How did you pick your name?

[Guest SusanB]

LOL you'll have to post a video of the bouncing part

The least you could do is spring for some Cubans for such an occasion

[Guest Sarah Faith]

Well looks like I changed my mind on my middle name yet again.. lol After a few weeks of family and SO trying to convince me to stick with Faith, I decided to cave.. might as well since I've gone by Sarah Faith for so long now it does seem more natural. I can be so indecisive sometimes lol.

[Guest JazzySmurf]

Mine is probably the least thought out... I went by Sam as a child and so I just stuck with it :-)

[Guest]

LOL you'll have to post a video of the bouncing part

The least you could do is spring for some Cubans for such an occasion

Excuse me! It's Jody Ann Taylor, not Jody Ann Banned!

Teasing you is worth a million bucks though. Giggle. Jody

PS---Hey Sarah Faith, nice change! Teasing you is also worth bucks, 999,999.99 to be exact, please don't feel slighted? I'll give you a hug to make up for it. JA

Oh, those two!!!

[Guest Sarah Faith]

LOL Thanks Jody, it was actually posting about changing my mind on my middle name again that gave me the idea to just change it to that here so there is less confusion.

I would gladly accept a hug today actually. Though 999,999.99 bucks would be nice too!

[Guest angels wings]

Hello Sarah Faith welcome to Laura's

Lovely lovey just lovely

Angel

[Guest Sarah Faith]

lol, Thanks Angel

[Guest Billie De]

A little late to the party but mine was a no Brainer. Born William.. But everyone always called me Billy so in my little mind everyone has been calling me by my female name my whole life.. So I changed it to Billie Jean.. My Omage to "The Legend of Billie Jean", The Movie and Pat Benatar but everyone uses the first 2 letters of my Last name hence Billie De

[Guest Mia J]

I had another name the first time I came out but that did not seem to fit anymore.

Mia has the same first letter as my "other" name and it seemed to fit. A lot of my friends and associates have always referred to me as MJ and it was a comfortable way of introducing my "real" name. It is kind of funny to watch over the last few years as people would work to call me MJ and slowly work into calling Mia. It just fits.

Mia

[Guest]

Yes Mia, I think it fits you very well! It has a very charming "Girl next door", yet alluring mystique. Just like you. Giggle. Hug. JodyAnn

[Guest nomnomnom]

I'm still trying to work out my name...

was born with Adrian Frederick but not sure whether to change to Adriana or Alicia (which I like, but has no family significance)

also Adriana might be easier to get used to?

For my second name, I was named after my uncle, who paid for the IVF treatment my mum needed to go through to have me. I want to keep this honour to him, Freida seems the best choice?

Not sure if it rolls off the tongue so easily though lol

[Guest sophia.gentry58]

I had a choice between two names, Cicely (after Cicely Tyson because of her strenght as a black woman) and Sophia (after Sophia Loren, in whom I not only had a crush on when I was a small child but I wanted to also be her, breathtakingly beautiful) I decided against Cicely because I also had a crush on her and I didn't realize it at the time until it was pointed out to me that my wife resembles Cicely Tyson. So Cicely was out the question, but Sophia was certainly not second bestt by any means. Here is the meaning; 3 syll. sop-hia, so-ph-ia ] The baby girl name Sophia is pronounced in English as SowFIYah or in German as ZowFIYaa †. Sophia is mainly used in the English, German, Greek, Italian, and Russian languages, and its language of origin is Old Greek. It is derived literally from the word 'sophia' which means wisdom.

Sophia

[Guest Deenah]

I have used the letter D for my first name starting way back when i new there was a issue with my gender. So D because i hated seeing my name wrote on paper,it progressed to Dee(very easy to incorporate,my name was Dan btw) My middle name(that i changed also) came from my like for the names rachel and reagan. Not able to decide so i stuck with RAE. Finally my last name, well i chose not to stay with my given last name for personal reasons. I guess i like the classy sound of StClaire,and it expresses how i feel... sorta something like that lol It did take a long time to set this all in stone,lots of google use and checking if it was aval.

[Guest LauraJen]

I have experimented with plenty of names in my time but out of all of them Laura has stuck the most. I can't even remember for sure how I arrived at Jennifer as a middle. I remember I had it years ago and I was going to go with it as a first name, back when Pokemon Sapphire Version was a brand new game, and in that game I made a female character called Jennifer. Over the years it somehow found its way into the middle spot.

However, I am coming up to 23 now and still go through phases where I question my choice, despite all this with GD going on for well over half my life. Sometimes I get stuck between Laura and Lauren - how's that for a dilemma? I hinted at this in a recent post but didn't say anything more of it. One reason why is my last name. Any name ending in a "rah" sound - Laura, Sarah, etc, is difficult to say with my last name. I don't yet know whether I would change my last name or not - don't want to *completely* alienate myself from my family now, do I :-/. That's why I have considered Lauren - same name, same meaning, just a modernisation with a different ending, which fixes the pronounciation problem.

Having said all of that, for me Jenna is a *very* close second. I was actually called this about four years ago. Obviously I would change my current chosen middle name if I was to go with that! Probably to Laura.

[Guest Bellexia]

I chose Amber because the voices in my head said it was a good name. They haven't let me down yet!

