So for a few months my bf and I have been kicking around names for him. He has a very fem name that can't be altered to make it work. We are running into issues because, as an adult, most the names we know we have associated people associated with them. This isn't an issue when you don't pick your own name. Also, names seem to be trendy by decade. It would less common ( standoutish) for a 15 year old to be named Dale or something like that. So we would like to find a name common in his age group, 30s. Anyway how did yo decide?
You can check out the most popular birth names for the year your boyfriend was born in. In the late 1970s, the top five most popular boy names were Michael, Jason, Christopher, David, and James.
If he was born in the United States, you can go to the social security website (google popular names by state) and search by state and year. It will give you the top 100 names for that state/year.
I picked my name because it was the masculine version of my first name. I chose a middle name that I liked and went smoothly. My last name is my grandma's maiden name. My former last name was English, but because I'm actually Irish I wanted to honor that instead.
I haven't completely settled yet. I went through several mental names for myself when I was a little kid, mostly inspired by the sci-fi characters i identified with. I had Luke, Wesley, and Mike phases that I remember. There might have been more.
By the time I was a teenager, I'd decided I was going to stick with my original initials for a few reasons - I could keep my signature, and I also like having the same initials as my cousin. And I can transition my online identity more gradually that way.
I settled on my grandfather's name (conveniently the right initial) for my middle name, which unfortunately means sharing that with my cousin, but it's just a middle name. The first has been harder - there are only a couple of names I like that start with A. When I was 14 or so and interacting online, I was Alan, but since I re-acknowledged my identity I've preferred Alex/Alexander.
I'm not at all worried about sharing a name with other people though, even friends...hell, Alexander is my husband's middle name, and that's not even an issue for me. But all I'm really concerned about is that I have to like the name and I can't share it (as a first name) with living relatives.
I picked Leo cause it's a representation of who I am now. I don't really care if my name I pick is popular...only if it describes me. But in the end...it's just a name. I also thought about Skyler cause it means refuge, shelter, protector. If I use that it'll be a middle name. Idk. I'm big on the 'screw the typical, I'm gonna be out there'.
I had the same problem. My name didnt really have a masculine counterpart. It was Maggie.
I chose Elijah, for a few reasons, 1. i went online, posted my picture and asked people what my name should be, I got Elijah, and then I got a lot of people who agreed with that.
2. I love the name Elijah, it isnt too rare, but not too common, and it is a pretty name I think, and I am not an extremely masculine guy, so it fits.
I would suggest that you and your guy go to a name website, think about what letter he likes.. for me. I always loved names that started with E, hence Elijah. Then just have fun looking through the names, and once you find some, test them out on him, call him by the names and see how each of you respond to it.
A tip... names will always feel a bit weird in the beginning, someone will call you by it... and it wont feel like its "you" you just have to get used to it... ever sense I switched to Elijah.. the name Maggie has completely disconnected to me, and its hard for me to respond to it.. its an interesting experience.
I choose tekla after the GF of my 'spiritual advisor' in High School, once it turned out she had much more insight than he did.
I've been called 'Kat' for a long time for several reasons, so I just used it as my middle name (when you're out and about, in a loud club and all that a simple single syllable name works better) so I looked at all the names that Kat could be short for and went with "Katrina" after Katrina Witt.
When the time comes for me to pick a name. . . I'll probably go with something that I think sounds cool and is relatively uncommon (but not too out there).
Not Aiden, Christopher, Matthew, etc. Hey, I get to name myself at some point. I may as well have a little fun with it.
All great advise.. ::). I think he wants to find a name the starts with an H since he's given name is an H name. He wants to keep the initials because they have been used to identify him in many great adventures in the past. We are kicking around the name Heath.
I wanted to keep my first and Middle initals because for the last 12 years, DJ has been who I am. But I chose Davis because I feel it reflects my personality. Goofy, laid back, deep thinker and all round good guy. Plus have never met a Davis. LoL. Heath sounds like a good name. If it matches the person go with it and see how it works.
Maybe will take it for a test run.
Heath is cool.
I could have used the masculine name of my female name, but it seemed too..predictable, boring of me to do that. Meh.
My stage name is Choker. But I've had that nickname online for a long time and it has a deeper meaning to me than just choking or being choked. That way if someone wants to be a prick like they seem to be lately, they can just call me choker, with no pronouns, and be done with it.
