I can't say I've seen that many people that hated it. The change is more like a "I can't have a name like this, it's too gender restricted" than anything.
I can't say I hate my name, it's a pretty cool name. As a child I hated it though, simply because it's so rare. I've never met anyone with it and people always used to mispronounce it. I remember wanting to change it to "Crystal" because that sounded so cool to me.. However years later I met a "Krystal" and so the name has been tainted due to the fact she was a stupid bully.
I want to give the name to a future pet, maybe a ferret or a dog. I'd give it to a future daughter however I want to adopt, and I would not want to change their name.
Its not a bad name for a girl, its just a bad name for me. and I hate when people call me it by accident, but no i dont hate the name in itself
I didn't have a problem with it before transition but after, I use to cringe everytime someone would forget and call me by that name. It is a very "handsome" name though for a guy.
I never really liked my first name. But never new how to change it when I was young. And figured there was too much hassle with changing it in the Army. Also felt that it was given to me by my parents and I wished to honor them.
I love my first name (very original), but it rhymes with a billion different words, so I'll be OK when it's gone. Luckily my parents told me what I would have been named had I been born a girl, Lauren, and I love that name. So win, win.
It's an okay name, not too many complaints except it's so common! I detest hearing my name being called, I turn around, and they were actually calling someone else. And it happens so often. Not a fan at all.
I don't absolutely despise my birth name, since it's a unisex name, but I won't keep it in any form or spelling because I don't see it as being my name. Instead, it's the name of a character I had to play for several years.
I always liked my name. If it was unisex I'd keep it, but as it is, it has a masculine form that's very similar. So I guess I see it as my name going through a transition as well.
Love my first (birth) name, it's very unusual here in the UK and always people ask me about it which gets conversation going. Got a lot of hassle about it growing up but long term it's been a huge blessing.
It was an ok name for a girl. Terrible name for a boy, so no, I did not like it.
I actually did, and I liked why it was given to me. But I started referring to myself as Zoë when I was 7 years old and my mom and stepdad have an honorary fourth child with the female version of my old name, so there's no way I would have adopted the female version for myself.
I do like the name my mom chose for me but that's because I let my mom choose my male name and that's what I'm talking about :D
I hated my birthname it was Amanda and that's not a great name for a masculine kid. Got a lot of "is that a girl? No it's A-man-duh..." as a kid
Not that keen on the name Adam, it's a very watery porridge kind of name and not all that memorable. Besides, out of all the writers, thinkers, actors, singers, general interesting people of history - however obscure or tangental to one of the things I truly love - there hasn't been a single Adam. The closest thing to a decent Adam is Adam Smith - and economics is certainly not an area of much interest for me. The Adam's of this world have to have been some of the dullest people that have ever lived.
^ That was my name too. I didn't like it at all because I never felt it represented me in any way. It's not even fun to say or anything either. While it had the interesting quality of overlapping with the first 3 letters of my last name, that now has the side effect of people wondering why a girl would have "adam" in her email address for work, etc. Meh. I like Amy much better and the meaning kind of fits my personality too.
QuoteGot a lot of "is that a girl? No it's A-man-duh..." as a kid
Well at least they were right. :)
Yeah I think I actually hate my name that my parents gave me. THERE ARE SO MANY VARIATIONS OF IT! And it's quite the popular girl name.
Thanks, parents. You made me have to spell out my name for the rest of my life. =\
The name my parents gave me is ->-bleeped-<-ty, for a boy or a girl. It's an old woman name. If I were a girl, I'd have changed it to something else.
Are U kidding me ? They gave a boys name for crying outloud :-\
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Ew no it sounds so outdated, the feminine version sucks too.
I don't hate it, in fact the story as to why my parents chose it is cute.
However, it is a common male name, and I hear it all the time.
And it is in no way female.
So I chose for myself something similiar but female.
I never liked it very much, but it is unisex. Until I get a name change I'm at least happy that it isn't a male only name.
