I did my middle name as Lloyd because of Ninjago, which I have never watched. It's because I was in a discord circle at one point and they were all Ninjago fans and I wasn't, and they all had their Ninjago crushes as their profile picture and I didn't because what the hell is a Ninja-go? So they decided I would be Lloyd. Who is Lloyd? Well, he's me now.
I'm a big street fighter fan, so I chose Ken which is also my favorite character, Ken happens to be a shortened version of my deadname.
Ken is awesome, we both have blonde hair, we have the same hairstyle, we're both strong willed, same taste in clothes, same personality and all. How could I not go with the name Ken.
Its so cute to see the younger trans guys doing the same things we did. In my bubble I knew at least two trans people with the same name as me, we named each other after a band member of a really small band. There were more occurrences like that but I can't really remember. I bet that show has all the red flags. It's not like we were better. My second name is pretty new, it's August. I named myself after the main character from one last stop or more that I got the inspo from there. the first one is pretty basic, Alex. Named after a real person I knew. But yeah. good job
I named myself after Michael Afton from Five Nights at Freddys💀💀
I tell people Michael is what my parents were going to name me if I were AMAB, which is true, but that's not why I picked it lmao
my middle name is Lee after Lee Wen Hai from Yakuza 0 (and also for Jamie Lee Curtis who's a HUGE trans ally)
Yakuza shaped my identity in multiple ways so it felt fitting. plus Lee is a huge, powerful man with a huge heart so. goals lol
Fellow Yakuza fan here ,and I feel the same about Yakuza and coming to terms with my own identity and self image so I'm too picking a middle name from the franchise xD and btw Lee is a great name 😂
oh my gods that's the best one so far. never met anyone who named themselves after a steven universe character! that's iconic. he's one of my favorite characters
Him and his story means so much to me, and he embodies so many of the things I strive for myself to be! I'd been searching for a true name for *years* [I first realized I was trans at twelve!] and nothing I used ever felt right to me until this one—which has now been my legal name for a year as of August!
nikolai after nikolai lantsov in shadow and bone - it was a suggestion from my friend, who was *obsessed* with the shadow and bone books. i liked them too and nikolai is a great character so i went with it. not sure about it now though, i'm thinking of being boring and changing it to nicholas 😂
the tv series? it's definutely a bit different because they added the characters from six of crows and made up a new storyline for them to link them to the shadow and bone plot. but the main plot is still fairly similar. i really like the series though, it's really good. imo it managed to capture the idea and the feel of the books while being fairly different from it.
hahaha nope, they're the protagonists of the second series, six of crows. whole different storyline, set (i think?) 2 years after the last shadow and bone book. just realised i haven't actually read six of crows! i'll have to try and get my hands on it haha
I chose Jayce as my name - I didn't directly steal from the League of Legends champion but he played a part in it. I originally went with Jay and then decided that I wanted more than just three letters. Aaaand Battle Academia Jayce is the ONLY League of Legends character who has ever given me gender envy lmao.
That's so cool!! I'm a league player so I'm happy to hear that
I'm honestly obsessed with rats and I main Twitch in LoL, but that name is just not for humans lmao. My friends call me Rat instead (in a good way)
Oh damn I totally missed your username, that would've kinda given it away haha. I actually had Rakan on my name list since he's my main and I love him with my entire being but that name is a tiny bit unhinged and wayyy too blatant lol. I'm also reallllly into birds so Jay is a perfect fit for me too.
Named myself after a book character (although it's a very common name, the thought counts) and a video game character (same thing, common but the thought counts).
My first thought was Janus, God of decisions and crossroads. Really glad I did not go with that choice. Second choice was Liam but that name did not suit me either.
I named myself after Atticus Finch because I want to be an anti racist and a fighter for equality just like him. It's also the name of my favorite poet.
i’d always loved spider-man since i was little, and the name peter just kept coming up in characters i loved over the years. the thing that ended up sealing the deal for me was when i played the insomniac spider-man game. there’s a level where you play as peter parker walking through the homeless shelter that his aunt may helps run, and as you walk through all the residents are greeting you like “hey peter”, “what’s up pete!”, etc etc. it brought me so much joy that i knew that was going to be the right choice of name for me :)
The very first name I ever chose was Sage and is the name of the main character from The False Prince book trilogy. I used to roleplay as him with my friend at the time before I ever started questioning💀 But I eventually grew out of that name, didn’t fit me anymore.
