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).

  • mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    I stole mine from a Greek goddess. It is only part of her name though. This goddess also was known by Kori, so it actually seems like a perfect choice. (My chosen name isn’t currently in my display name.)

  • Xana (She/They)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    11·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • Syl@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    20·
    3 days ago

    I kept my name. It’s unisex, and a search of it on LinkedIn actually shows like a 70-30 split of female to male respectively. I’m comfortable with it and used to it and, living in the US rn, I don’t want to deal with all the name change issues.

    • hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      Ayy, samesies. I love my name, and like you said, it’s a very common female name. There’s also a certain sense of power that comes from being un-deadnameable.

      • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
        6·
        3 days ago

        My government name is 99% masc, but I only hear it at work and it isn’t worth the hassle of changing it. All my mates and friends just call me “Cat”.

  • Lucy (she/them)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    251·
    3 days ago

    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

  • yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    2 days ago

    Video game player, thru many (mmo)rpg genre, had to make many fantasy names. Went known thru most common one, then picked some irl name that was similar. (not related to my lemmy username).

  • katja@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    13·
    3 days ago

    That honestly took me over 6 months. I tried a number of names on for size, but none felt quite right. The ones that felt right were in use by close family or friends. The one I really wanted is used by both my ex-wifes, so that would’ve been weird for the kids even if they’re not kids anymore.

    It was much easier picking out names for the kids actually. Otherwise I followed the advice I got to take a name that is sorta common in my age group so I went through all the lists multiple times until I decided. I now officially have a girl’s name, even if I’m nowhere near passing. It isn’t as bad in my country as in many others and I must say it went a lot better than I expected, but I’m still proud of myself. 😊

  • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
    16·
    3 days ago

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