Mine was a very common and I mean common name for a boy. I was named after my Grandfather and great Grandfather. I can't say I disliked it, but I very fit it.
My name now is a feminine version of that name, which I did not know at the time I selected it. But go figure. I am still wearing the name my parents gave me.
I like my male birthname, that's why i definitely wanted to have my parents choose at least one of my female names. Although considering i've spent so much time online, i've gotten so used to being called by my online nickname (even by friends) that it feels odd being called by my male name.
I don't hate it, but it's too masculine to use as my male name I think. However, I have heard of some women who call themselves James, but it still would feel weird to me. Also I've never liked the name "Jamie", for myself at least. I like the current female name I've chosen for myself, Sadie, because it's a very cute name that I don't see a lot of women with (I actually found it by looking at a list of common female names and looking at the end of it. I think it was somewhere in the 70's out of 100 different names).
I'm thinking of making my male first name my middle name when the legal papers are involved. Sadie James kind of rolls off the tongue nicely I think. I may change my mind later, though.
I hate my name almost as much as my genitals & body hair.
My birth name is Nicholas & many people assume that i'll change to Nicola or Nikki but I hate that. As a child my mother would call me Nicky & it always felt like a knife through my heart reminding me of what I wasn't, I eventualy persuaded her not to call me that but when I was 16 she remarried & my step dad was called Nick so to avoid confusion she resorted to calling me Nicky.
Since I told her about my plans to transition she has stopped calling me Nicky, it's as if she is doing anything possible not to think of what i'm going through.
i like the name my parent chose, it's a strong name for a woman and i don't mind keeping it for the rest of my life. not that i'm all that womanly, but a name meaning "eagle strife" isn't really either. but i might want to use a different name at times, i wouldn't really know that yet
I do like it. I like the meaning of it, as well. That's why (as I've said elsewhere) I'll be turning it into my surname.
I will be glad when people stop addressing me by it so much, though. Even though I like it, there's a certain way of saying it with the emphasis on a certain syllable that triggers memories of my controlling/abusive mother and it's not fun.
Although, it's not actually the first first name they chose for me :P They were so sure I was going to be a boy (ha!) that they hadn't picked out any girl's names. So while they tried to agree on something, they needed a place holder name, and they called me Fred for the first week or two. I don't think I'd want to be a Fred now, but I do feel a sort of attachment to the name all the same.
I didn't like my birth name because it was sooo popular. There was like 30823049 of them in my school classes growing up so I had a bunch of nicknames growing up.
I would have been an Adam or Allen if I was born male but I knew waaayyy too many Adams and my uncle is named Allen so I thought it would be weird.
The name I have now is semi-popular but mine is spelt horribly wrong so it works.
I really don't like it, it is too gender restrictive. Even though some girls go by Chris it's more of a butch girl's name. So now I'm going by Hannah :)
While we're on the subject of names. I want to transition however I present myself as female right now even though I want to be male. Since I am going into college now I decided to change my name to a different female name just for fun (and also partly because I hate my original name, even though it's unisex). But now it's awkward for me and I realize there's no other name better for me other than my actual birth name. Now college is a nightmare though, because I'm going by my new female name and it just reminds me of how much I want to be male and makes every day at school awkward for me.
I hate it. I've always hated it. I've always thought it was just ugly as sin, and absolutely 'not mine'.
I've had a hard time telling people that name since I was a kid, it always felt just...sick.
Im not completely opposed to Miranda, but I dont like it for me. Its kind of a awesome how unique it is around where I live but at least enough people have seen sex and the city to be able to spell and pronounce it.
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I do like how geeky it is to with why my parens. Chose it (tempest + taming of the shrew + actor parents = Miranda kate) they even called me kate when I was being a brat.
Its just way to obviouly femine and awkward now, especially dealing with forms and paper work stuff when people see me and then look at my name and then look confused for a sec.