My birthday, Jessica, comes with the nick name Jessie and Jess which are both masc and fem names. However I didn't want that name although it would have made an easier transition. the way i chose my name is simply the name i always chose to use when i was a kid. I was always officer Mark, Dr. Mark, ANYTHING Mark. maybe you didnt do the same thing as a child but if i picked any other name idk if id ever be satisfied.
Mark
I heard it over 10 years ago, and just had to have it. Instant click. Then I got angry because I was living in the wrong gender for it (and as such, couldn't have it). So I used it mentally and online instead.
When it came time to pick a name, I really tried to run with a modified birth name but I just couldn't do it. Even though I found a derivative I liked, it just wouldn't fit.
So I seriously considered that name from way back then. It still fit, so I ran with it. It's a little unusual, but it's still more "well known" than my birth name :laugh:.
I also did the childhood names thing. Apparently it's really common. Perhaps that could be a source of names? Was there a name he was really attached to in the past?
While a name is only a name, I thnk they are important for both your own enjoyment and first impressions.
Henliked Eric as a kid because his mom was gonna name him that is he was a boy. Also Evan. I really think he wants to keep those initials though. HH.... He was a profesional athlete and did some other things in the past where his initials were used a lot. He doesn't want to give them up.
It would be a dream if I could someday give my Mom some options or ask her opinion so she's a part of it like the first go 'round. She's always been such an amazing mother, I hate to disrespect her and take away the names she picked for me at birth because they obviously were special to her. Tough stuff. Maybe Heath Evan H-lastname. Don't know if that 'rings' right though.
Hard to tell without hearing the actual last name, but Heath Evan sounds good.
I took the favorite parts of my given name and found a masculine name with them present. It was a difficult search, not many names in general had what I was looking for but I found one that was perfect. :D
I'm also keeping my initials the same.
I liked my initials and the cadence of my name, but wanted something that sounded closer to my ethnic heritage, wasn't Biblical, and aesthetically approximated my gender identity - more "female" than "male," but still somewhat androgynous and not over-femme. Thus, I chose Anja (the J is essentially a Y). I've been decently happy with it, and I can't think of anything that would have fit much better.
i went through the general "maybe i'll be.....KADEN!" but it never really fit. thought about tyler, still not really and i wanted to keep my initials, so i think i've decided to just add a letter to my given name (which in a sense is pretty girly but i've heard of it being used for men) and go by a couple of nicknames. unfortunately one of the nicknames is pretty common among FTMs, but that doesn't bother me too much.
the male version of my given name just clicks with me. i don't LOVE it, which is fine, but i don't hate it. and it means pretty much the same thing. it's also androgynous but with a masculine spelling. sometimes i think maybe i should just......*rambles for 2 hours about names* ::)
When I set out to look for a name I didn't particularly care if it aligned in any way with my given name. I wanted something that was unique but not strange. I just kept searching through baby name websites until names would pop out at me. I found "Gus" I really like it, but everyone else hated it. Why I wont go into here, but I kept looking. Though I'm still in my best friends phone as "GusGus" and may at some point pick it up and use it as one of those odd nicknames people have that they picked up in the past type of things.
From there I realized I needed[/I guess wanted] to find a more full "formal" name. I decided to narrow my search by looking at names from each of the 4 parts of my heritage. By looking at "foreign" names it cut out a lot of common names I wouldn't have wanted anyway. Then I went through and picked out the cool/interesting sounding ones. I took that list and took out all the ones that were a bit too cool/interesting to fit me. Came out with a short list and chose from there.
I ended up actually choosing a name [pretty much by accident] that could easily stem from my given name. I chose a Celtic name, and actually a unisex name. Most of them[celtic names] are really lovely. I'd recommend looking into them.
For me...Still being young and an teen.
I'm still searching through names, for me it doesn't matter if it's feminine or a more male tone because all in all, there's girls named Bob, Alex, Jesse and Tony. The same with men.
But my main goal with a name is diversity, I want a name that either is so unknown that it can be mine or is only relativity known in a certain region.
For me though, I've come around a couple names I like and just names I've thrown around to see what happens.
I've come across:
Inphyy (In-Fee)
Moonica (Moon-Uh-Cuh)
Aelita (I-Lead-Uh)
Artemis (Art-Uh-Miss)
Crimson (Ch-Rim-Zen)
Serenity (Sir-Ren-Uh-D)
Briseis (Bruh-Say-Us)
Nephrite (Nuh-F-Light)
And lastly Fiore (Fear-E)
Some of these names are common and some are unknown...It doesn't matter to me...It's the meaning and the sounding that I desire.
