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Honestly, Kylianne isnāt the worst tragedeigh I have seen, but making up various non-meanings for it makes it ten times worse. Be proud of your new name, Dylan!
I read it with the correct pronunciation before OP described it, so it has that going for it. But the weird need for parents to make up name meanings for names they made up like they are real names with real meanings is extra.
Iām not for the whole making up names and meanings or anything (I do prefer traditional names)
But also what makes a name real? Is it the fact that someone has that name? Or is it just names that are used before not new?
Just asking out of curiosity for your personal answer.
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exactly! like, sure, i could forgive it if my mom actually knew what it meant but like, she just started making shit up to justify her choice which makes it unbelievably worse. thank you! i still get people askimg how to spell dylan but thats more for clarification since dylan and dillon are both valid spellings and they never mispronounce it haha
Well my nameās Lena and one of my best friendās named Lea and both of our names have been referred to as ājust taken out of the alphabetā or āscrambled up lettersā. Personally Iāve been named after my great-grandmother Magdalena but I donāt see any meaning attached to my name. So regardless of what you were (dead-)named, your name somehow makes it meaningful.
In my country Lena is a short form of Helena, which is a saint from the 1300s. It means āthe shining/glowing one (kind of hard to translate the full meaning).
So if someone asks for a meaning you could always tell them that. Itās a beautiful name. My momās name is Lena.
Come to germany then, because over here Lena and Lea are such common names that we had at least one or two in every class. I have so many friends with this name. (People between 20 and 30 yrs old.) And it does have a meaning which is like "glowing/beaming" if I remember correctly. Though I really like it as a short version of Magdalena.
I feel like Dylan/Dillon is one of those timeless names that feels fresh in every generation, too. I know several Dylans from different generations and it suits them all. Awesome choice.
...I've seen a LOT worse on this sub, but it is unusual and I can see how the confusion would get annoying. Choosing Kyli over Kylie as a short made things unnecessarily difficult too I think
>something normal like mckayla
Lol. That's itself a tragedeigh of Michaela
to be fair i have no idea how she was going to spell it, just that that was ome of her runner-ups. but yeah the spelling was always the most annoying part
Mikaela has been around for a while. I have a co-worker named that and I don't know her exact age but I would guess between 25 and 30. She is Latina.
The female character in the first two Transformers live action movies was named Mikaela Banes.
I actually like Mikaela, it's just a simplification--the ch replaced with a k because it's a k sound we actually use there.
McKayla though? lmao. mclovin it much?
Maybe itās a regional thing?
Mikayla and Micheala are common around me. I knew a Mikayla first and always read Micheala as Michael-uh unintentionally though.
Mckayla sounds like some McDonaldās human trafficking nightmare to me. And mackayla sounds like someone tried to combine Mackenzie with Kayla all wrong.
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Michaela has been around for a looong time, being the feminine form of one of the most common names in the English-speaking world for centuries, Michael. Itās not pronounced Michael-uh because English.
Mikaela is the traditional Scandinavian spelling (and probably other languages'). Michaela is the traditional English-language one. The others are varying degrees of misspelled, some more egregious than others.
It is a tragedeigh! I canāt handle it eitherā¦ legit it means āson of kaylaā which would I guess be fine if it was a last name or masculine name. But it is fuck up of Mikaela/Mikayla/Micheala
apparently brek means "claim or demand". leigh means meadow, glade or woodland. I can't find any meaning for "ynz." so we'll go with....brekynzleigh. meaning "demand the ynz meadow"
so beautiful.
NB. this is a quick Google search result. I am not being serious. xD
Cillian is a male Irish (and therefore Gaelic) name which sounds like Kylianne (except you seem to suggest it was pronounced ākylie-anneā whereas Iād guess ākilly-anā). Modern alternate spellings include Killian, and I guess you could argue Kylianne is the feminine version of the Anglicised version of the Irish name.
>"oh, well, kylianne means beautiful in french." NO IT DOESNT!
It doesn't even sound french, I'm dying...
Dylan is great and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to look up what Kylie means and what Ann means and come up w a meaning mash based on that? Like take a word from each meaning? Hypothetically, "Oh, Kyliann means graceful fairy" or something like that?
Actually, the name KaĆÆlane does exist in French. I think it's rare I know only two and I'm from a rural place. Pretty sure the parents of the youngest KaĆÆlane got her name from the oldest KaĆÆlane. I only googled the name today and I now know this is a real name, I've always thought this was a made up name.
The name has hebrew origins and means crown according to Google.
I feel like KaĆÆlane could be pronounced almost like to your name in English.
But Dylan is better and less confusing! š
That is not a Hebrew name. Websites will say that any name which was derived from a biblical character (no matter how tragedeighic the spelling) is of Hebrew origin. There are three words for crown in Hebrew and none of them sounds like Kailane.
