#transing names

[namesarelikeshinythings]

Common fem names to masc ones

For transmascs who're looking for a name similar to their birth names but cooler and masculine

Abigail : Abel (breath in hebrew), Gale/Gail (fem leaning, joy in english), Guy (masc, guide in old french)

Amber : Ambrosius (masc, greek for immortal), Asher (masc leaning, hebrew for blessed)

Amelia : Amabilis (masc, latin for lovable), Amable (neutral, old french, lovable), Amé(e) or Aimé(e) (old french for loved, é=masc, ée=fem)

Anna : An (short for these names), Anakin (i'm half joking, masc, sanskrit for warrior, hebrew for giant), Andrea (neutral ?,Andrea is masc, Andréa is fem, from the greek andros meaning man)->Andrew(masc), Andy(neutral)

Ava : Avis (bird in latin) Avon (river in irish), Navy (neutral, boat in latin)

Camila : Cam (short for all these names), Camille (acolyte in latin), Carlisle (neutral,from the walled city in english)

Charlotte : Carl, Charles, (both man in germanic), Charlie (short for both names)

Chloé : Claude (neutral, tw : validist word : crippled in latin), Cleante (pure in greek), Cleon (glory in greek), Clyde (masc, gaelic for warm)

Daisy : Aster (means daisy), Daimon (masc, to tame in greek, or demon)

Emma : Armin (same as Emmet), Emmanuel (masc, hebrew for god is with us), Emmet (masc leaning, whole truth in hebrew), Emory (neutral, home strenght in old german),

Evelyn : already gender neutral :) Evan (masc, irish for youth), Flynn (masc irish for son of Flann), Lynn (fem leaning, lake in welsh)

Isabella : Eli (masc leaning, hebrew for high), Isaac (masc, hebrew for one who laughs), Isabeau (fem but sounds really masc, hebrew for god's promise), Isidore (gift of Isis in greek)

Isla : Islay (neutral, scottish island), Stanislas (masc, to stand+glory in slavic)

Lily : Billy (neutral, protection in germanic), Lilian (neutral), Lilien (french, masc)

Luna : Alun (masc, two rivers in welsh), Lunar (neutral, related to the moon), Moon (neutral)

Mary : Marc (masc, manly, brave in latin), Marius (masc, male in latin), Mars (masc, planet named after the greek and latin god of war)

Mia : Micah (masc, hebrew for "who is like Yahweh (or god)?"), Minos (masc, greek for king),, Mio (neutral, swedish name or fem japanese name for beautiful cherry blossom)

Mila : Milan (masc leaning, dear in slavic), Miles (masc, latin for soldier), Milo (same as Miles)

Olivia : Oliver (olive tree in latin), Olie (short for both names)

Sarah : Samuel (masc, name of god in hebrew) -> Sam (gender neutral short for Samantha or Samuel), Sasha (neutral, defender in slavic)

Sophia : Sophos (greek for clever, wisdom), Sophocles (greek poet, name means wisdom+glory)

[chrliekclly]

names….

[so-i-did-this-thing]

Hello Nicholas!

If you don't mind me asking, why did you choose the name Nicolas? Idk I just like learning why people who've picked their own names made the choice they did

(I have the incredibly silly reason of "it was given to me in a Minecraft server because it was shorter than my username and the movie Life of Pi had just come out." So now I'm Pi, and I have been for like 12 years. I didn't even like the movie that much, and the friend group all went their separate ways after high school. Fun fact, the guy who ran the Minecraft server was in my class, and he went by Link. His "real" name is Nathan. Even the teachers called him Link, and that's what was on his assignments. It was too the point where we had a substitute who did attendance, and Link almost got marked absent because he didn't realize that the sub had called his name because it said Nathan on the paper. Which is valid and honestly I'd love to reach the point where my deadname is so detached from me that I don't even realize somebody is talking about me. Also, he was Link because he loves Legend of Zelda)

Oh ho, it's Nick Lore time!

I don't internalize my own name. My inner monologue doesn't work like that. Never has. Dunno if that was from dysphoria or the autism. So, what to call myself has always been strange.

When I was a little kid, I masculinized my birth name of "Jamie Nicole" to "James Nicholas" because it was convenient. My nickname was actually "James", and this made me gender euphoric, even though the name didn't fit me.

My first real "secret boy name" was Garet, after the Weapons Master character in the Shannara book series. I just thought he was cool. I was a teenager and still into edgelord fantasy characters. It's kind of funny how in fantasy, this is a stock "rogue" name.

In college, I started toying seriously with what to call myself. It's no secret on this blog that I love the All Creatures Great & Small book series. I saw a lot of both myself at the time and who I wanted to be in the character of Siegfried Farnon, and wanted to take his name. But I also felt it might be a Bit Too Much, and tried his brother's name - Tristan - on for size. I liked it a lot. I was ready to commit.

Family and friends... did not take my coming out very well. Not with violence, but with either lukewarm reception or a desire for it all to just Go Away. Even the "supporters" at the time felt the need to tell me they didn't like my choice of name. It was devastating. I couldn't bear the thought of the name, Tristan, anymore - what should have been joy became shorthand for my rejection. I think that's a big part of why I pushed this particular piece of comfort media away for many years, despite it being so formative and literally sanity-saving to me as a kid.

So, I stuck with my gender neutral birth name (and sucked up having a feminine middle name) for ages. Until I was in my 40s. Then it become too much to bear. Hearing my birth name felt like the death of a thousand cuts.

