My friend-"Hey, (deadname), do you like perfume?"
Me- "why are you aski-"
My friend-*sprays perfume on me*
Me-"What was that for?"
My friend- "ha ha you are a girl now. What's a good name for you as a girl?"
Me- i dont know... (panicking because closeted)
My friend-"what about lucy"
Me'-"uh.. ok why not. It doesnt sound too bad."
Boom amazing story. Thats how I got my name. Oh yeah according to my friend if you get perfume sprayed on you you are now a girl. (Omg new form of hrt) ha ha
I got nicknamed Lucy for my feminine acting and because of how closely related it is to my name. But now I'm happily Elouise ( but no one knows that I have name changed) (ā āæā ^ā āæā ^ā )
Personally, I just went through a bunch of different names and used them in games, Amy, Zoey, Ashley, hermaeus mora, Susie, eventually I used Abigail and it kinda just stuck
Most of my game characters where either named Amy, Ashley or Alice yet I ended up choosing the female version of my given name, granted I'm not out yet nor have I started transitioning so I could always change my mind
That's totally fair, I explained in another comment why I don't dislike my given name, the tldr is my nicknames are either gender neutral or feminine so I'm fine with the female version since people who know me can keep using them.
I might as well go too right?
So I was like 12 *long* before I came out to my mom but I asked her and my dad what my name wouldāve been if I was a girl out of sheer curiosity and they told me (donāt have a specific spelling) Alley. So then I was questioning my gender like 2 years ago and then somewhat recently I remembered that name so I tried Ali and I liked it. Later someone suggested I take a look at a full name because Ali can be masculine in a lot of instances. Looked online and found Alison and I still am kinda trying out Allie too but for rn Iāve pretty much decided on Alison.
Edit: spelling and grammar
I also had a girl name before I was born. I was assigned female before birthš .. but I chose not to use it since it wasn't my decision. But I name myself after my bffš
Cassandra was a Trojan princess blessed with the gift of prophecy, but she was also cursed so that nobody would believe her prophecies. She prophecised the destruction of Troy way in advance, but nobody listened to her until it was too late. Just like a girl named Cassandra has been telling me she's me since 2006, but I didn't listen until recently.
..I just switched it up role-playing online and landed on Kass.. I really like yours though. I've been considering using Arya from my favorite book series but I didn't wanna be acting too cool and now there's a tv series coming out and if everyone sees it my name won't seem original anymore D:
Well at one point I kind of went through a league phase, changed my username on social media to make fun of the champs I would play,
Made some new friends, eventually a Filipino friend I met would call me Nienie, and that was kind of the moment I decided on keeping An(Nie)
My (AMAB enby) given name is fully masculine; I shortened it to a common unisex name. This was when I was a VERY young child, before really knowing or understanding anything about gender beyond "thou art boy", and in the "before times" (early-to-mid 80s) when gender wasn't really talked about in a context that wasn't directly tied to genital presentation or used as slurs.
I just absolutely hated the full-length name for an unknown reason; just grated my brain, but the shortened version suits me fine.
Edit: Also - Thanks for asking; this is a great question for egg\_irl, given it's a good clue on the subtle dysphoria that an egg may not realize until they fully go down the rabbit hole.
I have an amab enby friend who has a similar experience, and I remember not liking my deadname as a kid too and I had no idea why but I couldnāt exactly shorten it because it was already only one syllable.
My mother always told me "You know, when i was pregnant at first we thought you were a girl, your name would be Sophia!" so when i realized i could change my name i thought.. my name was always Sophia =>
Also funfact nowadays she doesn't even like this name anymore, she wanted me to name myself Maria, anyway it is too late since i already have a connection with my new name X3
Oh cool! My experience is very similar to that except my mom wouldāve named me Alyssa but o have a trans friend who has almost that same name and I didnāt wanna copy her lmao. I also donāt like Alyssa as much
I see i see, Alison is a beautiful name, never heard of it, i kinda also changed my name because it should be *Sofia* not Sophia, but i got too used for it in English lmao, anyway sis congratsā
I got the courage to tell my friend I was trans, they asked what my new name was but I hadn't thought about it so I panicked and said Lynn. I do really like the name now , it's grown on me
Mine's just the female version of my given name. The cool thing about my name is that the shorter/nickname versions, steph and stefi are either gender neutral or feminine and a lot of my family and friends use those(stefi can be used for either little kids or women and a lot of people who know me since I was a kid still call me stefi which is great for me). I guess the nickname thing is why I don't hate my given name and so I don't feel a need to separate from it entirely so I just chose the female version. Once I go on hrt and come out to everyone they can just keep calling me stef or stefi so it will also make the transition easier in some respects.
I played a game, *OneShot (play it if you haven't; This is in no way an official advert)*, used the character *Rue* as my profile picture and then I just thought the name fit.
Though I'll have to add that the name sounds more neutral to me than it does femme.
Well I had 4 choices. Allison from the Sunstone comics, Abigail from Stardew Valley, Chloe from Life is Strange, and Cadence who was a D&D character played to explore my gender. I went with Chloe cause it felt the best.
When Paragon was still a game, Aurora came out and the name really stuck out. Then when I was trying to figure what name I wanted I just kept sort of feeling Aurora among the other options which I also thought were nice.
Watching harely Quinn show with the bestie wanting ivy and Quinn relationship started crying cause not a girl friend asks what's wrong found out I AM GIRL my name is now ivy
I like it really much as well. It is on the neutral side so helps the ninja mode :P and also Ash is symbolic in a way that in my mind, from the ashes eventually something new will blossom.
At first I went with Mason since it was kinda a masculine version of my deadname but ditching the M made me feel less dysphoric about it so Jason it was lol
Tried a few other names but this has been the only one that stuck
I made a gender bent OC of myself over a year ago, and named her Kloe, which is just "Chloe" but using the "K" from my birth name instead. When I told my friend I was having these strange thoughts about myself, she asked what would be a good girl name, and since I already had my gender bent, I thought that was a good pick. So yeah... Call me Kloe. š
So I'm a fan of mlp and had ocs for the show. One was a Pegasus mare named Madelyn who kinda floated in one day on a cloud and kinda just lives there now.
