How'd you pick your male name? What's the significance and story behind it?
I'm curious since, as you can see, I'm still just an ambiguous pronoun. :)
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How'd you pick your male name? What's the significance and story behind it?
I'm curious since, as you can see, I'm still just an ambiguous pronoun. :)
Thoguth about being Joshua for several months, then herd John on the telly and liked it (and remembered later that it was the male version of my birth name, but only after I'd started using it most of the time, there wasn't really much sugnificance in choosing it). Funny thing is, it now turns out my Dad had a son several years before meeting my Mum (that me and my brother never herd about) that is also called John.
Benjamin (my secon name) was picked out by my mum; she spent ages saying 'but I just don't think you're a John', which of cause I dissmissed as meening 'but I just don't think you're a boy' before anouncing 'I think you're more a Ben'.
To be honest, I'm still looking for MY name.
First, I went by Charlie Joel - but then I became detached and even depressed by that name because too many screwed it over for me, and then ending -lie is the same as my birthname.
Then, I became attached to the name Caythan Jacob. Why, I'm not sure. I like the names "Nathan" and "Cathan" - but I know a few Nathans (and don't want to choose/finalize a name as MY name if it's a name of someone I already know. I'm weird like that I suppose) and "Cathan" seems like it'd be easily mispronounced, so I added the y in there myself to make pronunciation easier for others.
I would have made Caythan Jacob my legal name, but then my fiance started calling me "Cody", because he "doesn't see me as a Caythan". Cody isn't a bad name, but it's not MY name.
So here I am still on the hunt for MY name...Eurgh. I might have to branch out with the names now...I've been sticking with the C's and J's, to fit C.J. (from when I went by Charlie Joel.) It's kind of aggravating, and I hope I'm not on a name change ban yet? Plus I don't want to be slapped if I need to request another SN change... I really gotta think of an SN that isn't my name or initials :hiding:
- C.J. (until MY name is found)
I heard the name. I liked the name. I took the name.
Not all that interesting, but, it worked for me.
I was going to go by Andy then Aaron popped out of no where and stuck.
actually, now that you mention it, I took on the name of Spencer because I knew I couldn't go thru life with my birth name. My birth name, although considered definitively female, has always been an androgynous name to me. The way I saw it since I was young: "Well, probably everyone else who shares my name is a girl, but I'm not a girl, so it's not a girl's name." My name to me was like "Alex" or "Jamie" or "Jackie". It was mine and since I was masculine, so was the name. Unfortunately, the rest of the world would never see my name that way.
So, I adopted "Spencer" and have learned to love it as my own. Though, I don't get offended when people who have known me for a while call me by my birthname (in fact, I've never asked them to switch the names), because I know who I am, and I know they know too.
I picked my name because my siblings are all named after popes/ saints.
When my dad asked me what my male name would be i said "Adrian, after Pope Adrian" and he nearly cried, cause he's so catholic it's crazy.
The only person who doesn't know about me is my nana, my dad's mother, it would kill her, i mean...really! She doesn't believe in anything that's outside the catholic religion, her whole life revolves around it, so i guess with her getting Alzheimer’s is going to be a benefit, she wont remmber my past. Other than that it's sad.
People ask me why i can be catholic with Pope Benedict saying the shizzle he's saying, easy...i just don't think about it! In my eyes, i'm a (semi LOL) straight male...easy.
Anyway, was thinking about several names, Nicholas, Andrew, Luke etc...but couldn't picture myself looking like one.
My sister Khiya (not real name btw) said i should have been named Lucifer, but i liked Adrian better :)
I kept the name my parents gave me as my male name since it is a male name already.
I adopted Conrad as my middle name.. felt right, don't know how I came by it.
[SIZE="2"]James. Everyone always called me James anyways since it's a quick version of my birthname, which is Jamie [& can obviously go either way.] If I ever picked anything different, which I wouldn't, I might tag myself as a Vincent. =][/SIZE]
I actually wanted John, but my mother vetoed the heck out of it. So no being John for me. I've got nicknames that people give me all the time, but we'll see what I actually change my name to.