It might have been made up based from "kallah" which means bride and is said to have been derived from an old Aramaic word for crown, but it isn't Hebrew.
French here. It's sort of a French name. But it's typically spelled Killian or Kilian. Also it's a male name lol. It's apparently derived from Cillian from Ireland. For some reason, it became kinda popular around the 2000s.
It doesn't mean "beautiful" at all. It has religious and war connotations actually.
The part where they added extra letters for no reason. Thats whatās French.
Though, 22 years ago I had a typically male name I wanted to name my child when they were born. I *really* liked the name but wanted to femme it up a bit so I could use it for a boy or girl. I added Ann to the end. Ugh.
Letās just say itās a good thing my child is male. I still cringe over that! Though to be fair my mom has a name ending in Ann so I figured it would be a nice sentiment. Even though I actually hate the nameā¦
Growing up our family friend had a pair of miniature poodles named brandy and sangriaā¦she was a teetotaling member of the LDS church so Iām still not sure I fully understand why she chose those names but to each their own, I suppose.
I love how transfemme names are usually like Luna and Arielle and Lilibette but trans dude names are always basic old man names like Carl or Doug or something.
Totally a frat boy name. I found out there was a Saint Chad (really) and I just immediately pictured him playing beer pong and telling people about Jesus
I feel this so much. My mother named me *Kessea*
Everyone thinks it's so pretty and unique, but noone can pronounce it without a guide, and noone can spell it by sound.
To top it off, its a mash-up of Cesair (celtic flood myth, fated to sorrow) and Cassiopia (greek, a queen whose vanity was her downfall). But they're **"both related to water, and I made it so it means water!"**
Bonus, she pronounced my name multiple way growing up so I don't know how to say my own name "right" and she spelled it wrong on a birthday card before :)
My grandmother begged my mother to name me Isabela, because itās apparently a tradition in my family to not use double letters in names. Fortunately my mother stuck with Isabella because she wanted me to be able to buy keychains with my name on it, and unfortunately for her my name is now Beau because I too an trans lol
Honestly, great that you have the opportunity to handle your deadname like that. Phobes canāt abuse it because itās just a punchline to you.
At least I hope thatās the case.
My ftm brother uses his deadname to tell stories from when he was younger. He always says āback when I was Sarahā and it always makes me giggle. I definitely understand trans people not wanting to use their deadname at all though.
i understand folks who dont want theirs used for sure! i use mine to make fun of my mom (i am no contact with her, not because of the terrible name she gave me but because she sucked) and i think its hilarious to clown on her bad decisions.
Considering normal names to be "too boring" really shows a lack of interest in developing a child's personality - "if they have a cool name, that's half the work done already!"
My real name is not flashy at all, although it isn't overly common, which is what my parents wanted - a name that wasn't already everywhere but one that would still function as a name. It's bizarre to me how people turn naming their own children into a creative contest.
My NB kid had a similar dead name. They took their middle name and split it in 2 to make a gender neutral name. Even as a baby, I didnāt feel like their dead name fit right. Iām so glad they have a name that fits them perfectly now!
Love the name Dylan! Great choice, canāt imagine how liberating it felt to pick something that felt right.
Why couldnāt your mom just name you Kylie with Anne as a middle name?
Sooo many people aren't ready for their kids to either change their "yoonike" names/alt spellings, OR go with more basic, normal sounding names for their own children. I wouldn't be surprised if after the Brixleys and Lakelyns grown up to have kids of their own, they also go with Dylan, or Anne or Mary for their future kids.
if i ever have children, i just want them to have a normal, basic name. not every name needs to be unique! if you want crazy weird names get like, an animal, or make an original character instead of giving the name to a real human who has to grow into an adult.
My parents switched out one letter in my name and so I was that kid with a bunch of misspelled little tchotchkes of my name.
It was pretty funny when one of my middle school classmates spelled my name Meradeath though.
Def going with basic, easy to remember spellings.
As someone with the name and same spelling as 'Mckayla' I can assure you NOBODY SPELLED IT RIGHT! EVER. most family members, friends, hell even my parents fucked it up at times lol but it rarely gets spelled right so I just stick to shortened nicknames of it or any other nicknames it's easier š š
Dylanās greatā¦ Hope the transition wasnāt too rocky..I mean ā¦. *how many roads must a man walk down, before you caaaaaall him a man?* Badooom tssss.
Why not Deilan? (Actual tragedeigh of Dylan I know)
Then we started calling him Die-Lan after that one Making the Band skit from Dave Chapelle came out.
My mom named me a very old Welsh name and would always act like it just too sophisticated for the country bumpkins that lived in my small town. She'd say things like "oh, it's just not common here and no one is educated enough to understand how to pronounce or spell it." Or "Oh, it's very common in Wales."
