Quote from: cynthialee on February 28, 2010, 07:48:26 PM
I ddnt know until just a few weeks ago that I have been ussing Cynthia for my girl name since about 6.
My brother (younger) would get roped into playing house and barbioes and I demanded that the other children refer to me as Cynthia.
Funny thing is I thought I picked the name when I was a teen.
Go figure.
I tried to use other names at the request of a couple family members who have issues with the name but I found I was unable to do so. My name is Cynthia. It is the name I chose as a child and it is the name I chose to stick with in the long run.
I guess I have always been Cynthia, Peter was just a place holder.

That is almost my story too.

Quote from: LordKAT on February 28, 2010, 07:56:38 PM
That is almost my story too.

So your name is Cynthia? 

We were trying to get pregnant earlier this year (we'd been trying for a few years...but I was sure THIS was going to be the time it was actually going to happen...obviously I was still denying my gender identity)
I was watching "So you think you can dance" and one of the people on the show was Evan. I fell in love with him and the name. I just thought it was perfect! My mate didn't like it for any children we might have and turned it down.
A part of myself latched onto it though. As I started to open up about my dysphoria..."Evan" was there. However as I looked around boards for support I found a freakin TON of FtM Evan's all over the place!! That bummed me out..honestly.
My mate never did get used to the name Evan but one day was just kinda messing around and combined my given name with Evan to create Sevan. It was unique, (I thought we'd made it up altogether) and I got to keep Evan without BEING Evan.
I looked it up and it's actually an Arminan male's name. Go figure! The issue has become...what on earth goes with it for a middle name! I've thought about Maylor, Tyler and Micheal. I'm leaning towards Micheal at the moment because it kinda works...and I'd keep my initials that way. Sevan Tayler kinda sounds like Stevan Tyler and I'm kinda...eh on that. Though I change my mind frequently on middle names. My mate keeps trying to get me to go with Kyle but I don't really think it works with Sevan...eh.

Quote from: Aaron Chris on February 28, 2010, 08:13:55 PM
So your name is Cynthia? 

I did say almost.

Quote from: LordKAT on February 28, 2010, 08:42:20 PM
I did say almost.

Shhh...

At first I wanted Brian because it starts with the same three letters as my birth name.  But my mom's always told me that if I was born a boy she would have named me Devin.  I don't dislike Devin and everyone and his father is named Brian, so I figured heck-- if things worked out right in the beginning, I would have been Devin, so I might as well be Devin now.  Why take the opportunity to name their child away from my parents?

Quote from: Devin87 on March 01, 2010, 08:59:46 PM
At first I wanted Brian because it starts with the same three letters as my birth name.  But my mom's always told me that if I was born a boy she would have named me Devin.  I don't dislike Devin and everyone and his father is named Brian, so I figured heck-- if things worked out right in the beginning, I would have been Devin, so I might as well be Devin now.  Why take the opportunity to name their child away from my parents?

When my mother found out I was in transition she tried to rename me but it was already too late.

Mine's Victor James.

I was thinking about names a lot, I was trying some names in my head, but i just didn't like any of the names. It just didn't match my personality...
So one day I came up with Victor. It means "Winner, Conqueror".

My middle name (which is so unique in my country, because ppl here do not have middle names) I took James. I just always liked that name, and my favourite musician is James - so kept it.
I also think that both names goes pretty good with my surname.

I also like one Serbian name - Dimitrije.
Still, I think I will keep Victor.

Wow.  I just realized that I've never considered a middle name for myself.  Crap.  Now I need to find one.  I think I want this one to have religious significance-- a good solid Jewish name.

I go with Jesus, he was a good Jewish boy.  Tribe of David if I remember right.  But you might get confused with the guy across the street from me who makes the most divine chimichanga I've ever had.

With much difficulty.
I actually liked my birth name but it was too female.

I actually picked a male name for myself ages ago, after the first time my self-sim had a sex change. I went for Sam 'cause I liked the sound of it, and it was the best I had for my current female name. More recently I checked the meaning of the full name, Samuel, and discovered it means "God has heard." Now I love it more than ever, 'cause that's just how I feel about this.

Ah yes, middle name - good advice to keep the initials, but it means I need another name beginning with S... *goes browsing www.behindthename.com*

When mum was having me everyone thought she was having a girl (looks like they were right )
So she already had a girls name picked out.  As it hapens it is the female version of my male name.  After toying with a few names over the years i have settled on the name she originally picked.  I quite like it, it fits me and it can be shortened quite easily which i like.  At this stage i am not going with a middle name.

