It was supposed to be my birth name, actually. The entire time my mom was pregnant, I absolutely refused to take my hands off my genitals for ultrasounds or I just kept turning, so they had no fucking clue what I was gonna be. They assumed a girl based off what the doc told them, and my dead name was kinda a last minute fill-in.

They never hid this fact, happily told me about other name choices when I asked, but Rose was always at least my dad’s favorite and my mom’s top “acceptable” choice. When my egg finally cracked, I tried other names but Rose just… Felt like a birthright. Like for 30+ long years there was the real me just begging for the mask to say my name. Nothing else felt like me.

it was a joke and it stuck (it is the same as a muppet, but i am kind of a muppet so it worked)

I made a spreadsheet, of a bunch of random nouns I thought had name potential, and then asked my partner and friends their opinions and documented the results

Stole it from Lena Raine :3

One day while smoking with a friend someone placed a rock in my hand and It struck me like a vision.

I’d tried out a few names at that point and none of them felt like me, then the name I chose just popped into my head and i just kinda knew immediately in that moment. Told my friends later that day and 7 years later it feels weird to think my name was ever anything else.

Got drunk with friends and wrote down all the names that might work, and tried then one by one. Good thing the first one stuck, cause the next one was womannator 3000

Born with a unisex name, so my parents 🤷

I did a good bit of research into the language of my ancestors, hunting for a femme version of my given name. I found one that technically belongs to the protolanguage, but liked it a lot, and as I researched more about it the meaning and origins of the name made me like it even more. It conveniently shares the same first initial so it makes dealing with government paperwork and my deadname a bit less bad, plus some of my nicknames still work.

I was thinking about Satan back then and noticed that Lucifer can be shortened to Lucy and thought that this name is actually really nice.

TLDR the reason is satanism

I had a made up name that I used online (don’t feel any particular attachment to it now), and 20 years ago the advice was to use a name in the top 10 or 20 for your birth cohort to blend in more easily, so that’s what I did. I let my parents pick my middle name, as an olive branch over transitioning; it didn’t get them to use the right name or pronouns, but I still like the name or I wouldn’t have used it.

Both my sisters’ names end with -ina. So I changed my name to something that also ends with -ina for consistency.

Following this thread with interest, because I’m currently fumbling and changing it often. Can’t find something I like.

I know my parents picked a female name for me (they didn’t check ultrasounds before birth) but unfortunately I don’t know what it was. I am really curious to know. Unfortunately I’m not able to ask them. I wonder if I can dig up some old records…

edit: I found it written in my baby book. Pretty emotional experience tbh. I’ll try it out.

I think it should be normal for parents who chose gendered names and have a ‘boy’ name and ‘girl’ name picked, to suggest their trans child the other name. and if the parents are good and deserve it, it should be considered.

Saying this because I named my daughter after a video game character, and if he becomes trans, I think he should consider the male character for a name… But I doubt he would want to be Jeb

Read about history, and then steal the name of the most badass woman you find.

Sat idly one day, it popped in my head, I went “huh, neat” and started the paperwork.