FTM ONLY:- How or why did you pick your male name?

[Kieron Andrew]

simple really tell me how or why you chose your male name? what made you decide on it

[Tobie]

With my online role-playing, whenever I've let out my male side/character, the name was Tiergan. I've always liked Irish/Celtic/Gaelic names for boys(my older son is named Keiran), and I thought it was appropriate for me.

Tiergan means 'strong-willed', which I most certainly am. As for the 'last' name.. it just fit.

[SirTrey]

I picked Trey because it is close to My birth name (which is Tracy), but is the male version thereof (and I am male, not female, so it is more fitting)....I also think it has a sensitive, yet strong quality....I would have chosen it even IF it wasn't so close to the original one....It just feels right, it IS right....I am still deciding on the middle name....am leaning toward Nicholas (which I also see as sensitive, yet strong)....but haven't decided on that 100%....and....as soon as I do, I am going to go and file for the legal change....so I'm pretty excited about that! Kieron, how did you choose yours? You asked the question, but you didn't say....**Trey** (who LOVES his name a lot)

[Kieron Andrew]

Kieron, how did you choose yours? You asked the question, but you didn't say...

I had a feeling you were gonna ask that .....OK my heritage is Celtic and I always wanted a Celtic name to honour my heritage, and for some reason the name Kieron has been in the back of my mind for many years since i was a small child, so it just seemed right to pick it to use full time, Andrew was taken from my best friends first name who died in 1997 who was one of the very first people to accept me as male even though he was madly in love with my female side as he saw it then, even though ive never felt i had one.....and I asked him before I knew he was sick if one day I could take his first name to be my middle name, he naturally said yes and so to honour him when he died thats what I did when he passed, mind you it took me almost 10 years to be comfortable using it, oh and i wanted to keep my female initials out of respect to my parents

[SirTrey]

I had a feeling you were gonna ask that .....OK my heritage is Celtic and I always wanted a Celtic name to honour my heritage, and for some reason the name Kieron has been in the back of my mind for many years since i was a small child, so it just seemed right to pick it to use full time, Andrew was taken from my best friends first name who died in 1997 who was one of the very first people to accept me as male even though he was madly in love with my female side.....and I asked him before I knew he was sick if one day I could take his first name to be my middle name, he naturally said yes and so to honour him when he died thats what I did when he passed, mind you it took me almost 10 years to be comfortable using it, oh and i wanted to keep my female initials out of respect to my parents

That's My struggle with "Nicholas"....I would love to keep My initials....and My middle initial is "L" for "Lynn"....but.....I can't find ONE "L" name that I like or that seems right....suggestions?

[Kieron Andrew]

.but.....I can't find ONE "L" name that I like or that seems right....suggestions?

start another thread i have loads of suggestions lol

[Taylor105]

Get ready to laugh. When I lived in Texas I lived on Taylor Street. I actually tried the whole "let's get married to a man and try to be normal" thing. I wish I could erase that part of my past. Anyway, when I left him I moved to a place on Taylor street. And I came out as trans once the divorce was final and that is how I picked my name. I know it can be unisex and I do get assumed to be a girl sometimes and that sucks but oh well. Taylor fits me I think. I just recently picked my middle name. John. My favorite Uncle (who is gay) is named John. Plus my foster mom loves the name and if she had given birth to me herself she said she would have chosen John for me. So I kinda let her name me and it meant a lot to her. Taylor John has a nice ring to it. Don't you think?

[Tristan]

I really liked the name TJ so I wanted initials that were TJ. I went through a long list of T first names a while back for a second life account. And came across Tristan which means noisy one. And I know Das won't believe me on this, because I'm very shy around people I don't know very well, but I do tend to talk quite a bit at times. So it seemed to suit me and I thought it was a very cool sounding name. I'm just up in the air about my middle name. I think I'm going with Joseph, because Joey was the first male name I went by online, and in using Joseph it's like keeping the first part of my journey with me. My birth name is actually unisex for the first name, but my father named me. I don't want to keep the name he gave me, and I considered changing my last name so I wouldn't have his last name either, but that means putting the name change in the paper for six weeks so I've decided to keep that part when I do get around to changing my name. I will probably file in April so it's legally changed by the time I move in May.

