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How did you choose your name? (ttrpg.network)
submitted 10 months ago by RavindraNemandi@ttrpg.network to c/mtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Hey girls! I recently started my social transition, and i've been thinking about names. I know not everyone uses a different name during/after their transition, but i think i want to. How did you find your name, and how did you know it was the right one?

My siblings and i were all given names that start with the letter E, and i would like to maintain that pattern. The first name that came to mind was "Eva" after "Queen Iva" from the anime One Piece, who is a character with the power to control hormones.

Seeing Queen Iva was one of the things that made me start to question my gender, so i like the idea of honoring that. However i feel a little wierd about picking my name based on a tv show. Is that something people do? I've looked at various lists of baby names, but nothing really clicks the same way as Eva.

Id love to hear your advice and experiences!

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[-] Selina@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 10 months ago

CW: Family

CW because some people have a hard time hearing about supportive families.

Before I was born there was a brief period where my parents were expecting me to be a girl, before being "corrected" by later ultrasounds. So they decided on a name, even before deciding on my later deadname. At some point they mentioned that to me, so later when my egg cracked I kind of already knew that there was a name for me, and I took that.

[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 10 months ago

Same. Although they had to have 2 names prepared because I hid my genitals on the ultrasound until the very end 😅

[-] nyarlathotep@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 10 months ago

Heck yeah, chiming in with the “parents had two names picked out” backstory. I like to tell people my mom picked my name, we just needed a little redo to correct it to the right one!

[-] mlaga97@lemmy.mlaga97.space 2 points 10 months ago

Basically the same here, albeit with some slight tweaking to the fem name to avoid having to constantly correct pronounciation like my version 1 name.

[-] Lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago

Kind of the same for me also, but I couldn't take the female name they had planned for me since they gave it to my sister. All of my cousins are women on my mom's side, so my parents were extremely surprised when they found out my sex, since my mom didn't think it was possible for her to have a boy, but it turned out that she was right all along.

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