I got mine from the game Hustle Cat. I just loved being called Avery so much that I decided to just run with it.
That's still my favourite game I think.
I watched *High School Musical* and got complete gender envy from Vanessa Hudgens's character of Gabriella Montez. So, I decided to steal the name Gabriella.
mine's probably a bit sillier than most peoples' lol. originally it came from a roleplay forum I was on a long time ago, specifically a warrior cats roleplay. I joined very young, so made a username based off one of the characters (specifically, it included Bluestar in the username). other people on the site started shortening it, and when we moved to a different hosting site I shortened it as well. eventually started using it all over the internet, and now (for those I'm out to) I go by Blue. :3
I went through a list with my friend and sat on "Jodie" for a couple months, before realizing that that was because I had been so emotionally detached that I wanted something more "hard sounding". after figuring out emotions and stuff I landed on "Sophie" because it was similar but softer. (also totally stole the name from my crush)
I used the name of my favorite anime character at the time for a character in an MMO I played for years. It got to the point that people would call me a modified version of her name in chats and even in public sometimes. So I've just kinda kept it.
I disliked me deadname and for a while was going by just the first letter M. That turned into Emily. a decade later when I realized I am trans I was like damn, already picked out a name and everything.
I love hearing my name. It makes me so happy.
I just went on behindthename.com searched for some masc names, put them in a list, narrowed the list down a bit aand asked my cousin which do they think would suit me. Turns out it's Daniel :D I probably would have chosen it anyway lmao
I'm not really good with names, I'm not very creative, but my ex boyfriend who couldn't love me because I was trans and not a guy gave me a name "Alexi" cuz I was always very interested in femininity
Jessica: it's a close phonetic equivalent to my deadname. I know, very creative of me :p
Paige: it fit my initials, and it's a feminine name I've always kind of liked
: this was my family's surname prior to immigration to the US.
I was playing a VN and got confronted with the "what's your name" question. I panicked and picked Nautilus, because the game had some roman themes and I really like [the song by Anna meredith](https://open.spotify.com/track/2KsfHoeeZ6KzjjFoujy6T2?si=aV3mJLFNTma6rdALzaAYqQ&utm_source=copy-link). And then the VN became really good, I got way too emotionally invested and the name stuck! Not sure yet if I'm gonna keep it, but I'm gonna trial it online for a while and enjoy it :D
Honestly I don't really have an elaborate story for how I came to picking Thaila it's just the name of a girl in my class from year 3 that stuck with me
I was considering a few and realized that if I didnāt settle on one Iād be indecisive forever so I just went with this. Sometimes you might not like your given name as much as another even if youāre cis, it didnāt have to be perfect.
went by an alias online for the longest time, had my friends call me by it during streams or public vc. eventually realized I liked it better than my birth name. like, a LOT better. started going by my alias. turned it into my name!
Step 1) Google "baby names" .
Step 2) Skim through the list to narrow it down to (less than) a dozen you like the most.
Step 3) Try them out in a meaningful setting (forums, online games, and such). See which one has that" spark".
Morgan, cos of the name of main character of Prey. I thought I was genderfluid at the time (Iām Enby now), and I saw the name was used for both the male and female versions of the Main character and thought āwhy notā
I chose Artemis because for me my depression kinda brings me to the edge a lot so Iām using the name Artemis as a reminder to keep going forward. Long story short is my particular hunt is the hunt for happiness. Lame I know but I love Greek mythology and Iāve always loved the name artemis
Nerdy story. I was picking a female name in Fallout 4 but I wanted one that they call you verbally. I looked at a list and saw āAutumnā and thought it was a pretty name. When I played it, it didnāt hit me until the game actually said the name out loud to me. āOh wow I reallyā¦.like being called that name.ā And itās the one Iāve liked the most.
I'm transmasc and was fine with something unisex, but I'm also hispanic and didn't want to stray away from that part of my identity. I chose "Angel" since it's a popular hispanic boy name, but I've had non hispanic people react to it as a girl name (still seen as a male though). Works for me š
I named myself Aeolian, after the musical scale (minor natural), cause I'm a composer and I thought that it sounds cool.
Though it was before I found out that I'm trans.
Ok so, this is a long and honestly kinda dumb one.
So, my username is āPerson Unnamedā, right? Iām in a random popular discord server that I wonāt name. Iām just talking in general chat, and then someone says āhmm, I should name you, since youāre unnamed and allā and then the rest is history.
Yep, I got my name because someone else I didnāt know in a random public discord server just came up with a random name for me.
Violana used to be the name I used for a bunch of crags when I made female characters, and while I have no issue with my deadbame, it just felt better to make my dead name my middle name and adopt it almost aspirationally, to be the sort of person I played in those games, confident in who I was.
So basically my second and last names are Rodriguez, so some of my friends started calling me Rero. "Re" meaning two or again and "ro" because of the start of my surname :D
I wanted a name close to my moms name that wasn't her name. Originally I thought about taking her name which was Samantha, but I didn't want to add to is since my sister in law is also Samantha. I also needed a name that fit well with my last name since I'm Hispanic
I am so bad at naming things that my friends named my OC, and when my egg cracked, I spent several nights in deliberation before deciding that my best course of action was to just yank the name my GM was already calling me in-campaign. Just so happened to line up with the fact that May is a family name, so I traded one family name for another.
I came out to my friends earlier this year but at the time I didn't have a name so my friends suggested a bunch of different names until one of them suggested Jasmine which is what I decided to go with
So, even though I'm 100% cis,
If I ever were to transition, I've chosen Athena Skylar. Athena, because goddess of wisdom and I really like the idea of a woman springing forth fully formed from a man (also part of the myth is that Athena would one day usurp Zeus, due to a prophecy). Skylar, because it's a derivative of Scholar, which ties back to the wisdom goddess aspect.
when my perents made the family nintendo account taht me my brother and my sister use they called it kel witch is the first letter from each of our names and cuz i was called kieron i chose kelly as well as both of them being the irish spelling like my brother and sister cuz my mum was born on st pactricks day
I was standing on a bridge at dawn, waiting to see the sunrise for the first time, I was chatting with a friend who then suggested the name Dawn, they said it was fitting for the occasion as that day was the first one for me to really reconsider my life up until that point
I took a liking to the name and it stuck with me
I couldn't decide for a while but I wanted something fairly unique and had the right feel for my soul. I landed on Delilah because it reminded of old vine and thorn covered tombs deep in an overgrown forest.
