I am in the process of my legal name change and so Robert Bruce will soon be Roberta Susan  I am Bobbi to my friends already funny thing is when I was little I hated being Bobby now I choose Bobbi


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My birth name was Mittens (my parents were really hoping for a cat), and my new name is Kitchen, so other than a bit of a rhyme they are no where close to being similar.

Quote from: Igknight on February 15, 2018, 10:29:42 PM
Dead name sounds so much better than birth name

I understand why some like the term dead name better but it doesn't really fit for me.  A lot of history with my birth name and plenty of it good. 

As far as picking my new name, I probably would have gone with a feminized version but I don't know of one.  No female name held any significance so I figured it might help ease transition if I kept my initials the same.  My dad has called me TJ mostly anyway.  I picked Tonya because it was the T name I liked best that I did not know anyone with.  I've since met two others but they spell it different. 

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I used the term dead name a couple of times and it really didn't feel right.

My new name and and my old name are both:

1. fairly common
2. one syllable
3. start with the J sound
4. unmistakably gendered

Quote from: Igknight on February 15, 2018, 10:29:42 PM
I picked mine based on personality, available nicknames, how people might perceive me based on my name, and how unique it is. Plus, Ignatius just sounds cool!

And a kinship with Ignatius J. Reilly makes it even cooler!

I did consider just adding an "a" to the end of my name, for me and probably everyone else too, I accossciate names with people and in my head that's how those people are/look.
I know that's a bit silly so my birth name with an A at the end reminds me of my ex partners mother and I'm still a little bitter and sad about that break up.

Besides I've always liked Katie

Mine is a total departure. Different letters, different ethnicity, different religion. It's just someone I associate with bravery and wisdom.

I asked my dad what name he had picked for me if I'd been born female. I've been Jennifer since.

Two syllables, and start with same initial letter.  "Andrew" to "April."

In the process of choosing, I looked on the Social Security Administration website showing the most frequently given names for men and women by birth decade, and there it was.  Seemed like a good idea to have a name that would likely have been given to a girl born the year I was born.  I bypassed Amanda and Amber because there were just too many of them.  75,000 Aprils born during the 80s.  That's about right for me.

As you might guess, I'm a math/statistics nerd.

I also liked April because of its association with springtime.  A time of new beginnings.

Here's a link to the SSA popular name site if you're interested:

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/

It's funny looking back.  My folks named me Andrew.  "English form of the Greek name Ανδρεας (Andreas), which was derived from ανδρειος (andreios) 'manly, masculine.'"

Wow!  Were they ever WRONG!  LOL!

Lol, I went from the top 15 to #152 for the 1980s.

I just posted my first post here, and mentioned this because mine is essentially the same, just shortened. Sent my paperwork in today to change my name and literally kept what everyone calls me just legally don't want my full name. Samantha to Sam. Personally, just wanted to keep that part of me but totally understand changing it to something different!

I liked that my first and last names had the same first and last letter and the same number of syllables, and I had no desire to change my last name, so I picked a new first name that kept all of those things and also reflected my heritage in some way.  i am still deciding on a new middle name, which I want to be something that reflects me on a more personal level and sounds good when said with the name as a whole.  zero attachment to any aspect of the original middle name, so there will be nothing in common for that one.

I haven't actually chosen a name yet. My handle here is close to my current name Shane. I am not sure what I am going to do as far as names go but I am increasingly wanting to distance myself from my birth name. It's nice to see how/why others chose theirs. 

My third grade teacher called me shelly, I used to like it a lot. but it resembles my evil abusive step mothers name way to closely. We can't have that now. I settled on Sarah partly cause it was an option if I was born with the correct parts. Haven't changed anything legally yet but pretty sure ill stick with it.

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Quote from: Jennifer.Diamonds on February 16, 2018, 04:01:44 AM
I asked my dad what name he had picked for me if I'd been born female. I've been Jennifer since.

This is so beautiful dear. <3

As of right now, I think I'd just change my middle name to something feminine but with nearly the same pronunciation, like from John to Joan for example.

There's no masculine version of my birth name or even anything really close, so my new name had to be completely different no matter what. But, I want no connection to my birth name anyway, as I've never been a fan of it.

I picked my name that is similar to my birth name because I feel like I am still me and using the similar name would just remind me of who I am (personality and all the good memories).

I picked my name for a variation of reasons...
I wanted to keep my initials because my mother created them very purposefully for a very specific reason and I wanted to honor that.
Whenever I would play video games, I would play as a male and and name the character Dustin. Its the only thing I could ever come up with when I thought about if my name were a male name.
It's not a huge leap from Destiny (gosh, even typing that feels weird now), but enough to be different.
And I picked Seth after debating between that and Sebastian for a while. I finally decided that Dustin Seth sounded better and flowed better than Dustin Sebastian. Also, Seth just felt right. It rings true in my mind as "that's my name." After I decided on it, I started using it as my common name and haven't really gone by anything else since then.
Some of my friends still call me DW, which is what I've used since I was in middle school because I could never stand my name, but it doesn't bother me since it's still my initials.

Quote from: JinnieY on February 17, 2018, 08:46:55 PM
I picked my name that is similar to my birth name because I feel like I am still me and using the similar name would just remind me of who I am (personality and all the good memories).

At my core I still feel the same; when I talk about my past I will say pre transition; and it's kind of irritating to me when some trans people talk about their past and refer to their birth name, like they are two different people; I mean you're still the same person, so it was still you that experienced whatever you are sharing, right? And the dead name concept is not something I can relate to either, it just doesn't sound right to me, and puts out a lot of bad juju.