My name is generally a Welsh name as I dream of visting Wales one day. The first part of my new name is Alun, which means little rock. The second is Colwyn which is the name of a river in Northern Wales. I'm not a real boastful person around newer people and I tend to be more laid back until I really know something -- as if I'm just another rock on a moutain~ But then -- Once someone gets to truly know ME -- I'm like a flowing river of random,spazztical, greatnesss~ :DD

I've tried other names but everyone agrees thats Aluns the name for me~ *WTF that ryhmed P:*

<3 Alun

Ever since I was small, I loved the letter K and the phonetic associated with it. When I wanted a female name a few years ago, I experimented with many names beginning with K.

I decided to go with Kairi after playing a video game called Kingdom Hearts. Its the name of one of the characters in the game. I thought the name sounded cute and fell in love with it instantly. I've been signing my diary with it ever since. It's of Japanese origin.

I think I'm going to go with Lukas Gabriel Charlot.  I've been a fan of the name "Lukas" for quite awhile and I just love the name "Gabriel" and "Charlot" is in honor of my great-grandma who saved my life, it was her last name.  I like how the name goes together really well and it feels pretty good, but we'll see.

I'm still new so working on it. I was thinking of Amber, Bailey or Becky - they are 3 girls in my life that show me how awesome and strong and amazing a woman can be, and thought of it as a homage and a reminder of the woman I can be
But I got away from that mind-set and started thinking of a name for me , and seeing as my last name starts with Z, and I love how unique that letter is, I am almost convinced on Zoe. Cute, simple, feminine. Me
and Amber as a middle name I think

It's the name my mom planned to give me if I had been born a biological boy and I like it because I don't feel it's too feminine or too masucline.

Quote from: Alun C on August 17, 2010, 08:38:10 AM
My name is generally a Welsh name as I dream of visting Wales one day. The first part of my new name is Alun, which means little rock. The second is Colwyn which is the name of a river in Northern Wales. I'm not a real boastful person around newer people and I tend to be more laid back until I really know something -- as if I'm just another rock on a moutain~ But then -- Once someone gets to truly know ME -- I'm like a flowing river of random,spazztical, greatnesss~ :DD

I've tried other names but everyone agrees thats Aluns the name for me~ *WTF that ryhmed P:*

<3 Alun

For some reason I find that to be quite sweet and charming

I chose Mary, because Maria has always been my favorite female name, but no hispanic blood in me so Maria would seem awkward.  I'm currently think of changing it to Lex.  Luckily I'm new at this so I can still change my name.

Mary/Lex

I have known I was ftm since I was about 4.  I remember asking my parents what they would have named me if I had been born a boy and they told me Christopher.  Since they named my brother something else I figured my parents knew best so I went with Christopher.  As for my middle name, as a female it was my mom's maiden name, and I wanted to keep her family in my name so I took her dad's first name as my middle  name, Gabriel.

Since my deed poll arrived today, I thought I might spend my two penneth. ^_^

I chose "Gemma" initially because it's the only girl's name I've really liked. There was a Scottish girl at my junior school with that name, but no-one else I've known has been named the same, so it seemed like a safe option.

I faced a problem in that I'm proud of my male name; it's Scottish, as is my Mum and most of my family from there backwards. I could not come up with a nice Scottish name to match, but "Gemma", despite being of middle-eastern descent, is a popular name north of the border. So that did me.

Quote from: Mary on August 20, 2010, 05:00:43 AM
I chose Mary, because Maria has always been my favorite female name, but no hispanic blood in me so Maria would seem awkward.  I'm currently think of changing it to Lex.  Luckily I'm new at this so I can still change my name.

Mary/Lex

Maria is also Italian isn't it?  and I think it's used in many communities. There's also Marie.

Jesse is a shortened version of my more feminine, rather common name (I bet most can guess which one.)  It's pronounced the same as Jessie of course, though when I was young I had learned to spell it Jesse instead and was rather confused when others 'corrected' my spelling of it in grade school.

Perhaps this will change in the future, but for now I rather like the name and it requires minimal fuss.  It's also rather androgynous, which suits me just fine.

