Your name and why you chose it

[Zack]

I don't think it is either but other people seem to think so, dunno why.

[Debra]

I chose Jerica after looking for names that started with Jer so friends and family could still call me Jer if they wanted to. I kind of tried it on for a while and it grew on me. I tend to get lots of compliments about it. I will say, people did not often ask how to spell my old name (Jeremy) but they ALWAYS ask how Jerica is spelled. So that's kind of new for me haha.

[Josie06]

Josie, from Josie and the Pussycats.

Just one of the many girlie names I have liked over the years.

[CrazyTina]

Christina~

I chose it because my birth middle name was Christopher and I always liked it more than my birth first name, and Christina is the femme version.

I go by Tina~ for short.

My middle name Audry~ was chosen recently and I picked it because it is a very feminine name and I like the sound, but I don't know if that will be my final choice when I get my name changed, I will keep you informed. ^^

[My Name Is Ellie]

My name is and will always be Daniel because that is what my parents named me.

Danielle (1 N) wouldn't be pushing it too far.

Ellie is a nickname that my online friends gave me so I kept it. I figure if it can be short for Danielle it can just as easily be short for Daniel!

[Yakshini]

I never actually chose my name. My mother named me after my father, and I don't feel the need to change it. I am perfectly content as Shawn.

[DaddySplicer]

Josko, or as I later found out is correctly spelled, Joško, was just a random old Slovenian name I came across, my family being Slovenian with Slovenian names. It had double-O's, which struck me as very masculine, and so I chose it hastily.

It's supposed to be pronounced Yash-ko. But I prefer Yah-sko. Even still. It's really eccentric and I regret my rush. I mostly introduce myself as Joey because trying to correctly convey, spell, and explain "Josko" with every encounter is a bother.
Post Merge: June 26, 2010, 06:42:25 PM

My name is and will always be Daniel because that is what my parents named me.

Danielle (1 N) wouldn't be pushing it too far.

Ellie is a nickname that my online friends gave me so I kept it. I figure if it can be short for Danielle it can just as easily be short for Daniel!

I knew a chick named Daniel, pronounced as the feminine version. Can't imagine it's too uncommon.

[Shang]

Well, I put this elsewhere but...

I chose "Gabriel" as my name.  I love Christopher Walken and I love The Prophecy.  When I saw Christopher Walken playing Gabriel (the archangel) as a kid, I just feel in love with the name and with the actor.  Gabriel felt right to me, and I would later name a few characters Gabriel.  I then promptly forgot about it until later on when my friend asked me if I had a "boy name" and I said "not really...no, wait.  Gabriel, Gabe for short" because it hit me on the head.  The name just seems to fit me, plus I can do a play on sounds and get called "Gabrielle" so I can flip it.

[Britney♥Bieber]

I'm extremely new to this and very far from transitioning but I've already chosen my name, I think. When I told my best friend I asked her what I would call my self and then we sat there for a good 15 minutes coming with names. I don't like any female variants  of my birth name, Michael, so we tossed that idea out at the start. I came up with Kimberly. I've always liked the name, so I said it halfheartedly and she liked it and right when I said it I felt some sort of connection to it. So, as of right now that will be my name. I'm not sure what I will change my middle name to, if anything. William is a name I always liked, for a male, but it doesn't really bother me at this point!

[Inphyy]

I never actually chose my name. My mother named me after my father, and I don't feel the need to change it. I am perfectly content as Shawn.

Shawn is considered a unisex name...

Also I've chosen many names before but Yubel (You-Bell or You-Vell) has always popped into my mind and not to mention it rhymes with my biological unisex name I have now Micale (Muh-Kuh-L), it's rare and as far as I know there's no one else that has my name...And I've gotten much feedback...Good feedback about how it's different and pretty! =]

[Sarah_aus]

Hi girls - and boys, new here, been reading for a while, I'm still choosing, but I like Tali, or Talitha, aramaic, meaning little girl, I chose this name before I knew its meaning,  not sure on the rest but I like Etymology and have come across a few names I like:
Caoihme, pronounced kee-vah, gaelic orig meaning beautiful
Seraphina, from Seraphim, hebrew orig. Meaning fiery ones, was and angel in the old testemant with 6 wings. There is a bible verse in isiaih verse 3 for those that are inclined that i like.
Shafirto, hebrew orig. Literally the word beautiful
Cadence, means balance in musical terms
Estrella de mar, asterie (not sure but I think this is just the word star), means starfish in spanish first and french second, I like starfish because they can change their sex at will or choose a sex.
So far I am thinking
Talitha Shafirto Asterie
Or
Seraphina Caiohme Asterie 
Thanks
Tali... For now!

