Has anyone else noticed how many trans* people pick weird ass names? I mean sure I understand if it's a name I simply don't like, but we're talking about names such as Paris, Kygon or bastardizations of existing names such as Veronikah or Biyanka
I'm also slightly annoyed that some also pick English names in my European country that is not English in the slightest
Gotta be _-~*~ **unique** ~*~-_
I don't think my name is weird. I know a Veronica, Dana, Clair, Nikki, Kassidy,
I do wonder why there are so many Alexis, and Chloe though. Get original names bitches.
>>5776514
Not saying there is anything wrong with Veornica or Veronika, it's just that when you have to add an -h at the end to make it sound ''different'' or ''unique'' is when it starts going south. Veronicah is just terrible
>>5776520
yeah dumb spellings are dumb. I agree.
>>5776493
it's instant outing for anyone well versed enough at clocking trans people
story related
>be me at disneyland
>see some androgynous person with total girl voice
>name tag says kaden
NAMES THAT SOUND LIKE AIDEN
NOT EVEN ONCE
My name is Audrey Houston, a very common name.
>>5776493
I don't see how people can pick a name for themselves. It just seems like one of those things you don't get to pick for yourself to me. Like your eye color or your race or your ssn. It's what you get and you have to just suffer the consequences.
But I can see why people who try to pick their own name pick something fucking stupid.
Obviously if you had a male name and you were mtf you need a female name now but it doesn't seem right to get to pick. Most people with nicknames have them because their birth names are awful and I get that, but...
I guess I'm just super indifferent about my name. I wonder how many people are indifferent about their gender. Probably a lot of people.
>>5776597
You realize that literally anyone can change their name right? If you don't like your name, don't sit there and suffer, change it.
>>5776597
I know plenty of cis people who chose their own names and get them legally changed.
A name isn't something as permanent as eye color or race, how can you make a comparison like that?
It's more like hair color than anything, where most people keep theirs but for whatever reason there's people who want to go ahead and dye their hair.
>>5776493
> Veronikah
>Biyanka
I guarantee you there's black (cis) girls out there with those names
I guess this is the thread to ask how the fuck I'm going to pick a female name.
>>5776642
Look at popular female names from your year of birth, about the first 20 or so
choose one from that list
>>5776648
I'm not entirely sure if I want such a common name though. Not that I want a retarded name just for the sake of being unique, but I already have a rare name and I like that.
>>5776729
Keep in mind the more unusual name you have the more someone's probably gonna clock you
I suggest keep going down on the list though then and get to maybe the 100's range of most popular names at most
>>5776754
Yeah you're probably right. One of the main reasons I like my current name is because I've never met anyone else with it so it might as well have been a female name to begin with. Thanks for the reply.
Is August a good name for mtf? I've been a bit torn on whether or not I should change it. I like the name and some people tell me its androgynous, but I feel like it might be a name that might cause people to be more suspicious.
>>5776831
Augusta is definitely a female name.
>>5776849
An incredibly frumpy one, yeah.
Sounds like a wealthy dowager from a Marx Brothers movie or some shit.
>>5776975
i mean the last time august was popular was while rome was still ruling the world but if she likes it i won't judge.
>>5776493
>I'm also slightly annoyed that some also pick English names in my European country that is not English in the slightest
what about the other way round, if a brit were to pick a european name?
>>5776831
August isn't even androgynous, it
s a straight up male name, at least where I live. My grandpa's middle name was August.
>>5777093
There would be pronunciation issues in both cases. Brits can't pronounce Neža in the same way Slovenians can't pronounce Candace
>>5777127
Maybe your grandpa was androgynous when young. You should ask for photos, maybe he did passed.
>>5777131
i wasn't thinking some south-eastern european word salad lol
and... candace? haha, that's not even a name you hear often in english speaking countries.
i want to take a german name that sounds good in german, GREAT in a scottish accent, and progressively worse the further south you go through england or the posher you get.
>>5777135
maybe he was born as a augusta and passes right now?
Yes. Most trannies are crazy attention whores that abandon all sense of self respect and self restraint when they gloriously come out and transition
>>5776831
August sounds awkward imo. If you are American I would not pick that nam
>>5776831
August is a male name. It only sounds androgynous because some people have strong associations to Summer and female month names. But August is a male name for men.
