Trans name chain I wanna hear all of y'all's chosen names and why you picked them :3
I'll go first:
I picked Saga cause it's a cute but still pretty unique scandinavian girl's name (I live in Denmark), because it's super fast to spell on a keyboard and because it means "story" in old nordic, which I really like cause this is my story, y'know? :>
I also recently found out Saga is the relatively unknown nordic goddess of stories, which I hate cause it means I accidentally fell into the tgirl stereotype of naming myself after a goddess xD
tag your mutuals or something idk \(ϋ)/
@shakukon-to
Awwww I always love the story of your name it’s so cute :>
Anyways! I picked Zara for a really stupid reason. I have a nickname that required a Z or an N to still work (because of the shape) and I almost went with Nora, but someone suggested it and it turned out to be a Hebrew counterpart to my deadname so why not.
It helps that it means, “shining, brilliant light” which is what I’d like to be one day. :3
@aetherborn-witch @godless-of-the-hunt @whalesharkcat @subsequentlysilly tell me yoursssss
those are amazing stories!
my parents veto’d my first name cuz of professional interpretation :p so i went after the goddess of lesbians lmao
@miss-peanut-butter-cups @catboybiologist @thaliaoftheveil @coelii
Thanks Arty!
My birth name is Corey and my parents chose it because it was gender neutral and apparently the sonograms were inconclusive for me (pfft) so since they didn’t know what I would be until I was born they went with something that would work not matter what.
I toyed with some chosen names: Edith (Edi), Mako, Kira, Maria, Sera, Cynthia and Catherine (Cathy) but decided in the end to stick with my government name.
Sorry my story is boring :3
Kori is just a more aesthetic spelling that I use online but I don’t mind my name spelled either way ♥︎
I already know some of your stories but I don’t mind hearing them again:
@zerosuitsammie @maidenofmadness @ladyvalfie @dg-kino @deadaliengoddess @beatrice-of-the-stars @allie-leth
Hey hey!
So my 2 names both have fun stories related to my deadname! Which is Ben btw.
Nebula comes from my childhood nickname, "neb" which is my deadname backwards. My dad called me that once and it just stuck
Beatrice comes from a joke my then gf made before I trans. She drew out friendgroup gender bent and called mine Bea
Hey @petzah394 tell them why your names terra heheh
@aetheryi @noblish @uwathebestgirl
oooh so :3
charlie was a name that kept ringing around in my head for a couple years (ocd is fun with thought loops, some of mine arent quite intrusive thoughts but loop all the same) when i thought about gender neutral names and how kids should be named them more because gender (hyper specific thought loop ik) and it was only ever really charlie that came up as an example. never really toyed with other names when i had genderrrrrr ,_,
as for centia, thats been more recent. an oc of mine with the same name (basing it off of the word sentience, because the oc centia is a digital sentience/hologram thing) has become more of a self insert and the name is also very close to charlie -v-
aaaaaaand who do i tag hmm
@ranathefroggy @saturnalorbit @slime-gender-selkie @nature-nerd-sarah
When I was a kid, I made my mom read me Dinotopia, over and over. As I got older I kept rereading it and looking at the pictures, but there was a character who held my attention. For the longest time, I understood it as my first crush, until it came time to name myself.
When she appears it is to show compassion to the one hurt by the confused protagonists. She goes on to begin teaching them about this world that they find themselves in. She actually winds up attending multiple schools with him and joining in the journeys. She is his partner in a sporting event and succeeds at entering the same career field.
I assume she was intended as a love interest and since I was supposedly a boy, that is how I accepted my feelings, but here was a woman who was beautiful, compassionate, wise, intelligent, strong, successful...
It was decades later that I finally admitted that I am trans and, by then, this story was just something that I reflected on warmly, every so often. I was scrolling name lists, trying to find a name I wanted. I've always been bad at naming things... My own child went three days without a name and she now teases me with the fact that I "still got it wrong!" As I scrolled the lists, a name just jumped out at me and I legitimately didn't know why. I finished making my short list but that same name kept jumping out at me...
I decided that I would take on that name, before remembering about the character, but once I remembered her and thought it through, it became pretty clear: I have always wanted to be Sylvia.