I will admit I compromised again a bit in the end. I went back to a masculinized birth name, I just switched the order to "Nicholas James". I wanted to assert myself to my mother (who wanted me to be "James") and I did genuinely like "Nicholas". I like having a name structure where there is a formal ("Nicholas"), informal ("Nick"), and diminutive version ("Nicky") in the name. There's also a fictional Nick that I love (Nick Valentine from Fallout 4.) I won't lie, I still think it'd be fun and affirming to go back to Tristan or commit to Siegfried, but I don't want to go through the entire social and legal process again, especially because with the former I know I will get shade for being the sort of autistic that is a sponge wrt fictional character traits, and with the latter, I worry it will put me on government Lists. I do like being called Nicholas/Nick -- it is affirming and it does finally feel like my own name. And hey, "James" is the name of another character I loved in my precious book series, so I have that box checked as well.

I still don't call myself anything in my internal monologue, though. Brains are weird.

But the tldr; here, which I think you have also alluded to, is that how we name ourselves doesn't have to be seen as cringe and it's very easy to just roll with someone's choice. And god knows parents name their kids after fictional characters and random concepts all the time. Naming yourself is both affirming and vulnerable, not just along the cis/trans axis. So, don't be a dick when someone tells you they want to be called [name].

[natade-art]

making an oc just to have weirdo yuri with basilio and junah postgame

[robintherobiner]

IM GONNA TRANS THIS BITCHS GENDERS SO FUCKING HARD

TIM SHALL KNOW NO PEACE. BECOME WOMEN. I LOVE TRANGEMDERS EVERYONE SHAL BE ONE AAAAAA

[shithowdy]

moooore NPC art for what has become an increasingly robust rp. sancho armijo, @sakom75 's dallas' sort-of dad (aka guy who scooped him up like a stray dog as a teenager), currently presumed dead but actually recently ghoulified and coping... fine!

[catgirlkirigiri]

Iris my love... gotta have the girly secondary fursona. For gender time. Actually think she's being demoted to fursona number 3 but idk we'll see about the pecking order when refs are all done. She was waaay overdue for a redesign oh shit I just realized I didn't put a color palette on here. Oh well ig too late for that now I am not rearranging that bg

[slingerapen]

It is not too late to imagine transfem bruno!!!!

[bookwyrminspiration]

i deeply appreciate the summary you did of the q&a with shannon and because i am me i got to the part where shannon talks about names and my brain went "oooh transgenderism" so now i am looking at new names for the blorbos that have the same meaning but a new gender

I am at your service, my liege. You can never go wrong transgenderizing the blorbos <3

i have a proposal for transfemme fitz

[namesarelikeshinythings]

Common boy names to fem and neutral

I did my best but a fem person could do this way better than me :

Adam : Addison (n) : Son of Adam in old english, Eve (f) : life in hebrew

Benjamin : Ebene (f or n) : ebony in french, Minnie (f) : will, desire in germanic

Charles : Charlotte -> Charlie (n) : free man in germanic

Christopher : Christina->Chrissie (f) : follower of christ in greek, Chrisantheme (f) : marigold in french, Chris or Kris

Elijah : Eli (n) : high, elevated in hebrew, Elisa (f) : god is a promise in hebrew

James : Jaqueline -> Jackie(n) : god is gracious in hebrew, Jamie (n) : supplanter in hebrew, Jasmine (f) : gift from god in hebrew

John : Jean (n) : god is gracious in hebrew, Joan (f) : same as Jean, Jolene (f) : derived from "jolie", pretty in french

Matthew : Madison -> Maddie (n) : Matthew's son in old english, Mathilda (f) -> Mattie (n) : strengh in battle

Noah : Naomi (f) : pleasant, beautiful in hebrew Noa (n) : rest in hebrew

Leo : Lea (f) : delicate in hebrew, (E)Leonore (f) : sun ray in greek

Liam : Amelia (f) : hard working in hebrew, Lee (n) : meadow in english, Lorelai (f) : a siren from german legend

Lucas : Luce (n), Lucy (f), Lux (n) : light in latin

Robert : Robin (n) : bright, famous in germanic, Ruby (f) : precious red stone in english

Theodore : Dorothy (f) : gift from god in greek, Thea (f) : goddess in greek, Theo could be gender neutral if short for Theodora (f)

Thomas : Macey (n) : weapon or gift from god in hebrew, Tamara -> Tammie (f): arabic for palm tree, Tommie (n) : twin in aramean

[third-king-of-salmonids]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH TO THIS QUORA USER IN PARTICULAR

[mamawasatesttube]

superfam and joung justice genderbent names? i have ideas but i dont think i know them well enough to really decide... i like Clara for Clark tho, i feel like it'd suit her... Tim, however, is difficult

oh man. i don't really have any satisfactory answers because i don't honestly think about genderbends like... at all skdjhfkdjs sorry!!

[starheirxero]

I have a useless amount of Lunar knowledge its so bad. I don't even remember where half of it came from but it sticks with me nonetheless.......

[pillbugpaints]

killer moth but i got silly with it

+ doodle of TMWSL drury

[mikadll]

happy trans day of visibility, folks. small update from yours truly in that regard:

[feline-evil]

Dick or no dick confirmation Pickles was always going to be trans to me anyways; if he's swingin' somethin that's phallo babes, if he's not then his t-dick fat. What's not to get.