I picked mine from a list of ten preferred names.

Quote from: Laura Squirrel on September 01, 2014, 10:50:57 PM
I picked mine from a list of ten preferred names.

I went through a list of 800 names, I came out with only 7 that I liked, plus the 4 that I already knew I liked. I eliminated six of them. My previous 4 was Lucy, Skye, April, and Alex. The one I added to my list was Athena. (I'm obsessed with Greek mythology) I'm probably going to choose Skye in the end.

iiMTF

when I was a kid, i found a Katydid and showed my dad. He then revealed that "if I had been a girl" my name would have been Katherine, so he would have the dad joke opportunity of "who ate the last cookie? Katie did!"  my dad is big on dad jokes. anyway, that stuck with me hard.

now for my middle name i decided on Elaine as a female version of my old middle name. my parents didn't know until I legally changed my name, and then my mom was pissed, because apparently Elaine is the middle name of her sister, who she doesn't like. oops! still, best possible reason for my mom to get pissed over me changing my name!

I was having trouble settling on a name and my mum suggested Francesca based off my middle name initial (I was named after my dad/grandad). I liked it, I thought it was pretty and not too common (which was something I insisted on) so that's what I've gone with, Cheska for short. Before I settled on Francesca I was leaning towards Paige (my first initial) which I've made my middle name.

The Greek meaning of the name Melissa is: Bee, famous bearer, Melissa, mythological princess of Crete transformed into a bee after learning to collect honey.

I asked my mother what shall I be? ... que sera sera.. haha .  Seriously though, I did ask my mom when I was very very young. She told me what I would have been and there is my name :-)   no, it was not here kitty kitty. My avatar name came from when I read the book and saw the movie Breakfast On Pluto.

My name comes from a character from the TV series firefly Kaylee is an awesome name and the character is just like me. Ever since I saw her for the first time it just clicked with me.

Kaylee

I just took my mom's single name and as the first name, something that begins with W, like my baptism name. It was not my first choice, but i think that use my WOW's character name wold be very lame lol

" I did ask my mom when I was very very young. She told me what I would have been and there is my name :-) "
i think you did the right thing if my son ever became a girl i would be damned if i couldnt name my daughter! i would be upset and i do think mothers would get upset and they have a right to get upset if you change a name that they gave to you . if you know a name she would have given you had you been born a girl yes i think you should make that your name . i think names are inspired and meant to be when my son was born we had not decided on a name but then the name just came to us "adam nicholas" it was just perfect and that was not a name even under consideration. there is a perfect girls name (and your mom knows it lol)

I wish i had some insightful reason behind my name, but I dont. Ever since I can remember I've had two names sort of locked down for some unknown reason. Aurora and Kayla. Don't know where they came from or why they were the names I grew attached too.

I found it in the pub... true story

"Ever since I can remember I've had two names sort of locked down for some unknown reason. Aurora and Kayla. Don't know where they came from or why they were the names I grew attached too."

i think one day you will have a daughter and you should name her Aurora ... never fight destiny

My older sister named me Tessa as a toddler and treated me as her sister for many years.  She was outnumbered by the 8 boys in our family.  She tried getting a couple of the other guys to be her sister but apparently I liked it best, hmmm.  My older brother would tell me to cut it out or i would turn into a girl.  I hoped to magically become a girl and mom but puberty crashed that party.  I didn't really remember much about my childhood and attribute that to deep denial and repression.  When coming out I spoke with my sister and said I sort of remembered a little bit of tea party play a couple of times.  She replied "oh Jimmy, we did that for years"

I kept my old first name as my middle name to honor where and who I have been.  Transgender and proud of it.

I hoped to magically become a girl and mom but puberty crashed that party.
you can still become a mom itll just be a little more complicated just find a husband and a surrogate and an ivf clinic or forget the husband and just do the last 2 things and have a baby

Quote from: jeninindiana on September 03, 2014, 02:10:23 PM
I hoped to magically become a girl and mom but puberty crashed that party.
you can still become a mom itll just be a little more complicated just find a husband and a surrogate and an ivf clinic or forget the husband and just do the last 2 things and have a baby

Oh goodness!  I have had a boyfriend/husband before.   I am a parent, grandparent and great grandparent with many wonderful people in my life.  Giving birth and breast feeding a baby are part of my old fantasy and comfortably part of my past.  I am happy being this close to congruity with the woman who shadowed my life for so long.

Coming back to the thread topic; MOM is one name I would love to have heard

So many great names with great origins.  I'm almost embarrassed how simple mine is. 
My parents intentionally picked a name they could flip depending on my birth gender. 
It was either Christopher Michael or Christina Michelle

I simply went with what I should have got if I had been born in the right body and tweaked it to Crystina so I could use Crys as the short form.

My doctors basically chose it.

Well,  I asked my mom once what would be my name if I was born a girl...  Turns out they never even think in names /facepalm
When I was born,  my dad simple run to register me with his name without asking my mom...  /doublefacepalm...

The ability to choose a name can have it's advantages these days. In the age of the Internet your name can be the difference between being easy to find or difficult to find online. Which you choose might depend upon your needs, I suppose.

Anyway, the first thing you want to do is Google your full new name. Check to see if there's some famous (or infamous) person with that name. If so it's probably best to choose another. Something I've had fun with is doing a Google image search of various first names. While I'm sure it's not scientific at all, it seems to me that a lot of people with the same first names seem to have similarities. It's amazing how some names appear to be more often possessed by people who are attractive and successful while others look the opposite. Try it with a few and you'll probably see what I mean. For instance, looking at variations of my original middle name I Googled "Alene" and "Allison". With apologies to anyone by that name, Alenes seem a lot more boring than Allisons. In fact, there seems to be an endless number of exciting and successful women named Allison. Thus that's my name when I'm not being Lyric.

I wanted to keep my first initial (E) since I sign so many things -e
I concocted the name Sarah Ellison Carter, but after a while, I thought that Ellison might be a bit too contrived so I shortened it to Ellie and made that my first name, thus my initials are ESC, and I own your keyboard.