Once I get the money together I am going to change my name.

I've been thinking I would like to be called Nicki Arlie ______.

I think it looks really interesting on paper. Nicki is a more feminine form of my current legel name (nicholas). I wanted to keep some form of it because most people know me as Nick which is totally ok with me. I also considered being just Nick, but I wanted something a little softer.  I could go for Nicky but I wanted to leave no doubt that I'm not a male based on my name. I decided on Arlie because I liked the sound of it and it is an androgynous name. I also like how it reminds me of Mohammed Ali. I like to think I am a bit of a fighter. It has lots of alternative spellings like Arley, Arely, Arlee. I think I prefer Arlie. Anyway I am going to sit on it awhile and see how it goes.

Arlie is old english meaning "eagles field" and sometimes a "hare meadow". I love hares, they are beautiful. Plus they could be seen as an androgyne mascot:

"The hare in African folk tales is a trickster; some of the stories about the hare were retold among African slaves in America, and are the basis of the Brer Rabbit stories. The hare appears in English folklore in the saying "as mad as a March hare". In Irish folklore the hare is often seen as an evil creature, principally associated with witches."



Has anyone else changed their name legally to be more androgynous? How would you like to be called?

Nicki Arley
Nicki Arely
Nicki Arlie
Nicki Arlee

I removed my male middle name by deed poll, my first name is fairly androgynous in being a very common Armenian female first name.

If your into the great Muhammad Ali why not "Alina"? It has a lovely meaning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina

Alina is a beautiful name. I'll add it to the thought mix. Thanks!

Nicki Alina

Pleasure

You could go with Nicola which is a man's name in Italian. Pronounced with the "cola" as in CocaCola.

I haven't done it yet, but I'm going to.  I want to change mine to James Ashton.  I've always liked James and it lends itself to Jaimey (it actually would have been my name if I had a male body) and Ashton is pretty androgynous. 

There's something very freeing about changing your name.  It just feels right.

...Arlie is pretty!  I've never heard it before.

i sometimes wish i could change my name, but mainly because it is a very dull name that nobody gets right.

Nicky
why not Niki or Nikki. Sounds the same but very feminine
Have a cis-female who is spelt Cyndy. nice but how often do you correct it?

Nice and feminine and pronounced the same.

Cindy James

Quote from: Pica Pica on April 07, 2009, 04:16:32 AM
i sometimes wish i could change my name, but mainly because it is a very dull name that nobody gets right.

You're in the UK right? It's cheap and easy via Deed Poll. Only big cost is the Passport and Driving Licence. All in you should be able to do it for less than £150.00 including those two documents. Should take about three weeks to get everything done.

I legally changed my first name to Shannon a little over five years ago. At the same time I changed the spelling of my given first name to make it a little more feminine-looking and that became my middle name.

I chose the name Shannon primarily because it is a gender-ambiguous name, although I think here in the U.S. it is a more common name for females. I also like the way it sounds. Shannon is a name of Gaelic origin and according to some sources loosely translates to "small but wise" (which I realize is directly opposite of "big and stupid," but hey, sometimes I like being contradictory). 

I can't think of anything decent.

I wanna do the obvious heathen thing and take an Old Norse name, but proper names in ON all seem to be gendered.  Lokaeign might work as a last name, but as a 1st name it tends naturally to get shortened to Loka... which is a bit too close to the Spanish "Loca" (crazy woman) for comfort.

Quote from: Pica Pica on April 07, 2009, 10:05:35 AM
I can't think of anything decent.

What would you really like?

Male name, female name, or unisex name?

Culturally Anglo-Saxon or from anywhere?

Quote from: Pica Pica on April 07, 2009, 10:05:35 AM
I can't think of anything decent.

Have you tried something indecent?

I always think of you as Pica anyway, maybe there is something there to build on

.....L

Quote from: CindyJames on April 07, 2009, 05:00:57 AM
Nicky
why not Niki or Nikki. Sounds the same but very feminine
Have a cis-female who is spelt Cyndy. nice but how often do you correct it?

Nice and feminine and pronounced the same.

Cindy James

Yeah, I have thought of it as a possibility. It always looked a bit hard on my eye, but it is 'funkier'.

Nikki Alina
Nikki Arlie
Nicki Arlie
Nicki Alina
Nicole Alina
Nicole Arlie

too many variants...

Plenty of androgynous names in other languages.

Here's a short list of Indonesian ones - G is pronounced hard as in God and C is pronounced soft as in China...

http://www.pickbabynames.com/_country/Indonesian.html

At one time I thought about changing my name to "Jenny". Not only is Jenny a nice, informal-sounding female name, but as I recall, in animal nomenclature, it can also refer to the non-reproductive offspring produced by mating a horse with an ass, which seemed kinda fitting too. 

I think mine is good for me since my name is noel.  In the US I get "nole" a lot but it's the french "noelle" accurately.

I think Nickie would also be a cool spelling.  My drag name is Nickolas so I mess with the nick name a bit. 

Oh Nickie is a cool spelling!

Thanks 

Quote from: imaz on April 06, 2009, 08:45:28 PM
Pleasure

You could go with Nicola which is a man's name in Italian. Pronounced with the "cola" as in CocaCola.

I like that. that's cute.

I do like Nicola, it is a girls name here. In NZ we would pronouce it more 'cala'