I'm sorry for your loss and I'm sorry that she didn't get to see the person that you've become

HI,

I would have been Jennifer. (Jennifer Lee XXXXXX) My mother and fater were both of English decent. (Hence the JL in JLT) There are actually a number of women with the same that I have googled.

Hugs,

Jen 

I remember asking my mum this a while back, out of sheer curiosity, and she told me that my name would have been Rowan had I been MAAB. I contemplated choosing this as my 'new' name, actually, but only for a moment. While I was growing up, there were these two children that I socialized with[not..exactly friends?], the son named Corbin, and the daughter Rowan. Monstrous little children, truth be told. Horribly behaved, particularly Rowan. Soooo, I quickly decided that wasn't going to work xD
In a strange way, I'm sort of glad that I was given the name I was.

Judging by the other names in my blood family, I would have been either something from the bible, or Robert, or Gregory. I would have been fine with any potential name, knowing I could have gotten it changed fairly easily (where I live) if I ever had wanted to. Also it seems most males I know or am related to actually go by nicknames anyhow.

That said, I'm scared to ask my parents what my name would have been. It seems like it would be an incredibly awkward conversation even by email.

Im pretty sure they would have called me Elena , its my grandmothers name
still they gave it to my little cousin now

Colleen Marie.  I discovered this just a few years ago actually.  Growing up, whenever I asked I was told they never had picked a female name for me.  Not sure why exactly, other than my mom has a tendency to think I would be too sensitive about something for a while and then change her mind and decide I wouldn't be.  So growing up I used a different name for myself, but Colleen just seemed to fit better than what I was using and I really like it, so I've decided to adopt it as my name now that I'm planning to transition.

The reason she was going to name me Colleen was because she's never met a Colleen that wasn't a sweet and nice person.

And because the universe likes to mock:  Colleen means "Girl" and Marie means "wished for child"  So my name had I been born anatomically correct would have essentially meant, "Wished for girl." 

Yep.

Jason, according to my mother.

I have never been particularly fond of the name, but I started to truly dislike it when, a few years later, a kid named Jason started to bully me at school.

Danielle appearantly.  My father strongly hinted that he'd like me to adopt it as my new name when I came out to him.  I'm pretty set on Patricia though, so I'm taking it as a middle name instead.

My parents would have called me Nikolas. I like it, I might choose it as a second name

oh wow.. I though I replied to this ages ago (but I just scrolled through and didn't see myself).

My parents probably would have named me Dave.  They were going to name my older sister that until she turned out to be a girl.  She even had a t-shirt that said "dave" when she was a baby... I think my aunt had bought it.  I.... did not name myself Dave.  They also didn't even ask me to.  I imagine that 20+ years later it didn't so much matter.

Wiley. I'm still debating taking the name on. I'm deciding between Wiley and Kameron.

They would've named me Lewis. OK name, but my brother got the name when he came along.

Kristy. My parents were so sure that I was going to be born a girl that they didn't have a male name as a contingency and my legal name was actually something of an afterthought. I was a teen when my mother told me, and it all made complete sense. In my heart, I'd already known that I should have been born a girl for a number of years by this stage.

At this point, I'm leaning towards not using it as my forename as it is very close to the name they ended up giving my brother (Chris).... But there is still plenty of time to make a final decision on that.

Apparently my parents didn't decide on a name till i was born. It seemed like my dad had the final say in names My mum wanted Andrew, but he already had a cousin with that name so settled for the name i was given. Asking my mum what she would of named me had i been born a girl, she doesn't know. Same thing happened with my sister, my mum wanted the name Lisa which is both an english and japanese name, but my dad persuaded her to use another name. Not sure how i would feel using the name lisa for myself as it technically wasn't for me. I absolutely love my great grandmother's name and had i had a daughter she would of had her name. I don't know why but i feel bad using her name myself.

If I was born a girl my parents would of given me the same name I have now Nat. Some peoples parents can be real imagenitive. (I guess I shouldn't complain my sister Nikki was getting her name if she was born a boy or a gir)

I don't who/what I am yet. I know that my mom has said that I was going to be named Jimmy no matter if I'd been born male/female/other.

I kind of like that so many parents are choosing names regardless of gender.  Thats pretty neat....

Maybe not so much for the "boy named sue" kind of situation, but I guess I don't have too much pity when thats someone's biggest gender related issue in life =p

(I was thinking of sticking with my female name after transition because I didn't hate it or necessarily associate it with femininity... though it was rather feminine I suppose.  My mother convinced me not to, and its not something I regret.)

I was named Alicia but by the end of day 1, had a boy name assigned and the rest is ANCIENT history

I would have been an Alexander James ... I kinda like the name alex as it is kinda gender neutral and also being shortened to AJ would have been cool

I would have been Robyn, don't know what the middle name would have been, however like most of the other females in my family, (cousins, aunts and grand mothers included) I probably would have changed it to something else.