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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    2 months ago

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

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    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

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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.

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    I started making a big list with checkboxes on it. I added things like nicknames and “boymode” nicknames where they applied. Then I went down the list and checked off the ones I didn’t really like that much. Then I started saying them out loud one night, and my spouse would just say “no” to them and those were checked off the list. I have two left, now. I’m still open to suggestions from others, and I am asking people when I come out if they have suggestions. The hard part is that both of the names I like are either my spouse’s initials or my mother’s, and I can’t stand my mother. One day I’ll make the choice final, but I’m trying one of them out now. The clinic and hospital network I use has a field in my profile for “preferred name” and they actually use it, so it’s in there for now.

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    My partners have been calling me “Cat” for years 'cuz my fursona is feline. If I wanted to go through the hassle of changing my government name that’s the one I’d pick, but I’d spell it with a ‘k’.

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    It’s sort of the femme version of my given name. There’s a lot of history in my family with that name that I do appreciate and value and want to feel connected to. I did a bunch of research into the names and language of where my family originated and found my new name and instantly fell in love with it. I remember sobbing after writing it down for the first time.

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    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 >.>

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    I’m not sure I qualify for this (relevant username) but I do have two names I think about using. 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.