2w ago

Do it

For me Its quite simple. My brain decided it. Literally. The days I found out I'm trans, my brain would do this weird thing, where I could think about completely different stuff and suddenly my now chosen name would "fly" into my mental Field of View, like an asteroid in star wars or so. I told that name a close friend and 4 weeks later when we went to the club together I told him, that I will stick with it, because I didnt had a better idea (and it was the only name I really felt comfortable with).

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I used it since I was 13 on IRC ""catfishing"", well it was not catfishing actually, it was me expressing how I wanted to live, but I didn't realised at that time. Then, I came out at 27 and remembered those days and rescued the name.

I just kept asking people if I may have their names and they kept giving them to me
- Username checks out
- Checks out

I kept my name. It's unisex, and a search of it on LinkedIn actually shows like a 70-30 split of female to male respectively. I'm comfortable with it and used to it and, living in the US rn, I don't want to deal with all the name change issues.
- Ayy, samesies. I love my name, and like you said, it's a very common female name. There's also a certain sense of power that comes from being un-deadnameable.
  
  My government name is 99% masc, but I only hear it at work and it isn't worth the hassle of changing it. All my mates and friends just call me "Cat".

I was thinking about Satan on my walk and figured that "Lucy" is short for "Lucifer", and then was like "Lucy actually sounds pretty nice..."
I returned home and told about it with my friend (also trans) and she was like "wow so cool!!!!!" so I went with it. That's it :3
- And I just thought of random names until I found one I liked. lol

swapnote girl is adorable and always stuck with me

For a while when I was a kid I wondered what my name would be if I chose it myself and that was the only one that felt like it fit. Totally forgot about it until after my egg shattered and realized that it's gender-neutral and I really like the cutesy nickname/diminutive forms

I just took my birth name, shortened it and that happens to be gender neutral. Then I expanded it but the female version of the name.

I'm not sure I qualify for this (relevant username) but I do have two names I think about using if I ever crack my shell. One is just a name I always liked and one is part of an online pseudonym I used a long time (and that I still use sometimes) that has a totally different backstory, can be used kinda androgynously but is mostly used by women with one noticeable exception.
And no one is stopping anyone from choosing more than one name.

Codsworth from fo4 could say certain prerecorded pc names. Thus, I found out i preferred the name Assface

i didn pick my name......,,,,.,,,,..,.,.,. nt yet.., ;(
- That doesn't have to be something you need to be sad about Smorty! Look at it this way, you've got a world of opportunity ahead of you for what you can pick! It's such an exciting and fun time figuring out what name suits you best, what feels most comfy! That's !!!! super exciting !!!!!
  
  yisyis, i didn say iss a bad thg, im jus - rlli thinkin bout it n - eh - i guess i will be maria. cuz yea - eh, feels gud... but is sadly christian name so thad makes me sad.... bt alsuu conveys a sense of.... _purity which i like.,,.,

No.
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- I dont get it
  
  It's a character from Attack on Titan. Iirc the character is called Sasha and she gets shouted at for eating a potato during a military drill. Her response is to offer the drill sergeant part of the potato. (Been a while since I watched AoT)

My "furname" was because I wanted something soft and creature-ish. My IRL chosen name (Petrichor/Petroglyph/Petra) was because again, I wanted something kinda creature-ish but could be shortened to something feminine.
I'm kinda jealous of a friend of mine tho. Her chosen name (Coral) is literally 10/10 and kinda fits her perfectly >.>

Video game player, thru many (mmo)rpg genre, had to make many fantasy names. Went known thru most common one, then picked some irl name that was similar. (not related to my lemmy username).

I made a list of (mostly bad) names and made a poll with my friends to see which one didn't suck

I was chatting about names with my wife and she suggested it. Tried it out, it fit, and now I'm legally stuck with it :3

I was lucky enough that my Mom has told me what I would have been named if I had been born a girl. I haven't come out as non-binary to her, but the knowledge is still lovely.

I stole mine from a Greek goddess. It is only part of her name though. This goddess also was known by Kori, so it actually seems like a perfect choice. (My chosen name isn't currently in my display name.)

That honestly took me over 6 months. I tried a number of names on for size, but none felt quite right. The ones that felt right were in use by close family or friends. The one I really wanted is used by both my ex-wifes, so that would've been weird for the kids even if they're not kids anymore.
It was much easier picking out names for the kids actually. Otherwise I followed the advice I got to take a name that is sorta common in my age group so I went through all the lists multiple times until I decided. I now officially have a girl's name, even if I'm nowhere near passing. It isn't as bad in my country as in many others and I must say it went a lot better than I expected, but I'm still proud of myself. 😊

I new my name 7 years before I new I was trans, I already ordered stuff on that name and my whole online persona was built around it. I even named my cat that. Even before I was out to myself I listened to that name way better than my dead name.

It was my FFXIV character's name first.

I downloaded mine from a silly pink hedgie :3

read a cute reddit story where person asked mom to rename after transition.

i have no strong opinions on names. most probably i'll buy an -e and put it at the end. :)

It’s a name that I saw online a handful of times and always thought was incredibly cool. Then came across it again recently trying to pick a name, while I was looking through related names, and it immediately became a top candidate. And it also works well in both German and English which is also something I wanted.

my butch great aunt born in the 1910's hated it and went by her middle name
SO I FUCKIN STOLE IT YOINK

I went "im a cat, i wanna be called Kat, what names start like that..." and liked Katrina

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