I have never really found a name to get attached to, i had a screen name i attached to my prefferred gender for about 6 years, but the name was gender neutral, or manybe even a little closer to my birth gender. Though it was after the name of a famous-ish transwoman from the 1960s ish. Not really appropriate as a real-life name though, only suitable as a screen name. Never really found a name i liked enough to get attached to. I kind of want something gender neutral really, but there's not much out there.

i think my name just naturally came to me. dont remember thinking about it.

You can check out behindthename.com for gender-neutral names and their meanings. Also asking people what other names they think suit you, or asking what your parents would've named you had you been born the opposite gender and trying to find a way to make that more androgynous. (i.e., Samuel or Samantha into Sam)

Or you could just make something up with syllables you find pleasant, if you want. (depending on how strongly you feel about having a "traditional" name, as opposed to a more "unusual" one.)

I wasn't really thinking about it, but mine just popped in my head after seeing it during a recent visit to my dentist (one of his assistants has my name) and it just seemed to click  . Besides, it means 'butterfly' in Greek (stemming from the name of the Greek Goddess Phanessa), and I love butterflies! 

My suggestion is if nothing seems to fit by the sound, look up its meaning. Hope this helps hun!

I'm a male to female transsexual. Well first off I wanted to change my boy name to a less boyish name, to Daniel. Then when I promised myself I would one day soon be a female through many surgeries, I decided to change my name a second time to Daniela, when the time was right. But then I started to think I should look for more girly and pretty names, like Elisabeth, or Rosalie, or Kristen. I chose the name Anne, then went to Annette, then to Jane, then to Venus (for a minute or so before I found out what it rhymed with, lol), then I went to Veronica, then to Vanessa. And I'm probably going to change it again (so far I haven't changed my name yet at all by law). I like to pick names that sound very feminine and beautiful, sophisticated, powerful, and sensible, yet exuberant, and loving, because all those themes and more describe my personality.

My name is kind of two parts. Sarah is a name I have always, for whatever reason, associated with. It's simple, feminine, and it's really just been a name I took on and decided that if I was born to that name I would not be out to change it, so I decided to be true to myself and just keep it. It feels right, that's all I can say.

As far as Faith goes, that was a part I added on when I joined Susan's many years ago. There was, muct to my dismay, already a Sarah here! So I stumbled upon Faith as something I have to become who I am and it's also a female name. Sarah will stay in real life, Faith will just stay here:)

I was thinking about Mary Emma, it's got that soft touch too it that i just love! 

but however i could never pull it off!

Well, it was Cassandra after the prophet nobody ever believed, but then I dated a girl named Cassandra.  Then I went with Alice from Alice in Wonderland, but something seems off about it.  I've been thinking about Kate, Kristen, or Carrie lately.  My male name is Corey and I'm going for a K sound in my girl name.

My name is a morph of my birth name.  My middle name just sort of flowed.

Someone who loves me gave me my first name, and I took that person's last name because together we are a family. A lot like my original names in that regard.

Chloe <3

for me after i told my mom  she can rename me due she did it the first time "thanks mom"

Mine comes from the 'Rocky Horror Picture Show'.  I love Susan Sarandon 's character.  And I later found out it is a feminized version of my male name.  I always loved the second half of my ex's fist name, so I took it as my middle, spelled the same way.


Janet

Middle name was easy - Elizabeth. It's just so amazingly versatile.

First name  - though I'm only about 95% certain on it - was really just a matter of my reviewing all the names I really liked, and eliminating any name already used by someone close to me, and then from the rest trying to get the one that was easiest to say in a fem voice (some letter sounds really are easy to drop down into the deep range on)

Quote from: mattie on October 22, 2009, 07:13:36 PM
for me after i told my mom  she can rename me due she did it the first time "thanks mom"

Same here, my mother told me she was going to call me Tina Cherie so I am pretty much set on that name now and she is cool with it (She is still in mild shock though, but I expect she will adjust eventually).

A long time ago my parents told me they would have named me Kelly.  I like how it fits a lot of the same characteristics my birth name while being entirely different, and I don't mind how it sounds when it gets shortened.  I also like that it's way more common than my birth name - so no more having to correct pronunciations!

I'm still thinking about a middle name.  I've never used the middle name I have now, so I'm not sure I'll even bother.

I would have been Elizabeth if my parents had recognized I was a girl.  I thought of that briefly, but that is my daughter's middle name and it just seemed too weird for me to take it.   I tried a few others but somehow stuck with Katherine (my legal name now).  My friends decided I was Kate.  Somehow that fits better.

I slid my male first name to be my middle name.  (It could be a surname.)  Now I wish I had done it differently, because it is a little startling to see it on documents that use my full name.  But we make our choices and live with the consequences.

- Kate

Jeannette's the combined name of my two nans' first names.

All of the names I've chosen have always stemmed from some kind of video game or something along those lines. My middle name comes from a 1980's Disney movie. My first name that always changes usually comes from a video game. Walter and Richard - Silent Hill 4. Robert - Clock Tower 3. My friend once told me not to pick names from games, movies or books. That hinders my selection because if I picked a name of random I would have nothing to compare it with. But usually when I hear a name of random I can usually compare it to something from a movie, game or book

I dreamt about being referred to as Miniar and found myself attached to it when I woke up. When I found out what it meant I was even more stuck on it.

I just changed the spelling of my original name because friends kept calling me by my old name and then they felt frustrated for goofing up. Thought it would be easiest on everyone? Still thinking of becoming Stacy? I've always liked that name.