Like Nephrite, which is a green-white jewel and Fiore which stands for flower.
Just choose something from your heart or that matches you...It can be common but that's up to you.
I went with the name I would have if I'd been born a cisguy. It's my grandfather's middle name, and that is a family naming tradition on my father's side. Family is fairly important to me, and my mother picked my birth name because it was the name of a TV character she liked. I always kinda resented that, all trans-ness aside.
Nephrite is awesome, if only because I think it is an act of genius to name yourself after a Sailor Moon character.
Quote from: PanoramaIsland on February 27, 2010, 09:48:39 PM
Nephrite is awesome, if only because I think it is an act of genius to name yourself after a Sailor Moon character.
Well that's not where I got it from but I guess that gives me more points to want to use it but Nephrite is also a mineral/gem.
Christopher/Chris is the dude's version of my birth name 8) 8) 8)
Mines i guess kinda cheesey.. its from a movie i absolutely love. Jack. from pitch black. the character at first appears to just be a young boy. but later on is revealed as a girl. I wish universal would have keep Jack as Jack a transkid in the next movie after dark fury.. But noooo.. had to make Jack into kyra, altho she was a total hottie.
Quote from: Aelita on February 27, 2010, 09:56:46 PM
Well that's not where I got it from but I guess that gives me more points to want to use it but Nephrite is also a mineral/gem.
Just keep in mind that 14-year-old anime nerds the world over will assume that you named yourself after Mr. Nutso McFlowinghair here:
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwebspace.webring.com%2Fpeople%2Fal%2Flovelydarkness_darkkingdom%2FNephrite.jpg&hash=2f637e6311744b8a63b82db94b3ed7d3670913db)
Oh, Nephrite. ::)
Which is also a unisex name.
Quote from: Aelita on February 27, 2010, 11:57:00 PM
Which is also a unisex name.
Never said it wasn't. Same goes for any other stone-based name used by Sailor Moon antagonists, though - Jadeite, Beryl, etc. It
is a beautiful name. I just think one should be aware of, and okay with, the cultural association before taking it.
Quote from: PanoramaIsland on February 27, 2010, 11:45:46 PM
Just keep in mind that 14-year-old anime nerds the world over will assume that you named yourself after Mr. Nutso McFlowinghair here:
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwebspace.webring.com%2Fpeople%2Fal%2Flovelydarkness_darkkingdom%2FNephrite.jpg&hash=2f637e6311744b8a63b82db94b3ed7d3670913db)
Oh, Nephrite. ::)
I'm not even that big of an anime fan and even I thought of him.
Mine's still a bit up in the air. I started using Kay on message boards many years ago because it's my first initial. I'm still looking for something that I feel more connected to though. Time will tell.
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If you want to see the top 1000 baby names in the US by year, or how the popularity of a particular name has changed, go here:
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/ (http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/)
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If nothing else, you can tell whether the name you've selected was used much for those in your same age group.
Quote from: Karridoll on February 27, 2010, 05:58:03 PM
Henliked Eric as a kid because his mom was gonna name him that is he was a boy. Also Evan. I really think he wants to keep those initials though. HH.... He was a profesional athlete and did some other things in the past where his initials were used a lot. He doesn't want to give them up.
I, too, wanted to keep my initials (JHS), so I looked through those letters of the largest baby name book I could find. Jamison was the "J" name I liked the best that wasn't already taken by someone in my life. Interestingly enough, the first thing everyone asks is, "Can I call you James?" They could all manage 3 sylables with my old name, but now apparently it's too difficult. ::)
H is a tough one. Thankfully I only needed to come up with one "H" :D I really didn't feel much like a Hector, or a Horatio, or a Harry. I liked Heath, but it didn't flow well with the rest of my name. I also considered Hunter. But then I came across Hadley, which means "Heather Meadow". Since my mom had had a particular reason for giving me the middle name of "Heather", I thought it would be a nice nod to that.
I was curious and looked up my and my kids names. My one daughter has not been in the top 1000 names for the last 100 years and neither has her middle name. I have one uniquely named girl. Other girls middle name don't show either.
Names have always been important to me.
Picking my name has been a struggle for years, even before facing my gender identity. In my youth, I heard a friend's theory that people have Given Names and True Names; some of TN are parallel with one's GN, but there are others who end up discovering their TN later one.