[Wishing-To-Be-Demyx]

I'm new. lol . The name I chose was Demyx. I played Kingdom Hearts and fell in love with the character. Honestly, that's the type of man I want to be. So Demyx means a lot to me and I felt that it was a good idea to name myself after the character who showed me who I was. I am no longer Kimberly, a daughter. I am Demyx and a son. Now all I have to do is tell my parents.......

[Dante]

I'm new. lol . The name I chose was Demyx. I played Kingdom Hearts and fell in love with the character. Honestly, that's the type of man I want to be. So Demyx means a lot to me and I felt that it was a good idea to name myself after the character who showed me who I was. I am no longer Kimberly, a daughter. I am Demyx and a son. Now all I have to do is tell my parents.......

Glad to see another Kingdom Hearts fan! Welcome to the forums! 

I have to say though, while I honor your commitment to the name and the reason for which you chose it, Demyx isn't really a good choice for a name. It hasn't been established as a name at all, and while it's not overtly a feminine name, it might confuse people who hear it if they don't know it's origins. I would suggest choosing a similar name and using Demyx for a nickname, or maybe a middle name.

[tuxgrrl]

I do not remember adopting a female name for many years. I guess unimaginative me coould not get beyond "Hey me!"

Nothing exotic here, including me.

SusanKG

Same here. I picked Aimee after my best friend, Aimee. She's the only person outside of you all who knew all I did about this. She passed on a few years ago, and it's my way of keeping her memory alive. I don't have a middle name, though I'm open to suggestions lol.

My screen name here, tuxgrrl, alludes to me being a Linux fangirl. Something that just recently occured to me is that it illustrates the dual me. I hate the male exterior, but it's there for now.
Post Merge: June 30, 2010, 05:47:04 AM

I do not remember adopting a female name for many years. I guess unimaginative me coould not get beyond "Hey me!" Years ago Susan just surreptitiously started showing up. Last year, while getting serious about this, I started a list of female names I like enough that I would name myself them at new birth. I tried a bunch, picked middle names, even names using my male initials, thinking I might backdoor the name transition by switching to using first and second initials, sort of from Bill Adam Smith to B. A. Smith to Betty Arlene Smith, or whatever.

Nothing sounded as good to me, for me, then Susan. Kay is a commonly used middle name. Nothing exotic here, including me.

SusanKG

[Britney♥Bieber]

I'm rethinking my name decision and more ideas I've come up with are Aimee and Skye. I love them both! I just gotta wait and see what I end up with.

[My Name Is Ellie]

Currently musing with the idea of Daniél. That way on legal documents my name is "right", just missing an accent, and yet the pronounciation suggests feminity as "Danielle" or "Danyelle" are female birth names.

[Lucian]

I never had a liking for my birth name but I never actually came up with an alternate name for myself til last year.  I went with Lucian cuz I found I like names ending in -ian and it just felt right, I liked the way it sounded n all.  I also found a site that shows how people rate the names on various scales (classic vs modern, Upperclass vs Common, Strong vs Delicate etc) and found the name to give a fitting impression and description of me, you could say.  And every time someone calls me Lucian I get this big grin on my face, so I seem pretty happy with it.  In addition, it means light, which could be interpreted as a new light coming into me/my life with this decision to be who I am. *shrug*

As for my middle name, I easily converted my original into its masculine partner (although even that could be read as a female name).  But now I'm wondering whether I want it at all.  I think I'd like to have a name that means something to me instead.  I was given a nickname that I hold special, but I'm not sure that I want it as a legal name.  So we'll see.

[April Dawne]

I'm rethinking my name decision and more ideas I've come up with are Aimee and Skye. I love them both! I just gotta wait and see what I end up with.

How about Kimberly Skye? I think that sounds nice =]

[Britney♥Bieber]

How about Kimberly Skye? I think that sounds nice =]

That does sound nice! Just about two nights ago I decided I don't like McKey cuz it sounds like Mickey. Haha. But I did decide to go with Kimberly Love last name. Skye is also a nice middle name! I'll consider it cuz I love the name skye haha

[April Dawne]

I wasn't going to explain my name choice because I didn't think it was that interesting a story, but what the heck.

The initials of my birth first and middle name are DA and at first I wanted to keep them and maybe use feminine versions of both. The only names I came up with that were even remotely OK with me were Dennie Artine, but it sounded too dated to me, so I just chose a bunch of names I really liked and then put it to a bunch of people that were "in" on my secret as a poll: Which name sounds most like "me"?

Funny thing is, I ended up not even picking the most popular choice, and went with April Dawne, which coincidentally is my original birth initials in reverse. Now people say that April is perfect for me, lol. I wasn't positive about it, and even considered Kathryn Alexis, but now April Dawne is exactly who I feel I am. I chose it partially also because it was April when I first "discovered" myself, and it was like a new "dawn" for me. As if I was walking out of a nightmare into the morning sun for the first time.

Ok, that sounds totally corny huh? lol. Time to shut up, April! HAHA.