So how did you pick your name

Lily · Post by **Lily** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 2:28 pm

I was just wondering how people choose their fem name. I know I picked mine because my mother had said if I had been born a girl she would have named me Lillian. I think it’s funny because my mother did everything she could to beat the Fem out of me.

But how did you pick your name?

Carolynn · Post by **Carolynn** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:18 pm

It was my name when I was born, and was changed to a male name when I was a few weeks old after "corrective" surgery.

Rik · Post by **Rik** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:57 pm

When i was younger I use to watch Home and away and neighbours (the aussie soaps) there was a girl in 1 of those called analise, and from that moment i loved that name. Although I use to think that this would be the name I call my children..

Pat · Post by **Pat** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:45 pm

My name is very simply the abbreviation of my name, fortunately it can be either masculine or feminine

Alana · Post by **Alana** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 3:42 am

Alana Michele is just a feminine version of my given name. My mom had picked out a girl's name before I was born, although I don't remember what she said it was. I do know, it's not what I chose.

Angela · Post by **Angela** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:10 pm

By asking my mum what she would have called me if I'd been born a real girl she said she liked the name Angela so I've been Angela ever since. My family know me as Angela and treat me as a woman which is fine by me.

Virginia · Post by **Virginia** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 7:32 pm

My mother's name was Virginia and her mother's was Irene, thus my name - Virginia Irene,

When I visit their final resting place as they are together, I have always gotten a strong sense of their approval of their, "daughter/granddaughter."

Virginia

Kimberly Kael · Post by **Kimberly Kael** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:12 pm

I'd been referring to my feminine side as Kimberly for so long that I'm no longer sure how it started. I think it was at least partly inspired by the character I adored in the video game Space Ace instead of the hero I was supposed to identify with. It was only later that I realized I wasn't that fond of Kim as an abbreviation once I started actually using it around other people.

When the time came to change my legal name I spent a lot more time thinking about it. It had to be a name I liked, that my wife liked, that I liked the abbreviated form of, that went well with the names I was keeping, that wasn't unheard either now or when I was born, and that was unambiguously feminine. As added bonuses, it sounds vaguely similar to my prior name without just being a feminine form, and it turns out to be the name of a lake my mother's family owns property on so it has something of a family connection as well.

April Rose · Post by **April Rose** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 10:03 pm

April is my birth month, and the name of the first girl I ever kissed. A rose, in Jungian psychology, is a symbol of the Self, or universal soul. It is my favorite flower. I simply adore them.

I originally picked this name just to register for this forum. But I have come to think of myself as April. It suits me.

If any of you are thinking of sending me flowers, roses will do nicely...

Absaroka · Post by **Absaroka** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:35 pm

Zari is the diminutive of Absaroka. The Absaroka Mountains in one of the most beautiful, wierd, scary places I've ever been. Sort ot like the wilderness of my own mind. I chose it as an inspiration to return. But I haven't done so. YET.

Plus it's gender neutral.

Zari

SamScot · Post by **SamScot** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:28 am

The reasons so far seem to have given a lot more thought to the process than I did (eg asking parents etc.)

Sam is short for Samantha and I arrived at that after a GG Samantha was very helpful to me while I was getting started and creeping out the "closet" (I'm still pretty much stuck in there, but I do see the light of day now and again!). GG Samantha also had killer curves that I envied!

Post by **DonnaT** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:04 pm

The name of a neighbor I had in my youth.

Laura Bird · Post by **Laura Bird** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:11 pm

The first name I came up with for myself was more or less pulled from a hat (Mandy - first part, "Man", as a pun, har-har.) After my wife helped me get a wig, did my makeup, and picked out some clothes that really look great (to where, dare I say, I have a "style" now), we brainstormed on a better name as I really didn't LOOK like a "Mandy." We went through girl names of friends and people we knew in the past, trying to stay with names that fit our age range (as certain names seem to follow certain generations.) I didn't really want a "y" name anymore (Mandy, Becky, etc.) and I didn't really want a name of someone I was currently friends with (just seemed kind of creepy.) I think I resemble Robyn Baumgarten (local Chicago WGN morning news anchor) and probably would've went with that, but Robyn Bird just sounded cheesy (Bird is a play on my real last name) and plus I knew a Robyn in HS and she was obnoxious. Ultimately I decided on Laura, as I've known a few Lauras over the years, they were all brunettes (like me), all were smart, nice girls who also all happened to be somewhat taller than average (also like me.) So it just kinda seemed to fit.

Louise · Post by **Louise** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:17 pm

Quite simply I like the name Louise. It's nice.

Leeza · Post by **Leeza** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:59 am

When I was tinking about my name I thought about useing the fem of my first name but really didn't like it. I then thought of useing part of my middle name which is gender neutral, but have a GG friend with that name. I fianly decided to add a za to it and became Leeza. Marie just seemed to fit and also had an aunt named Marie.

I was telling the GG friend how I came about my name and she said that she felt honored by it.

A few weeks ago I got a laugh as a granddaughter was telling me that she didn't want to use any of the family names when nameing her daughter. Daughter's middle name - Marie.

Leeza