How I came up with my name

[deatsabat546]

              well orginal i chose sabarina couse i always liked the name.
            but recently i changed it to kelley. after a convertion i had at work with one of my fellow female coworkers.
                         

[schism]

i switched names a couple of times.... i can't stand the name my parents gave to me, although for a long time i didn't know why i hated it so much.

first i went with billy, since i was on a long-running collaborative writing site and one of my character's names there was billy, and most of the members would call me that anyhow, so it made sense to continue using that, but it never really felt like my own.  i then started using jack, but it's the name of a guy i once fell in love with, so i didn't really feel like it was appropriate.  then my sister was round one day and we got onto the subject of names, and she suggested finding a name that begins with the same initial, so we went looking on some naming sites, and heath jumped out at me.  i've always liked the name, and it reminded me of heath ledger, who i've always had a lot of respect for.  our personalities are pretty similar, he's got (or had) the same reserved intensity, so i thought it was a nice fit. 

an amusing side note, my second name begins with L. 

[Æsher]

"Other."

I knew I didn't want to use the masculine version of my given name as my first name, but I like the meaning of my given name, so I used the masculine version as my middle name. First name, "Asher," I found after five minutes of looking through a list of boys' names on the internet. It just kind of jumped out and attached itself to me, and we've been together ever since 

[Stephe]

I was transitioning in place and didn't wanna make a huge leap from my birth name. I ended up with Stephe for a silly reason. Most online places Steph or Stephanie has been taken but Stephe is usually available. I used this for at least 10 years before I got my name legally changed so went with this. On hindsight I wish I had spelled it Stephey but I'm OK with having a unique spelling of my name.

[thisimmortalsoul]

I'd thought about just using the feminine version of my name when I transition (Daniela/Daniella), but I already have a friend with that name and it's confusing enough as it is. If I was born a girl I would've been Bethany May (initials: BMW) but that doesn't feel right. Before I was born, Mum wanted to call me Jack, but decided the moment I was born that I didn't look like a Jack; I like the name Jacqueline, but I have a bit of a history with someone called Jacqueline, so it's best that I forget that. Emily is the name that feels right for me. I plan to let my parents decide on a middle name for me.

[Choochy]

I'm still in the pre-stages of working towards transition (seeing a therapist) but I've had my name chosen since I was 13-14.  It's always been a name I loved for one reason or another and can't honestly say why. 

It's a unisex name but I've always seen myself as a Shannon.

[JenniferR]

I have always had a setimental place for the name Jennifer and I really like the shortened version to Jenni (with an "i" and not "y"). I've never had an intimate past with any one with that name, but I've some special friends over the years. It just has a certain ring to me that makes sense. My middle I chose is Elizabeth, because I love that name as well. Someday it will be my legal name. My last name will remain the same.

[Felix]

When I was a kid I wanted Cid or Sidney. Not sure why, or why I don't anymore.

[Ayden]

Apparently (I found this out recently) Ayden is a pretty common name for transguys. *shrug*

I had a hard time, because there are a few names I liked a lot: Vincent, Julius, Luka, Mathias and Glenn to name a few.

I picked Ayden because that was the name of the knight in stories my Grandpa used to tell me all the time. It was called "Ayden's Adventures in Awesomeland". He would make up a new story every time about this knight who never did anything too impressive, but he was a decent guy. He used it because it was the name he and grandma picked out for their first child (different spelling though), who died about an hour after he was born. Grandpa picked my legal name too, which is Erin. I figured taking Ayden and keeping my legal as my middle was the best way I could honor him. He was the first person I ever told that was a boy, and I didn't want to wear dresses. He told me 'Well kiddo, sometimes boys have to do some yucky things and dirty work, but it ain't all bad.' I also chose it because it means 'little fire' which goes together with my personality and because Grandpa let me burn my most hated dress in his garage after a day when I came home in tears one day.

Grandpa always called me his little hellraiser and Grandma calls me her firebrand. Just seemed to fit.

[amrisa loftus]

I came across my name, Amrisa, in a weird way. I took the name Michael and ran it through an Middle Earth type of elven name generator. It came up with Amras and a geeker friend of mine told me a female version of that name was Amrisa. I absolutely feel in love with it.

What can I say I'm a geek and loving it.

[Tori]

I went by Spike as a street name when I was younger.

I went by Spliff.

Bygones...

I tried Tori out when I registered here.

Why? Baby name websites. I identified with it and it was close enough...

Thought of it as a joke when I picked it... an online persona. Now I love and live it.

Tori. Means Victory. Short for Victoria.

But I hate Victoria... so... I go by Tori.

[schism]

you folk with your cool street names.

i was forced to endure 'cookie'.  ten years later, if i ever happen to see them in passing, some people still call me that.