My name changed to Nicole
>>5776642
>>5776648
Avoid the top 10 of your birth year (and the previous/next years) like the plague.. every trans person your age is gonna pick them. I would even avoid 20-10, but if you like it.. choose it.
Look up the names of your birth year for your country (if US: https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi).. not necessary, but I ended up choosing a name that was within 100 ranks of my birth name.. ended up fitting me better since it was still an uncommon name.
Also, you don't want to be somone with 100% German ancestry and choose some fucking French name or some shit like that. Find out where your family is mostly from (if you have a lot of diversity, find out where your name is from). Me, I'm 50% German and the other side has Sicilian and a whole shit ton of other European countries. So, I decided to find out where my birth name originated. Googled it and found out it was Scottish-Gaelic. The name I choose and am fond of ended up having those same origins and was just as common as my birth name... personally, I think it fits very well.
Hope this helps... and don't change the spelling of any names.. go with the most common spelling for whatever you choose and your good to go.
Hold on, what's wrong with the name Paris?
It's a good way to tell crazy trannies from normal ones.
Trans person A is called Amethyst
Trans person B is called Rachel
Which of these people is more likely to be tumblr-tier crazy?
>>5778254
Trick question.
It's both.
>>5778279
kek
>>5776642
just pick some you like, from any source whatsoever (including your imagination), and then narrow the list to a few, and then run those few by several trustworthy people with sound judgment (so, don't do it here) to make sure there's nothing obviously wrong with them (and in particular that there's nothing about them that will make you stand out as a transgirl, unless of course you want to stand out)
then if any remain pick the one you like best
>tfw your name is unisex so you don't have to change shit
>>5779143
>tfw you find out your technically-but-not-really-unisex birthname was even less common than *[i|y]den or Zoe was in your birth year
>tfw you still never get clocked unlike them
How is Serena? I've been thinking about a chosen name lately.
>>5776493
I've said it before, I'll say it again: Zoe is the worst one.
Calling yourself Zoe's like asking someone to scrutinize your skull shape for five minutes without saying anything, they'll be trying to clock you forever once they learn your name. The few cis girls who happen to be named Zoe also get plagued by this, a large amount of people just figure they must be MTF.
>>5778215
>Avoid the top 10 of your birth year (and the previous/next years) like the plague.. every trans person your age is gonna pick them.
and all of the cis women of her age will just have them. If they're the most popular female names, then any of them /should/ work, in theory. I mean, it's possible that every trans person her age is gonna follow the same rule of not picking the very most common names, so it's possible that the 20-40 range is more heavily saturated with trans women than the 10-20 range.
>and don't change the spelling of any names.. go with the most common spelling for whatever you choose and your good to go.
Agreed. If you say your name and people can immediately spell it correctly, then you're good to go. Slightly fewer points if they have to ask how to spell it, and even fewer points if they normally shouldn't have to ask but get it wrong anyway because you threw in a silent letter or a letter that technically /can/ make the right sound.
i ended up having a andro name for early transition while i still figured out what name i wanted. i wanted my initials to stay the same. my guy name was a masculine version of a feminine family name, but i hated the name as every woman who had it was a venomous bitch. nothing seemed to fit. i met someone from the US, and i ended up settling on Jamie, because its gender neutral but swinging more female in the USA, in the UK its more male. I don't think its an issue as I'm gonna be living more in the US than Britain and having an andro name means i have to push myself further to pass better to be gendered female. i don't think it's snowflakey, its unusual perhaps but idk. names are hard, i may change it again in the future.
>>5778215
>Avoid the top 10 of your birth year (and the previous/next years) like the plague.. every trans person your age is gonna pick them. I would even avoid 20-10, but if you like it.. choose it.
unless you're in a huge liberal area, I don't think you need to worry about trannies taking the same name as you
>>5777573
Is Nicolá ok? I would only have to remove one letter that way, super simple. Also I've met a cis person of my heritage with that name, so it's natural, right?
Is Brooke a good name? I think it sounds fairly androgynous enough to not be the kind of ultra-feminine names I'm trying to avoid, while still being an explicitly female name. Thoughts?
My parents said if I was born a girl, they would've named me Korrina (not sure how they would've spelled it). How snowflakey is that name? I kinda like it.