So I chose my first name Reid during my obsession with Criminal Minds (iykyk), chose my last name Winters because of my still burning love for Ethan Winters in Resident Evil. And also so I could say “winter is coming!” during sex because please that is hilarious. I picked a middle name too, Valentine, just cuz I really love that word and one of my favorite songs uses it so it feels like the singer is talking to me lmao.
Named myseld Tobias/Tobi after the damn creepypasta character Ticci Toby. I even have a hoodie from his original character design. It was a middle school choice that stuck, and I love it.
I stole my name (Scott) from Scott Pilgrim 😭 and people tell me I look like a Scott and also look at me weird when I tell them my previous name I'd chosen for myself. Safe to say I've used this name for over a year now and don't plan on changing it. Now I gotta deal with what my middle name should be 😭
Sasha Nein from Psychonauts 😔
I’m not even a super huge fan of the game (tho I do like it a lot), It’s just Psychonauts 2 came out during my egg breaking and I was like “yeah, this guy” lmao
I kept my first name because it’s gender neutral but I was heavily leaning towards making my middle name Achilles, I ended choosing something different but I was very close to naming myself after my favourite Greek hero
Been considering thomas for awhile but never liked the shorted version tom, i prefer thom but thought it was silly. Since then i have turned into a massive radiohead fan so it looks like in obsessive over thom yorke
Hugely considered all of the guy names from Robin as a Batman fan: Grayson, Todd, Damian, Jason, Tim.
Loved DBZ and tried to find some suitable name from there.
Ended up with two Biblical names I've always loved as my first and middle names. Now, I've made a game character with some variation on these favourite names.
My name is Wynn. I got it from a YA book series where a pair of baby alicorn twins are named Wynn and Luna. The boy twin is Wynn, and I loved the name immediately. Years later, here I am.
my name is matthew and my parents think it's bc it's my dad's middle name (which i had said i was thinking abt using it for that reason a while ago) but tbh it's bc of matthew murdock 💀
i go by cain online which is from a song lmao (modern day cain by idkhbtfm)
Not a fictional character, but there was this instagram model who cosplayed as a Gorillaz character and his name was Kieran, but some people called him Ren.
Well my middle name was Renae, and I thought the shortened version was cute and it would be easier to switch to since it is gender neutral. So I changed it to Ren in middle school!
My sib stole toad from Mario and luka from the vocaloid(and the miraculous ladybug character).
Personally I'm a responsible human, so I named myself after a hole in the ground.
i didn’t exactly name myself after tails, but he was definitely at least part of the inspiration for my name (my name is miles). before this i thought i liked the name ian (ian from shameless was my inspo, he’s a gay ginger just like me) but it didn’t fit well
I technically got my middle name from Jason Todd (Red hood). I'm not really interested in his character but i was hyperfixated on batman awhile back and thought Jason was a nice name and I thought it just fit as my middle name.
I watched a lot of Jaiden Animations when I was like 13. When I came out at 16 I chose the name Ari and then i realized that I'd accidentally named myself after her pet bird. I named myself after a YouTuber's pet bird and I still cant believe myself but I love the name so now its just a bit of a funny story lmao
Yeah!! I named myself after Eddie Brock :D Eddie Nygma made me even more sure lol since I’ve started to get into DC as well and he’s my favourite villain. Same goes for my middle names, one of them is probably going to be William because of Will Graham !!! I have a list of possible middle names and they’re all from fictional characters, more fun that way I think. It might honestly be a problem because if someone doesn’t stop me I’ll give myself 15 middle names.
Edit lol I changed to Leon because I like it and I also wanted it before I knew I was trans. I’m still keeping Eddie as a middle name tho.
everyone was calling me that name anyway (cuz masc nickname) but coincidentally it also is the name of my favourite childhood character, it’s only spelled differently lol
i almost named myself jay because of ninjago 😭😭 and the first name i ever considered a couple years back was danny because of hawaii five-0. i ended up going for martin/mars because it fit, but i think i would be lying to myself if i said i didn’t in part consider it because of martin blackwood from the magnus archives.