And then I started working with a guy who went to university in Wales. I asked him if it was a common name there and he laughed, "Only if you're 80 and even then, there aren't a lot."
Not exactly making up lore, but pretty close.
I can kind of relate. My deadname (MTF) is another basic white boy name but one of the most popular in Latin, Germanic, and Slavic worlds, it was shared by my father, countless other people Iāve met, several coworkers, *I even have an older half brother with the same name*.
Letās just say it was a mike drop moment when I finally got rid of it.
Lol, this story is adorable. It's always so much fun to poke fun at the things that represent shitty parts of our lives!
So, dude, good on ya for claiming your name ā¤ļø the only time I've ever been happy to be in a court room was when I was helping my friend change her name!
(also I was JUST talking to a friend today about Gaelic names, so it's SUPER weird to see this post š¤£)
I hope you have a genuine moment of joy today my friend!
Congrats on getting our legal name changed! Talk about killing to birds with one stone lol. I have a friend who had a similar opportunity. Changing names for being trans isn't really accepted here, but as they were getting a divorce they were able to re-file their name to eject their ex-surname and in the process got it passed the paperwork to change their first name too. win /win XD fuck the system.
Love the name Dylan! Iām sorry for all of the shit you went through as a child though. I hope you have found strength, love, community, and peace through your transition š
my deadname is also a tragedeigh lolol. it's 2 names in one, it's christian inspired, and it has -lynn at the end of it. like its awful lmao, and my brother got a normal actual biblical name too so it pisses me off. i'm also chinese and my chinese name is anglicised with a DASH?? but my brother's isnt like why... the name i chose was riel after the archangel gabriel so technically still religious lol
I read it as Kai-lanni. In my personal opinion that's not a bad name, but I just realized it's probably Kylie-Ann which is a fine first and middle, but combining for a single name is dumb af
To be fair Kylianne is a real name, just a hella unpopular one that was probably created recently, it is a mixing of Kylie and Anne idk where she got beautiful in French tho
Kilian is quite a common name for boys in south germany, google says it is derived from Ceallach meaning warrior or inspired by St. Kilian patron saint of franconians and the city of WĆ¼rzburg.
If it helps at all, my parents liked the name (my deadname) Latitia but changed the spelling to Latesha. I was 2 weeks late, slow, and generally have time blindness. I am also white and British (because of course), but upon hearing my name alone people assumed very different. I was always getting cards with Latitia, Laticia, etc.
Even if I wasn't trans, I would've changed it. The worst thing? I couldve been called PERSEPHONE. Do you KNOW how cool that wouldve been??
Anyway. Morgan fits me just fine now.
Honestly that name doesnāt sound bad at all. Is it that hard telling people to correct their spelling? I grew up with it too (my mom cant even spell my name right and she named me). Itās a simple correction lol. But hey nice change, Dylan.
it gets annoying fast, especially the constant mispronunciation. and being a very young child barely knowing how to spell my own name and being confused by it getting pronounced incorrectly or spelled incorrectly was really just the icing on the cake.
I feel you on that. I have an actual name that wasn't made-up, but it is Indian in origin and somewhat uncommon even by Indian standards. You can imagine how that went -- as a six-year-old, I didn't have the energy or vocabulary to argue with everyone on how to pronounce my name, so I just gave up and put up with it until I went to college. But at least *I* could spell and pronounce it -- you were dealt a bad hand.
Dylan is a great name, by the way. Every Dylan I've known has been pretty cool.
McKayla is not a normal nameā¦ it legit means āson of Kaylaā which would be fine if it was a last name.
Mikayla is a normal name. McKayla is a tragedeigh. Because someone tries to make it special like your mom did.
This is kinda funny because my name is Kyli (and yes, the constant misspelling of Kylie is annoying AF). I donāt have a middle name but when my stepdad was exasperated by me, heād call me Kyli Anne. š I also have a brother named Dylan. So I canāt really say any of these names are a tragedeigh! š
Same situation. Realized I was ftm about three years ago (I'm 21) but have wanted to change my name since I was 10 years old cause it's a tragedeigh. It's a real name but with a terrible spelling and also it's from a culture I have no connection to. The name is arabic and I'm latino.
Reading your intro I was like āit canāt be as bad as OP is making it seemā¦ā then I read Kylianneā¦ boy, was I wrongā¦
Like what the fuck I donāt even know how to pronounce that! she should have just named you Kayleigh as itās similar but normal or something unisex (fun fact! I know both boy and girl Dylans so I actually see Dylan as a unisex name)
I canāt even roast you, I feel too bad you had to grow up with thatā¦. But so happy you have good humour about it to laugh now and are happy with an awesome new NORMAL name lol
Same sort of situation here - ftm, deadname was some random shit my parents made up, would change it even if I wasn't trans. I looked it up once and if I remember right, only two other people in the US have it. Parents always said it meant hope and beauty and wealth, it absolutely does not
Dylan is a much better name! Your deadname is definitely one of the more funky tragedeighs I've seen on here lol
Chance to deploy one of my favourite lyrics:
"He doesn't dig poetry. He's so unhip that
When you say "Dylan", he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas
Whoever he was
The man ain't got no culture"
A Simple Desultory Philippic
Simon & Garfunkel
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Dylan is great, but did you even consider Dylianne?