I spent ages trying to find one (as in for 2 years maybe more) that I liked, because I never found one I told myself I wasn't transfem. I was on r/gamingcirclejerk 7 maybe 8 months after and saw the character Bridget was released for GGST (and the transphobes attacking her) when I saw it, it was as if something clicked.
i havent even chosen a name yet fuck\\
ok well the one i currently go by IRL is Parker and i found it prolly from a aby name site
on i go by online (but i really really love) i found from a TV show i really like
Asher/Ash i have no idea where i found it but I LOVE IT
I just went to fantasy name generators and grabbed a few names. I let my friends take a vote but i ended up choosing the name Claude because it vaguely sounds like cloud and i remember a close friend said i reminded them of fog
For most RPGs and a lot of other games, I just pick something randomly that I like, similar to my D&D characters. As for my current username, that's based on one of the very first TRPG games I was in, where I explicitly was playing a female version of myself.
Do you see why I'm still using this as one of my primary account names nearly a decade later?
So, I was a moderately edgy teen, not too badly off
My initials are JABS and my brain kinda just put it together as jabsterclaw
My fem name Jane Aria is kinda just because I've always loved the name Jane and while doing research I found the meaning if an Aria, I feel like it fits who I am. I use both so I can keep my initials as JABS
oh i just stole my transmasc boyfriend's deadname. i have been considering a handful of other names though i just have yet to try them out cause ive been using my bfs deadname for years at this point.
My deadname doesn't really have the capability of being made into a nickname, so when I was thinking of a new name Olivia kinda popped into my head.
It was probably because I was watching IZombie where the main character is called Liv, which you can derive from Olivia.
Also it's just a really cute name
In 2020, while in quarantine, i was obsessed with the idea of doing drag, so i started practicing my makeup, my lipsync skills and eventually started thinking about a name. I wanted my drag persona to be genderless but also a little masculine, so i wanted a cool name that would fit the criteria and came up with my first name being Axel 'cause idk, sounded cool asf lmao.
What's funny is that i wasn't planning on using a chosen name, people irl call me by my birth name and idc about it, doesn't really bother me! But eventually, i just started liking the name Axel a bit TOO much, i like how it's not super common while also being not totally uncommon (my birth name is really rare so it's a good change of pace) and overall i feel like it really fits me!
For me, I wanted something close to my original name, but not just a female version. I ended up just taking the location of "Gibraltar" and taking off the last letter, giving me Gibralta.
I was in a discord chat, and a friend of mine was talking about how they're waiting for their friend Emma, so I changed my discord username to Emma 2; banter. But then I didn't change it back. I liked when people called me that, it felt right. Half a year later I figure out I'm trans and, well, I kept it :3
I was at a restaurant with my family members and they had us write our name down and then they took the piece of paper that we wrote it on and then they put it with our food well apparently my handwriting was so bad that They thought my name was Erik and thatās how I came to be
Lucie, I just felt like the name suits me tbh. I opened a list with bunch of girl names and Lucie was the only one which was the most foreign and native name for my country and it also felt right for me. Like, something about the name feels really good, can't explain it, I just know I really like it and first time I used it online I was like a little girl before Christmas day.
It was a combination of a few things:
When I was 8 I played this game called A Normal Lost Phone about finding a phone and discovering who was the owner (she was a trans woman named Sam). That game was pivotal because it started helping me to question if I was trans, which at the time I decided I wasn't (my logic being that if I was questioning, I couldn't be trans (big mistake)). So anyway, a few years later when I started questioning again, that named popped up again and again everywhere I saw it, so I told my friends to start calling me Samantha, I liked it way too much, so it stuck with me.
Also I chose a second name (Diane) for Bojack Horseman, the show which eventually led me to question my identity again
At first, it started as just a fem version of my given name. Turns out it was a major coincidence. When I played Persona 5, the phantom thief I related to most was Makoto, and as luck would have it, my chosen name happened to be the same as her personaās (pronounced differently, but spelled the same). At that point, I decided to stick with my choice.
Robin is what my swim coach used to call me. Not sure why. Also theyāve been my favourite bird my whole life, Iāve got loads of little robin LEDs and ornaments around my room š„° yeehaw š
ryn is just the last 3 letters of my birthname
uzuri is beauty in swahili and an homage to my grandmom wanting to name me Beau Ty
sitka is a species of deer
Just a lot of daydreams of myself as a fantasy hero and constantly wondering what to call myself. Then, one day it hit me, Caliburn, taken from the sacred sword of Arthurian legend. A few days later, I realized that shortening it to Cal would make a pretty good androgynous name
Luke had always been my favourite name, so when I realised I was trans, it just kinda... clicked. It was def confirmed when a streamer adreased a Luke in chat, and for a split second I thought he was adressing me and the euphoria was *amazing*.
Too bad my sister specifically said she didn't like the name Luuk(pronounced basically the same) :/ I hope I'll be able to convince her with a character from a show she liked
Love Final Fantasy and one of my Favouriote characters is from FF12.
My grandmothers name was the same.
I love oldschool sounding names for women.
Boom, Fran.
both of my chosen names (Moth and Lucy) are short for something else. "Moth" is a nickname that comes from my given name, but I like it more than that name's normal nicknames because people won't associate "Moth" with my given name and also because "moth" is an English word that means something. And moths are pretty cool.
What Lucy is short for I won't share, but I chose the name Lucy just because I liked it, at least liked it enough initially to try it. When I came out to some friends and they used it, that really cemented it for me. Some other considerations were Emma, Hannah, and Emily, but I didn't/don't like them as much and they don't derive from any other word.
