods?

>>7837196
Wax, take it like a man

>>7854420
Wrong thread?