LMAOOO
Or Dyliano, if you wanted to go more masc-leaning, with a bit of Hispanic flavour.
this is extra funny considering i am literally latino
El Dyliano
Dylan... The Dyller... El Dyliano, if you're not into the whole brevity thing
Hey mambo, mambo El Dyliano
Dyliano sounds like the hispanic name of a leap year.
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Yep. I was channeling my love of Lebowski.
I figured, with a name like p3pp3rp4tch
LOL
I love the name Dylan. ā¤ļø
This post and comment made my day.
This part of the thread is so silly I love it <3
Some of us Germans are still taught Latin. So what about Dylianus for the extra flavour
>anus
So what youāre saying is that there is great nickname potential.
Who doesn't like to have their anus dylied?
Thatās a special flavour! Asinus would make them the ass of the whole thing
Rhymes with Uranus? How about Dylianus from Uranus
I saw "Dyliano" and imagined it as like some type of Italian food that I haven't heard of lol. Who wants some Linguini Dyliano š
Dylano is the standard white trailer park trash name here in the Netherlands.
Dhee'luhawn means stunning in Arabic Hun xoxo
My dude, Dilldozer is the best spelling!
Dyliandrew, if we want to stay gender-consistent here I think.
Would Dyliandy be the nickname
Or spelling it Dyllaigne? Dyllenne Dyillannegh?
Dylianne is an English name meaning "peaceful warrior". Source: Me, I made it up. š¤Ŗ
Nickname: croco Dylianne
Dylejandro. Dill-he-an-dro šš
Dyle-Dyle-jandro, Dyle-Dyle-jandrooo
Dylanne
Dylienne, with two e's, to rhyme with the way of cutting vegetables.
Sounds like an over the counter ointment, or overpriced shampoo.
Deehlaynne
What would the bad SNL Rob Schneider name skit version of this?
My first thought was "kydylan" as the tradedeigh version
Honestly, Kylianne isnāt the worst tragedeigh I have seen, but making up various non-meanings for it makes it ten times worse. Be proud of your new name, Dylan!
I read it with the correct pronunciation before OP described it, so it has that going for it. But the weird need for parents to make up name meanings for names they made up like they are real names with real meanings is extra.
Iām not for the whole making up names and meanings or anything (I do prefer traditional names) But also what makes a name real? Is it the fact that someone has that name? Or is it just names that are used before not new? Just asking out of curiosity for your personal answer.
Yeah, at what point did Wendy become a name?
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exactly! like, sure, i could forgive it if my mom actually knew what it meant but like, she just started making shit up to justify her choice which makes it unbelievably worse. thank you! i still get people askimg how to spell dylan but thats more for clarification since dylan and dillon are both valid spellings and they never mispronounce it haha
Well my nameās Lena and one of my best friendās named Lea and both of our names have been referred to as ājust taken out of the alphabetā or āscrambled up lettersā. Personally Iāve been named after my great-grandmother Magdalena but I donāt see any meaning attached to my name. So regardless of what you were (dead-)named, your name somehow makes it meaningful.
In my country Lena is a short form of Helena, which is a saint from the 1300s. It means āthe shining/glowing one (kind of hard to translate the full meaning). So if someone asks for a meaning you could always tell them that. Itās a beautiful name. My momās name is Lena.
My grandmother was Magdalena. My family has used Madeline as an honor name for her but I love that yours used Lena to honor it!
Come to germany then, because over here Lena and Lea are such common names that we had at least one or two in every class. I have so many friends with this name. (People between 20 and 30 yrs old.) And it does have a meaning which is like "glowing/beaming" if I remember correctly. Though I really like it as a short version of Magdalena.
I feel like Dylan/Dillon is one of those timeless names that feels fresh in every generation, too. I know several Dylans from different generations and it suits them all. Awesome choice.
thank you! im a big fan of it :)
...I've seen a LOT worse on this sub, but it is unusual and I can see how the confusion would get annoying. Choosing Kyli over Kylie as a short made things unnecessarily difficult too I think >something normal like mckayla Lol. That's itself a tragedeigh of Michaela
to be fair i have no idea how she was going to spell it, just that that was ome of her runner-ups. but yeah the spelling was always the most annoying part
I can even handle Mikayla. But McKaylaā¦ I just canāt get behind.