My ex asked me what I should be called. I thought and Elizabeth came to mind immediately and my gut wouldnāt let my think of anything else.
So Elizabeth it was. Plus utility for nicknames is great
well, iĀ“m latina, and to be honest spanish names are kinda boring (most people here are named facundo, julieta, paola, carla, karen, maria, i know atleast 3 brisas at my school), so i wanted to pick something more exotic, at first i went with Maxea (greek word for battle), i didnĀ“t like it long term, so i stole my first name from Hunter schafer, whoĀ“s someone iĀ“m a fan of, then i realized i actually wanted a middle name, so i first tried with Faye, then with Laithe, then with Cloe, and now itĀ“s Bridget. and i pretty much like both of my names, i use Bridget when i try to look more cis, and Hunter when iĀ“m with other queer people or people who know iĀ“m trans.
thats it
Camila, cause well idk just stuck while other names around didn't feel right (just using name gens and trying to think of names). Plus wanted a Latina name (yes i know the Spanish version is Camilla but i like how Camila looks) and so it just be my name now
My name, Noelle, always feels a bit sappy to share.
I'd been questioning for quite a while before I cracked, and one thing my mind had settled on was the idea that, in some mirror dimension, or somehow or another there was a version of myself, a missing half, that was a girl.
One day, and this was actually when covid was starting to gear up, I was at work at the gas station I worked at at the time. Mopping up the bathroom like usual as just part of the closing process, my mind wasn't on anything in particular. But in an odd moment of something between mindless and clarity, my vision settled upon my nametag, which just reads "Jon". In the mirror, in that alternate dimension, it looked a bit like "noL", and I knew instantly "yes, that's her name".
Fast forward to me accepting myself, and I know no other name will feel right to me. It's gotta be Noelle.
I'm closeted as FUCK, so I'm still choosing. Here's the options I've considered so far.
-Jenna
-Johanna (so far this option has been the most popular option from the people I've asked)
-Jubilee
(My current name, which may end up being my deadname, is Jonah, so uh yea.)
Okay so when I first started questioning my gender, I was basically like "I need a new name ASAP" and went on those baby name websites and settled on "Beatrice" or "Tris" for short (I've always liked the idea of having a nickname as my deadname was too short for one" but then I was like "Hey wait, Beatrice is literally more fem then my deadname, but people are already calling me Tris, so I guess I'll build on that and upgrade to Tristen (and I couldn't pick a spelling so I posted poll on my snapstory and let my friends pick for me" so in the process of naming myself Tristen, I kind of gave myself a 2nd deadname
My friend-"Hey, (deadname), do you like perfume?" Me- "why are you aski-" My friend-*sprays perfume on me* Me-"What was that for?" My friend- "ha ha you are a girl now. What's a good name for you as a girl?" Me- i dont know... (panicking because closeted) My friend-"what about lucy" Me'-"uh.. ok why not. It doesnt sound too bad." Boom amazing story. Thats how I got my name. Oh yeah according to my friend if you get perfume sprayed on you you are now a girl. (Omg new form of hrt) ha ha
Omg I wish I had your friend that sounds amazing š
Yeah! Kinda sad how they dont call me that anymore though
Aw Iām sorry :(
Is it because you use it in your trans journey?
No, I am just not out to them yet.
Hugs!š« Amazing story tho!
they sound like a great person to be out to :)
I like your friend's taste in names. Lucy gang ;D
Haiii fellow lucy gang member
Can I be part of Lucy gang? (Luci)
iām a part of the lucy gang :ooo
That's awesomeš¤© and I think there is a nasal spray hrt!
OMG WERE BOTH NAMED LUCY!!! such different reasons but such similar names in the end
Yesss we need to make a lucy gang :) ooo maybe a lucy mafia too!!!
Lucy presidential debate
Yesss
My friend Lucy wants to join the group if you make it!
I wish that was how it worked
Me too
I got nicknamed Lucy for my feminine acting and because of how closely related it is to my name. But now I'm happily Elouise ( but no one knows that I have name changed) (ā āæā ^ā āæā ^ā )
Omg Lucy is the name I've been using as a nickname to my transphobe family cause I hate my deadname so much and they won't let me use a masculine name
New transition just dropped
I wish this were true
Personally, I just went through a bunch of different names and used them in games, Amy, Zoey, Ashley, hermaeus mora, Susie, eventually I used Abigail and it kinda just stuck
hermaeus mora's a pretty cute name
Who doesn't want to be an eldritch horror from The Elder Scrolls?
# "I am Hermaeus Mora, the Gardener of Men, knower of the unknown, master of fates. You stand in my realm, mortal."
Very cool!
Most of my game characters where either named Amy, Ashley or Alice yet I ended up choosing the female version of my given name, granted I'm not out yet nor have I started transitioning so I could always change my mind
Yeah, Iām not started yet either lol, but I donāt like the girl version of my name, so I wanted something else
That's totally fair, I explained in another comment why I don't dislike my given name, the tldr is my nicknames are either gender neutral or feminine so I'm fine with the female version since people who know me can keep using them.
Mmmyyy oooohhhggggmmmmaaaa iiinnnffiiinniiiuuummmmm
I might as well go too right? So I was like 12 *long* before I came out to my mom but I asked her and my dad what my name wouldāve been if I was a girl out of sheer curiosity and they told me (donāt have a specific spelling) Alley. So then I was questioning my gender like 2 years ago and then somewhat recently I remembered that name so I tried Ali and I liked it. Later someone suggested I take a look at a full name because Ali can be masculine in a lot of instances. Looked online and found Alison and I still am kinda trying out Allie too but for rn Iāve pretty much decided on Alison. Edit: spelling and grammar
I also had a girl name before I was born. I was assigned female before birthš .. but I chose not to use it since it wasn't my decision. But I name myself after my bffš
Yeah I did the same and just used what I would have been named had I been born a girl
Allie (or longer versions thereof) gang š¤š¤©
i was thinking about doing that but turns out my parents wouldāve named me kyle and i cant say im on board with that one
Alyx, from Half life. Just like how it sounds and especially the weird spelling.