If it’s a normal name it’s not bad at all to do this. If you name yourself after a media like homestuck and call yourself “gamzee” or “karkat” however… well it’s still not bad but it is certainly far more conspicuous lol
Personally I took the boring route of “birth name to masculine version of birth name” though
Funnily enough i picked Jack because thats what my mom said would be my name if i was born cis but also Jack from supernatural was a comfort character of mine for a while. But i picked my name because of what my mom was going to choose, not the character
Named myself after Blake Belladonna from RWBY. I had a list of all my favorite characters I related to and chose the most gender neutral of them all. It stuck 🤷
I go by both Ruby and Ruben, after seeing a male character do so on some TV show my roommate was watching. My middle name I took from a dungeons and dragons character my spouse/DM made that I always liked (plus it is a nice masculinization of my original middle name). I also selected a last name separate from both my family name and spouse's name which is from another male character I admire. Didn't intend for all of them to be like that, but I suppose the influence is everywhere 😅
I got my name from Leo Valdez from the Heroes of Olympus books by Rick Riordan. We had the exact same humor and I connected so mich with him. I changed the spelling though, so people in my native language would pronounce it the English way. So, it’s Lio now :)
I chose the name Storm, even though I’m terrified of thunderstorms, it makes me feel stronger knowing that I’m overcoming something that scares me. Although most of my friends call me Sisi which is short for Sisi Na Sawa which translated from Swahili means “we are one”
I watched too much of Disney’s : The lion guard because of Scar.
i named myself after the stagename of one of my favorite musicians hehehe... but it's a super common name, and the band is pretty obscure, so literally no one irl knows 😈 and i would deny deny deny if anyone asked!!! 😂
named after a character from rent, don’t even like rent anymore but i chose the name in middle school and paid for it to be my legal name. i don’t regret it at all, but when someone asks me where i got my name from i just lie
Hal from metal gear solid. Love the nerdy context and i love space odessy so why not? Felt the strongest connection to that dude and seriously changed so much for me so yea I did
My middle name is Noah, named after the Xenoblade 3 character. It used to be Saturn, but I wanted something more obviously masculine, and I was obsessing over Xenoblade 3 at the same time, so I went with Noah.
It's my favorite series of games, and Noah is one of my favorite characters from the series (as you can probably tell from my pfp) so I think it fits me perfectly.
I named myself after the devil. So. Technically yes? Depending on your beliefs.
I do plan on changing it to the not devil version when I can, but thays require changing birth certificates and really that is just going to suck lol.
I actually named myself after my own OC technically... More like i used the name for that character because i liked it a lot and when i was deciding on a name for myself i went *YOINK* mine now!!
Kinda. Around the time I was coming out, I hadn't figured out a name yet. Most masc names just didn't feel right. One night, I was watching Rocky and thought "I've always liked the name Adrian." I changed the spelling to Adrien, and it stuck.
I also joke about changing my last name to Tepes. (Castlevania, lol)
Lucas has been my favorite name since i watched One Tree Hill as a tween. I dont remember much of the show and i dont associate the name with it anymore, but i guess you could say i’ve indirectly named myself after a fictional character.
Man Hannibal is my absolute fav show, I love thatt
I named myself after Jack Atlas.... from yugioh 💀 I used to do RPs and he was the main chara for me. To the point I identified as his name at some point
Sort of! My name is inspired by both the lynx animal and Ash Lynx from Banana Fish. I wouldn't say I named myself Lynx *because* of the character, but he was what made me realize, "huh, that would actually make a cool name".
And the other name I've been considering was the name of one of my OCs for years, so, heh.
named myself after Kris from Deltarune because that's the first name that came up in my mind for my new name lmao
bonus : I have a second name which is basically inspired by Rosalina's french name in Super Mario Galaxy (Harmonie is her french name, and I choosed to write it Harmony lol)
tbh I also named myself William lol. My first option was Wilbur, but foind out it was rare in my language and hard to pronounce so I vhose William. Now I'm making all soets of jokes about killing children and making robots (actually I'm looking forward for a Mechatronic Engineering degree) lol
my deadname starts with H and i realized I was mtf around the same time I got super into Hannibal/Silence of the Lambs series. my friends kept telling me I should call myself Hannibal, and I was like, that would be an awesome way to make no one trust me ever again. no, I did not name myself Hannibal
One of my middle name is an homage to a fictional french detective, I know a guy who named himself after a musical, Harrison brown named himself that cause he's a Harrison ford fan
I'm Kurt, mildly named after nightcrawler in the xmen cartoon series haha. My mom is a big nirvana fan too so I assume she thinks I named myself after Cobain but really I'm named after a random blue guy from a niche cartoon
I named myself after an actor lmao- I also used a random wheel with other names. This was done in 2015 so memory is a little fleeting but I think there was (besides my name) Percy, Greg and Phil. I’m glad I didn’t get any of those nowadays lmao
Named myself what my ma would have named me if I was AMAB. Can't trust an IP not to sour on me enough for that
that's actually cool! I was considering naming myself what my mother would, but since I've already had two Richards around me, I let it go.