I also like Ashley but I think that's an overdone mtf name?
I picked Emilie, which is totally different from my birthname, was trendy in my country around the time I was born, was the name of my great grandmother and apparently a considered choice by my parents had I been born female.
I always cringe when I see MtFs choose names based on gemstones or something outlandish sounding, like they're a fucking fantasy RPG character. Pick a normal name and start blending in with the normies. That's the whole point.
>>5779738
Kinda snowflakey but not enough to where I'd be like "tranny clock alert"
I knew a cis girl named Corrina in middle/high school and another named Korine
>>5779606
Unfortunately for me, I am... Fucking hate these morons... it's one thing to be liberal but these fucks are LIBERAL.
Forgive me I'm very tired
>mfw all this complaining about dumb spellings of Veronica
>mfw my therapist seemed mildly surprised when I spelled it correctly when she asked what I planned to change my name to
>>5776642 #
Pole position of your male name
If you have a basic bitch Chad name, you get a basic bitch name
>>5779393
When a woman is named Zoe I assume they're trans, unless they're greek.
I went with Emily. Nice and not-snowflake sounding, I think.
>>5776562
Sounds like a porn name tbqh.
In my weeb phase i went by nagisa
I still cringe
>>5776493
kygon sounds like a cool star trek alien
>tfw my ex decided to use Alex as their male name
>tfw it's one of my nicknames
>tfw sometimes we're both Alex
>tfw I really like this for some reason
Who /boyish/ name here? I changed the spelling around and still go by my old name because I never had a problem with it. It's not a made up name, but it is uncommon for women.
My trans name would be Alice. I just love that name for some reason.
>>5783313
So like literally every other tranny? How unique.
>>5780638
You response about if you have a chad name, go for a basic bitch name I don't really get desu. My name is currently Kaylan, but I want to change to Ashley (I know, that's the more male spelling, but I find Ashleigh annoying). Kaylan is obviously a less common name. Would you say that the name i've picked is suitable or will it out me as an obvious tranny? Genuine question here.
To be fair, some perfectly normal names require questions on spelling because they have multiple almost equally common variations. Catherine and Chris being two with multiple spellings.
That said, Ayschleigh and other "I'm Different! Please notice me!" names are heinous. And fucking stop with the Skyler/Skylar Aiden/Caiden bullshit. Also, Ashton and Liam. It's like some bizarre inbred world when it comes to tranguys it seems where half of them all have one of the same three names.
The name that I picked and go by is Kaia, but that's not too weird is it?
Is it?
My given name was in the top 65 male and top 260 female my birth year, so I just kept that. Pure laziness. :p
>>5783455
>tfw trans guy
>pick normal decent name
>my (younger) cis brother is named ashton
>my (younger also) cousins are named devyn and masyn
god i feel so bad for them all
>>5783480
I just realized I didn't specify the name I picked
Charles (formally) but Charlie otherwise
>>5783480
>Masyn
>Devyn
Fuck that's so bad those are like pornstar names.
>>5783480
I'm so sorry. For them. Shit, late-90s and beyond have had such ridiculous names. And I thought Moonbeam and Stardust were awful from the 70s.
Charlie's a good name though. Bonus points if you have a crazy Jew fro and like maths.
>>5783417
It was a joke I use to justify choosing "Veronica", because it was kind of unpopular the year I was born but my parents gave me a pretty fucking snowflake name
There's no guaranteed way to pick a good name
My parents would have named me some combination of Sarah, Mary, and Claire if I had been born female
Not terrible names but there's already two fucking Sarah-X's in my family and five double names
The madness has to end
Is Melbourne too weird/trans? I tried for something that was close to my birth name, but still had a nice ring to it.
took Miya und second name Robin. Dont Like the normal Mia because the meaning of it(it was something religiously and i dont religiously things...) actually meaning are japanese for night and robin is from my name my mother gave me(animu grill incoming i know)
mtf, I'm trying to go around as (Elisabeth, Lisette. What do the people think?
>>5783571
Nah, it's interesting. Stick with it until you hate it [:
>>5783640
Lisette sounds pretty nice :3
It has a crispness at the end and it's very bright in terms of how it sounds to me
>>5783571
Isn't that like the name of some city?
>octoling
Ayy my nigga
I just found the feminine form of my old name and went with that.
