What Gender is Your Name?

[Julia1996]

My mom actually suggested Julia. My boy name was Julian so Julia isn't that far off.

[Winter02]

I'm not actually sure what my name's gender is.. My chosen name is Aryk ("Erik"), but my RL name is Kyra. So I went with my identified gender and chosen name. Male Erik. I'm pretty sure that a unisex name

Gaelic spelling, am I right?

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[Winter02]

I consider mine to be androgynous, then again... i have relatives with names like "shadow", "night," and "ocean"... so idk

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[LaRae]

I was fortunate enough to be given a unisex name at birth, & haven't felt any need to change it.

[Kylo]

I had a unisex name before, but I've decided to change it to another name that contains unisex and masculine names for use in various situations, a name with two middle names, should I decide to start using them informally in various situations. Unless it's an official situation where papers need to be presented I can use any one of these three as the offered or preferred name.

My reasoning behind this is that there are some people from the past whom I would very much rather never recognize me as who I "was", since they may well still be malevolent. Hence a change of official first name. Then the androgynous original name is in the middle if I want to use that with relatives, an undoubtedly and common masculine name is in there to use, and another different unisex name is in there to be used in case a situation calls for it.

My initials would now be: V. V. A. L. or V. L. for shorthand use.

I took a pragmatic approach and tried to cover all the bases and potential needs.

[itsApril]

I was AMAB and given a recognizably male name I never liked, so I picked out a recognizably female name going into transition.  My goal was to blend into the herd, so I didn't want a name that would be startling or unusual for a woman of my age.

Math nerd that I am, I enlisted the help of statistics.  I looked up the most common names given to girls in my birth year.  (Thank you, Social Security Administration!)

I wanted to avoid being caught in the stampede of Jennifers and Nicoles and Ashleys from that year, so I bypassed the names at the top end of the list and picked out "April" at number 47.

1.  Recognizably female.

2.  Same initial letter as my given name, so I retain the same initials.

3.  Bonus: "April" suggests springtime, a time of a new beginning.  I was optimistic about transition.  And I was NOT disappointed!

At birth I was given the name "Andrew" (English form of the Greek name Ανδρεας (Andreas), which was derived from ανδρειος (andreios) "manly, masculine") by my well-intentioned but clueless parents.

Boy!  Were they ever WRONG!

[graspthesanity]

I chose Jamie because it was unisex and I was questioning, but I liked it as a male name and so on while growing up, it seemed like the perfect male name to me. Then I realized that I was a binary trans man and I moved to Portugal where I use Jaime (different pronunciation) and it's strictly male and I'll use that spelling once I get to change my name

[Margrit]

A woman with a female name