Is there a meaning behind it you like or you just like how it sounds!?
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LOL I just picked mine because it is the male equivalent of my birth name. My fiancee picked out a middle name for me that is so amazing though! It goes perfectly.
Um, Nick Nack? Just kidding! Hugs, Devlyn
I just went for the same initials and kind of sound. I was stuck on my middle name the other day until someone jokingly suggested Dorian. I super like the book, so there we go. No special meaning or anything like that.
I wanted to keep the same initials, and I just went to a bunch of baby name websites and looked up Gaelic baby names since I have a fascination with Irish culture. I found my name pretty much right away, but I went back through for a while and didn't find anything that would fit, but then I forgot about it until school started, and at the last minute decided go to by that name so that I would started school again with a more masculine name. I didn't really go by the meaning of the name (which means salmon), but more for the sound.
Sound mostly, and the look. I have a bit of an obsession with words and firmly believe that they all have a personality, and Asher's personality reflects mine. I chose it before I found out the meaning, but that's cool too-- something like "happy, blessed one" iirc.
I gave the choice to my mum to pick my new name, and she chose Harry, which I like :) I figured she gave me my first she should get the chance to ick my second, glad I like it though!
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I just legally changed my name a year ago, but I'd been using the name since age 13 to refer to myself in my thoughts. I needed a way to feel like someone and I couldn't bear my birth name. I got my first name from the main character of a tv show I used to watch all the time. I guess the show was an escape and an inspiration all in one. I always wished I could just be the character. I didn't put a whole lot of thought into it, I just needed something to call myself. Now, I'm not really crazy about it anymore, but for better or worse it's become who I am. I do wish I hadn't gotten attached to any one name so I could have let my parents name me when the time came. But all in all I don't mind because it's not an unusual name for my birth year and it starts with the same letter so I got to keep my initials.
I've always disliked my birth name (Megan) and at first I tried to get into other names that sounded similar (like Morgan, or at least something with an M) and didn't like any of them.
I like a lot of J names and was considering Jake, though another transguy I know has that name, and I thought about using Tobias as well, since it had meaning for me. But I ended up just going with Jay. I haven't legally changed my name and probably won't for some time but it's already feeling very fitting for me. A girl I'm quite close to was listening to all the choices I was going through and she really perked up at Jay. On top of that, its meaning is "victory" - which felt perfect. I feel like how far I've come in understanding myself and overcoming a lot of my past in the last few years was a victory in a lot of ways.
Well my mum always had a thing for K-names and traditional names. She periodically talked about how she had 4 names picked out, the boys names being Kyle and Kevin. I really wanted to keep my initials and had been going by Kai for a while with the intent of using Kyler as my name, but that was vetoed by my mum in favor of Kyle as it's "less made up". I was originally named after my grandmother and in keeping with the idea of honoring your elders I took my grandad's name as my middle name. Plus it starts with the same letter and there are very few L-names out there that flow with my ridiculously Russian last name.
Quotethat flow with my ridiculously Russian last name.
I love ridiculously Russian last names ;)
Julian's the androgynous/masculine version of my birth name. I'm still stuck on whether I want to even legally change it, so I haven't thought much about middle names or surnames. If I did change it, I'd probably keep my surname and either go with Joseph (which would have been my middle name had I been assigned male) or Verne/Vernon (masculinized version of my given middle name).
Not very creative, is it?
Fun fact: a friend of mine started calling me Jules Verne before he knew I was trans OR that my middle name was Verna. :D
'nother fun fact: I do double-takes when I see books by Jules Verne because I forget he's an actual person that isn't me. :P
My mom always used to tell me that if I was born male they would have named me Devin Scott, so that's what I'm going with. At first I tried a name that started with the same sounds as my birth name, but it never really fit me and I gave up on it after about a year. When I thought of trying Devin, it was like Harry Potter holding his wand for the first time-- I got that warm feeling and the sparks just flew. I knew it was perfect. It sort of gives me the feeling like "this is how it was SUPPOSED to be. You were SUPPOSED to be born male and then you would have been Devin all your life" and it felt like this has rightfully been my name all along and I'm just finally claiming it.
chose Ryan kind of out of no where. It just hit me after I went to bed one night. I guess that's when the best ideas smack you in the face, huh? Then I looked Ryan up to find it's meaning, "Little King" originating i Ireland and I was like, "Yup, sounds good" xD
I got my middle name from my grampa's middle name. I even changed my last name to my mom's maiden, but I've been planning that for years anyway.
My name was the name of the knight in the bedtime stories my Grandfather used to tell me. It was also the name of my Grandparents first child who died about an hour after birth. My Grandpa was pretty important to me, so I chose to that that name.
Added plus, since the meaning of it is 'little fire'. My childhood nicknames were hellraiser and firebrand.
I've always loved the name. First heard it on the 1960's sitcom "Bewitched".
My chosen name is unisex, but I've been thinking of using it as my middle name and having my first name be John, the shortened masculine version of my first name.
I've known all of my life that it was supposed to be my name anyway.
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It was an easy choice.