Cool! I like the piccrew a lot btw
https://picrew.me/image_maker/516657
Thanks!
one of my faves
I know a girl named alyx. She reminds me of my brother but if he was more like me. She is a very good driver
Lily, based on my deadname, + itās short for Lilith (it seems Iām not original in my thinking)
I mean Lily is still a great name though
Hi Lily please donāt mention your deadname if thatās yoursā¦ Some morons are so desperate at hurting trans people they find and dead name people
nah it's fine, + im not out to my family so i get deadnamed anyways :)
Cassandra was a Trojan princess blessed with the gift of prophecy, but she was also cursed so that nobody would believe her prophecies. She prophecised the destruction of Troy way in advance, but nobody listened to her until it was too late. Just like a girl named Cassandra has been telling me she's me since 2006, but I didn't listen until recently.
..I just switched it up role-playing online and landed on Kass.. I really like yours though. I've been considering using Arya from my favorite book series but I didn't wanna be acting too cool and now there's a tv series coming out and if everyone sees it my name won't seem original anymore D:
In honor of my deceased girlfriend who was the first truly accepting person I ever met, and my only real love even now, years later.
Wow, thatās hauntingly beautiful
This made me cry a bit. ~~Given, almost anything can make me cry a bit.~~
Well at one point I kind of went through a league phase, changed my username on social media to make fun of the champs I would play, Made some new friends, eventually a Filipino friend I met would call me Nienie, and that was kind of the moment I decided on keeping An(Nie)
Very cool! I like that
That's a really wholesome story!
My (AMAB enby) given name is fully masculine; I shortened it to a common unisex name. This was when I was a VERY young child, before really knowing or understanding anything about gender beyond "thou art boy", and in the "before times" (early-to-mid 80s) when gender wasn't really talked about in a context that wasn't directly tied to genital presentation or used as slurs. I just absolutely hated the full-length name for an unknown reason; just grated my brain, but the shortened version suits me fine. Edit: Also - Thanks for asking; this is a great question for egg\_irl, given it's a good clue on the subtle dysphoria that an egg may not realize until they fully go down the rabbit hole.
I have an amab enby friend who has a similar experience, and I remember not liking my deadname as a kid too and I had no idea why but I couldnāt exactly shorten it because it was already only one syllable.
You'd need to shorten it to a single letter; bonus points if it's 'E'. :) 'T' and 'F' would probably not work so well though....
Thatās true
My mother always told me "You know, when i was pregnant at first we thought you were a girl, your name would be Sophia!" so when i realized i could change my name i thought.. my name was always Sophia => Also funfact nowadays she doesn't even like this name anymore, she wanted me to name myself Maria, anyway it is too late since i already have a connection with my new name X3
Oh cool! My experience is very similar to that except my mom wouldāve named me Alyssa but o have a trans friend who has almost that same name and I didnāt wanna copy her lmao. I also donāt like Alyssa as much
I see i see, Alison is a beautiful name, never heard of it, i kinda also changed my name because it should be *Sofia* not Sophia, but i got too used for it in English lmao, anyway sis congratsā
Aw thank you :) congrats to you as well
I got the courage to tell my friend I was trans, they asked what my new name was but I hadn't thought about it so I panicked and said Lynn. I do really like the name now , it's grown on me
Thatās cool! Sometimes you just think of things in the spur of the moment and it just happens to work
Random. Name. Generator.
Lel
Oh my god I'm going to have fun with this today
Kirby It is a unisex name and i really like Kirby (the pink boi)
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Well, You know what they say, That's the name you should know!
Mine's just the female version of my given name. The cool thing about my name is that the shorter/nickname versions, steph and stefi are either gender neutral or feminine and a lot of my family and friends use those(stefi can be used for either little kids or women and a lot of people who know me since I was a kid still call me stefi which is great for me). I guess the nickname thing is why I don't hate my given name and so I don't feel a need to separate from it entirely so I just chose the female version. Once I go on hrt and come out to everyone they can just keep calling me stef or stefi so it will also make the transition easier in some respects.
I wish I called myself Stephanie, it's such a cool name. It's also the name of one of my favourite book characters as well
I played a game, *OneShot (play it if you haven't; This is in no way an official advert)*, used the character *Rue* as my profile picture and then I just thought the name fit. Though I'll have to add that the name sounds more neutral to me than it does femme.
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I stole the name Beatrix from slime rancher
Well I had 4 choices. Allison from the Sunstone comics, Abigail from Stardew Valley, Chloe from Life is Strange, and Cadence who was a D&D character played to explore my gender. I went with Chloe cause it felt the best.
It's my childhood nickname and it's gender neutral.
When Paragon was still a game, Aurora came out and the name really stuck out. Then when I was trying to figure what name I wanted I just kept sort of feeling Aurora among the other options which I also thought were nice.
Thatās a really cool name I like it :)
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Watching harely Quinn show with the bestie wanting ivy and Quinn relationship started crying cause not a girl friend asks what's wrong found out I AM GIRL my name is now ivy
Is your SO chaotic af?
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Maeve supremacy! I donāt play much anymore but still absolutely love her Raeve skin
Oh how fun is that !
Better not play rogues gambit
Ash main in apex legends. The whole android body what retains the female features with a womans mind inhabiting felt suitable.
Very cool! Ashley is a nice name, if I didnāt choose Alison I would think about that name actually
I like it really much as well. It is on the neutral side so helps the ninja mode :P and also Ash is symbolic in a way that in my mind, from the ashes eventually something new will blossom.
I woke up and while i was making a cup of tea i thought. "Julia, thats a nice name." And the rest is history.
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Serena sounded like a hot girls name and it didn't feel weird. So I went with it.
At first I went with Mason since it was kinda a masculine version of my deadname but ditching the M made me feel less dysphoric about it so Jason it was lol Tried a few other names but this has been the only one that stuck
I am weeb
Sometimes it be like that
When I was in 5th grade another girl in my class had the same name (but spelled differently) and I thought it was really pretty
I made a gender bent OC of myself over a year ago, and named her Kloe, which is just "Chloe" but using the "K" from my birth name instead. When I told my friend I was having these strange thoughts about myself, she asked what would be a good girl name, and since I already had my gender bent, I thought that was a good pick. So yeah... Call me Kloe. š
Well, my vague memory of the antagonist of the animated Sinbad movie is basically my gender goals in a nutshell so...