@anya2006 @traaansfem @lamusqueerabode @disastercrowgirl @goobsie0 @cassie-is-trans
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Oh, I just did the lazy trans thing and just took the feminine form of my name! The story with my middle and last name are a bit more fun though- I parsed through a list of a lot of them, and I did think pretty strongly on names like Faith, and a few I used in TTRPG campaigns- one that translates as "Conquering queen of every new day" was nice, but the actual name itself was quite short and I didn't like the nicknames. I actually ended up making choices based on how the initials look, and what they'll be if I get married- I actually changed my last name to be the one from my mothers side of the family, because then I get the initials CAW. Which is very birdlike and silly, and I do have a few vocal stims, as anyone who has met me in person can tell you.
My deadname has a literal meaning of "strong man winning moral victories" so I ditched that one once I could. More amusingly, that's the poetic interpretation- a more literal version would be parsed as "human person from human place, who has good morals" which is a completely normal thing to name your child. Just ignore the grandmother whose maiden name ended with Faee. ;3
Honorable mention to Etain, a goddess cursed into the form of a bug, whose name I ALMOST chose, but decided against because it's pronounced like "Aiden" with more vowels and I know WAY too many Aidens for that to not be weird.
My current name does have a literal translation of "petite spearwoman who heralds rot", which I have a much better opinion of. I do like mycology and stabbing things...
I inoculate logs with fungal cultures and eat tasty mushrooms from them. It's not murder, okay? No one is dying, there are no bodies.
>:3
@cannibalcaprine @bites-you-bites-you @predatory-lesbians @feralhyenagf @digitalguillotine
Now, spill your secrets, fellow bitey gremlins~!
Don't got much here i chose mine because forcing my family to live with a pun was good enough as my initials were SEA originally i just went K-SEA or Kasey in proper terms (also voice trained off of Casey lee Williams because Friend hits different so why not take a little inspiration)
Then again my fathers story of how he named me is that he chose his favorite evil wizard and worked from there
@k1nky-r0b0t-g1rl @embered-zoraia
not much of a story behind "Alyssia"; just a name i thought sounded very pretty.
"Zoraia" though is the name of a character of mine who's a semi-sane murderer who is convinced she can root out all corruption if she strikes enough fear into whoever is wielding power wherever she so happens to be. Did take it just because I thought it was pretty though
@foxgirlwizard @tsukoigay @4304-crows you three are being tagged cause your names are similar in origin to each other (chweatures) >:3
fox, cause im a fox ehe
i also *reallyy* suck at names
ummm @my-precious-hellscape @foxgirlinfohazard @sand-cat-void-vibes
well "cassandra" was from "trans girl try not to choose a name based on mythology challenge (impossible)". yes, i chose the prophet cursed so that no one would listen to her. i also might have stolen it from an oc. shush it's mine now.
i also considered "cassiopeia", for the constellation. no idea what the myth behind the stars is though.
i also considered "cas", as in close air support, a la missy "missile launcher" cat.
with the nickname "cas", i can kinda do all of them!
ummm @cue-jay @corpsegirl-sephie @afemwolfboy you girls seem cool
thank you for the tag! :3 (Cassandra is a very pretty name btw!)
Before my egg cracked i spent a suspiciously large time on trans subreddits and i think it was sort of a joke/ stereotype that "Luna" is like the trans girl name (in retrospect i can't even find these memes anymore nor is it as common as i would have thought so I'm questioning if that even happened, but at least a few people had a similar experience so idk). I think this was important in that it made me aware that this is a name that people have; and since i thought trans people are cool, the association made the name in turn very cool too ^^. In general i think the name has a pretty nice "feeling" to it and i like the association to things like astronomy (space is cool!).
I have been thinking about changing my name to "Luna" for a long time; even before i became a girl, but i just wasn't aware that you could just... choose to use a different name. So i hesitated for a long time and when i realized that I was a girl and i needed a new name naturally this was the first choice ^-^
Also thank you @nonepronounwithleftboy for tagging me in one of these as well!