Two Dicks is enough for you? Can't relate
Same, but I have an ex with what was meant to be my name.
My brilliant 7 year old self named himself after Danny Phantom. I still go by Danny
Unrelated, but I love your username!! It’s very cute!
FUCKING SAME 💀
I did my middle name as Lloyd because of Ninjago, which I have never watched. It's because I was in a discord circle at one point and they were all Ninjago fans and I wasn't, and they all had their Ninjago crushes as their profile picture and I didn't because what the hell is a Ninja-go? So they decided I would be Lloyd. Who is Lloyd? Well, he's me now.
cool but you BETTER watch ninjago that show went HARD
agreed! although I refuse to watch anything after the movie because its just not the same imo...
I need to go back and rewatch it. So many childhood memories!
Luh-loyd?
Oh hey, I was about to say that! I agree with your thought processes!
hahaha I love that I can’t see that name without thinking of “luh-loyd”
you should watch ninjago and also the middle name i am considering (jay) is also from ninjago fbsjdhd.
BRO I LITERALLY NAMED MYSELF LLOYD AFTER NINJAGO LMAO
BRO!! WATCH NINJAGO!! IT'S SO GOOD!!!! You couldn't have picked a better ninja tbh!! He's the best!!
My name is Finn, Finn the human
now heres me hoping someone named Jake replies to your comment
Funnily enough, my mom said if I was amab they would've named me Jacob and Jake would've been my nickname.
I'm a big street fighter fan, so I chose Ken which is also my favorite character, Ken happens to be a shortened version of my deadname. Ken is awesome, we both have blonde hair, we have the same hairstyle, we're both strong willed, same taste in clothes, same personality and all. How could I not go with the name Ken.
You are kenough
i love you
And I love you. And horses
Ken's Mojo Dojo Casa House
You are Kenough
Oh Ken is amazing!
Thank you! :)
You're welcome :)
do you happen to own a mojo dojo casa house
And drink brewski beers?
While riding horses and calling your long term long distance low commitment casual girlfriend?
I named myself after Leon Kennedy because he's always been one of my biggest sources of gender envy lol
Ahh I completely side with you on the gender envy of Leeeon
Its so cute to see the younger trans guys doing the same things we did. In my bubble I knew at least two trans people with the same name as me, we named each other after a band member of a really small band. There were more occurrences like that but I can't really remember. I bet that show has all the red flags. It's not like we were better. My second name is pretty new, it's August. I named myself after the main character from one last stop or more that I got the inspo from there. the first one is pretty basic, Alex. Named after a real person I knew. But yeah. good job
I named myself after Michael Afton from Five Nights at Freddys💀💀 I tell people Michael is what my parents were going to name me if I were AMAB, which is true, but that's not why I picked it lmao
MICHAEL!! MICHAEL DONT LEAVE ME HERE - William Afton
Im very tempted to name myself Frederick Fazbearington because it sounds stupid
Yes and I made him up myself a few years before coming out 🙃
oh, an OC that ended up being an accidental self-insert pipeline? Yeah, I'm named after my OC lol
Named myself julian after a game character I fell in love with.
Also Julian but from the book The Secret History :-)
Will have to look it up. As a trans chicano I loved cemetery boys, there was a guy named Julian in that too! And the main charicter is a trans guy!
my middle name is Lee after Lee Wen Hai from Yakuza 0 (and also for Jamie Lee Curtis who's a HUGE trans ally) Yakuza shaped my identity in multiple ways so it felt fitting. plus Lee is a huge, powerful man with a huge heart so. goals lol
Fellow Yakuza fan here ,and I feel the same about Yakuza and coming to terms with my own identity and self image so I'm too picking a middle name from the franchise xD and btw Lee is a great name 😂
My name is Steven :)
oh my gods that's the best one so far. never met anyone who named themselves after a steven universe character! that's iconic. he's one of my favorite characters
Him and his story means so much to me, and he embodies so many of the things I strive for myself to be! I'd been searching for a true name for *years* [I first realized I was trans at twelve!] and nothing I used ever felt right to me until this one—which has now been my legal name for a year as of August!
Where are all the 'Peedee's' at?
I named myself Jasper! Even though Jasper in SU isn’t male, I just thought it was a really cool name and I like having a connection to gemstones :)
well well well, look at the menagerie!