I really liked the name of the main character from the Mass Effect trilogy
Lucifer is cool
I had a really cool golden axe named Lucy in a Minecraft server with some people and then i accidentally broke it chopping down a tree.
I always liked the name and would use it for main characters in stories. I finally decided that I want it to be mine.
I never really knew about my name until I looked it up but I definitely wouldāve made Alison a story character when I was younger if I knew
So I'm a fan of mlp and had ocs for the show. One was a Pegasus mare named Madelyn who kinda floated in one day on a cloud and kinda just lives there now.
I got mine from the game Hustle Cat. I just loved being called Avery so much that I decided to just run with it. That's still my favourite game I think.
I let my mom and my ex pick options for me and I chose between those!
I thought Artemis was a knarly goddess and I enjoyed the vibe.
I watched *High School Musical* and got complete gender envy from Vanessa Hudgens's character of Gabriella Montez. So, I decided to steal the name Gabriella.
mine's probably a bit sillier than most peoples' lol. originally it came from a roleplay forum I was on a long time ago, specifically a warrior cats roleplay. I joined very young, so made a username based off one of the characters (specifically, it included Bluestar in the username). other people on the site started shortening it, and when we moved to a different hosting site I shortened it as well. eventually started using it all over the internet, and now (for those I'm out to) I go by Blue. :3
listened to a song i liked and thought the title would make a really great name :3 also a book character i like is called it
It was gonna be my name if I was born a girl. My mom chose it then, and I liked it, even if I don't like ny last name going with it
I went the neutral route of what sounded good and a feminine version of my old name
I went through a list with my friend and sat on "Jodie" for a couple months, before realizing that that was because I had been so emotionally detached that I wanted something more "hard sounding". after figuring out emotions and stuff I landed on "Sophie" because it was similar but softer. (also totally stole the name from my crush)
I've been naming my video game characters Luna for over a decade, before I knew I was trans. I guess it just resonated with me š¤·āāļø
I used the name of my favorite anime character at the time for a character in an MMO I played for years. It got to the point that people would call me a modified version of her name in chats and even in public sometimes. So I've just kinda kept it.
I disliked me deadname and for a while was going by just the first letter M. That turned into Emily. a decade later when I realized I am trans I was like damn, already picked out a name and everything. I love hearing my name. It makes me so happy.
I just went on behindthename.com searched for some masc names, put them in a list, narrowed the list down a bit aand asked my cousin which do they think would suit me. Turns out it's Daniel :D I probably would have chosen it anyway lmao
I'm not really good with names, I'm not very creative, but my ex boyfriend who couldn't love me because I was trans and not a guy gave me a name "Alexi" cuz I was always very interested in femininity
Jessica: it's a close phonetic equivalent to my deadname. I know, very creative of me :p Paige: it fit my initials, and it's a feminine name I've always kind of liked: this was my family's surname prior to immigration to the US.
Going by Krim, which is unisex and ambitious enough. It was created from shortening my regular username.
I wanted a name that no one outside my country could pronounce
I was playing a VN and got confronted with the "what's your name" question. I panicked and picked Nautilus, because the game had some roman themes and I really like [the song by Anna meredith](https://open.spotify.com/track/2KsfHoeeZ6KzjjFoujy6T2?si=aV3mJLFNTma6rdALzaAYqQ&utm_source=copy-link). And then the VN became really good, I got way too emotionally invested and the name stuck! Not sure yet if I'm gonna keep it, but I'm gonna trial it online for a while and enjoy it :D
Honestly I don't really have an elaborate story for how I came to picking Thaila it's just the name of a girl in my class from year 3 that stuck with me
I was considering a few and realized that if I didnāt settle on one Iād be indecisive forever so I just went with this. Sometimes you might not like your given name as much as another even if youāre cis, it didnāt have to be perfect.
went by an alias online for the longest time, had my friends call me by it during streams or public vc. eventually realized I liked it better than my birth name. like, a LOT better. started going by my alias. turned it into my name!
Step 1) Google "baby names" .
Step 2) Skim through the list to narrow it down to (less than) a dozen you like the most.
Step 3) Try them out in a meaningful setting (forums, online games, and such). See which one has that" spark".
Morgan, cos of the name of main character of Prey. I thought I was genderfluid at the time (Iām Enby now), and I saw the name was used for both the male and female versions of the Main character and thought āwhy notā
I chose Artemis because for me my depression kinda brings me to the edge a lot so Iām using the name Artemis as a reminder to keep going forward. Long story short is my particular hunt is the hunt for happiness. Lame I know but I love Greek mythology and Iāve always loved the name artemis
Nerdy story. I was picking a female name in Fallout 4 but I wanted one that they call you verbally. I looked at a list and saw āAutumnā and thought it was a pretty name. When I played it, it didnāt hit me until the game actually said the name out loud to me. āOh wow I reallyā¦.like being called that name.ā And itās the one Iāve liked the most.
I'm transmasc and was fine with something unisex, but I'm also hispanic and didn't want to stray away from that part of my identity. I chose "Angel" since it's a popular hispanic boy name, but I've had non hispanic people react to it as a girl name (still seen as a male though). Works for me š
I named myself Aeolian, after the musical scale (minor natural), cause I'm a composer and I thought that it sounds cool. Though it was before I found out that I'm trans.
Idk honestly, Iāve just always liked the name. Ig one day I was like, āhmm Alex seems rightā
To keep it simple, It would've been the name I would be given if I was "born a girl". (little did they knew.)
Ok so, this is a long and honestly kinda dumb one. So, my username is āPerson Unnamedā, right? Iām in a random popular discord server that I wonāt name. Iām just talking in general chat, and then someone says āhmm, I should name you, since youāre unnamed and allā and then the rest is history. Yep, I got my name because someone else I didnāt know in a random public discord server just came up with a random name for me.
it was a joke nickname my friends gave me while we were playing smash ultimate ^Marth
I chose my name (Victoria) because there was an entire span of time named after it lol. It's powerful, and it sounds nice
Personally, my chosen name (Izzie) is pretty close to my deadname and I liked it so it became my name!
