Just to have some conversation here I’m curious how you chose your name if you’ve already chosen one and what the story behind it is? And if you haven’t chosen your name yet, maybe people are able to help you decide.
As for me it was always pretty clear which name I would choose because a few years before even realising I’m trans much less coming out I asked my mum what name I would have gotten if I was born a girl. She told me that I always successfully hid my genitals on every ultrasound picture (kind of prophetic in hindsight) so my parents had to choose a name for both possibilities. And thus a name was already chosen for me that fit perfectly. 🥰
I’m curious to hear your stories!
I’m cisgender, but my sibling (AFAB, now nonbinary (any pronouns), whose actual name I will not reveal out of respect for both their privacy and my own) was named at birth after her great-grandmother, of whom our father has fond memories. Their birth middle name was chosen such that the combination of first and middle sounded like Dad’s mother’s name (our grandmother), of whom all of us were quite fond.
When they came out to us as nonbinary, they spent a while agonizing over a new name that sounded androgynous while preserving that rich history. They settled on choosing a new first name that sounded similar to their birth one that was a common English surname and leaving their middle name as is.