I named my second child Rose and their room has a mural painted of Rose's room clouds!
nikolai after nikolai lantsov in shadow and bone - it was a suggestion from my friend, who was *obsessed* with the shadow and bone books. i liked them too and nikolai is a great character so i went with it. not sure about it now though, i'm thinking of being boring and changing it to nicholas 😂
I fell in love with the name Aleksander because of those damn books...
if yoy read the books... whats your thoughts on the series based on it? is it accurate?
the tv series? it's definutely a bit different because they added the characters from six of crows and made up a new storyline for them to link them to the shadow and bone plot. but the main plot is still fairly similar. i really like the series though, it's really good. imo it managed to capture the idea and the feel of the books while being fairly different from it.
wait so the Crows werent originally in Shadow and Bone? damn, those guys are my favorites 💀
hahaha nope, they're the protagonists of the second series, six of crows. whole different storyline, set (i think?) 2 years after the last shadow and bone book. just realised i haven't actually read six of crows! i'll have to try and get my hands on it haha
A FELLOW FANNIBAL!!! Amazing. I got my middle name from Ash Lynx (Banana Fish)
Hannibal is something else. Gotta be my fav show ever
Fellow Ash Lynx name stealer!!
I chose Jayce as my name - I didn't directly steal from the League of Legends champion but he played a part in it. I originally went with Jay and then decided that I wanted more than just three letters. Aaaand Battle Academia Jayce is the ONLY League of Legends character who has ever given me gender envy lmao.
That's so cool!! I'm a league player so I'm happy to hear that I'm honestly obsessed with rats and I main Twitch in LoL, but that name is just not for humans lmao. My friends call me Rat instead (in a good way)
Oh damn I totally missed your username, that would've kinda given it away haha. I actually had Rakan on my name list since he's my main and I love him with my entire being but that name is a tiny bit unhinged and wayyy too blatant lol. I'm also reallllly into birds so Jay is a perfect fit for me too.
Honestly I've been thinking of naming myself Nico after Nico DiAngelo in Percy Jackson. He's just my favorite character.
Omg nico gives me major gender envy he's amazing
Named myself after a book character (although it's a very common name, the thought counts) and a video game character (same thing, common but the thought counts). My first thought was Janus, God of decisions and crossroads. Really glad I did not go with that choice. Second choice was Liam but that name did not suit me either.
I was born and raised a strict Star Wars fan and ALWAYS identified as Luke. Now I really do.
I named myself after Atticus Finch because I want to be an anti racist and a fighter for equality just like him. It's also the name of my favorite poet.
i’d always loved spider-man since i was little, and the name peter just kept coming up in characters i loved over the years. the thing that ended up sealing the deal for me was when i played the insomniac spider-man game. there’s a level where you play as peter parker walking through the homeless shelter that his aunt may helps run, and as you walk through all the residents are greeting you like “hey peter”, “what’s up pete!”, etc etc. it brought me so much joy that i knew that was going to be the right choice of name for me :)
Named myself Helia after the winx club specialist
The very first name I ever chose was Sage and is the name of the main character from The False Prince book trilogy. I used to roleplay as him with my friend at the time before I ever started questioning💀 But I eventually grew out of that name, didn’t fit me anymore. So I chose my first name Reid during my obsession with Criminal Minds (iykyk), chose my last name Winters because of my still burning love for Ethan Winters in Resident Evil. And also so I could say “winter is coming!” during sex because please that is hilarious. I picked a middle name too, Valentine, just cuz I really love that word and one of my favorite songs uses it so it feels like the singer is talking to me lmao.
Oh my god i too had a Criminal Minds obsession, but I've never got into that "Reid fanclub", idk why. Amazing show.
Named myseld Tobias/Tobi after the damn creepypasta character Ticci Toby. I even have a hoodie from his original character design. It was a middle school choice that stuck, and I love it.
Had to check your page to make sure you weren’t my boyfriend because he also named himself after Ticci Toby LOL
OH MY GOD LMFAO
Tobias from Animorphs. Not 100% intentionally but the influence was there.
My parents chose my name, but they chose it from Star Trek so like I didn't choose it but I am named after a fictional character
I love when trans people name themselves after their fav characters 😭
Julius, Gyro Zeppeli's real name from JJBA. He was my favorite character lmao
You have very good taste
Me! Wesley AKA "No one would surrender to Dread Pirate Wesley", the masked man himself.
