Hello my dears :3
So rn I’m going by Jamie and there’s a lot I really like about this name. Its meaning works well (she, who supplants), it’s the name of my favorite skater when I was a kid, it does have a nice ring to it.
But when I chose it to play with, I didn’t know where my journey would lead to. Now that I do I’m just not sure I like the ambiguity.
That being said, I wonder, how did you all pick your new names? Does it have a special meaning to you? Anything in particular that made you go like “Yes, that’s it, that’s me!”?
€: Thanks for sharing everyone (and keep going :3)! Definitely some inspiration in there.
I got a couple different names that I’ve chosen for myself.
One is a woman who left everything she knew to find a better life for herself.
One was chosen to be similar to pronounce to my deadname but different enough to be a clear break. I followed patterns my mom used in naming all her kids, somewhat in hope that she would accept the real me.
One was chosen keep my middle initial the same to avoid having my username in a bunch of places be dysphoric and as a way of saying to my dad I hoped he’d still be proud of me some day.
And one was chosen by 18 year old me one day when I was starting to build my online presence. It was truly the first name I gave myself, even though I didn’t know I was doing that at the time. Turns out that’s the name I prefer to go by the most. Not sure how I got it in one.