I used my female name and gave it a tweak into the male form.  It can also be neutral.  I changed my first name before anything.  Before anyone knew.  And now that people know and such I want my middle names to be changed...yes, doing it twice .  I'm planning on keeping those very close to my birth name also.  Hopefully the court won't give me trouble since I'll be doing it twice within a year.

I think it'd be hard to get used to and have other people get used to a completely different name.

I just came up with a list of names one day and spent a lot of time saying names out loud while looking in a mirror. Kieran was the original name I picked out but when I used it in the real world people were saying Karen so I nixed that. There were a lot of androgynous/unisex names (jesse, taylor) that I was looking at. Kyle just seemed to fit.

A friend of mine that didn't know I'd been using the name Kyle for such a long time (over 3 years) suggested changing my legal name slightly and become Eli Colin. I'm not a fan.

I'm thinking that I might allow my parents to pick a middle name for me. The name they originally picked out (thought I was going to be a boy) is my younger brother's name.

I picked "Lucien" a while ago, but now I'm feeling torn between "Lucien," "Anthony," and the name my mom picked if I had been born male: "William."

I hadn't given much consideration to William until just now.  I looked in the mirror, smirked, and William was there.  It's a bit early at this point though...  Everyone just calls me my nickname anyway, which is sort of masculine-sounding: "Toni."  That's been my nickname since before I was born.  Thanks mom! xD

Ok.  So I'm in the process of picking my Hebrew name for conversion and I found one that I like so much I think I might make it my middle name.  How does it sound?  Devin Naariah (pronouced Nay-ah-RI-ah).

Ryan is what my parents would have called me if I'd have been born male. Simple
My middle name is Elliott, which came about in a strange way. I was at college and we were waiting for our tutor. My mate went to the board and wrote "RYAN LOWE" and then for absolutely no reason, wrote "ELLIOT" inbetween. Elliott Smith is my favourite musician, hence the double-t spelling.

I went by Asher for about six months because I love the name and identified with many characters with that name. But after a while it felt like I was trying to be a completely different person instead of matching the inside. So I went back to the masculine version of my name, Sameth. I think Asher will be my middle name.

  /delurk

I really wanted to keep my initials at first, so I picked Liam Edward... Eventually I cringed every time someone said it. 1. It seems like a really common ftm name. 2. One of my good friends had a son within a month and named it Liam. (Who am I to steal his thunder) 3. It sounds really stupid and neurotic, but that "am" sound at the end made me think of ham... which I hate. lol

I decided to just scrap the entire idea, and go with something I really liked. I wrote list upon list of first names, middle names, super masculine names, gender neutral names. There were many that I sort of liked, but I always came back to Rowan. It fit. It worked for me. I had several people vote on several places I frequent, and it came down to Rowan Sage. Which I loved at the time. So much so that I got my name change paperwork ready.

Then I put it off. And further off... and off for over 2 years of secretly hating the Sage part. Everyone still calls me Rowan, Roro, Roo, or Ro. I love it to death.

About a year ago my Grandfather died, and my mother and I were driving home from the funeral. A good 12 hours in the car together talking about gender stuff, life, religion, death, all that deep crap. It was then that I made the decision to scrap Sage and honestly look for a new middle name. One that didn't sound so "flakey." Also, sage... a plant... Rowan... A tree. Too planty. Too fake sounding.

Months went by. No name seemed to fit. I tried and I tried and nothing rolled off my tongue or felt "mine." One night, very late, maybe very early, 3AMish, I was watching old reruns of Scrubs. The episode with Matthew Perry came on. The character's name was Murray.

That was IT. I said it in order a few times Rowan Murray A****. Much to my man's dismay, I said it out loud... very loudly, then cheered like an idiot.

So I'm ridiculously happy that I found a middle name that fits. I have yet to change my name legally. Maybe I'm just lazy, maybe I just don't want to have to break it to my grandmother on my father's side. She's the only person that I know who doesn't know what's going on with me. I don't expect her to accept it. I don't care if she ever does. I honestly don't want my mom to have to hear the grief when she calls her up for their nightly session of grandma bitches about things and mom listens and puts up with it. What a nice daughter in law she is!

But there's my ramble. I felt I should come out of hiding and post the long, silly story of my name.

<3 Roo.

P.S. Twilight series ruined the name Edward for me forever.