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Everytime i heard the name "Lena", as a child (and also later), it felt sort of weird, like the name meant something to me or reminded me of someone. Even though i never personally knew anyone with that name, at least not as far as i can recall. It also just felt nice to hear and i liked the way it sounded, how its written, and the overall aesthetics.
A while after i started realising im a girl, i tried thinking of names, but i couldnt think of any because i suck at anything remotely connected to being creative or original. And i thought that if i had the right name i should sort of know it, so i just put off choosing a name and hoped that i would some time find one that is right.
After a while i just remembered "Lena", and how i used to like it in a weird way as a child, and it felt different somehow. It seemed right and i kind of just picked it.
I still dont know why i used to feel about "Lena" as a name so strongly. Maybe it was because of some characters from stories i used to hear. One main character in a movie i used to like when was like 5-8 years old, was named "Lena", and my brother and i used to watch those movies all the time. Its probably still one of my favourites to this day.
So its definitely possible that i sort of made a connection to it through that name, but im not sure. Also there were many characters, and while this was one of the main ones, i dont remember her as much as other things about the story.
And i know its not because of that exclusively, because i used to feel about the name like that other times too. I vaguely remember some events that i connect to it but not clearly.
Its almost like i already knew at the time. And while i did have a lot of signs and thoughts about being trans, i only realised that recently and was obviously completely unaware of it when i was younger, so i couldnt have connected a name to it and taken it as my own or anything, but it feels a bit like it which is really weird, but i think my brain is just trying to make it seem more important than it is.
My childhood overall is just sort of a blur and there are few things i remember clearly and im not sure if any of this even happened or if my brain made it up later, so its also possible that none of this is true.
I tried to keep this brief and understandable, and i cut what i wrote earlier in half. So i hope this makes sense and isnt just gibberish after translating my thoughts into words.
Sorry, if it is
@sylviaaaaaaaa @greenshe @elaanaa @elizaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa @afemwolfboy @evesmascara @the-nebula-sys @alicehealer @theforesteldritch @human-blob-nessie @serenahigginstb @jakkits @roseblog-rog @bees-dont-like-me @spaceyfreyja @llumluella
okay so preface time
im still very much in the closet (except on here obv) both to my friends and family but also to myself (have trouble actually accepting it, MAJOR imposter syndrome)
however,
my freshman year of highschool i decided on my Halloween costume. A Girl™. i crossdressed, did the whole shebang (heh) with shaving arms/legs, doing makeup, finding a dress (my mom helped), and styling my hair. other than, you know, it being crossdressing, which already takes a lot of confidence, i live in texas. southern texas. yet i did anyway, with my justification being "its for the bit" as i can somehow do literally anything if i can label it as funny.
anyway, went to school "in costume" and got a lot of compliments from friends and teachers. there was one moment that stuck out to me, one girl and her friend came up to me to compliment my dress, me thinking it was a joke as it was the end of the day, word spread a bit, and my makeup was probably done for. so i turned around and half jokingly thanked her. she was so shocked when she heard my voice. and to me it was funny at the time, somehow actually being seen as a girl, having tricked someone. (surely this feeling will not stick with me for years)
and then it was time to go home. big mistake. my mamá (abuela, but she'd kill us if we called her that) was staying with us at the time and i didnt know how i would avoid her seeing me. she's the hispanic old school where men have to be MEN™, at least thats what i was building it in my head as. my mom was trying to calm me down as i was having a near panic attack outside the house because i didnt want to be called un desgracia by someone i loved so much.
turns out having a panic attack is loud. my mamá came outside to see what the commotion was and saw me in tears. and while i dont remember what the first thing she said to me was, i do remember the second. she called me pretty, beautiful even. and i cried more, in her arms.
when i do eventually decide on the what when and how I'll come out, ive decided that i wanted to take her name, Marina. Its her name, my moms middle name, and i wanted to bring it with me down one more generation. i know she absolutely wont see this unless it gets posted to facebook and gets a spanish translation, but i love you mamá and always will (god im close to tears everytime i remember this)
and thats that. havent really decided on a middle name, maybe ill take suggestions, but ive got one name clocked at least, and one that means a hell of a lot.
