How To Pick Your Name & Legally Change It | Transgender Advice

Picking your name can be difficult as a trans person because it is one of the most important decisions, however this guide will help make that process easy!

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Picking Your Name 0:46
Legally Change Your Name: 05:25

[yz]

I picked a unisex name as a trans woman. I didn’t like any girly names.

[CatalystGP]

I took a "what is your girl name" test and got Kayleigh, and so I bare the name today.

For an English gal's name, it's giving.. American but it's still nice :3

[SusanYTripp-lpss]

While I have yet to go the legal route, I picked new first and middle names about 2 months after I first realized I'm trans and started coming out. I did consider the fem version of my birth name, but I decided that it really wasn't for me. When I realized that "Susan" was the ultimate right choice, I did call my aunt Susan (dad's younger sister) to ask if she'd be okay with it as she was the inspiration for me picking the name; Aunt Sue said yes, she'd be honored. I went/will go legally with Yvonne-LInda for my middle name, as these 2 women are awesome women and wonderful friends of mine.

For those who might be wondering: both parents and all grandparents were dead well before I'd come out and was making the decision. I was 52 in 2021 when it happened and lost my dad (age: 57) in July, '96 when I was 27 and mom (age: 63) about 10 years later on Halloween, '06, when I was 37. The last of my grandparents, mom's dad, died at the 97.5y.o. in Dec., 2015. I remember mom telling me once that if she and dad had had a girl, they probably would've named her Ann(e). While I did consider that name, it didn't feel "right", so it got tossed in the proverbial reject pile, alongside names like Michelle, Nicole, Athena (actually made it to the shortlist), Lily/LIllian and more, none of them ended up feeling "right"; after all, I was going to be with this for the rest of my life.

EDIT: BTW, I was born and still live in the San Francisco Bay Area, in the same county where I was born.

[briannataylor]

I'm in deep red ohio and believe it or not it's pretty easy to change name, ID, and birth certificate in Ohio.. here we go to our local county probate with a paper signed by a doctor or therapist and the judge ok's it and sends it down to Columbus and a few weeks later you get a letter from DMV confirming it's done and you get a new ID... similar with birth certificate a different form filed in your birth county.. a few weeks later you get a letter from Columbus.. name changes are pretty standard.. now here's where the trouble can begin.. as I said Ohio is deep red so some probate judges in the more rural red counties can deny gender marker or birth certificate changes while in the more liberal counties they push it threw without question.. I was lucky as I was born and live in a more liberal county so it was effortless and fast.. didn't even have to show up -- did it all online... but have heard of some in more rural red counties still trying to get it done cause their local judges disagree with the whole Transgender concept and deny marker changes..

[ets]

For me it's extra hard. I from Ukraine and moved to US 2 years ago. I need to pick a name that can pronounce right both Ukrainians and Americans. There are not many "international" names :(

[cartoonsrock]

Can you make a video of how to get HRT please?

[Celestinewarbeck]

You’re supposed to let your mother pick your new name for you. You can’t name yourself.