[Guest Kate_Evelyn]

the original name i picked out just came to me. Lisa Lynn it literally rolled of the tongue. how kate came along was a conversation with my mom about what her and my dad would have named me if i was born with the right body. the middle name my mom and i decided on. my dad passed away when i was 2 months old, and because he helped come up with the name, i feel close to him.

[Guest Gekko]

My birth name is Alexandra Grace. Growing up, I absolutely despised the name. I thought it was way to girly, and it never fit me. Since I can remember, I've always just been Alex. I've always loved the name Fox, too. I was considering that for my middle name, but my initials would be AFK now that I'm married. I don't think I'd be happy with an internet acronym for the rest of my life! Once I come out to my parents, I think I'll ask them about the name they would've picked.

[Guest ~Emmie~]

I was named after my dad's best friend growing up (a Michael A. McNardi), and although he sounds like a great person, we've never been close. I've met him only twice. So, as sweet a homage as it was, I never felt (probably having to do some with dysphoria) like it was MY name. I grudgingly resigned to being called "Mike"; And I lived, not hating myself, but not exactly loving myself either. Ambivalently. It was just how it WAS. (I shortened it to 'M for correspondences).

I played WoW for a few years in college as "Liz", pretty much a female alter-ego, under the excuse that it was an "experiment" in gender studies (it made for a half-written unpublished essay and lost online friends when I "came out"). Still,I always liked the classic sound of Elizabeth, so much so she's now a character in a book series I write. But though it seemed weird/cheesy to pick a name based off my own fiction, I liked the "e" sound. And then I thought of something:

My gram's name was Emily. She was one of my absolute fav people growing up, right until she died, when I was nine. I thought maybe I'd name a future daughter after her.

So when I started all my gender insanity back last August, guess which name popped into my head, to refer about my female "self" struggling to express herself?

Ironically (but not unkindly, in either case) I'd followed my dad's path, and chosen to honor a far-away loved one. It's funny how alike we are to our families, especially unconsciously, even when we're trying so hard to be different.

[Guest Andrea_Heilotes]

This is stupid but, it happened.

I read the Walking Dead comic book like right when the show was coming out and loved the character of Andrea, then I noticed how pretty that name is. I'm particular about how women's names ought to have a good number of vowels. Andrea has three vowels, begins with a vowel ends with a vowel. My only regret is that a malicious witty person could easily turn it to MANdrea. But still, Andrea still sounds pretty to me.

It took me a while to arrive at that name, before I had used Jennifer, Elizabeth or Liz and Emma, but as I got older my tastes in name choice changed. I kind of like my middle name more than my first, which is Corinne, which I mispelled it should be Corrine. Eh well. I'm kind f finding myself liking names that used to be cool in the 20s or so. My imaginary kids are named Orson, Lorna, Corrine and Grant.

But just because I get bored with my name I like to go to Starbucks and get fancy drinks so I can give them a fake name, so far Starbucks knows me as Andrea, Kate, Christi, Kristine and Peachy Keen. All names I would be considering if I wasn't already comitted to a name.

[Guest Kspo]

I wanted to be named after someone somewhat meaningful, and went through characters created by my favourite authors. I quite fancied an Italian name but decided I'm really too English for that! In the end I chose Katherine, because of a number of great women She's the titular shrew in Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, which was always my fave Shakespeare play and I like that she's outspoken and refuses to be downtrodden by men (though only until her husband starves the spirit out of her, which is a bit dark...) As such she's the lead in 10 Things I Hate About You, which was my favourite film growing up Katherine in desperate housewives becomes a strong, lovely woman, with gorgeous hair. Katherine in The Vampire Diaries is pure evil but she's so devious you've gotta love her. I'm sure there were some others but I can't remember. I quite like Katherine Heigl. And there were more if I cast the net out to include related names like Catriona or Catalina, but I think that's pushing it a bit...

[Guest Laura T.]

i feel like for a female name, if it invokes an aspect of nature its naturally more feminine, as a man my name meant "ROCK" or "EARTH" my chosen female name is Laura, its the name of a leaf or something,

i don't give my name much thought anymore..

Laura Marie *Blank*

it have a nice feminine ring to it and i love it

[Guest LauraJen]

as a man my name meant "ROCK" or "EARTH" my chosen female name is Laura, its the name of a leaf or something

Yes, it's meaning relates to laurel trees (it's mine as well). Same goes for Lauren. Laurel is a name in itself as well.

[Guest Lizzie McTrucker]

I looked up popular birth names for the year I was born. Since my male name is one of the top 10 popular boy names I figured my girl name would be in there as well, so I looked the list over, crossed out any names of my mom or sister, then narrowed it down to a couple, mulled it over a bit, narrowed it down to 2 and then asked my friends which of the two they liked better. It was a choice between Elizabeth and Melissa. I liked the formality of Elizabeth, and besides, how many queens are named Melissa anyway?

Then I had to practice writing a capital E that didn't look like male chicken scratch....

[Guest Kris27]

The one and only person I have told, suggested it. I always liked Chris as a name anyway, and the unconventional 'K' makes it a bit different. I also like the way it sounds.

Kris

[Guest Christina xxx]

I choices my name by looking for the female version of it.

Christopher=Christina Also if people call be Chris it can be still be classed as my name.