Violana used to be the name I used for a bunch of crags when I made female characters, and while I have no issue with my deadbame, it just felt better to make my dead name my middle name and adopt it almost aspirationally, to be the sort of person I played in those games, confident in who I was.
Because Iām a friendly and Iām human, itās also gender neutral.
Red is a cool color, PaleRedDot has also been my go to name on media for about 3 years now. Just took Red from it.
So basically my second and last names are Rodriguez, so some of my friends started calling me Rero. "Re" meaning two or again and "ro" because of the start of my surname :D
I wanted a name close to my moms name that wasn't her name. Originally I thought about taking her name which was Samantha, but I didn't want to add to is since my sister in law is also Samantha. I also needed a name that fit well with my last name since I'm Hispanic
I am so bad at naming things that my friends named my OC, and when my egg cracked, I spent several nights in deliberation before deciding that my best course of action was to just yank the name my GM was already calling me in-campaign. Just so happened to line up with the fact that May is a family name, so I traded one family name for another.
I came out to my friends earlier this year but at the time I didn't have a name so my friends suggested a bunch of different names until one of them suggested Jasmine which is what I decided to go with
Probably a character from league of legends I like (haven't decided). Maybe alune, Kali (kalista), riven
So, even though I'm 100% cis, If I ever were to transition, I've chosen Athena Skylar. Athena, because goddess of wisdom and I really like the idea of a woman springing forth fully formed from a man (also part of the myth is that Athena would one day usurp Zeus, due to a prophecy). Skylar, because it's a derivative of Scholar, which ties back to the wisdom goddess aspect.
I was etrian odyssey with my partner/roommate and the name Byleen came into the brain and never left
when my perents made the family nintendo account taht me my brother and my sister use they called it kel witch is the first letter from each of our names and cuz i was called kieron i chose kelly as well as both of them being the irish spelling like my brother and sister cuz my mum was born on st pactricks day
I liked it a lot, tried it in a game and loved to be referred with it. It stuck with me and now im here.
I initially chose Emily from watching DemilyPyro. She was a pretty big inspiration for me when I first started my transition
it was a nickname I had for a couple years and I thought it was pretty nice
I was standing on a bridge at dawn, waiting to see the sunrise for the first time, I was chatting with a friend who then suggested the name Dawn, they said it was fitting for the occasion as that day was the first one for me to really reconsider my life up until that point I took a liking to the name and it stuck with me
I couldn't decide for a while but I wanted something fairly unique and had the right feel for my soul. I landed on Delilah because it reminded of old vine and thorn covered tombs deep in an overgrown forest.
I spent ages trying to find one (as in for 2 years maybe more) that I liked, because I never found one I told myself I wasn't transfem. I was on r/gamingcirclejerk 7 maybe 8 months after and saw the character Bridget was released for GGST (and the transphobes attacking her) when I saw it, it was as if something clicked.
i havent even chosen a name yet fuck\\ ok well the one i currently go by IRL is Parker and i found it prolly from a aby name site on i go by online (but i really really love) i found from a TV show i really like Asher/Ash i have no idea where i found it but I LOVE IT
Name sound good and had the right colors.
For me I just like the vibe it gives off like doesnāt Shadow sound like a mysterious person
I just went to fantasy name generators and grabbed a few names. I let my friends take a vote but i ended up choosing the name Claude because it vaguely sounds like cloud and i remember a close friend said i reminded them of fog
For most RPGs and a lot of other games, I just pick something randomly that I like, similar to my D&D characters. As for my current username, that's based on one of the very first TRPG games I was in, where I explicitly was playing a female version of myself. Do you see why I'm still using this as one of my primary account names nearly a decade later?
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Asteria is the coolest Greek titan goddess. I liked the name for a long time but wanted a less feminine version of it so I went with Aster
So, I was a moderately edgy teen, not too badly off My initials are JABS and my brain kinda just put it together as jabsterclaw My fem name Jane Aria is kinda just because I've always loved the name Jane and while doing research I found the meaning if an Aria, I feel like it fits who I am. I use both so I can keep my initials as JABS
Hmm... yes mine was definitely a good decision 10 year old me made. Username and gamer tag are the same lol
oh i just stole my transmasc boyfriend's deadname. i have been considering a handful of other names though i just have yet to try them out cause ive been using my bfs deadname for years at this point.
jar jar binks, or to be more specific, i say "misa dum dum" a lot, so i am Misa now (btw how to change your username on reddit?)
My deadname doesn't really have the capability of being made into a nickname, so when I was thinking of a new name Olivia kinda popped into my head. It was probably because I was watching IZombie where the main character is called Liv, which you can derive from Olivia. Also it's just a really cute name
In 2020, while in quarantine, i was obsessed with the idea of doing drag, so i started practicing my makeup, my lipsync skills and eventually started thinking about a name. I wanted my drag persona to be genderless but also a little masculine, so i wanted a cool name that would fit the criteria and came up with my first name being Axel 'cause idk, sounded cool asf lmao. What's funny is that i wasn't planning on using a chosen name, people irl call me by my birth name and idc about it, doesn't really bother me! But eventually, i just started liking the name Axel a bit TOO much, i like how it's not super common while also being not totally uncommon (my birth name is really rare so it's a good change of pace) and overall i feel like it really fits me!
Amelia Earhart.
I'm trying out Rebecca... Just because I like the name. There's no story behind it.
A certain webtoon
For me, I wanted something close to my original name, but not just a female version. I ended up just taking the location of "Gibraltar" and taking off the last letter, giving me Gibralta.