Sometimes I wonder if I should add a fun middle name to not be so boring tho.
Less than 7,000 people world wide use my name, and over 5,000 of them are in one small country. Here in the USA, less than 200 total. As of the 2010 census it was only 90, but it's use by an author for a principal character in a book made it more common.
I think we should have special names. I am Sundance willow. I think having a unique fem name helps me pass better than some generic name. 6'2 and when people hear my name they always say how pretty it is, and don't focus on my shoulders or height or weight (298). People focused on my name let's me pass easier. It is hard to be 52 and pre hrt non op true trans woman of power.
>>5785291
how you figure that
>>5783640
Elisabeth over Lisette imo. Lisette will have people like "... how do you spell that homie" and you'll be sad.
I know like 20 trans people and none of them have "weird" names so I don't know what you're talking about
In any case I don't think there's anything wrong with weird names. the normal ones are all arbitrary anyway
>>5780951
I know at least 3 trans Emilies
Good God the names American parents give their children are criminal.
I know two or three trans guys named Chase. I guess it's just unusual enough to be worthy of being chosen but not so weird that it stands out in a bad way. I think it's a pretty cool name but maybe a little bit sad too. To "chase" is, essentially, to never be able to have what you want, to have it always be out of reach. I dunno.
>>5786439
i'dthoughti'dimplyi'mfromargentina.org
>>5786408
Those bitches.
>>5784754
As are London, Paris, Sydney, Helena, Alexandra, Savannah, and Charlotte, to name a few.
Also, octos are best kids
Why not just pick the female equivalent of your name? Or something in that ball park.
Alan could be Alana/Lana
Shaun could be Shauna
Bradley could be Brittany
>>5776493
trans chick at my uni introduced herself the other week
>"my name is Keem"
>>5793978
Nah.
A lot of names don't have an equivalent, or one that does sound odd as fuck.
Also, why would someone want to make their name a derivative of their past name that they associate with their boy/girlmode self
You are just jealous I can name myself Trumpina and you can't
>>5776493
oh my god yes yes yes yes
i dont get it. why? like, a lot of the trans people i know have a big fluffy name that doesn't sound 100% out of place in alice in wonderland. And sometimes they have a huge middle name that they use ALL THE TIME (sometimes more than one?!) and I don't get it.
i'm trans and when I came out I just asked my mom what she was planning on naming me if I Was a girl and used that shit. Why you gotta be overcomplicated?
I also feel kind of uncomfortable around a lot of other mtfs. Many of them naturally come off as female in their mannerisms and how they act but a ton of them really...don't. Their femininity seems really really forced and it's almost like their female persona is just a really really serious RP character.
But a lot of them are OK. Then there's the ones that seem really male and they're generally the kind of person that tweet about sticking their cocks down the throats of transphobes.
Really, it seems like there are more and less feminine transwomen, but I don't agree with blanchard's thing where it's separated by sexuality. it seems 100% random to me.
is grey too weird or snoflakey?
male name is greg so it would be an easy adjustment
>>5794802
It's definitely nowhere near common, but I think it would work anyways; just make sure you have a ready story either for why your parents decided to name you that, or why you chose it as a nickname ("oh, it's short for Gracie" or something).
>>5776493
This problem is not limited to trans people, though it is most frequently seen in them due to the actual cause of these wierd-ass names.
People that choose their own names, regardless of the reason, tend to go for the wierd names.
When I was younger, I was in a gaming group that consisted of a Jacen, a Dak, and a Skwyrl. They were all cis, but chose their names.
>>5794945
When I was a kid, I planned on changing my name to Bubbles because I liked bubblegum.
I still would TБХ but I won't.
People don't need to have the same names.
Break out of your bubble.
>>5776642
I just grabbed the most popular 20 names of my birth year and asked the people that I came out to which one they liked the most while factoring in my personal opinion. I think Emma sounds normal enough.
As a coincidental plus, my initials are a stupid music pun.
I'm torn between June or Jude. Thoughts?
>A transguy you know calls himself Link
>>5795501
I know so many trans guys who picked anime names, and as much of an unbearable weeb as I am I cannot fathom why you'd want to base such a huge part of your identity on one thing like that.
One of my coworkers just switched to Emily.
It's probably just a confirmation bias thing. It happens.
