I picked my name out and found out later it was what my Mom wanted to call me before I was born! Also, the nurse that delivered me said I was a girl at first - guess she was right!
You're allowed to change your name as much as you want, you don't have to settle forever with something. I guess it's different for legal stuff.
Picking an "old lady name" is a very classic stereotypical transgirl thing. I know an Ethel, I know a Beth, etc. You don't have to do that unless you wanna but I guess people do it for a reason.
Old lady names come back around after a few generations, trans girls are just a bit ahead of the curve
that's so cool!
my mom told me my hypothetical girl name when i was really young.
it literally lit that first spark :trans-egg: in my brain and the name has stuck even though it's pretty generic and not my preferred name
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Pick something with the same first letter as your last name, in case you ever become a comic book character.
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Pick Zoe, Alice, or Emily. Be the stereotype.
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Pick the most common girls' name from the year you were born.
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Pick Karen because nobody picks Karen.
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Just look at whats around you, for instance:
- I see a.... Mill!
- and this thing next to me fills me with... Dread
MilDread
Mildred!
At first I hated it, but actually I see the appeal of Mildred now.
Pick a dead relative! (I couldn't think of anything fun when I was coming up with my username for this site, so I ended up just picking the first name of one dead relative and the last name of another. So I'm semi joking about using the same method to chose your actual, real name that everyone calls you that I used to come up with a username on a shitposting site. But I'm also semi serious in that, if you'd like a family link, but feel weird about picking someone who is still living and treating you like shit--and who can blame you, I wouldn't want to pick them either--then maybe consider dead relatives. Did you enjoy hearing stories about your great-great-aunt who was such a character? Or maybe you have fond memories of your great-grandma? Or maybe it's somebody you never knew in life, but the mere fact of still being connected to your family history makes you feel good? Anyway, it's something to think about.)
Oh sorry, I didn't realize. My family loves to tell stories, so even in childhood I knew the names of lots of relatives who had died well before I was born. I sometimes forget that isn't actually normal.
Maybe go with Lilian. Then you can name your future son Iosef and have him be Iosef Lilianovich. (Unironically, Lilian is a pretty name)
Ivan is the Slavic variant of John so maybe Joanna, Jean, Jane, or Jaqueline?
- Book or tv characters you like
- Random number generator 1-1000 then pick from baby names from last year
- Smoke salvia and whatever noises you make is your name
I think Nanette and Heather sound pretty
:vivian-shrug:
Random number generator 1-1000 then pick from baby names from last year
I'd say you probably shouldn't pick baby names from last year. You should pick baby names from when you were born. Otherwise you get young adults named Mildred in 2023 (or something similarly inappropriate).
You can change it now if you want, I stopped writing Elizabeth in my death note around 9 months ago
i have a name picked out and some friends call me it and i still kinda struggle with truly feeling connected to it. i think it just takes time and apparently this is a pretty common experience but idk
I know a Mildred that goes by Milli for her friends, which is cute :)
If you have some supportive friends, try sounding it out with them for a while. Y'know, ask them to call you by it and stuff get a proper feel for how that name fits you. It's a shit show of beaurocracy to get your name changed at the best of times so take your time and make sure you've got a name you'll feel comfortable hearing called out in public when the time comes.
apparently you should just pick something at random from either Eyre or Faulkner. let a friend try to name you maybe?
maybe you need the help of a cishet dude bro with white guy confidence
click to break the seal on your new name
You are now a Hannah
hannah, sarah, anything that ends with ah so that they can make it sound like saying braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
I mean their middle name doesn't give them a monopoly on it! It's the first name of someone I know who is very great and she'd be stoked if someone used it
My other first instinct was Samantha but I don't really like Samantha so idk what happened there.
Maybe a Jessica? Gives you some nickname versatility
lol I hope fucking Skyrim hasn't eliminated a generation of Lydias
i think it would have to be a very close and very supportive friend that you trust. just my passing thought, i've never had to do this myself. seems tough though.
I picked a cool basque name that shortens into something common for daily use.
It's great cuz when other basque people see it they :soypoint-1: :soypoint-2: and I make a new friend.
