Just to have some conversation here I’m curious how you chose your name if you’ve already chosen one and what the story behind it is? And if you haven’t chosen your name yet, maybe people are able to help you decide.
As for me it was always pretty clear which name I would choose because a few years before even realising I’m trans much less coming out I asked my mum what name I would have gotten if I was born a girl. She told me that I always successfully hid my genitals on every ultrasound picture (kind of prophetic in hindsight) so my parents had to choose a name for both possibilities. And thus a name was already chosen for me that fit perfectly. 🥰
I’m curious to hear your stories!
I got Codsworth to call me shortened&genderswappedlegalname McShooty, and it somehow felt right. I barely used my legal name, so it must have been the right level of familiar and distant or something 🤷♀️
i literally deleted the last 5 letters off my birth name. hoping to come up with something better soon, or maybe i’ll stop worrying about the implications of calling myself samael…
I’ve always liked Clo being short for Cloaca or Cloacal. I’m not sure that I’d go through a legal change of name at this point, but when I play games online it feels natural as shorthand for my username.
I’ve been talking with some friends about doing drag, so I’ve been spending some time thinking of a drag name. I’m leaning towards Sensual Bimorphism. It feels fun and I like the idea of playing with the idea of animals having drastically different appearances based on sex.
It’s a very nerdy one.
In Final Fantasy XIV, there’s a race of little dudes named Lalafell. Their naming scheme makes for repeated and rhyming couples between the first and last name.
I made a Lalafell boy years ago named Cocozan Cozan.
After playing for a bit, my wife’s character and mine got married. I decided to change my character’s last name to hers, so the Cozan was gone. We always joked about the height difference, though, since I was a little guy and she was a taller race. So I joked about making the tallest character I could, which I believed at the time to be a female Roegadyn.
We quit playing for a while and then returned to the game a few years later.
When we came back, I decided it was time for a change and used an item that lets you change your appearance permanently. I ended up finding an old saved appearance from when I was joking about Fem Roegadyn, and just went with it.
The name Cocozan was no longer appropriate, given the lore, but I found out I could drop the Zan and it would fit fine.
So I became Coco.
It was absolutely amazing being called Coco and she/her by folks online. It wasn’t the only thing that did it, but the whole thing absolutely helped crack my very thick egg.
I ended up stealing my character’s name IRL, and now I have a very nerdy origin story.
Oh I love Final Fantasy XIV. I’ve played thousands of hours of it and I’m pretty excited about the new expansion and graphics update coming with it.
Thinking back I also had a pretty affirming moment during a session of FFXIV. I joined a Discord to play with some people I didn’t know and they just called me by my character’s name “Miyako” and I really liked it although it didn’t become my chosen name later. Would have also been pretty weird since I’m not from Japan 😅
I always liked the name Max for a long time. I never knew why really it just kinda stuck out to me. I guess it was the fact it was so gender neutral made it stick out. It didn’t really help out that one of my favorite albums, Aris Infinity by KLRX, has a feminine character called Max (played by Alissa Feudo) with one of the most amazing vocal sections. Some of my programming projects were also just called Max until i found a suitable name. After discovering I’m trans many of my close friends asked if I had a preferred name. I never really though about it so I just defaulted to Max although it never really felt right. The name itself really felt like more of a base for something else. After some google searching it turns out that yeah there are many different variants and one that just stuck out immediately was Maxine.
TLDR; I really loved the name Max. Added the -ine to make it special :P