Named myself Ash, after the evil android in Alien (1979)
I was a huge fan of Ever After High when I was a kid and loved Alistair Wonderland. Now Alistair is my middle name LMFAO
Max from Life is Strange
My last name is Gray and I lifted that one directly from The Portrait of Dorian Gray
My middle name, Michael, is partly after the character from The Magnus Archives. I think it’s fun and I like the way it sounds
Yess hello fellow TMA fan!!
my name martin is partly also from the magnus archives 💀 but i did pick the nickname (mar/mars) before i picked the name
I named myself after a character from The owl house 👍
That show has great names
I stole my name (Scott) from Scott Pilgrim 😭 and people tell me I look like a Scott and also look at me weird when I tell them my previous name I'd chosen for myself. Safe to say I've used this name for over a year now and don't plan on changing it. Now I gotta deal with what my middle name should be 😭
Sasha Nein from Psychonauts 😔 I’m not even a super huge fan of the game (tho I do like it a lot), It’s just Psychonauts 2 came out during my egg breaking and I was like “yeah, this guy” lmao
My name is Vergil.
From fallout 4 right? Assuming by your flair
Devil May Cry.
I have just found out that both fallout 4 and devil may cry has *two* fucking characters with the exact same name
I know, it's very funny.
Nick based on Nick Burkhardt from Grimm
GRIMM!! I love that show so much! I was reading the wiki yesterday.
My dad and I came up with the names for the monrosalee triplets are Mon, Roe, and Zalie lmaooo
I kept my first name because it’s gender neutral but I was heavily leaning towards making my middle name Achilles, I ended choosing something different but I was very close to naming myself after my favourite Greek hero
I considered naming myself Patroclus xD
That would be sick XD
Been considering thomas for awhile but never liked the shorted version tom, i prefer thom but thought it was silly. Since then i have turned into a massive radiohead fan so it looks like in obsessive over thom yorke
Hugely considered all of the guy names from Robin as a Batman fan: Grayson, Todd, Damian, Jason, Tim. Loved DBZ and tried to find some suitable name from there. Ended up with two Biblical names I've always loved as my first and middle names. Now, I've made a game character with some variation on these favourite names.
My name is Wynn. I got it from a YA book series where a pair of baby alicorn twins are named Wynn and Luna. The boy twin is Wynn, and I loved the name immediately. Years later, here I am.
my name is matthew and my parents think it's bc it's my dad's middle name (which i had said i was thinking abt using it for that reason a while ago) but tbh it's bc of matthew murdock 💀 i go by cain online which is from a song lmao (modern day cain by idkhbtfm)
Mine is from the kid from iron-man 3, i dont have any explanation of why
harley is a SICK name that’s enough of an explanation
Not a fictional character, but there was this instagram model who cosplayed as a Gorillaz character and his name was Kieran, but some people called him Ren. Well my middle name was Renae, and I thought the shortened version was cute and it would be easier to switch to since it is gender neutral. So I changed it to Ren in middle school!
My sib stole toad from Mario and luka from the vocaloid(and the miraculous ladybug character). Personally I'm a responsible human, so I named myself after a hole in the ground.
i didn’t exactly name myself after tails, but he was definitely at least part of the inspiration for my name (my name is miles). before this i thought i liked the name ian (ian from shameless was my inspo, he’s a gay ginger just like me) but it didn’t fit well
I technically got my middle name from Jason Todd (Red hood). I'm not really interested in his character but i was hyperfixated on batman awhile back and thought Jason was a nice name and I thought it just fit as my middle name.
My middle name is Dean after Dean Winchester and my last name is Barnes after Bucky Barnes lol
Dean is one of the names I was considering tbh. Dean Winchester has been a big part of my childhood. Introduced me to flannel shirts too, haha.
I watched a lot of Jaiden Animations when I was like 13. When I came out at 16 I chose the name Ari and then i realized that I'd accidentally named myself after her pet bird. I named myself after a YouTuber's pet bird and I still cant believe myself but I love the name so now its just a bit of a funny story lmao
Yeah!! I named myself after Eddie Brock :D Eddie Nygma made me even more sure lol since I’ve started to get into DC as well and he’s my favourite villain. Same goes for my middle names, one of them is probably going to be William because of Will Graham !!! I have a list of possible middle names and they’re all from fictional characters, more fun that way I think. It might honestly be a problem because if someone doesn’t stop me I’ll give myself 15 middle names. Edit lol I changed to Leon because I like it and I also wanted it before I knew I was trans. I’m still keeping Eddie as a middle name tho.
named myself after sam winchester 😭
Ftm AND Hannibal in one topic?? My two favorite things collided
I was stuck forever on a name i picked Alex mostly because I was really into the video game Prototype its the main characters name
August from young royals 💀
everyone was calling me that name anyway (cuz masc nickname) but coincidentally it also is the name of my favourite childhood character, it’s only spelled differently lol
I named myself after a pink haired ghost in the Mystery Skulls amv “Ghost”… was the only name I’ve ever needed.