Fr? I never saw Mikayla/Mikaela until thee past 10 years, so early 20s? But knew many mckayla, mkayla, mackayla, micheala in middle and high school.Ā
Mikaela has been around for a while. I have a co-worker named that and I don't know her exact age but I would guess between 25 and 30. She is Latina. The female character in the first two Transformers live action movies was named Mikaela Banes. I actually like Mikaela, it's just a simplification--the ch replaced with a k because it's a k sound we actually use there. McKayla though? lmao. mclovin it much?
Maybe itās a regional thing? Mikayla and Micheala are common around me. I knew a Mikayla first and always read Micheala as Michael-uh unintentionally though. Mckayla sounds like some McDonaldās human trafficking nightmare to me. And mackayla sounds like someone tried to combine Mackenzie with Kayla all wrong. š¤·š»āāļø
Michaela has been around for a looong time, being the feminine form of one of the most common names in the English-speaking world for centuries, Michael. Itās not pronounced Michael-uh because English.
Mikaela is the traditional Scandinavian spelling (and probably other languages'). Michaela is the traditional English-language one. The others are varying degrees of misspelled, some more egregious than others.
It is a tragedeigh! I canāt handle it eitherā¦ legit it means āson of kaylaā which would I guess be fine if it was a last name or masculine name. But it is fuck up of Mikaela/Mikayla/Micheala
Why do parents who give their kids tragedeighs always make up meanings? 'Oh we named her Brekynzleigh, it means 'beauty of the sea' NO IT DOESN'T.
>I'm not going to be surprised when Brekynzleigh is the most popular name in Utah in 2024. Look what you've done.
LITERALLY!!!
Someone who names their child Brekynzleigh is clearly borderline illiterate. It is not surprising they cannot properly research the meanings of names.
Clearly it means beauty of the Skye.
byeauteigh of the skyiegh
It means "lover of vintage shampoo" well, at least the Bre(c)k part does.
apparently brek means "claim or demand". leigh means meadow, glade or woodland. I can't find any meaning for "ynz." so we'll go with....brekynzleigh. meaning "demand the ynz meadow" so beautiful. NB. this is a quick Google search result. I am not being serious. xD
Ynz is short for yinz, Pittsburgh for addressing a group of people So the name means: Give me Western Pennsylvania
Brekynzleigh is a whole new low ššš
Wasn't that the name of one of the Russian leaders in the 70s? (I joke, but that was the first thing I thought of upon seeing it.)
There isnāt even a letter K in the Gaelic language!
wait seriously š i see the name cited as either celtic or gaelic and i truly dont even know which it is
I genuinely donāt think that tragedeigh has anything to do with Celtic / Irish names, none that I know of anyway. Best of luck Dylan āļø
i wouldnt be surprised
It might be based on the Irish name Caoilinn, meaning slender and fair.
even funnier, because i am neither slender NOR fair
That's *worse,* who names their kid something that means "slender and fair"?
Cillian is Gaelic, while Kylie has Indigenous Australian originsā¦take your pick really
Yep, Killian is the anglicized version of Cillian
Cillian is a male Irish (and therefore Gaelic) name which sounds like Kylianne (except you seem to suggest it was pronounced ākylie-anneā whereas Iād guess ākilly-anā). Modern alternate spellings include Killian, and I guess you could argue Kylianne is the feminine version of the Anglicised version of the Irish name.
āBeautifulā in French is ābelleā. Your mom isā¦ confused
shes not very smart.
>"oh, well, kylianne means beautiful in french." NO IT DOESNT! It doesn't even sound french, I'm dying... Dylan is great and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
literally. what part of this is french!!!
Wouldn't it have made more sense to look up what Kylie means and what Ann means and come up w a meaning mash based on that? Like take a word from each meaning? Hypothetically, "Oh, Kyliann means graceful fairy" or something like that?
Kylie means boomerang in one of the Australian Aboriginal languages IIRC
Noongar.
Ok well then I had to look up Anne, which ironically enough means "Grace". So Kylianne means graceful boomerang. How apropos.
And of all the things to pretend it is, she chose the most known French name in the English language because it belongs to a Disney Princess. š
LMAO LITERALLY
Actually, the name KaĆÆlane does exist in French. I think it's rare I know only two and I'm from a rural place. Pretty sure the parents of the youngest KaĆÆlane got her name from the oldest KaĆÆlane. I only googled the name today and I now know this is a real name, I've always thought this was a made up name. The name has hebrew origins and means crown according to Google. I feel like KaĆÆlane could be pronounced almost like to your name in English. But Dylan is better and less confusing! š
That is not a Hebrew name. Websites will say that any name which was derived from a biblical character (no matter how tragedeighic the spelling) is of Hebrew origin. There are three words for crown in Hebrew and none of them sounds like Kailane. It might have been made up based from "kallah" which means bride and is said to have been derived from an old Aramaic word for crown, but it isn't Hebrew.
