how did you name yourself

[nonameyet]

pretty self explanetory. im getting really frustrated trying to find my first name. i have a middle name. the one i wouldve had if i had been born female. but the first name that i wouldve had doesnt fit me. so now ive gotta find one. i want one thats pretty and unusual and doesnt have any memory associations and wont raise questions when i go full time. i tried a name generator for ideas and just got a few laughs

so. howd you find your name


edit: for the record the first name i wouldve had fits all of those it just doesnt fit me somehow.

[FalseHybridPrincess]

I took my male name and made it kinda female...
I couldnt change it completelly cause it means much to me...
so Philip became Philina
still it took me a while to come up with it , its not an easy process 

[Sheala]

well I made a bit of a leap with mine. my born name is shawn. so i could have stayed, its a rather agender name. or gone shawnna if i really wanted to.

however, eversince i read a book i had follen in love with shea, and in the book it was used in a male contaxt so for game charectrs i wouls use shea.

When i came out to my fiancee and started comming up with my name, she soggested Shea, however i had a cowrker that went by shay...... she changed it to Sheala, and added the middle mane Dawnn to go with it. That was the name that i fell in love with from the moment i heard it. it fit me so well i couldnt be any one else.

you can find your name from any where, it doesnt matter what others think, if you like it and it fits who you are, go with it.

[Felix]

Whatever you go with won't be perfect, but it will be yours and nobody else has any say in the matter.

If you really don't want to raise questions, I would check the social security administration database for your birth year, and pick something in the top twenty. If you aren't born in the U.S. and can't find a similar record set, ask your elders what was popular then. You could even just alter a popular name to be similar enough to be unique and still blend in.

Still, anything you pick is yours and you can make it what you want.

[Rachel]

I like Cynthia and Michelle is the female version for Michael. I am going with this for now but may change it later.

[tgchar21]

You might try using some baby-naming tools. A good book for someone in your situation is The Baby Name Wizard which gives "sibling" ideas (but is more like an "if you like this you might also like that" idea). You might also visit Nameberry; on their forum they've had a few transpeople asking for ideas and they've been pretty accepting of them.

[Miyuki]

I'm still working on it myself. My current name doesn't really have a proper female version. The closest thing to one is rather archaic, and I don't think many girls have been given that name within the past century... I asked my parents what they were planning on naming me if I were a girl, and they told me my name would have been Alison. I'm not sure how I feel about that name. It's pretty different from my current one, and it would take some getting used to. I think I might just use it as my middle name. I did find a list of girls' names on Google that seemed to have a lot of good candidates. Right now I'm thinking maybe Melissa for a first name? It has a similar feel to my current name, or at least it seems that way to me. I'm not sure if I like the nicknames for Melissa though, so it's tough to decide.

Either way, picking a name is hard, and personally I don't think anyone deserves the misfortune of having to pick their own name. It's a lot easier if you're just given a name and are able to get used to it over time. I don't know of that many people who hate the name they are born with. But if you have to pick your name, it feels like you need to pick something that represents you, your personality, your likes, your dislikes, your hopes, your dreams. Or you can just take the easy way out and pick the female version of your male name like a lot of people do.

[Gina Taylor]

Ninteen years ago, I was on this Transsexual Internet site, and it wanted me to register. I thought for a half a second after reading through the forum that it would be kind of wrong for me to be presenting myself as a woman with a male name, so I remembered that most transsexuals usually chose their names starting with the same first initial from their male names, so all of a sudden the name 'GINA' pops into my head and I went with that. Then a few weeks later the surnmae 'TAYLOR' came to me and it sounded good, so I kept it.  Then a week later I added 'ANN' for her middle name. So hense forth, Gina Ann Taylor was created.

[Edge]

Madeline B recommended my name.
I like Victor because it means I win with all the subtlety of a brick.

[Emo]

once upon a time, i had gone on an internet site and went by raine. everyone was confused as to which gender i was. later, i was told it was a bit too unique. and she was right. its a genderless name so itd be a dead giveaway. so i thought of names i liked and came up with zoey. but it didnt seem to fit.
so i tried the method i used to name my characters. i went on baby name sites looking for something... anything. i ran across the perfect name.
Noelle.
it is close in meaning and origin (which is french) to my birth name, curtis, which means courtious. Noelle, meaning christmas, is the most giving and unselfish time of year for me so i felt it fit me well.
plus its the name of my favorite chaacter in blazblue so thats a bonus. :p

[Azahara]

My given name was Bryan, and so initially I decided that like Brie, and so went by that name for a while.  But then I saw that I LOVED "Brianna", so I decided that the long version would be Brianna and that I would still go as Brie for short.  My given middle name was Evan, and the name "Evelyn" always fascinated me, so there you go!  Brianna Evelyn =)  I love it! 