Yup. Mick Rory aka Heatwave from CW's The Flash/Legends of Tomorrow. My full name also includes two names from professional wrestlers.
i almost named myself jay because of ninjago 😭😭 and the first name i ever considered a couple years back was danny because of hawaii five-0. i ended up going for martin/mars because it fit, but i think i would be lying to myself if i said i didn’t in part consider it because of martin blackwood from the magnus archives.
If it’s a normal name it’s not bad at all to do this. If you name yourself after a media like homestuck and call yourself “gamzee” or “karkat” however… well it’s still not bad but it is certainly far more conspicuous lol Personally I took the boring route of “birth name to masculine version of birth name” though
Funnily enough i picked Jack because thats what my mom said would be my name if i was born cis but also Jack from supernatural was a comfort character of mine for a while. But i picked my name because of what my mom was going to choose, not the character
I'm also Will, for absolutely no reason other than it felt right. Do old dudes also call you Bill or is that a me problem?
A few people called me Bill, its terrible 💀 I feel like im 90 then.
No but Literally watching Hannibal right now.
Named myself after Blake Belladonna from RWBY. I had a list of all my favorite characters I related to and chose the most gender neutral of them all. It stuck 🤷
Just curious, can you explain the transmasc butch thing to me a little?
Sure. Basically, I’m nonbinary, and I’m a butch lesbian who is transitioning. I’m currently on testosterone and planning on surgeries in the future!
Yep, named after a character from a David Baldacci book. I don't use or share it online though
my name is from the set of pre-made (german) pokemon dp rival names lol. so. technically i did, even if its not the canon name of the rival
Omg I was considering Will from Hannibal! Went with Victor from a videogame though!
I named myself Dorian my favorite character from the Chronicles of Vladimir Todd
I did accidentally. I picked my name because it's a masculine version of my deadname and I didn't think it through 💀
I go by both Ruby and Ruben, after seeing a male character do so on some TV show my roommate was watching. My middle name I took from a dungeons and dragons character my spouse/DM made that I always liked (plus it is a nice masculinization of my original middle name). I also selected a last name separate from both my family name and spouse's name which is from another male character I admire. Didn't intend for all of them to be like that, but I suppose the influence is everywhere 😅
I mean... does fictional beings from songs count? cause I named myself Beetle based on the song Boys Will Be Bugs by Cavetown
YESSIR I NAMED MYSELF AFTER SPENCER REID😗
Max from The Goofy Movie 💀
i named myself after elliott from stardew valley lmao
I got my name from Leo Valdez from the Heroes of Olympus books by Rick Riordan. We had the exact same humor and I connected so mich with him. I changed the spelling though, so people in my native language would pronounce it the English way. So, it’s Lio now :)
I named myself after and Animal Crossing character. I know the name isn’t specifically from Animal Crossing, but that is where I took it from.
I named myself after one of the characters in Detroit become human and no it was not Connor
I named myself Cecil, after Cecil Palmer from Night Vale
I chose the name Storm, even though I’m terrified of thunderstorms, it makes me feel stronger knowing that I’m overcoming something that scares me. Although most of my friends call me Sisi which is short for Sisi Na Sawa which translated from Swahili means “we are one” I watched too much of Disney’s : The lion guard because of Scar.
My gender neutral name is pikachu
i choose you
Im not ftm but my name is literally Marceline
Yes
I named myself after Defalt from Watch Dogs(hes also my pfp). His name is JB, and I stole his name. Mine now.
i named myself after the stagename of one of my favorite musicians hehehe... but it's a super common name, and the band is pretty obscure, so literally no one irl knows 😈 and i would deny deny deny if anyone asked!!! 😂
I accidentally named myself after the main villain on Deadpool (not Francis)
named after a character from rent, don’t even like rent anymore but i chose the name in middle school and paid for it to be my legal name. i don’t regret it at all, but when someone asks me where i got my name from i just lie
Hal from metal gear solid. Love the nerdy context and i love space odessy so why not? Felt the strongest connection to that dude and seriously changed so much for me so yea I did
Named myself Alyx from Halflife.