Because I was writing a story and the main character was named Jacob. And when I was younger I had a alter ego named Jay, so I was like Jay-Jacob. And I sat on the name for about a week, and I'm like ->-bleeped-<- - Parker - which was the name I legally changed to, and finally decided to legally go with Jacob. Haven't regretted it at all, like I did Parker. I like the way it sounds. I like that I can make a number of nicknames from it: Jay, Jake, Jakey, JR(Middle name is Riley)... and then I got another middle name "Lukas" which is freaking awesome. I know they are kinda simple, but I've grown found of them, and I just read a thing saying how popular names were amongst sexy people, and Jacob is up there. Where as something like Kevin, is considered to be a name for ugly people, which I find hilarious because it's my sisters boyfriends name. Oh, and another reason I picked it is because I looked up too Jacob Hoggard and I didn't feel like I was stealing the name. And I never met a Jacob who ruined the name for me. It is love to me. I honestly still repeat it several times a day and call myself it in front of the mirror because it makes me so flippin happy!
Quote from: JaykeV on February 05, 2012, 10:39:07 PM
Haven't regretted it at all, like I did Parker. I like the way it sounds. I like that I can make a number of nicknames from it: Jay, Jake, Jakey, JR(Middle name is Riley)... And I never met a Jacob who ruined the name for me.
Random, but I'm a JR too.
Weird.
I've also gone by Jay in the past.
:3
While I can't legally change my name (I mean, I could but I choose not to because I have a career and name recognition with my real name), I have chosen another one that I give to my closest friends in real life and my internet friends. It's a name that does have special meaning to me because the name itself also means something else and that too is symbolic to me.
It was gonna be Tashaun but It sounded to African-American so I went with Shaun and just randomly choose Birklei. Ended up with Shaun Birklei. However I regret it now I wish I would've went with Inkwe Mupkins. Didn't think of Inkwe Mupkins back then. After surgery I'll change it to Inkwe Mupkins. Mr. Mupkins, Doctor Mupkins, Officer Mupkins. How is it going Inkwe?
Quote from: JasonRX on February 05, 2012, 10:49:59 PM
Random, but I'm a JR too.
Weird.
I've also gone by Jay in the past.
:3
I love names that Jay can be derived from, like Jason, that was my second choice, then Jamie.
I love the nickname Jace though from Jason, it just sounds really hot for some reason. :P
Family name on my father's side for sixteen generations. Would've gotten it had I been born male.
Quote from: JaykeV on February 06, 2012, 11:05:26 AM
I love names that Jay can be derived from, like Jason, that was my second choice, then Jamie.
I love the nickname Jace though from Jason, it just sounds really hot for some reason. :P
One of my friends calls me Jaceface though I never asked her to, but yeah...
awesome names.
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I chose Dante for several reasons (none of them being related to the character from DMC, despite some people's beliefs... ::))...:
1) The name's root means "enduring". I liked the symbolism; like I had to endure all the crap life's thrown at me, and by doing so I've earned the name.
2) I like the way it sounds. I'm a total nerd for languages, and I like the sharp "t" and the soft "e" at the end. :P
3) Similar to the above, I like the way it's spelled. It looks cool. ;D
I haven't decided on a middle name yet. I like the name "Will", but my last name has two L's in it, so I think it would sound a little weird.
Actually, I didn't, my parents did it for me, right before srs.
I'm named to my mother, I'm very pleased with my name, it sounds French and female.
I've liked the name Luke for as long as I can remember, and when I began thinking of names for myself, Luke was the first name I chose. I also wanted to keep my initials the same. My birth first and middle initials are L.D. and my mum had told me once that if I had been born male, one of the names she was thinking of was Declan. So I thought Lucas Declan. Some other suggestions friends had given me were Lucas Dylan or Liam Declan. If I decide not to keep my initials, the name Adam is popular among my friends for me. But for now I'm Lucas Declan. :)
and to the previous poster, I'd just like to say that Annette is my favourite name for a girl. I think it's beautiful. :)
My birthname is unisex and I half have decided to keep it because I like it and half because it'd be one less thing everyone would need to get used to. I can't think of any names that would really suit me, although my Mum told me if I was cismale she would have named me Jack. No clue whether that would/would have suited me or not :D
Anyway, I chose "Kristof" as my new middle name, because half my heritage is German and my given middle name is also German. I'd like to stick to that hahah. :)
My given name is very feminine, a nineties movie cliche, and just... overall one of my least favored choices in names.
If my mother had a say in my name, it would have been Hunter regardless of gender. Which was always one of my favorite names, and I took quite a liking to it once I found out that was her choice.
She doesn't know anything on my gender issues, but accepts calling me Hunter without question. If just to spite my father.
Honestly because Neflyte sounds to ugly on me so I will go for the next Sailor Moon dark kingdom general Malachite. Plus I like the way his voice sounds. I may change it to Neflyte again. Middle name- probably a bunch of random anime character names. Last name-keeping it for now. I got a long time to think about it since nothing is set in stone yet legally.
Quote from: Malachite on February 15, 2012, 09:58:04 PM
Honestly because Neflyte sounds to ugly on me so I will go for the next Sailor Moon dark kingdom general Malachite. Plus I like the way his voice sounds. I may change it to Neflyte again. Middle name- probably a bunch of random anime character names. Last name-keeping it for now. I got a long time to think about it since nothing is set in stone yet legally.
I had a friend irl named Malachite and I didn't like the guy, so I dig that you've given it better associations for me. ;D
Quote from: Felix on February 15, 2012, 10:14:07 PM
I had a friend irl named Malachite and I didn't like the guy, so I dig that you've given it better associations for me. ;D
:D Well thats good. Raising the bar just a little higher. XD
I've never known another Malachite, but I did know a Malachi.
I've known of guys named Mehkai and Kai....something about "Kai"