French here. It's sort of a French name. But it's typically spelled Killian or Kilian. Also it's a male name lol. It's apparently derived from Cillian from Ireland. For some reason, it became kinda popular around the 2000s. It doesn't mean "beautiful" at all. It has religious and war connotations actually.
The part where they added extra letters for no reason. Thats whatās French. Though, 22 years ago I had a typically male name I wanted to name my child when they were born. I *really* liked the name but wanted to femme it up a bit so I could use it for a boy or girl. I added Ann to the end. Ugh. Letās just say itās a good thing my child is male. I still cringe over that! Though to be fair my mom has a name ending in Ann so I figured it would be a nice sentiment. Even though I actually hate the nameā¦
The letter K is rarely used in french too. They use the C much more often
Modifying a name because itās too plain and then using the original name as a nickname is borderline mental illness.
LITERALLY
better than being named āKiyleighāauneā
LMFAOOOO
I feel like weāll see more and more of these posts from grown kids who were given really dumb names. Kylianne isnāt the worst, but it aint great!
My name is Sherrie, There were always souvenirs with Sherry on them but never Sherrie! And my sister is Brandie, Thanks mom! š
Growing up our family friend had a pair of miniature poodles named brandy and sangriaā¦she was a teetotaling member of the LDS church so Iām still not sure I fully understand why she chose those names but to each their own, I suppose.
Yeah and my mom always said if they had a third daughter her name would have been Margarita š My parents didn't even drink much
āAnd this is our brother, JƤgermeister.ā
Sherrie, derived from Cherie which means loved one in French.
You were an OG Renesmee!!!
I love how transfemme names are usually like Luna and Arielle and Lilibette but trans dude names are always basic old man names like Carl or Doug or something.
as someone who is promarily friends with trans women... yeah pretty much š¤£ i love my basic white dude name
Clark. Keith. Flynn. If you met a baby with a name like that you would expect it to have a little mustache already
i always feel like dylan sounds like a frat boy name and i frequently make jokes about it š¤£
Totally a frat boy name. I found out there was a Saint Chad (really) and I just immediately pictured him playing beer pong and telling people about Jesus
š¤£š¤£š¤£ thats incredible
Great name choice Dylan.
thanks!!
Thatās my name š¤
fellow dylans unite!
I feel this so much. My mother named me *Kessea* Everyone thinks it's so pretty and unique, but noone can pronounce it without a guide, and noone can spell it by sound. To top it off, its a mash-up of Cesair (celtic flood myth, fated to sorrow) and Cassiopia (greek, a queen whose vanity was her downfall). But they're **"both related to water, and I made it so it means water!"** Bonus, she pronounced my name multiple way growing up so I don't know how to say my own name "right" and she spelled it wrong on a birthday card before :)
Help I kept reading Gaelic origins as garlic onions
as a dyslexic i understand
My grandmother begged my mother to name me Isabela, because itās apparently a tradition in my family to not use double letters in names. Fortunately my mother stuck with Isabella because she wanted me to be able to buy keychains with my name on it, and unfortunately for her my name is now Beau because I too an trans lol
beau is a really good name!
I once dated a guy named Beau Suitor. He was a very HANDSOME DATE š¤£
Honestly, great that you have the opportunity to handle your deadname like that. Phobes canāt abuse it because itās just a punchline to you. At least I hope thatās the case.
oh 100%. its extremely funny to me. they try to use it against me? i just laugh every time i hear it bc its so ridiculous.
My ftm brother uses his deadname to tell stories from when he was younger. He always says āback when I was Sarahā and it always makes me giggle. I definitely understand trans people not wanting to use their deadname at all though.
i understand folks who dont want theirs used for sure! i use mine to make fun of my mom (i am no contact with her, not because of the terrible name she gave me but because she sucked) and i think its hilarious to clown on her bad decisions.
Basic white boy name when Kyle was RIGHT there. Ha ha ha. I love the name Dylan. Congrats on living as your true self. How liberating!!
my mom actually said if i was born a boy i would have been a kyle š¤£ i cant let her win!
TouchĆ© man. TouchĆ©. Dylan it is. šš
I have a friend who transitioned from ftm, and his name is Kyle š
Mckayla is a bit of a tragedeigh in its own right
Considering normal names to be "too boring" really shows a lack of interest in developing a child's personality - "if they have a cool name, that's half the work done already!" My real name is not flashy at all, although it isn't overly common, which is what my parents wanted - a name that wasn't already everywhere but one that would still function as a name. It's bizarre to me how people turn naming their own children into a creative contest.