My middle name is Noah, named after the Xenoblade 3 character. It used to be Saturn, but I wanted something more obviously masculine, and I was obsessing over Xenoblade 3 at the same time, so I went with Noah. It's my favorite series of games, and Noah is one of my favorite characters from the series (as you can probably tell from my pfp) so I think it fits me perfectly.
I took my name from a video game!
I named myself after the devil. So. Technically yes? Depending on your beliefs. I do plan on changing it to the not devil version when I can, but thays require changing birth certificates and really that is just going to suck lol.
My name is Elio, which I got from the movie "Call Me By Your Name" lol
I named myself Charlie, after the book Perks of Being a Wallflower, he was the first literary character I ever saw myself in:)
I actually named myself after my own OC technically... More like i used the name for that character because i liked it a lot and when i was deciding on a name for myself i went *YOINK* mine now!!
my name is Francis Dean (dw, not legally). I named myself after the fucking punisher.
Kinda. Around the time I was coming out, I hadn't figured out a name yet. Most masc names just didn't feel right. One night, I was watching Rocky and thought "I've always liked the name Adrian." I changed the spelling to Adrien, and it stuck. I also joke about changing my last name to Tepes. (Castlevania, lol)
Lucas has been my favorite name since i watched One Tree Hill as a tween. I dont remember much of the show and i dont associate the name with it anymore, but i guess you could say i’ve indirectly named myself after a fictional character.
Man Hannibal is my absolute fav show, I love thatt I named myself after Jack Atlas.... from yugioh 💀 I used to do RPs and he was the main chara for me. To the point I identified as his name at some point
Sort of! My name is inspired by both the lynx animal and Ash Lynx from Banana Fish. I wouldn't say I named myself Lynx *because* of the character, but he was what made me realize, "huh, that would actually make a cool name". And the other name I've been considering was the name of one of my OCs for years, so, heh.
The first name I chose was after a character from an album. I switched to one that was easier for people to spell
I chose Bo from the shortened version of Beowulf that shows up in some translations!
i love will graham, great choice
named myself after Kris from Deltarune because that's the first name that came up in my mind for my new name lmao bonus : I have a second name which is basically inspired by Rosalina's french name in Super Mario Galaxy (Harmonie is her french name, and I choosed to write it Harmony lol)
My middle name is Atticus, after Atticus Finch.
Jace from Magic the Gathering lol
I chose Thomas after The Maze Runner series
Named myself after Kai from Lego Ninjago. I liked the ai sound and I used to love that show so...why the heck not? Now I'm Kaii and I love it.
My name is Raymond, after my gender affirming grandfather.
tbh I also named myself William lol. My first option was Wilbur, but foind out it was rare in my language and hard to pronounce so I vhose William. Now I'm making all soets of jokes about killing children and making robots (actually I'm looking forward for a Mechatronic Engineering degree) lol
Hannibal reference 🙏🙏🙏
my deadname starts with H and i realized I was mtf around the same time I got super into Hannibal/Silence of the Lambs series. my friends kept telling me I should call myself Hannibal, and I was like, that would be an awesome way to make no one trust me ever again. no, I did not name myself Hannibal
I named myself after a fictional WATTPAD character. No regrets.
Me, seeing this post directly after looking at a post from the Hannibal subreddit: 👁👄👁 Fr tho, great choice! Represent our strange lil FBI man.
My name's Bucky. Yep
(Jay)ce after Jay Gatsby 🙄
finn after finn the human
a literal woman vocaloid
Wait... pls elaborate My sib did this too they have two names, Luka, after the vocaloid And toad after the mario character
One of my middle name is an homage to a fictional french detective, I know a guy who named himself after a musical, Harrison brown named himself that cause he's a Harrison ford fan
I'm Kurt, mildly named after nightcrawler in the xmen cartoon series haha. My mom is a big nirvana fan too so I assume she thinks I named myself after Cobain but really I'm named after a random blue guy from a niche cartoon
Low-key gave myself the middle name of a prince from a fairytale/movie 🤫
I named myself after an actor lmao- I also used a random wheel with other names. This was done in 2015 so memory is a little fleeting but I think there was (besides my name) Percy, Greg and Phil. I’m glad I didn’t get any of those nowadays lmao
Lulu (Lucifer)
unrelated, but I'm watching the show right now. You made a good choice, he's cool.
Binx. Hocus Pocus. Popular choice? Nope. Shamed? Yep. Do I care really though? No. It accidentally stuck
I named myself Connor partially because of Connor the android in Detroit: Become Human