I was quite fond of that line of thinking for myself, because my (overtly feminine) Given Name definitely did not suite me. Unfortunately no matter how many baby name websites, name generators, derivatives, adaptions, etc I tried, I just never found a name that fit me. The dilemma grew more severe when I came to grips with my gender identity.
Then one day I was filling in the name area for one of those social networking websites and I wrote: Eli.
Eli is technically gender-neutral though it has masculine implications, it retained my parent's theme of naming their children biblical names, it is a contraction of Elizabeth (birth name), and it also retains my birth initial.
After I settled on Eli (truth be told I'm still settling), I figured that when the time came to legally change my name I will probably choose Elijah. I think Elijah is more masculine, looks nice for formal use, and I can still have the nickname of Eli; win/win situation.
Quote from: Aelita on February 27, 2010, 09:36:24 PMsome are unknown...
That's an understatement.
Aelita. . . Every time I see that I think of Code: Lyoko.
Quote from: SilverFang on February 28, 2010, 04:37:42 AM
That's an understatement.
Aelita. . . Every time I see that I think of Code: Lyoko.
lol, so I'm not the only one who thought that.
When I chose my name I really wanted to keep my initials CC, my sister and I have the same initials and its something that we really shared over the years so I started by looking at names that started with C. I didn't want a really common name because my birthname was really uncommon and I enjoyed having people comment on the rarity of my name and still do. My birthname had no masculine version. But how I went about it was that I picked up an old character naming book I had (I'm a writer so I had one lying around) and looked up meanings and personalities and those settled on the name Carson.
My birth name, Jennifer, doesn't have a masculine option either (although, I loved the story of Prince Jen when I was a kid).
My first name, Gabriel, picked me. It's really not all that easy to explain. I just kept finding myself identifying with characters in movies or books who had that name (e.g. Hugh Jackman in Van Helsing or Tilda Swinton in Constantine. I developed this strange obsession with the archangel Gabriel (I haven't been a Christian since I was in elementary school). I would see the name all over the place and I'd get this strange tug in my gut. Even before I was ready to admit to myself that I was trans, I would use that name in my head or as a screen name.
My middle name, James, took some time to come up with. I ended up doing sort of the same thing that middle school girls do with their crush, just in a different way: I wrote my first and last name down on a piece of paper and wrote a whole bunch of middle names in between until I found one that I liked.
I was told by one guy that Gabriel isn't a masculine enough name but I love the nickname, Gabe, and it makes me feel more masculine than my birth name ever did.
Some people know instinctively what they should be named, others take years and go through several different names before they find the right one. Hope he finds something that he likes.
Personally, I like the name Hayden.
I used one of the names my parents were considering naming me if I'd been born male.
I ddnt know until just a few weeks ago that I have been ussing Cynthia for my girl name since about 6.
My brother (younger) would get roped into playing house and barbioes and I demanded that the other children refer to me as Cynthia.
Funny thing is I thought I picked the name when I was a teen.
Go figure.
I tried to use other names at the request of a couple family members who have issues with the name but I found I was unable to do so. My name is Cynthia. It is the name I chose as a child and it is the name I chose to stick with in the long run.
I guess I have always been Cynthia, Peter was just a place holder.
Quote from: cynthialee on February 28, 2010, 07:48:26 PM
I ddnt know until just a few weeks ago that I have been ussing Cynthia for my girl name since about 6.
My brother (younger) would get roped into playing house and barbioes and I demanded that the other children refer to me as Cynthia.
Funny thing is I thought I picked the name when I was a teen.
Go figure.
I tried to use other names at the request of a couple family members who have issues with the name but I found I was unable to do so. My name is Cynthia. It is the name I chose as a child and it is the name I chose to stick with in the long run.
I guess I have always been Cynthia, Peter was just a place holder.
That is almost my story too.
Quote from: LordKAT on February 28, 2010, 07:56:38 PM
That is almost my story too.
So your name is Cynthia? :P
We were trying to get pregnant earlier this year (we'd been trying for a few years...but I was sure THIS was going to be the time it was actually going to happen...obviously I was still denying my gender identity)
I was watching "So you think you can dance" and one of the people on the show was Evan. I fell in love with him and the name. I just thought it was perfect! My mate didn't like it for any children we might have and turned it down.
A part of myself latched onto it though. As I started to open up about my dysphoria..."Evan" was there. However as I looked around boards for support I found a freakin TON of FtM Evan's all over the place!! That bummed me out..honestly.