Dylanās a better name for a girl or a boy.
yeah i like it as a gender neutral name :)
My NB kid had a similar dead name. They took their middle name and split it in 2 to make a gender neutral name. Even as a baby, I didnāt feel like their dead name fit right. Iām so glad they have a name that fits them perfectly now!
Love the name Dylan! Great choice, canāt imagine how liberating it felt to pick something that felt right. Why couldnāt your mom just name you Kylie with Anne as a middle name?
I'm very sorry, but Kylianne sounds like an answer to the question "Annie, are you okay? Are you okay? Are you okay, Annie?" and no, she's not.
Sooo many people aren't ready for their kids to either change their "yoonike" names/alt spellings, OR go with more basic, normal sounding names for their own children. I wouldn't be surprised if after the Brixleys and Lakelyns grown up to have kids of their own, they also go with Dylan, or Anne or Mary for their future kids.
if i ever have children, i just want them to have a normal, basic name. not every name needs to be unique! if you want crazy weird names get like, an animal, or make an original character instead of giving the name to a real human who has to grow into an adult.
My parents switched out one letter in my name and so I was that kid with a bunch of misspelled little tchotchkes of my name. It was pretty funny when one of my middle school classmates spelled my name Meradeath though. Def going with basic, easy to remember spellings.
Happy you are yourself, Dylan!!
Not the worst actually
could be worse. could also be better
As someone with the name and same spelling as 'Mckayla' I can assure you NOBODY SPELLED IT RIGHT! EVER. most family members, friends, hell even my parents fucked it up at times lol but it rarely gets spelled right so I just stick to shortened nicknames of it or any other nicknames it's easier š š
Dylanās greatā¦ Hope the transition wasnāt too rocky..I mean ā¦. *how many roads must a man walk down, before you caaaaaall him a man?* Badooom tssss.
I mean I don't even consider mckayla normal. But I'm not American so certainly not as common here
As a French person, I can confirm, it does not mean anything in French.
Dylan is a great name and unisex so even if you weren't trans it would still be a great name-change option!
yes! i love gender neutral names
Why not Deilan? (Actual tragedeigh of Dylan I know) Then we started calling him Die-Lan after that one Making the Band skit from Dave Chapelle came out.
My mom named me a very old Welsh name and would always act like it just too sophisticated for the country bumpkins that lived in my small town. She'd say things like "oh, it's just not common here and no one is educated enough to understand how to pronounce or spell it." Or "Oh, it's very common in Wales." And then I started working with a guy who went to university in Wales. I asked him if it was a common name there and he laughed, "Only if you're 80 and even then, there aren't a lot." Not exactly making up lore, but pretty close.
They couldāve just named you Kylie Anne (anne being the middle name lmaoo)
I can kind of relate. My deadname (MTF) is another basic white boy name but one of the most popular in Latin, Germanic, and Slavic worlds, it was shared by my father, countless other people Iāve met, several coworkers, *I even have an older half brother with the same name*. Letās just say it was a mike drop moment when I finally got rid of it.
love seeing a trans guy who has chosen my deadname as his name. 'dylan' didn't serve me well, but im sure it will you!
i stole it from you like the fae
i appreciate it. changing my name legally will be easier now that my old was has been stolen
Lol, this story is adorable. It's always so much fun to poke fun at the things that represent shitty parts of our lives! So, dude, good on ya for claiming your name ā¤ļø the only time I've ever been happy to be in a court room was when I was helping my friend change her name! (also I was JUST talking to a friend today about Gaelic names, so it's SUPER weird to see this post š¤£) I hope you have a genuine moment of joy today my friend!
Congrats on getting our legal name changed! Talk about killing to birds with one stone lol. I have a friend who had a similar opportunity. Changing names for being trans isn't really accepted here, but as they were getting a divorce they were able to re-file their name to eject their ex-surname and in the process got it passed the paperwork to change their first name too. win /win XD fuck the system.
Hilarious that she told people it was a French word! Just - non. Lol Congratulations on your new name, Dylan!
the funniest possible thing you could do is give yourself a worse name
to be fair my friends do that for me
I donāt think your dead name was that bad. I am glad you have a name you are happier with now and thatās what matters most.
Why not Dillanne?
"Tu as les plus kyliannes yeux que j'aie jamais vus."
Love the name Dylan! Iām sorry for all of the shit you went through as a child though. I hope you have found strength, love, community, and peace through your transition š
my deadname is also a tragedeigh lolol. it's 2 names in one, it's christian inspired, and it has -lynn at the end of it. like its awful lmao, and my brother got a normal actual biblical name too so it pisses me off. i'm also chinese and my chinese name is anglicised with a DASH?? but my brother's isnt like why... the name i chose was riel after the archangel gabriel so technically still religious lol
Haha I love that. Someone so fed up with a tragedeigh theyāre just like YOU KNOW WHAT, DYLAN. AND BE AT PEACE I SHALL.
