My name was primarily chosen to honour someone's memory who is no longer with us. That and I've always felt drawn to it, and similar sounding names. Never figured out why, though.

I have always been Cindy. It was the name I used as a child to my parents, teachers and everyone's confusion!

My male name I was forced to bear

It has now been expunged!

Cindy

People always called me by my last name, I preferred it that way, and my middle name is also a last name. So, conveniently, I changed my first name to my last name and then dropped the last name... does that make sense?

okay this might be the third or fourth time i'm posting about my name, but i love bragging about it! for some magical reason, my parents have given me a male name! actually, there are girls with the same name, but it's more common among males, like when i say my name to somebody they'd say 'oh that's my nephew's name/ son's name/ neighbour's son etc. so all my legal documents contain the same name and i decided not to change it, as it'd save me a lot of trouble. but in case i find it too feminine some day, i might drop the last two letters and it'd be totally male. people close to me call me by a nickname, a shorter version of my name which is gender neutral, so i don't think it'd trouble me. BUT, my middle name, i'm gonna shoot it down once i start transition. i hate everybody who calls me that. online however, i prefer going by my initials, just like here.

Quote from: YBtheOutlaw on October 09, 2013, 05:30:45 AM
okay this might be the third or fourth time i'm posting about my name, but i love bragging about it! for some magical reason, my parents have given me a male name! actually, there are girls with the same name, but it's more common among males, like when i say my name to somebody they'd say 'oh that's my nephew's name/ son's name/ neighbour's son etc. so all my legal documents contain the same name and i decided not to change it, as it'd save me a lot of trouble. but in case i find it too feminine some day, i might drop the last two letters and it'd be totally male. people close to me call me by a nickname, a shorter version of my name which is gender neutral, so i don't think it'd trouble me. BUT, my middle name, i'm gonna shoot it down once i start transition. i hate everybody who calls me that. online however, i prefer going by my initials, just like here.

awesome I have a unisex name , but it needs to be respelt , however I do want a new name , new beginnings and all

My birth name was unmistakably female so it had to go. I never identified with it and it always seemed jarring to have people refer to me by such a girly name. I'm glad it's gone.

I started insisting that I was a boy when I was five years old. I even called myself 'George' at the time, after the character in The Famous Five, because she was the closest I could find to someone like me.

But after several years of me constantly insisting that I was a boy, my mother announced in exasperation that she had been convinced during her pregnancy with me that she was carrying a boy, so she & my dad had agreed to name me after my two grandfathers. Of course, I was born with female anatomy so they had to pick a different name for me instead... but I never forgot the story of what my parents had originally intended to name me.

So when I decided to correct the mistake that had been made when I was born, I decided to go back to the original name my parents had intended to give me if I'd been born with the correct anatomy. It seemed like an excellent way of healing some of the wounds caused by my being misgendered at birth. So I am named after both of my grandfathers.

i still haven't changed my name, but i probably will some time in the future.
when that happens, i'll just switch my middle name for something else. my given name is a female name, but i'm not too binary, and i like how it's associated with the wisdom of odin and the conflict loving side of freya. not that most people get the connection there, the name's too old, but i know it and that's all that matters to me. it's also often misheard as a common male name. when i get a middle name, it will be one associated with thor.

Quote from: Darkie on October 08, 2013, 04:33:05 PM
I've always loved the name Alexander, and the middle name (Matthew) just came to me all of a sudden.  Although I am trying to decide between Matthew or Julian.  I also go by Mara which is the short version of my fursona Amaterasu.  And yes, for those Japan buffs out there, that is a girl spirit.  But there is a long story behind why I am a boy Minccino with a girl name.

you're calling the one who lights the heavens, the sun herself, a mere spirit?!
don't you think that a true female equivalent of re deserves to at least be called a goddess...?

I feel in love with the name Jessica the first time I heard it, if I had a daughter she would have been called Jessica but I haven't so it's my name now and I love it