[mistunderstood]

I chose Aaron because my moms first name began with A, my middle name Micheal because it seems to fit, last name it also starts with M. Sometimes I use Micheal as last name and sometimes I use it as a middle.

[Cai]

I picked Cai because it's Welsh for "joy". My birth name has the meaning "joy" as well and there's a whole story as to why she named me "joy". I always loved that story, and wanted to keep it as part of my identity.

When I eventually legally change my name, I'll probably use the name George somewhere. George was my grandfather, who passed away last August. It's his money that's paying for me to attend the amazing school I go to, and he was always incredibly supportive of anything I wanted to do. Taking his name would be a great way to honor his memory, especially because none of the grandchildren have it.

I've been toying with the idea of using George as a legal first name and Cai as a middle name. Partly for logistical reasons, as George is definitively male and Cai is not, and partly because George Cai N_ sounds way better than Cai George N_.

The other idea I've been tossing around is using Kyle as a legal name, and "Ky" as a nickname, which would allow me to keep the history of my name that I like, but also have a masculine name.

[John]

Herd it on TV, liked it (boring, no?)

[Abraxas]

It's Eddie Izzard's fault. I have a friend in Chicago, who I call Big Sister. So she calls me Little Brother. And when I went to chicago to meet up with her and go to Izzard's Q&A, she introduced me as her Baby Brother Benny (which is part of one of his comedy bits). That just kinda stuck.
I've decided I want two middle names also, so again, in honour of Eddie, who definitely helped me realise my identity, the first is Edward. And the second middle name is James because, well, first I like the name and second, it's Hugh Laurie's first name.
So. Benjamin Edward James. And then the surname, which I haven't decided on yet... My actual surname is Persian and therefore most people can't pronounce it and it's 14 letters long, which is a bit much. But it does sound a bit like 'Thompson' so I might end up using that. Not sure yet.

[Adam]

Adam because i just always liked that name and simon because my mum wanted to pick my middle name

[CaptLex]

I chose Lex 'cause it's manlier than Alex or Alexis . . . and very uncommon too, so there's a rare chance that anyone would be referring to someone else when they call my name.

[brylram]

I was originally going to change my name to Damian Micheal Reese (Reese is not my actual last name, so it would have been a FULL name change), but my mother decided one day that she wanted to name me, and that if she could she would help me get a legal name change. I'd already considered Logan for quite some time, so when she said it I had no argument, the Michael just felt right, so I couldn't get rid of it, and I couldn't get rid of this nagging feeling at the back of my head to keep Reese too, so I tacked it onto my middle name.

So now, not including my last name, my name is legally Logan Michael-Reese. I'm pretty happy with it.

[JamesAlan]

I'm debating my name now. I know I'm going to keep the James. I talked to my mom and asked her if I had been born a boy, what would she have named me. She said either Christopher (which happens to be my g/f's birthname) or a junior. I would have ended up James Gilmer W______, Jr. I love my dad dearly (hence taking the James) but lord not Gilmer...though I think he'd be proud to have me take his full name. I don't know, he died 4 yrs ago. The Alan came from my previous furry name Alana, masculine version. Plus it's my mate's birth name middle name, just different spelling. Though, I've also thought about taking her real name...Not sure yet. So for now I'm sticking with James Alan, but might change to Christopher Allen or James Gilmer.

[DanielMacBride]

I couldn't really explain how I came into my male name....Daniel just kinda let me know when I cut my hair and looked in the mirror for the first time, I was like "oh, hello, so THAT'S who you are" lol And my middle name Ciaran was just a kinda natural follow-on, same thing, I don't know how I knew, I just did.