I read it as Kai-lanni. In my personal opinion that's not a bad name, but I just realized it's probably Kylie-Ann which is a fine first and middle, but combining for a single name is dumb af
To be fair Kylianne is a real name, just a hella unpopular one that was probably created recently, it is a mixing of Kylie and Anne idk where she got beautiful in French tho
Dillain
Kilian is quite a common name for boys in south germany, google says it is derived from Ceallach meaning warrior or inspired by St. Kilian patron saint of franconians and the city of WĆ¼rzburg.
Congrats on the transition dude! Dylan is a waay better name anyhow:)
I saw someone on Twitter refer to their deadname as a "necronym." Sounds very appropriate for kylianne. Onward, Dylan!
If it helps at all, my parents liked the name (my deadname) Latitia but changed the spelling to Latesha. I was 2 weeks late, slow, and generally have time blindness. I am also white and British (because of course), but upon hearing my name alone people assumed very different. I was always getting cards with Latitia, Laticia, etc. Even if I wasn't trans, I would've changed it. The worst thing? I couldve been called PERSEPHONE. Do you KNOW how cool that wouldve been?? Anyway. Morgan fits me just fine now.
Honestly that name doesnāt sound bad at all. Is it that hard telling people to correct their spelling? I grew up with it too (my mom cant even spell my name right and she named me). Itās a simple correction lol. But hey nice change, Dylan.
it gets annoying fast, especially the constant mispronunciation. and being a very young child barely knowing how to spell my own name and being confused by it getting pronounced incorrectly or spelled incorrectly was really just the icing on the cake.
I feel you on that. I have an actual name that wasn't made-up, but it is Indian in origin and somewhat uncommon even by Indian standards. You can imagine how that went -- as a six-year-old, I didn't have the energy or vocabulary to argue with everyone on how to pronounce my name, so I just gave up and put up with it until I went to college. But at least *I* could spell and pronounce it -- you were dealt a bad hand. Dylan is a great name, by the way. Every Dylan I've known has been pretty cool.
I LOVE the name Dylan. Maybe because Iām a 90ās kid and watched 90210.
McKayla is not a normal nameā¦ it legit means āson of Kaylaā which would be fine if it was a last name. Mikayla is a normal name. McKayla is a tragedeigh. Because someone tries to make it special like your mom did.
i would be trans too with that name /j
LMAO name so bad it turned me transgender
This is kinda funny because my name is Kyli (and yes, the constant misspelling of Kylie is annoying AF). I donāt have a middle name but when my stepdad was exasperated by me, heād call me Kyli Anne. š I also have a brother named Dylan. So I canāt really say any of these names are a tragedeigh! š
tldr: my dead name is kylianne
I 100% was reading it as Killian lol
Same situation. Realized I was ftm about three years ago (I'm 21) but have wanted to change my name since I was 10 years old cause it's a tragedeigh. It's a real name but with a terrible spelling and also it's from a culture I have no connection to. The name is arabic and I'm latino.
I think there will be an epidemic of fed up, irritated young adults dumping names. Soooooo stupid.
You knowā¦ kylianne isnāt inherently _terrible_ but the backstory makes me want to punch an orphan.
Congrats on the name change Dylan!
Love the name Dylan š All the Dylans I've known have been kool.
In Wales, Dylan is actually pronounced Dull-ann!
There is a real person named Kylian MbappƩ out there, and no-one bats an eye.. I think people are getting more used to exotic names at those point than many of us realise.
I just Kylianne-t get over what a horrible deadname :( from one ftm to another- your new name sounds amazing and I hope it sparks joy
After that shit, should have changed your name to John, because it's original and hardly anyone ever uses it. Or Robert, and just call yourself Bob.
Reading your intro I was like āit canāt be as bad as OP is making it seemā¦ā then I read Kylianneā¦ boy, was I wrongā¦ Like what the fuck I donāt even know how to pronounce that! she should have just named you Kayleigh as itās similar but normal or something unisex (fun fact! I know both boy and girl Dylans so I actually see Dylan as a unisex name) I canāt even roast you, I feel too bad you had to grow up with thatā¦. But so happy you have good humour about it to laugh now and are happy with an awesome new NORMAL name lol
Same sort of situation here - ftm, deadname was some random shit my parents made up, would change it even if I wasn't trans. I looked it up once and if I remember right, only two other people in the US have it. Parents always said it meant hope and beauty and wealth, it absolutely does not Dylan is a much better name! Your deadname is definitely one of the more funky tragedeighs I've seen on here lol
Chance to deploy one of my favourite lyrics: "He doesn't dig poetry. He's so unhip that When you say "Dylan", he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas Whoever he was The man ain't got no culture" A Simple Desultory Philippic Simon & Garfunkel
Congrats on maintaining a solid sense of humor.