I called myself Sam for a while. I also tried telling people I was Addy. (My initials are A.D.). Sadly, my give name is quite male-ish.

But I already have a girl's name. It got it when I was quite young and I know who I am.

Haha reading this forum I constantly add little things to endless compilation of things:  Addie was my nickname when I was a kid and I always thought it sounds like Lady and didn't mind it one bit   Even though Lady is the kind of name someone calls their friendly wolf lol.

I only disliked my name when people met me for the first time and said, "Oh! You're a little girl!" because they were surprised after hearing my name was more male (Shawn). I never really wanted to change my name, I just hated the surprise when people thought I was a boy because of my name and found out I was a girl.

Yes. I hated having a girl's name.
We moved when I was in high school and I started using initals.
Family never adapted to it, but at least at school I didn't have to be called the old name.

The boy's name I always imagined having is not the one I chose when it came time to do that.
Couldn't bring myself to name me after my Dad.

Not really. i was pretty okay with my name and i'm really only parting with it because my male identity is attached to it. eh, i've been mostly going by my online nickname anyway. The friends i've made recently haven't played that much online with me, so they usually call me by my male name and it's just feels really odd. I haven't gotten used to my female name yet either. i think currently i mostly identify with my two online nicknames.
back when i was a child though i really wasn't bothered by it. it was just some name and it was nice.

Yes I did along with other things that didn't match up LOL. Nowadays I am satisfied with it-it works for me now.

Randi

Yes. I was actually going to go through with it, too--my parents were behind the idea, and we were brainstorming together. My reasoning back then was just that "I don't like the meaning of my current name." Eventually I decided it'd be too much of a hassle and forgot about it.

When I got a little older I played around with the idea again. I had this idea that after high school I was going to change my entire name, move to another state and start a new life trying to be a girl. The name I picked was actually the feminine version of the male name I now have. (I'd been calling myself that male name since I was 12 years old, but since I didn't know I could transition I figured I'd have to feminize it.) Anyway, I thought that picking my own name might help me feel more feminine like I was "supposed to" I guess.

I did, but for the main reason that I had the same first name and middle initial of a certain hollywood actor and got sick and tired of the movie quotes. The number of times I heard "What's the matter, McFly? CHICKEN!?" is not even funny. Ugh.

I used to add an 'a' to the end of my first name on my signature when I was a kid (right up until I changed it to my initials at about 17 or so), making it a female version, and nobody ever knew, lol.

In middle school i always wanted to go by my very unisex middle name, which is O'Neil.  I liked it much better then 'her' name.

Quote from: Sephirah on May 18, 2011, 08:20:15 PM
I did, but for the main reason that I had the same first name and middle initial of a certain hollywood actor and got sick and tired of the movie quotes. The number of times I heard "What's the matter, McFly? CHICKEN!?" is not even funny. Ugh.

That is too bizarre, because the one celebrity comparison I got more than any other (before transition) was Crispin Glover, so people always used to go "Hello... McFly!"

Lol, I think we may be owed some royalties by someone, somewhere.

I was always know to my cousins as "Johnny".  It was not till years later that I found out that is a feminized version of my birth name.

Of course Janet is the female version, which I did not know till after I chose it.  I just got it from my favorite movie.

I've hated my birth name for a loong time. I liked it as a young kid, up until I was 8 or so. All through high school I remember trying to think of names I could change mine to but I could never find the right one. Even now, being called Ryan is getting tiring.

I sometimes find myself wishing I didn't need a name... "Hey yo!" would work just fine for me x)

I never liked my given name, "Emily." Sure, it's pretty and works well for other people, but it sounds so light, docile, and feminine to me, which I am just not. I went by "Milly" starting in junior high, and that is what most people still know me by. Although it is recognizably feminine to most, I actually don't mind it that much, oddly. I never felt it was gendered for me, even though "Millie" is a girl's name by mainstream standards.

I greatly prefer "Mikah" because it actually indicates my correct gender while capturing what I do like about Milly. I had that name stuck in my head all year, and finally have started to go by it.

Guess I'm the odd one out, I actually liked my birth name for quite a while. It's very feminine, but has a nice sound to it, and when I was a kid I really didn't have rigid ideas of gender anyway. I knew girls called Schuyler and Charlie and Sam, wouldn't have been surprised to bump into a boy called Susan or what have you. Wouldn't even have thought it was odd.

The first time I really thought about changing my name was probably when I was 11, and I sometimes went with a male name that had the same initial as my birth name. Only to myself, though, and when writing my journal. Then I'd usually sign things with just my initial, so I could switch it in my mind.

In my case, my birth name sounded quite a bit like a girl's name (I'd rather not reveal it for privacy reasons).  So I liked it for that reason, tho I sometimes got teased or embarrassed on account of that as well.  Sometimes I would get mail addressed to "Miss [old birth name]."  Then when I transitioned, when I was in that ambiguous andro stage, I could get by sometimes with that name, but I really needed to change it, so that I did.  My mom had a hard time with that and she once wrote me an email saying, 'You always liked your name.'  Well yeah, I said in reply, cos it sounded girly to me.  Now it's just a male name to me.  It's the same name, but how I felt about it changed over time.

I used to complain to my parents about how I hated my name.  My given name is one with a lot of possible nicknames, so they'd always tell me I could just go by one of those.  Problem is, I didn't like any of them either.  I also remember asking my Mom what she would have named me if I had been born a boy.
I think I was 11 when I first picked a name for myself.  Brendan, but I never actually used it and didn't end up sticking with it.

I definitely did not like my first or last name but thought my middle name would be a good last name... I also thought about just dropping my first and last names and just going with one name

Always always hated it. It was so long for starters - danielle carla louise reynolds - what is up with that?! My mum got married once and wanted me to double barrel my name with my step dads, to be reynolds-holmes. I was like, are you trying to torture me? Do you know what a pain that is to write on forms and spell out for people?

As a young'un if I thought I could get away with being a boy with a stranger I'd be Ben. If I ever played make believe in school I'd always call myself Kevin. When it was apparent I couldn't get away with that any more I shortened it to Danni, or just Dan.

Even before I realised I needed to transition I changed my name by deedpoll to something shorter.

I was just thinking about this a few days ago. I used to hate my name when I was a kid, I even wanted to have the same name as our cat. 
Eventually at some point I got used to my name. It's not like I love it, but I can live with it for the time being. That being said, I'd like to know what name my parents would've given me had I been born as a girl; I just don't know how to ask my mom about it without being too direct...it's something I want to find out before it's too late to do that.