Being androgynous, have you ever considered changing your name? I've been considering it, as I am slightly more masculine than feminine, but still androgynous. Like Alexander, alex is still a unisex name, while alexander is more masculine.

Anyone else changed their name/considered changing it as an androgyne?

I have considered it and in a way I am. I have a bit of an Alexander name like you put, only more like Alexandra...
I simply leave off the 'andra'.. My boss calls me 'Alex', I sign as 'Alex', I order things to 'Alex'.. People generally don't even know me as 'Alexandra'..

Still, that leaves out official documents and the like, but it's not like my gender marker on those is ever going to change to N... So, although I have considered it, it seems unnecessary as in: missing the point. I do, however cling onto my androgynous name in unofficial channels - my resume will always say 'Alex'.

I only recently realized the name I use when presenting female is androgynous (spelled differently than the male version but pronounced the same). When I told this to my psychologist, she quickly pointed out I have been using an androgynous shortened form of my male name my entire life without even knowing it!

Quote from: Virginia on May 14, 2010, 04:50:02 AM
I only recently realized the name I use when presenting female is androgynous (spelled differently than the male version but pronounced the same). When I told this to my psychologist, she quickly pointed out I have been using an androgynous shortened form of my male name my entire life without even knowing it!

Lol, me too. I've been going by Donnie since I can remember.

Not really, maybe it's my ego or something but I consider my name to be mine and so reflect whatever I wish it to reflect.

I sometimes consider new names,looking in the mirror and calling myself so, but I think I won't change my name. I was, am and will always be the same person with the same name..
Sure it will cause problems, my name is in fact unisex but almost nobody knows this truth. Maybe I can help them find out it is so. 

well, i've used the unisex version of my first name pretty much all my life. However I just discovered that my middle name, which I always thought was completely and irrevocably male is actually unisex as well. how strange.

I have considered changing my name to something more unisex multiple times, but in the end I've always concluded that its just not worth it. In the last place I lived, Lots of people did know me as Kyle, but most of them never knew me as anything different.

I realized that the name people refer to me with isn't going to change who I am or how my real friends treat me.  I also don't want to go through the process of telling people to call me Kyle from now on, and explain it, and correct and remind people, because again, it doesn't change who I am.

yes...

but i can't shorten or androgynous my name

Yes. I've always disliked my real name and even when I was young androgynous names appealed to me. Later I started seriously thinking about adopting one.

I'd also like to drop my middle name and would alter my last name so I don't have to correct people or spell it to them.

Not going to lie, I have considered it. I love my proper name, though, and so if I was going to change it, it would have to be something pretty close to it. My name has either an obviously male or an obviously female version to it; the androgynous version would have to be one of my nicknames (Brog) which though I really like it, is not a proper name. I don't think I'll bother changing it, at this moment in time I still look pretty darn obviously female, so it would just confuse people. 

Ah. Yep. My birth name is Sara which has grown on me... Evan was the name I'd chose if indeed I was FtM identified. I'm not, so I combine them to be Sevan. I later found out it's an actual name.

For now I think I'm going to keep my name, but I remember since I hit puberty that I wished my name was Alex. I just know too many Alexes now for that not to be weird.

I know, I don't know how people with very common names cope with having other people be called it all the time! I am proud to say that I have never met anyone with the same name as me, though I have heard they exist. 

I have a name that is almost unisex I've heard it used by females and I was told I had a girls name as a young child at school but I haven't met anyone that has my name who is Biologicaly Female I sometimes take off the last letter and it becomes a clearly female name that I use in Trans/queer groups and use my birth name everywhere else so I have a ballance sometimes I think I hear people say my name without pronouncing the last letter and I just smile to myself. 

Quotebut i can't shorten or androgynous my name

if you user name is your real name then 'Meg' or 'Megs'

I've seriously considered it. I wanted to change my name to Cameron, one of my favorite androgynous names.. but then I started dating a Cameron, so that's probably never going to happen, especially if we never break up.

Androgynous names have always been more interesting to me, but now that I really think about it,  like Pica, my given name feels more like mine. It would be really hard for me to change it legally. Going by a nickname is much different than actually officially changing it (imo).

If you really do want to change it, especially if it's a drastic change from what you go by now, I would suggest waiting a year. If you still want to use it, then do. Same motto I have for getting a tatto. 

I guess my name can be Androgynous. Not that i meant it that way as it's 'Nat' an abbreviation of 'Nathan'. Which is not my birth name, but i haven't changed the forms at birth's deaths and marriages  yet. I asked my 'father what he would've called me instead of my birth name, if the doc declared me as male, and he said Sam or Samuel. However i am hesitant to use that as my middle name, and my iPod's name is 'Sam'. There was a tired moment in the doc's office where i was all like "what if i changed my name to "Nathan San <insert last name>" as in Nathan's an.. but i won't.

-Nat

I always wanted a unisex name- now i know why!

(like Stacy/Tracy/Jaime/Lee/Jordan)


just maybe I should go by"angry american voter"

When I was a kid I was always trying to change my name. My birth name was the one that stuck, though, and I'm glad because I like it better now. My parents gave my siblings and I all androgynous names. Maybe they know something I don't?