[Anna++]

Good timing, I just wrote about how I named myself the other day!  In short, I looked at how popular my male name was for the year I was born and then took the female name with the same ranking.

Full blog post here: http://ocarinaproject.net/?p=170

[LJP]

Both my grandmothers first names.

[Megumi]

I knew what my name should have been ever since I was a kid. I wish I would have acted on my feelings back then instead of suppressing them. The funny thing is people always assume what my name is when we first meet and they see my birth name and automatically call me by a name I never liked.

[Lana P]

Ok so I have a rather funny story. It's about my first and middle names. When I did drag my drag name was Alicia Love. Most of my friends wanted me to change my first name to Alicia. But I had to get away from that whole persona. My born first and middle were Ian James. I have always hated both names. I was planning on going with either Tyanna or Tatiana but my father kind of helped me pick my first name which is funny in its self. He asked me if I knew who Lana Turner was. I had never heard of her so I googled her and found out she was a Blonde BombShell. So that is how my first name came into place Lana it was. I had always liked the name Vivian but I spell it with an E not an A Vivien Not Vivian.

So as it is now Lana Vivien and then my given last name which I like. Lana Vivien Poulson

[Donna Elvira]

Ever a  pragmatist, to make life as easy as possible for people who will already have enough difficulty getting their heads around the idea that the "he" they had known for years is now a "she" I took feminine names that were very close to my male names. Donna is pronounced almost the exact same way as my male first name and my second name, Antonia comes from Anthony.  I did however consider Angélique for a while but something told me that it would be a hard sell..
Happy hunting!
Donna

[Jill F]

I wanted to leave my given first initial intact, but there were no female equivalents of my first name (Gregory).  I didn't want a name that had an obvious male equivalent, (Michelle, Paula, Briana...) as I didn't want people to falsely assume my original name.  I also didn't want one that was unisex (Leslie, Dana, Alex).  I could also eliminate names of people near and dear to me, and people I couldn't stand to be around.  My mother would have named me Juliana if I was FAAB, but my much younger sister got that one.  I also like anagrams. 

All roads seemed to lead to Gillian.  An anglicized version of Juliana, starts with "G", all letters originating from my birth name, and every Jill I ever met was awesome.  Love it.   The first name I tried on was Ginger, for the obvious anagram (In Greg), but it so didn't fit.

My middle name is Elizabeth.  Classic, regal, elegant.  It could have been Victoria as well, but Elizabeth won out.  And my wife is 100% Brit.

I took her last name as well.  She stuck with me, and that means the world.  She is my rock to the very end. 

And don't even think about calling me Jack. 

[Ltl89]

I've been on hormones since June and still haven't selected a name, lol. For about a year or two, I used the name Jennifer or Jenny with friends, but that was when I was 19.  I'm now an ancient 24 soon to be 25 year old.  To be honest, I don't think I'm a Jenny even though I love the name.  Besides, I know too many Jens in my life that we don't need another, lol.  I'm considering something that starts with m.  In particular, I really like Mandy and Molly.  The problem is Mandy starts with 3 letters that could prove bad for a transgirl and Molly is now used for a street drug (and I know someone with that name who I'm not really a fan of).  Not sure yet. 

Just find something that you like and that really feels like you.  It's not as easy as it sounds, but you'll find something.

[nonameyet]

Madeline B recommended my name.
I like Victor because it means I win with all the subtlety of a brick.

that made me laugh because its funny. but also because of the differences behind choosing a male name vs a female name. subtlety of a brick  vs elegance and flow. XP

thank you for all the replies everyone. im that much closer. : )

[Carrie Liz]

I, like many, just came up with a bunch of names that were basically female versions of my male name, and then picked the one that sounded like the best fit.

My male name was "Charlie," so the various names that I came up with were "Cheryl," "Charlotte," "Carrie," and "Carly." (Never considered "Charlene," because it was a bit too close.)

Out of all of those, I liked "Carrie" the most. So that became my first name. Then my middle name, Elizabeth, was my maternal grandmother's name. My mom always tells me that I have her eyes, so I thought it was appropriate.