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Community Conversation => Transsexual talk => Male to female transsexual talk (MTF) => Topic started by: katiej on February 21, 2015, 09:05:50 PM

Title: Name Help...I Need Your Opinion
Post by: katiej on February 21, 2015, 09:05:50 PM
My name is Katherine, but I've always gone by Kate.  My user name here is Katie, and I actually like Katie better and it goes better with my last name.  But I've always thought it seems like a little girl's name.  Yes, Katie Couric, Katie Holmes, etc.  It still seems young.  I'm 37 and work as a finance executive.  My personality is not very serious, but my life is in a lot of ways.

What do you all think?  Can I pull off Katie, or should I stick with Kate?  :)
Title: Re: Name Help...I Need Your Opinion
Post by: Sunderland on February 21, 2015, 09:11:54 PM
I think you're definitely a Katie. :)
Title: Re: Name Help...I Need Your Opinion
Post by: JLT1 on February 21, 2015, 09:38:23 PM
Kate at work.  Katie to friends and family. ...

Hugs

Jen. (Jennifer at work)
Title: Re: Name Help...I Need Your Opinion
Post by: katiej on February 21, 2015, 09:45:54 PM
Jen, that's good advice.  And it's kind of what I've been leaning towards.
Title: Re: Name Help...I Need Your Opinion
Post by: Lady_Oracle on February 22, 2015, 04:09:24 AM
well estrogen makes us forever young so its perfect if thats the way you feel about the name katie!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Name Help...I Need Your Opinion
Post by: katrinaw on February 22, 2015, 07:24:19 AM
Love Katie, Katie, but maybe it's Kate or Katherine at work...

I picked Katrina, many, many years ago, but loved the simplicity of Katy, rather than Kat for me... In formal occasions I would definately use Katrina....  By the way the initials of my Birth name and Katy are the same... So signatures don't change when I get it all together  ::)

L Katy  :-*
Title: Re: Name Help...I Need Your Opinion
Post by: ImagineKate on February 22, 2015, 07:50:56 AM
Hey Kate :)

(I'm not Kate but I just play one on TV.)

I think you can use Katherine for more formal stuff and abbreviate it to Kate. Just my opinion.

I picked Renee but it kinda doesn't fit. My mom suggested Rhea and I like it. It's appropriate for my national origin too. However to me it sounds like a little girls name. All names sound like that. It's so hard to choose one... Ugh.
Title: Re: Name Help...I Need Your Opinion
Post by: katiej on February 22, 2015, 02:57:25 PM
The only Rhea I've ever known was my friend's mother, so it definitely doesn't sound like a little girl to me.

I think the little kid issue is the same for a lot of names that end in -y or -ie.  Danny, Mikey, Katie, etc.
Title: Re: Name Help...I Need Your Opinion
Post by: katrinaw on February 22, 2015, 03:39:55 PM
Quote from: katiej on February 22, 2015, 02:57:25 PM
The only Rhea I've ever known was my friend's mother, so it definitely doesn't sound like a little girl to me.

I think the little kid issue is the same for a lot of names that end in -y or -ie.  Danny, Mikey, Katie, etc.

Good point Katie, about the about the "y" or "ie" at the end of the abbreviated name.... But hey we are reborn  :laugh:

L Katy  :-*
Title: Re: Name Help...I Need Your Opinion
Post by: Tori on February 22, 2015, 04:15:10 PM
Yes. You can pull it off.

Look, most people do not choose their names or nicknames. We get to.

Pick a name you like hearing because you will hear it a lot.
Title: Re: Name Help...I Need Your Opinion
Post by: Rachel on February 22, 2015, 06:17:32 PM
QuoteKate at work.  Katie to friends and family. ...

I think this works well.