My name is officially Liam. My two best mates chose it. I liked the name, and it also has significance as it was the name of a teacher whom I looked up to in my school years. Liam means Will (as in the will to survive), Strength and Protection. I also changed my last name, as it held negative connections to my bio Father. My mother chose my middle name, Gabriel.

Quote from: Jesse S. on August 22, 2010, 12:56:26 AM
Jesse is a shortened version of my more feminine, rather common name (I bet most can guess which one.)  It's pronounced the same as Jessie of course, though when I was young I had learned to spell it Jesse instead and was rather confused when others 'corrected' my spelling of it in grade school.

Perhaps this will change in the future, but for now I rather like the name and it requires minimal fuss.  It's also rather androgynous, which suits me just fine.

I really love that name

Wow, this thread has been going a long time!  I enjoyed reading through all the ways folks came up with their names but didn't see anyone with an experience quite like mine, so I'm going to jump on the bandwagon and share my story.

My parents didn't know my biological sex until I was born, and they picked out a gender-neutral, common name without reference to their culture for if I'd had boy parts and a feminine, uncommon name with a strong cultural link for if I'd had girl parts.  When I came out to my mom, she said she should have given me the boy name; my parents didn't know it was gender-neutral at the time, and they had no idea what a surprise my gender would be, nor did they expect me to grow to reject their culture.  I'm likely to use this name because it's the one I always should have had, but it might just be a middle name because I ended up growing attached to having an unusual name, and I feel like choosing a name that's ethnically inconsistent with my heritage would be disingenuous to my personal struggle with it.  For now, I'm primarily going by a masculinization of one of my potential girl names that preserves the cultural implication and uniqueness of my given name.

I'm still in the process of deciding my name.  I generally just use a feminized version of my own birth name (which I haven't decided I want to do since I think I'd like to have something different to mark the difference in persona), or I also like a shortened version of my online persona (Alisse), but I still haven't settled on anything yet. I also have been considering Jessica, Melissa and Andria / Andi.  - I like names ending in vowels that contain "i"'s so I can do a loopy thing with the vowel and also embellish the dot over the 'i' when I sign my name

Cheers -

Rayalisse

I haven't put a lot of thought into it, short of this name, which is, in essence, my online persona now.

Astarielle was something I kind of came up with out of the blue with my friends, but I found it fit me so easily. The only problem I have is that I have/had a friend who used the name Star online, but I haven't seen her in awhile, so I wonder what happened.

Excellent explanations!

Sorry to be The Village Simpleton here, but I chose my name because it begins with the same first letter as my given name, has the same number of letters in it and just "feels" right.  Lynne?  Alliteration, symmetry and euphony.  Lacey Lynne.  Just love it.  No profound explanation.  Sorry, but that's it!

My soon-to-be-surname came from my work.  It is the surname of an awesome nurse practitioner in New York City who is:  Competent, brilliant and hot!  Love, love, love her surname.  Lastly, it is Italian as is my given surname.  Translated, it means:  Good saint.  I just like the name. 

Love all your posts!   

My name is kind of a pun. It's hard to explain how I came up with Kyle. I started to just adore the name a couple of months before I changed it. When I started transition I thought I would keep my unisex name, but I was like no..I want to be Kyle. People kept trying to convince me to change it and I would only get dysphoric. It's me, it just is.
My middle name is Kacey. I got it because my parents don't like the name Kyle and my last name starts with c, so they started calling me KC. And I was at first thinking they spelled the name Kasey out not realizing it was my initials. I looked up the spellings the name and saw Kacey which was pronounced the same as my nickname AND had the letters in it. And we kind of just went from there.
My middle name was originally going to be Lee but my mom was like NOOOOOO because of a woman named Lee that she hates, so Kacey was something we could all agree on.

I had one of those hyphenated last names. I had to drop the second one because I associated it too much with the birth name and I wanted to separate myself from her and what better way than to think of us with 2 different last names

I wanted something that was uncommon. I chose Lillan (more commonly spelled Lilian). It also means "beautiful" and I believe everybody is beautiful in their own way. I know I am. As for a middle name.... Lillian Nicole sounds nice, but I want my grandmothers name as my M.I. I'm not sure what middle name I want yet.

I love name claire and zoey, both was cool.........they were twins girl in resident evil and left4dead....i want to be preety like them