My nickname is bascially the male name i have took on,its meainlyess unless you know me on a personal level and I dont have to explain things to much when people dont know my whole story of who I am.
I dont want to find a full male name I can place on my deed pol its just finding one thats me enuogh to 1) hurt to many people close to me or 2) that i like and is me
its all about you as a person
people change thier names all the time
trans or not
so if you come upon someone who is really arsey with your name changes and try outs
give up a finger and say on your bike
names a name
My name in real life is female, but uncommon, so I'm comfortable going by it -- it's not one of those names, like Sally-Anne say, which everyone associates with femininity. My board nick is the name of a transmasculine character in a novel called The Friendly Young Ladies. I adored that book when I was about sixteen; it was the first time I had seen my feelings and experiences down on paper.
I really wanted to stick to my birth name so I adopted the name Kristopher Lawrence and usually go by Kris. It is easy for my friends to since it is a short version of either name. I kept as a K because then it is just like my female name starting with Kris ( it is Kristin) The Lawrence comes from the grandfather that my middle name came from (my mom had my middle name as laural to honor him). I also like Kristopher because my dad used to call me Kristopher Robin when I was little, and my siblings called me Krissy bear for a long time.
I'm another Adrian :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ady
I just liked it... it was the first, and my favourite, on a short list of names I had when I called my mom to tell her I was choosing a male name... I was calling her to ask for her opinion, but before I had even told her that, or what the names on my list were, she said "I think you're an Adrian" :eek:
Took the name of one of my favorite uncles as his name started with the same first letter as mine did. Middle name just something that fit with the first.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ze
Vincent has always been my favorite male names. Not sure why. I think It may stem from the fact as a child one of my favorite TV show characters name was Vincent.
And I Feel like a Vinny anyways :3
Neat reading how everyone got their names. (Personally, I think Ze would be a kick*ss name for a guy.)
My girl name is Sally-James, although my birth name was Jaime. Seamus is the Irish form of James--a way to honor my heritage.
:heehee: I agree, but I feel bad for stealing Leslie Feinberg's thunder. Ze worked so hard to create ambiguous pronouns, and then I go and try to take one of them for my name. Who knows...I may end up keeping it anyway. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Seamus_Jameson
As my birth name on my certificate is 'Tamsin,' it is an Olde English name from Cornwall. It's technically short for, "Thomasina."
Or, Thomas.
I chose Trey ( changed it legally a year and a half ago) because I liked it, and I thought it would be less offensive to My mother and easy for people to adjust to because it's not that far off from My birth name, which is Tracy....I picked Aidan as My middle name because I thought it went well with Trey, and Toni liked it and thought it was representative of My personality.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Gas Man Cometh
None of you good looking gentlemen are named Kevin?(my male biological name) Hrmph! :spank: I see how it is!
Only kidding sirs
Jacob is a name I chose due to a kid I use to play with in elementary school. Troublemaker to the core as I am. I thought it fit.
Everyone calls me Jake though.
Well that's my cousin's name so I thought it would be awkward. Though, my birth name is also another cousin's name, which is just plain dumb since we're twelve days apart. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stormgirl
I just chopped off a few letters out of the middle of my given name...
I'm actually been thinking for a while about this, and I sure as hell have not come to a solid conclusion yet.
My given name is Lauren, and I am named after my grandfather (Loren) who passed away two months before I was born. Now, because of this I do not want to lose that connection. I am thinking of making my middle name "Loren" or Lawrence" so I can still keep his name with me. (thoughts on this?)
As for my first name, I've taken a liking to the name Benjamin. i still need to wait and see if it sticks enough in my head to keep
I think a middle name's a great way to preserve a grandparent. That's how I think it works with most kids when they're being named; my female middle name is my grandmother's, but thankfully it's versatile (Frances).