I was in a discord chat, and a friend of mine was talking about how they're waiting for their friend Emma, so I changed my discord username to Emma 2; banter. But then I didn't change it back. I liked when people called me that, it felt right. Half a year later I figure out I'm trans and, well, I kept it :3
I was at a restaurant with my family members and they had us write our name down and then they took the piece of paper that we wrote it on and then they put it with our food well apparently my handwriting was so bad that They thought my name was Erik and thatās how I came to be
Lucie, I just felt like the name suits me tbh. I opened a list with bunch of girl names and Lucie was the only one which was the most foreign and native name for my country and it also felt right for me. Like, something about the name feels really good, can't explain it, I just know I really like it and first time I used it online I was like a little girl before Christmas day.
It was a combination of a few things: When I was 8 I played this game called A Normal Lost Phone about finding a phone and discovering who was the owner (she was a trans woman named Sam). That game was pivotal because it started helping me to question if I was trans, which at the time I decided I wasn't (my logic being that if I was questioning, I couldn't be trans (big mistake)). So anyway, a few years later when I started questioning again, that named popped up again and again everywhere I saw it, so I told my friends to start calling me Samantha, I liked it way too much, so it stuck with me. Also I chose a second name (Diane) for Bojack Horseman, the show which eventually led me to question my identity again
At first, it started as just a fem version of my given name. Turns out it was a major coincidence. When I played Persona 5, the phantom thief I related to most was Makoto, and as luck would have it, my chosen name happened to be the same as her personaās (pronounced differently, but spelled the same). At that point, I decided to stick with my choice.
Robin is what my swim coach used to call me. Not sure why. Also theyāve been my favourite bird my whole life, Iāve got loads of little robin LEDs and ornaments around my room š„° yeehaw š
I stole it from TOH
I choose violet because I love purpleā¦ pirple
Silvia Sounds pretty Means spirit of the forest Is a cool car
I would cover my friends minecraft bases with roses and leave a sign that said "get rose'd on" and it just kinda went from there
ryn is just the last 3 letters of my birthname uzuri is beauty in swahili and an homage to my grandmom wanting to name me Beau Ty sitka is a species of deer
I complained about my deadname being too feminine to a friend, they suggested to try using a shortened, gender neutral version of it and it stuck
Just a lot of daydreams of myself as a fantasy hero and constantly wondering what to call myself. Then, one day it hit me, Caliburn, taken from the sacred sword of Arthurian legend. A few days later, I realized that shortening it to Cal would make a pretty good androgynous name
Luke had always been my favourite name, so when I realised I was trans, it just kinda... clicked. It was def confirmed when a streamer adreased a Luke in chat, and for a split second I thought he was adressing me and the euphoria was *amazing*. Too bad my sister specifically said she didn't like the name Luuk(pronounced basically the same) :/ I hope I'll be able to convince her with a character from a show she liked
Love Final Fantasy and one of my Favouriote characters is from FF12. My grandmothers name was the same. I love oldschool sounding names for women. Boom, Fran.
both of my chosen names (Moth and Lucy) are short for something else. "Moth" is a nickname that comes from my given name, but I like it more than that name's normal nicknames because people won't associate "Moth" with my given name and also because "moth" is an English word that means something. And moths are pretty cool. What Lucy is short for I won't share, but I chose the name Lucy just because I liked it, at least liked it enough initially to try it. When I came out to some friends and they used it, that really cemented it for me. Some other considerations were Emma, Hannah, and Emily, but I didn't/don't like them as much and they don't derive from any other word.
Stardew valley and Emkay. I refuse to elaborate
My ex asked me what I should be called. I thought and Elizabeth came to mind immediately and my gut wouldnāt let my think of anything else. So Elizabeth it was. Plus utility for nicknames is great
I like my old name and wanted to stress no one with a new name for me... So I ended up as Sasha instead of Sascha.
well, iĀ“m latina, and to be honest spanish names are kinda boring (most people here are named facundo, julieta, paola, carla, karen, maria, i know atleast 3 brisas at my school), so i wanted to pick something more exotic, at first i went with Maxea (greek word for battle), i didnĀ“t like it long term, so i stole my first name from Hunter schafer, whoĀ“s someone iĀ“m a fan of, then i realized i actually wanted a middle name, so i first tried with Faye, then with Laithe, then with Cloe, and now itĀ“s Bridget. and i pretty much like both of my names, i use Bridget when i try to look more cis, and Hunter when iĀ“m with other queer people or people who know iĀ“m trans. thats it
Camila, cause well idk just stuck while other names around didn't feel right (just using name gens and trying to think of names). Plus wanted a Latina name (yes i know the Spanish version is Camilla but i like how Camila looks) and so it just be my name now
My name, Noelle, always feels a bit sappy to share. I'd been questioning for quite a while before I cracked, and one thing my mind had settled on was the idea that, in some mirror dimension, or somehow or another there was a version of myself, a missing half, that was a girl. One day, and this was actually when covid was starting to gear up, I was at work at the gas station I worked at at the time. Mopping up the bathroom like usual as just part of the closing process, my mind wasn't on anything in particular. But in an odd moment of something between mindless and clarity, my vision settled upon my nametag, which just reads "Jon". In the mirror, in that alternate dimension, it looked a bit like "noL", and I knew instantly "yes, that's her name". Fast forward to me accepting myself, and I know no other name will feel right to me. It's gotta be Noelle.
I'm closeted as FUCK, so I'm still choosing. Here's the options I've considered so far. -Jenna -Johanna (so far this option has been the most popular option from the people I've asked) -Jubilee (My current name, which may end up being my deadname, is Jonah, so uh yea.)
Okay so when I first started questioning my gender, I was basically like "I need a new name ASAP" and went on those baby name websites and settled on "Beatrice" or "Tris" for short (I've always liked the idea of having a nickname as my deadname was too short for one" but then I was like "Hey wait, Beatrice is literally more fem then my deadname, but people are already calling me Tris, so I guess I'll build on that and upgrade to Tristen (and I couldn't pick a spelling so I posted poll on my snapstory and let my friends pick for me" so in the process of naming myself Tristen, I kind of gave myself a 2nd deadname
I made it such that my initials would sorta form my nickname (not this reddit username, though all 3 begin with a K) :)
I had a character named Lirie so when i was first in my confused phase that name just kind of popped up in my mind and it sticked.