How do you choose your girl's name?

[Kaylee]

I've had three legal name changes as an adult. The first two were male names and were of favorite science fiction characters of mine.

When I was choosing a female name, I wanted to choose a name that was based on a fictional character that I liked. I was set on four different names before I decided on Amelia/Amy and then it took me a little bit of time to decide on Rose.

I feel that, out of all of the names I had thought of, Amelia Rose fits me the best. Besides, that way I get to be named after two sci-fi characters. 

Amy

Glad I'm not the only one that went with a Sci Fi inspired name! :-)

[Danielle Emmalee]

My wife picked mine actually. She hated me using Michelle or the femininzation of my middle name. She wanted to make my name Micaela as it's more Latina. As a Latina of mixed heritage I told her it clashed waaay too much with my last name (which is very German). "Well then how about Mieke?"

And the rest as they say is history.

Although I do get the occasional jokes about the movie Eurotrip , but I still like it!

How do you pronounce Mieke?

[bethany]

My name is from a song that I loved as a child and in fact still to this day like it very much. My middle name is just a different spelling of my given birth middle name's nick name.

[Yukari-sensei]

How do you pronounce Mieke?

There is strangely enough a video on it...



Where I live though it usually pronounced Mika, which is fine with me. I had a professor pronounce it properly once and I was briefly confused.

[PrincessPatience]

 I tried Carly, Haprer and Melody but none of those name fit me it felt like i was trying to be somone.  I picked Patience because it seemed to be the name that fit me the most. I also thought of my parents what would they want and all my sisters had virtue names. So patience felt authentic.  I saw the Catwomen movie with Halle Barry in it and ever since i was little i've always loved catwomen and other girl figures. Halle's character name was Patience and i really related to the movie and helped change my life.

Especially this quote:

"The day I died was the day I started to live. In my old life, I longed for someone to see what was special in me. You did, and for that, youll always be in my heart. But what I really needed was for me to see it. And now I do. Youre a good man, Tom. But you live in a world that has no place for someone like me. You see, sometimes Im good. Oh, Im very good. But sometimes Im bad. But only as bad as I wanna be. Freedom is power. To live a life untamed and unafraid is the gift that Ive been given, and so my journey begins." "

In the movie she dies as insecure girl and reborn as catwomen.



I found it power seeing how i was going through the same thing.
I couldn't see myself living a lie and continuing the road i was on. It would've been depressing and my future would've been none existent. Life is all about change and i needed that change. That's why i physically/Mentally needed to die from being the old scared, depressed, insecure and lifeless boy and being reborn as the confident, full of life girl/ young woman i'm (transitioning to be) now.

Another great quote is "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive" - Tupac.

[Tessa James]

My sister named me Tessa at age three and I was her sister until I was apparently disabused of that by an non-accepting culture, going to grade school and the reality of puberty.  Like so much of my life I was able to completely repress these "thoughts" and when my sister teased me about it, as an adult, I would simply forget that it ever happened and could never remember that Tessa was my name for years.  I still secretly believed I would somehow become a girl and grow up to be a mom until puberty.
Flash forward a million years and when I finally accepted myself as transgender I could also now magically remember my name was/is Tessa and that I get another opportunity to be that girl I so long denied....

Life can get much better if we can face our demons and more of the truth.

[Katie]

Crap you got me thinking. Its been so long since I changed my name I have a hard time trying to remember why I choose it. I guess I just liked the name Katie. Theres no turning back now since its legal. Ha.

[WFane]

I have an mtf friend who I larp with. I asked her to help me come up with a name for my Blood Elf at larp (red skinned elves with emotional issues) and she had created her own language for game. She said her character would refer to mine as a "fane," meaning "hot tempered." So Watcher Fane is my character and forum name.

IRL, my first time wearing womens clothes, and thereby exposing me to an oh so dormant female side was when I played a Silent Hill Nurse at Anime Boston. Nurses in Silent Hill are physical manifestations of nightmares interacting with your subconsious. The nightmares belong to a girl named Alessa. Alyssa is kinda stuck on me now

[Marissa]

Wish I had a good story to go with my name, but really, I spent about 4 months going through lists of names and their meanings.  I wanted a name that wasn't too common but not unheard of either, and preferably something meaningful.  When I finally came across 'Marissa' meaning of-the-sea, it just clicked for me.

[Tessa James]

Wish I had a good story to go with my name, but really, I spent about 4 months going through lists of names and their meanings.  I wanted a name that wasn't too common but not unheard of either, and preferably something meaningful.  When I finally came across 'Marissa' meaning of-the-sea, it just clicked for me.

Oh that is even a more lovely name with that "meaning."  I live on the coast and love all things maritime that are part of our water world. 

We just keeping paddling, swimming, sailing or floating along;-)

[Alexis Hennen]

I had met a girl in grade school who's name was Alexis, she was always awesome to me...Never forgot about that.

[Marissa]

Oh that is even a more lovely name with that "meaning."  I live on the coast and love all things maritime that are part of our water world. 

We just keeping paddling, swimming, sailing or floating along;-)

Thanks Tessa! *Hugs*

[Xhianil]

I picked my first name when i first discovered about most of who and what i am, i selected it from a web comic because it was unusual and at the time that character was close to what i wish i was, still struggling to pick out a new middle and last name though.

[Melanie_uk]

I have always liked the name Melanie , but now toying with changing it to Daisy .

[Kate G]

I chose my current name back when I believed it would be impossible for me to ever transition so it was sort of a fantasy name.  I guess I imagined it was a name a beautiful girl would have.  When transition began to look more possible I decided to change my name to Amanda.  But then I was at this gay bar and some lesbians who knew me started talking to me and I told them that I was now going by Amanda and one of them was like, "OH, I get it... A Man Duh!"  And then they started laughing.  So I decided to stick with my first choice instead.

[Ms. OBrien CVT]

I took mine from my favorite cult film.



My middle name I took from an ex.

[LilDevilOfPrada]

Well I always wanted to name my child Zoey since I was like 6. By my child I mean the one I want to have. This was for weather i had a he/she hehe I am weird like that but then I took it for myself as I like it.

[Sephirah]

I didn't choose mine, it chose me.

I always had an affitiny for it, so when it came to the time to decide on a name, it wasn't really a choice.

[mountainhun]

My name would be ridiculously easy to feminize, Michelle, but that would have wound up being my mother's name, and that would be just creepy. >.<  I am leaning on Harmony pretty heavily, since balance and peace have always been something I have strived for.  I have experimented with being called by a different name before, however, and I know that it's important to find a name you can identify with immediately and unambiguously with yourself.

[TaoRaven]

Roxanne was the name that my Mother had intended for me if I had been born with girl parts.

Which makes it all the more painful that she is the only person in my life that does not support me. -=sigh=-