Does the name Irisko sound feminine, masculine, neither, or both to you?
I'll explain my situation after a few comments roll in. I don't want to mess with other peoples opinions.

Names ending in 'o' I generally assume masculine due to the influence of the romance languages, unless they come from outside the Anglosphere. 'O' ending being the male form of names and 'a' being the female.

Hi, DPS

I believe that might really depend on the country, and the pronunciation.

Where I live any name that ends in "ko" is almost always female. (One notable exception is when preceded by "hi", as in "hiko.")

These are more insightful responses than I anticipated tbh. ty!

Chose a name you like. You are the one who will hear it for the rest of your life.

Names differ depending on where on earth you come from. Some names are typical European, North American or Asian. One name sounding cool in English could mean someting completely different in French, Thai or Japanese.

I've made up character names in games, found out they were Japanese words. Like Tako. Octopus. And Koikko that is crawling worm in Maenkieli.


Tony

Quote from: DPS on June 30, 2018, 09:43:10 PM
Does the name Irisko sound feminine, masculine, neither, or both to you?
I'll explain my situation after a few comments roll in. I don't want to mess with other peoples opinions.

I don't know if you are Japanese, or going for a Japanese-sounding name, but it sounds like a female name to me. 

As someone who's name IS Japanese, "ko" zirconia is correct.  "Ko" usually denotes a female's name.

Either way, its very pretty.

Ryuichi
(Ryu means dragon, ichi means one.  One website says it means "first son of the dragon," but I like to say it means "First dragon. )

Irisko is a hungarian name and is pronounced "EE - REE - Sh - Ko"
I live in the US so people will probably pronounce it "EYE - Rih - Sko"

For clarification. There are other names similar to it like Isko, asko, and Orisko. I just liked Irisko the best, but its technically a female name. But technically Artemis is a female name too and men can have it, so I guess Im just trying to gage what Im getting myself into with this name.

Im afab, pre-everything and look androgynous. Irisko might be my favorite name, but if it makes me seem more female I might have to leave it...but its also the only name I've 'clicked' with in...years of searching for a name and I just want this search to be over already. *sigh

DPS, people that interact with your new name will largely be in passing. And I think, if Irisko really resonantes with you, then that is all that matters. 

Naming can definitely be difficult for our community, and leaving our dead names behind.  Some have a girl or boy name in mind for many years, some only really think about it after transitioning begins. I guess I was a bit of both, because I just used the name of a character I made on Final Fantasy 14, and It's not like I use this name anywhere else besides Susans/Youtube/Twitter.

When I first made my twitter, I used my real name, and changed it after deciding to use Eryn for Susans.  I'm definitely an outlier here because my birth name is VERY androgynous and I likely won't be changing it. Still, I would like to be called Eryn.

Anyway, like I said. No use in using a name that you're not fond of just because you think it might sound more masculine. We don't get to choose our names at birth, but we get to choose them now. So, it's entirely your choice, mate!