What is it, what was appealing about it that you decided to pick it? Do you like it?

My names Caroline, i picked it because i wanted something that would make sense in relation to the rest of my family (whos irish).
I also wanted something that was slightly uncommon but not completely unbelievable. I actually really like my name, ive never felt much of a need to change it which i find kinda surprising considering i picked it at the beginning of my transition.

>>40312651 (OP)
> what your tranny name
im gatekeeping it. did you also find it hard to find an irish name thats wasnt bonkers or already taken by a family member as well?

>>40312651 (OP)
I wanted a somewhat non-binary name that was short and would sound cute. I ended up choosing Nico cause not only it fits the requirementes but on of my aunt used to call me that, kinda like a nickname

>>40312651 (OP)
i stole it from my favorite underground musician

>>40312651 (OP)
two popular kids in my high school had that name.
oh and also some trip who attention whored on r9k lol.

I started using it to name my "totally not me" Sims character when I was 11 or sth lol

>>40312651 (OP)
i kinda liked my male birth name, which was an uncommon but normal name. so i looked for a similar name, one that wouldnt be too common in my country but wouldnt feel like a made up name. i ended up with Clara, which was the name i was going stick wiht, but then i heard in a movie the name Chiara, which is basically Clara in italian and well i loved it and so i chose Chiara lol
i have italian family and im southamerican so it's not a weird name for us culturally

>>40312651 (OP)
Feminine version of my deadname plus a cute name I thought up
Literally no particular significance

>>40312744
nah, familys italian/irish so its a lot of repeatimg biblical names (etc thomas, thomas jr, thomas the third)
caroline by contrast is slightly odd but not out of the realm of possibility.

>>40312993
i didnt hate my male birth name either, i think atp i just find it more funny than anything. Its jsut a very generic white guy name so i find it difficult to take seriously. Thats at least how i try to think about it since family still calls me by it and possibly always will.

>>40312964
interesting. ik no other carolines irl weirdly.. which feels odd considering the name isnt uncommon

I swapped one letter in my deadname

I chose it so I wouldn't have to change any of my email addresses

>>40313367
>>40313355
i didnt think people actually did this.

i just settled on the one that made me cringe the least

>>40312651 (OP)
My dad picked it. It’s the femme version of my birth name and he used to call me that when i was little cuz I was so effeminate. He even called me it after i told my family i liked boys which they apparently already knew. Anyway when i got my name changed to that he was kind of happy and felt like he helped name me.

>>40312651 (OP)
second name given by parents at birth (it's 100% female)

there's not very many pooners named john

when my mom was pregnant with me, my dad (who used to talk in his sleep) had a dream about reading a book about ducks to a little girl named megan. it was between that and samantha, because that was the name they were apparently going to choose if i was born a girl, but that was such a common name in my grade (three girls in my elementary school and another few when i got to middle and high school, including my middle school crush) that it felt too skinwalker-y. i’ll make it my middle name though

Same first and last letter, same amount of syllable

>>40312651 (OP)
my parents didnt know what I was gonna be when i came out of the womb so they came up with a boys name list and a girl name list
i went with the name they were gonna give me had i been born a girl

it felt right

>>40313794
very cute
>>40313584
insane lore. your dad sounds like an interesting guy.
>>40313781
agreed. very unclocky name. Also while i dislike most of the common guy names (joseph, willaim, thomas etc) john actually isnt terrible.
>>40313584
i asked my dad once what he'd name me if i was born a girl. His response was "we knew you were going to be a guy pretty quick so we didnt have anything seriously considered. I liked veronica, I also tried to float Karen after Karen Page from Daredevil but your mom shot it down"

>>40312651 (OP)
my tranny name is just a neutral version of my birth middle name
i picked it so that i could introduce myself to people as that name and not get weird looks for looking like a man
i hated my birth name outside of it being a mans name anyway bc my dad named me after himself

>>40312651 (OP)
i chose chloe because i was really into the joji album Chloe Burbank. also it sounds alot like my deadname and i had the boomer mentality that my girlname needs to be the girl version of my boy name for some reason.
also i think regular show might somehow be involved?

>>40312951
hello ms. nettspend.

>>40312651 (OP)
female version of my birth name. kept it bc i didnt estrange from my family like originally planned

I really like Night in the Woods

I picked Mirko because I wanted a Serbian name, but not something that’s gonna make me sound like I’m fresh off the boat lmao

Too bad people irl can’t fucking pronounce it right

>>40316719
how is it pronounced?

>>40317013
MEER-koh

People pronounce it as “Miracle”, I want to kms

>>40312651 (OP)
i picked my name mostly because i liked it. but its also a decently common name for people born around the time i was and it goes well with the pattern my mom set up for naming (naming her kids names she hasnt heard much and naming her girls a specific way)

>>40312651 (OP)
4 years hrt i haven't picked one (my deadname is very much not gender neutral whatsoever) because i will never pass so it's not like there is any point in picking one

>>40312651 (OP)
Aww, that's sweet OP
This is gonna sound so stupid but, I kept bouncing ideas and after sounding it out loud it felt just right. I was looking for something that sounded soft, but had some firmness to it. Alicia did it for me,
which is funny cus everyone IRL makes Alice in Wonderland jokes. And lowkey, that's another reason why. The dark underside of that is, it was because I heard the author supposedly sexually assaulted the girl he later named the book and character after. And well, I was almost raped as a toddler so yeah
>>40312936
Sweet. Nico is just a cool name
>>40312993
Funny,so, for context my deadname is italian despite being hispanic. lotta months ago i started severely regretting i didn't go for the italian variation, Alissia cus i wanted to honor that part of my past
>>40313912
Dad was based as fuck for wanting to name you after her
>>40317857
Endless Nameless over here. Unwanted suggestion, Fortuna

