How many names did you go through before settling on one?

[BubbleTea]

i tried about... 15 or more since i could never find one that fit me. i would try them out but they would bore me! sometimes i like the name but someone would end up ruining it for me, comparing it to something i disliked or something that just didnt sound right haha.

so in the end i stuck with Jennifer. its been around 8 months now and im still liking my name very much! and so are the friends ^_^.

[KaydinTheSquire]

Uh...I think I started with David a few years ago, but that bares no resemblance to my real name, and I needed something not so different since I'm not yet out to my parents. Then I went on Kay, Kai, Kaydin, and others. I'm currently with Kade which is kind of the male version of my name, just with a D instead of a T, and I think I like it.

[GDTripp]

So far I've kept the one I chose. I took a few days to research names and their meanings so as to pick out names that described me. (Owl, hawk, horse, dragon, traveler, fierce, strong, warrior, foreigner, changeable, original, etc.) Then I switched them around until I got a name pleasing to the ear.

What I ended up with was G--- D--- Tripp.
G--- : Old German for Warrior
D--- : Scottish for Son of David
Tripp : Old English for Traveler

Not 101% sure it fits me though... 

...I settled on a third name which must remain nameless because it is uncommon and I want to limit Google references that could be traced back to me.  For those of you who plan stealth, you might want to remember that before picking an unusual name to limit how visible it is to search engines.

And This is why I don't spell out my whole name for y'all