My mate never did get used to the name Evan but one day was just kinda messing around and combined my given name with Evan to create Sevan. It was unique, (I thought we'd made it up altogether) and I got to keep Evan without BEING Evan.
I looked it up and it's actually an Arminan male's name. Go figure! The issue has become...what on earth goes with it for a middle name! I've thought about Maylor, Tyler and Micheal. I'm leaning towards Micheal at the moment because it kinda works...and I'd keep my initials that way. Sevan Tayler kinda sounds like Stevan Tyler and I'm kinda...eh on that. Though I change my mind frequently on middle names. My mate keeps trying to get me to go with Kyle but I don't really think it works with Sevan...eh.
At first I wanted Brian because it starts with the same three letters as my birth name. But my mom's always told me that if I was born a boy she would have named me Devin. I don't dislike Devin and everyone and his father is named Brian, so I figured heck-- if things worked out right in the beginning, I would have been Devin, so I might as well be Devin now. Why take the opportunity to name their child away from my parents?
Quote from: Devin87 on March 01, 2010, 08:59:46 PM
At first I wanted Brian because it starts with the same three letters as my birth name. But my mom's always told me that if I was born a boy she would have named me Devin. I don't dislike Devin and everyone and his father is named Brian, so I figured heck-- if things worked out right in the beginning, I would have been Devin, so I might as well be Devin now. Why take the opportunity to name their child away from my parents?
When my mother found out I was in transition she tried to rename me but it was already too late.
Mine's Victor James.
I was thinking about names a lot, I was trying some names in my head, but i just didn't like any of the names. It just didn't match my personality...
So one day I came up with Victor. It means "Winner, Conqueror".
My middle name (which is so unique in my country, because ppl here do not have middle names) I took James. I just always liked that name, and my favourite musician is James - so kept it.
I also think that both names goes pretty good with my surname.
I also like one Serbian name - Dimitrije.
Still, I think I will keep Victor. :)
Wow. I just realized that I've never considered a middle name for myself. Crap. Now I need to find one. I think I want this one to have religious significance-- a good solid Jewish name.
I go with Jesus, he was a good Jewish boy. Tribe of David if I remember right. But you might get confused with the guy across the street from me who makes the most divine chimichanga I've ever had.
With much difficulty.
I actually liked my birth name but it was too female.
I actually picked a male name for myself ages ago, after the first time my self-sim had a sex change. I went for Sam 'cause I liked the sound of it, and it was the best I had for my current female name. More recently I checked the meaning of the full name, Samuel, and discovered it means "God has heard." Now I love it more than ever, 'cause that's just how I feel about this.
Ah yes, middle name - good advice to keep the initials, but it means I need another name beginning with S... *goes browsing www.behindthename.com (http://www.behindthename.com)*
When mum was having me everyone thought she was having a girl (looks like they were right ;))
So she already had a girls name picked out. As it hapens it is the female version of my male name. After toying with a few names over the years i have settled on the name she originally picked. I quite like it, it fits me and it can be shortened quite easily which i like. At this stage i am not going with a middle name.
I used my female name and gave it a tweak into the male form. It can also be neutral. I changed my first name before anything. Before anyone knew. And now that people know and such I want my middle names to be changed...yes, doing it twice :-\. I'm planning on keeping those very close to my birth name also. Hopefully the court won't give me trouble since I'll be doing it twice within a year.
I think it'd be hard to get used to and have other people get used to a completely different name.
I just came up with a list of names one day and spent a lot of time saying names out loud while looking in a mirror. Kieran was the original name I picked out but when I used it in the real world people were saying Karen so I nixed that. There were a lot of androgynous/unisex names (jesse, taylor) that I was looking at. Kyle just seemed to fit.
A friend of mine that didn't know I'd been using the name Kyle for such a long time (over 3 years) suggested changing my legal name slightly and become Eli Colin. I'm not a fan.
I'm thinking that I might allow my parents to pick a middle name for me. The name they originally picked out (thought I was going to be a boy) is my younger brother's name.
I picked "Lucien" a while ago, but now I'm feeling torn between "Lucien," "Anthony," and the name my mom picked if I had been born male: "William."
I hadn't given much consideration to William until just now. I looked in the mirror, smirked, and William was there. It's a bit early at this point though... Everyone just calls me my nickname anyway, which is sort of masculine-sounding: "Toni." That's been my nickname since before I was born. Thanks mom! xD
Ok. So I'm in the process of picking my Hebrew name for conversion and I found one that I like so much I think I might make it my middle name. How does it sound? Devin Naariah (pronouced Nay-ah-RI-ah).