>>40313912
my dad is conservative. never thought of it as weird desu but I guess it kind of is

>>40318063
and fwiw my middle name is the same as my mom’s and both my grandmas. and I just kept my family’s last name didnt really feel a need to change it. the more messed up part is my mom named me after a guy she had a 2 month affair with who isn’t even my father and dumped her for a lady he met in Okinawa

>>40312651 (OP)
I picked mine because I was already called that, I guess my parents had a premonition or smth when I was born and gave me a perfectly androgynous name.

>>40318023
>Fortuna
ironic

>>40318507
Do not ask why, it just came to me
maybe i remembered this https://youtu.be/xfWf-Ek8mCA

i picked sophie because i like how it sounds, can shorten it to soph, and my friends said it fit me c:

>>40318023
>Dad was based as fuck for wanting to name you after her
I find it really funny desu. Hes a massive daredevil collector and has been a big fan since the 2000s (he has nearly a complete run of issues).

Honestly if Karen pages name wasn't Karen, the like universally disliked name to represent annoying women, i probably would have considered it.

>>40312651 (OP)
I wanted it to start with the letter A
I chose alex at first, because it was much easier to get into as it was neutral. But it was short lived, and I chose Andrew instead, because it was very simple.
I also wanted to try Ben, but I have an uncle with that name. Thomas, but I didn't like thinking of the train.

>>40318618
Thats actually part of why i picked Caroline. Its something that can easily be shortened into a nickname.

Carrie, Carol, i have one friend who calls me care bear which is adorable.

My only regret with my name is that nobody calls me Catherine, the other name i was between that i think is very pretty. They're similar names but not quite the same so one cant really be shortened into the other which sucks.

>>40312651 (OP)
It was the civilian name of my Overwatch main. I have over 2,000 hours on her, btw.

>>40318857
yk what? totally fair
cool! if u wanted to keep in the spirit but be easily spotted, could've gone elektra
>>40318927
can we know who?
>>40318618
awww

>>40319223
if i was going to name myself after a media character it would probably be either Gwen (after Gwenpool) or Sienna (after Squigly from Skullgirls).
Despite my dad im not a massive Daredevil fan though i have loved marvel since i was a child.

I changed my name to Ashley long before I was out as trans, I hate my birth name and liked evil dead so being a boy named Ashley was appealing. And then yknow when I trooned out it just kinda stuck

>>40312651 (OP)
Common discussion in india

>>40319377
fair, what got me was the netflix show ngl. and cool picks for sure
>>40319384
"it just works" moment

>>40312651 (OP)
Name doesn’t pass. If I was on the fence about clocking you, your name would 100% prove youre a man
>>40312936
Lmao
>>40316515
That’s a trans name
>>40316719
Autism
>>40318023
Reminds me of Alice which is a trans name. Like you wanted to be named Alice but knew it was too clocky and settled for Alicia

>>40319413
no, i did cus i'm hispanic and live in a spanish-speaking country, you dense meatbag
everyone i know does call me alice tho, 90% americans

It's the month I'm born in

>>40319413
What about it is necessarily clocky anon? I dont think i understand.

>>40312651 (OP)
My brother picked it (Lilith) because my mom hated the name I wanted initially (Renae). She hated a girl in high school with that name for some reason.

Little did 12 year old me know...

>>40312651 (OP)
Aubrey :)
I asked my mom what she would have named me if I was born a girl, and she said Aubrianna.

My parents knew I was a sissy faggot at birth and named me a traditionally feminine name as a boy8TxHF

>>40319223
Tracer.

>>40319574
I'm just as confused as you
Nigga thinks he's the trans police
>>40319624
Lilith is badass
>>40320391
A fine choice
>>40319765
Pretty nice actually

one day i was cleaning a table at my lame wokrplace, closeted, and God put the name in my head fully formed with no clear precedent. i never doubted it and when my friends say it it feels so immensely right. i forgot my deadname

>>40312651 (OP)
What is yer stripper name

>>40320516
i got my first name from an experience that felt similar, then i changed it. i feel like ive been cursed since then but idk if going back is the answer.

>>40312651 (OP)
i browsed lists until i found one that fel right

>>40320516
really funny but also very cool

Kinda similar with me. Once i found Caroline it just kinda, fit..

>>40312651 (OP)
very cringe reasons i would change if it hadn't been so long
I would also pick a less feminine name if i had a redo

>>40320776
"very cringe reasons" followed by the viper pic rel makes me think you named yourself "they want me dead cus of my hops" or some goofy shit

>>40320775
yayy
>>40320750
you should try it! but that said my temptation is to use like 4 different names at any given time i could be totes wrong

>>40312651 (OP)
my name, first and middle, is Michelle Angela. My deadname, was Michael Anthony
my dad spent five days after I was born trying to come up with the perfect name to prevent my mom from naming me Miles (bullet dodged). I didnt want to just waste the effort when choosing my new name
I took the feminized form of Michael to become Michelle, but was unsatisfied with the feminine form of Anthony (literally Anthonie or Antonie), so I kept the same initial and cadence and chose Angela for my middle name