I'm in PA myself, by the way. Have you been in Philly your whole life? (We can switch to PM, if you want. :P)
I agree with Ze that preserving a grandparent's name is a good thing if you can do it and you were close to them....My best advice on the name thing is to try a name on for a while, because then you will know before you legally change it that it will fit....I still love Mine and will legally have it for two years in November....When you find the right one, you will know it.
Adrian is the best name ever lol :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Poltergeist
My middle name is my grandmother’s too, but it’s so feminine I cannot possible masculinise it. My [birth] first name could have quite easily been masculinised to Sean [my granddad used to say my name really fast and it sounded like Sean lol, I think he knew there was ‘something up with me’ cause he NEVER had me doing female stuff, yet he would never let my sisters do man stuff- and also, he deliberately gave me a unisex nickname also, which stuck until about last year lol] and I would have named myself Sean [as it’s catholic also] but I liked the name Adrian.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ze
My middle name is Nicholas and my surname is a genuine Scottish surname but I decided to use it because it sounds like my very first male name that I chose [which was the Welsh name Kynon]
:)
Thanks for your input guys. I'm starting to like keeping Loren as my middle name more and more. :-)
Nah I went to school there. I'm actually in NJ now (FINALLY graduated in May after 6 years at Temple U!). I loved philly tho and i already miss it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ze
I know a few people that recently graduated from Temple. :hypnotized: Spooky...Quote:
Originally Posted by ftm22
lol seriously! :blink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ze
OMFG Loren is an awesome name !
I wanted to have it as my surname...
KEEP IT! Or i'll be very angry with you! Lol.
;)
First off: James has been my nickname since forever because of an unnatural obsession with John Travolta's role as James Ubriacco in "Look Who's Talking", my favourite movie as a child (and the first time I thought "I wanna be like HIM when I grow up").
However, in Denmark (where I live), James is a very uncommon name, so much that it "has" to be a nickname, thus causing people to ask what my real name was. (Besides, it's unisex, and I wanted my male name to be really male).
Michael would be my first choice, as it's the name my mum wanted me to have if I'd been born a boy. But my best friend's name was Michael, so... no.
Then it hit me: Martin. It's a common name in Denmark, it makes my initials the same as before, it derives from the Roman god of war, Mars, as well as the planet Mars which is connected to my zodiac sign. Besides, it means 'warrior'.
Martin it is.:)
Wow, this thread is old, lol
Well, anyway, the first name I had was Hiro, or rather, Hiroki. When I was 18, I wanted to see if I could trick a community of people into thinking I was a Japanese guy who lived in Kyoto. And it worked. And then, I started getting creepy people messaging me, and it kinda lost its novelty, so I quit.
A year or two later, I had this weird gender identity issue going on, which later, basically resolved itself. But anyway, I was thinking of names for myself, and I'd always liked the name Spencer (cuz it's unique, but not so unique as to raise flags), but no real decisions were made. About a year after this issue went away, and I felt comfortable with myself, again, I felt comfortable with crossdressing again. That's more when I "officially" decided on Spencer.
lol I'm pretty sure i'm going to keep it. :-D aside from it being my grandfather's name, i think its actually a pretty cool name lolQuote:
Originally Posted by NiCo
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Originally Posted by hiro
You took my name:phbbt:
:heehee: Even when I read hiro's post, I was thinking "Uh oh..."Quote:
Originally Posted by Thornton
Um, sorry... :( Guess I'm going by Hiro, then. lol Everybody wins.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thornton
Hmm... because my favorite name is Oliver.
I've always liked older names, like Vincent and Walter. Those were the other two I had been seriously considering for a while but figured Walter was a bit *too* old and Vincent would get me a nick name like "Vinny"... which I didn't like as much. :P
Sometimes I regret picking the name Oliver, because then everyone references Oliver and company or go "Please sir, can I have s'more?" when I tell them my name. :I
But besides the painful pop culture references, I really like it.