My male surname however was a bit more of a conscious thing - since I am a Pagan and Brighid is my Goddess, as a female I was using ni Bride as my surname (which means Daughter of Brighid), so it was just simple logic to change it to MacBride (son of Brighid) and at the same time give a nod to my strongly Celtic (and particularly Scottish) heritage

Daniel

[Taylor105]

I'm debating my name now. I know I'm going to keep the James. I talked to my mom and asked her if I had been born a boy, what would she have named me. She said either Christopher (which happens to be my g/f's birthname) or a junior. I would have ended up James Gilmer W______, Jr. I love my dad dearly (hence taking the James) but lord not Gilmer...though I think he'd be proud to have me take his full name. I don't know, he died 4 yrs ago. The Alan came from my previous furry name Alana, masculine version. Plus it's my mate's birth name middle name, just different spelling. Though, I've also thought about taking her real name...Not sure yet. So for now I'm sticking with James Alan, but might change to Christopher Allen or James Gilmer.

This gave me a flashback. When I was about five I asked my mom what she would have named me if I was born into a boy's body. She said Mark. I told her I liked that name better than Michelle and asked if I could change it to Mark. She of course told me no. lol Oh well, I don't think Mark would fit me now anyway. I'm definitely a Taylor John!!

[ZenFrost]

I chose Lex 'cause it's manlier than Alex or Alexis . . . and very uncommon too, so there's a rare chance that anyone would be referring to someone else when they call my name.

Except for that other Lex who was on this board for a while.

I picked my name because, well, y'all know about my ridiculous number of nicknames and this one just sort of came up and stuck.

[jsoto81]

I chose Ben for my first name cause it's one letter away from my birth name, and I figured this might be hard enough on some people that I could give them that, and I've always like then name and I personally haven't come across men named Ben but that could just be me. And for middle name I chose Gabriel, I've always loved that name too, another unique name and I have a thing for Arch Angels. Now I've just got to go get my name changed to that legally.

[Anthony Jake]

I chose Seth purely because i didnt have a clue what name I wanted.. and seeing as i was originally 'Stephanie' which always got shortend to 'Steph' i figured if i just went to be Seth then i wouldnt forget what my name was or have too much trouble adapting to a new name.. further down the line when i do it all officially i quite like the name Jay or Jake... but for now Seth is ok.

[bi_weird]

Oh I missed this thread. Well I don't generally go by a male name, but I think if I did I'd use Mark. I've always liked it, and it's similar to my female name. I've also thought about a gender neutral name/nickname, which I might actually start going by if I can figure out how to tell people without making a huge fuss. My brothers and my dad sometimes call me 'Rie, like the last syllable of Marie (my real name). Seeing as how it's not a real name, it seems gender neutral enough. But I think if I started telling people to call me 'Rie I'd have to explain why to EVERYONE and that just seems like too much work right now. We'll see.

[Dasein9]

I really liked the name TJ so I wanted initials that were TJ. I went through a long list of T first names a while back for a second life account. And came across Tristan which means noisy one. And I know Das won't believe me on this, because I'm very shy around people I don't know very well, but I do tend to talk quite a bit at times. So it seemed to suit me and I thought it was a very cool sounding name. I'm just up in the air about my middle name. I think I'm going with Joseph, because Joey was the first male name I went by online, and in using Joseph it's like keeping the first part of my journey with me. My birth name is actually unisex for the first name, but my father named me. I don't want to keep the name he gave me, and I considered changing my last name so I wouldn't have his last name either, but that means putting the name change in the paper for six weeks so I've decided to keep that part when I do get around to changing my name. I will probably file in April so it's legally changed by the time I move in May.

LOL! I believe you, already! Believe it or not, I can be shy and quiet at times too, and talk up a storm when I'm comfortable.

[Dasein9]

Before I was born, my name was Matthew. But I don't feel like a Matthew or a Matt.

My first email address was Dasein9, a pun on my studying Heidegger, and my online presence was called Das for years. I liked being called Das. So, when it came time to take a male name, I settled on it. Now, it will be a bit precious for a Heidegger scholar to be called Das, so if/when I get the legal name change, I'm thinking it'll be my middle name, with Ephraim as a first name. Ephraim's just a name I like. It means "fruitful," and it's nice to think it will refer to my work in teaching and Philosophy. It has a certain gravitas, too, which is always helpful.

[halfman_halfamazing]

Ron because of Weasley and Hector because I fell in love with that name because of a hottie I knew thats that.