Ryan is what my parents would have called me if I'd have been born male. Simple :)
My middle name is Elliott, which came about in a strange way. I was at college and we were waiting for our tutor. My mate went to the board and wrote "RYAN LOWE" and then for absolutely no reason, wrote "ELLIOT" inbetween. Elliott Smith is my favourite musician, hence the double-t spelling.
I went by Asher for about six months because I love the name and identified with many characters with that name. But after a while it felt like I was trying to be a completely different person instead of matching the inside. So I went back to the masculine version of my name, Sameth. I think Asher will be my middle name.
/delurk
I really wanted to keep my initials at first, so I picked Liam Edward... Eventually I cringed every time someone said it. 1. It seems like a really common ftm name. 2. One of my good friends had a son within a month and named it Liam. (Who am I to steal his thunder) 3. It sounds really stupid and neurotic, but that "am" sound at the end made me think of ham... which I hate. lol
I decided to just scrap the entire idea, and go with something I really liked. I wrote list upon list of first names, middle names, super masculine names, gender neutral names. There were many that I sort of liked, but I always came back to Rowan. It fit. It worked for me. I had several people vote on several places I frequent, and it came down to Rowan Sage. Which I loved at the time. So much so that I got my name change paperwork ready.
Then I put it off. And further off... and off for over 2 years of secretly hating the Sage part. Everyone still calls me Rowan, Roro, Roo, or Ro. I love it to death.
About a year ago my Grandfather died, and my mother and I were driving home from the funeral. A good 12 hours in the car together talking about gender stuff, life, religion, death, all that deep crap. It was then that I made the decision to scrap Sage and honestly look for a new middle name. One that didn't sound so "flakey." Also, sage... a plant... Rowan... A tree. Too planty. Too fake sounding.
Months went by. No name seemed to fit. I tried and I tried and nothing rolled off my tongue or felt "mine." One night, very late, maybe very early, 3AMish, I was watching old reruns of Scrubs. The episode with Matthew Perry came on. The character's name was Murray.
That was IT. I said it in order a few times Rowan Murray A****. Much to my man's dismay, I said it out loud... very loudly, then cheered like an idiot.
So I'm ridiculously happy that I found a middle name that fits. I have yet to change my name legally. Maybe I'm just lazy, maybe I just don't want to have to break it to my grandmother on my father's side. She's the only person that I know who doesn't know what's going on with me. I don't expect her to accept it. I don't care if she ever does. I honestly don't want my mom to have to hear the grief when she calls her up for their nightly session of grandma bitches about things and mom listens and puts up with it. What a nice daughter in law she is!
But there's my ramble. I felt I should come out of hiding and post the long, silly story of my name.
<3 Roo.
P.S. Twilight series ruined the name Edward for me forever.
Firstly Twlight ruined alot of things. Secondly, picking my name was simple. Heard it, liked it. Used it as a Character name first then took it as my own. My middle name Liam was harder to choose because it was so common, but I liked the way it sounded so I just said whatever. I have the right to any name I want and so does anyone else.
My friends gave me the nickname jimmy when I was young, and so its always felt right.
Unfortunately, my dad's name happens to be james and he goes by "jimi" as well, but i don't want to give it up cuz I like how the name feels. :(
Maybe I could be James the II. ha :laugh:
You can do what we did with my uncle and cousin who are both Jimmy-- just go by Big Jimmy and Little Jimmy. Of course now that Little Jimmy is bigger than Big Jimmy, he just goes by James.
Quote from: Devin87 on May 01, 2010, 06:22:58 AM
You can do what we did with my uncle and cousin who are both Jimmy-- just go by Big Jimmy and Little Jimmy. Of course now that Little Jimmy is bigger than Big Jimmy, he just goes by James.
Well that would certainly apply since I'm only 5'4"!!
I chose the name Eli. It is close to my birth name which starts Eli. I liked that my initials spelt EGO and have always associated myself with the letter E. My friends called me E more than they did my actual name. Chosen the middle name Jurgen to reflect my German heritage and its my dad's cousin's name too.
However, I am thinking of changing Eli to Elliot, which is the name I had in my head as my boy name since forever. I think I went with Eli because it was easier for my friends to adjust to, but I don't think it's the one. After being called Ellie a couple of times by my teacher I think I want something more obviously a boys name.
So Elliot Jurgen last name last name it is.