How the fuck do you come up with a name, a good name?

How the frick do you come up with a name, a good name? I'm wracking my brain but everything I come up with is kind of florid and cringe and I don't want to be more of a hon than I have to. I've just never been good at names, and this is kind of a big choice. Honestly I've never even really identified with the name I have now, so how am I supposed to find a new one?

How do you all pick your names?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    just look at the top 100 baby names from your birth year and pick one you like

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >take first letter of boyname
      >find girlname that starts with it
      this is the trutrans hsts method

      do both of these

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >look up most popular birth names for year you were born for your ethnicity
    >pick the one in the top 10 you hate the least

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    just went with the one I made up and had people call me online when I was 9 lol

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm honestly a little tempted, tbhon. I've got terminal DM brain so my come up with a name reflex is really tuned towards really over the top stuff. I also tend to kind of agonize over symbolism and meaning and stuff so that makes things harder.

      >take first letter of boyname
      >find girlname that starts with it
      this is the trutrans hsts method

      My name unfortunately starts with a Z, so my options are pretty limited lol. My options are basically Zoe and Zelda and one of those is basically off the table from the jump.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        my name started with an A but i picked one that starts with a Z lol
        my mom calls me "the alphabet" because i'm A to Z

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Ha. That's cute. What did you wind up going with if you don't mind me asking?

  4. 1 year ago
    RealOfficialPunishedMEFmoderVEVO (he/him)

    >take first letter of boyname
    >find girlname that starts with it
    this is the trutrans hsts method

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    just pick a name you like, don't worry about brainworms

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >look up famous people who died around the time you were conceived
    >Steal their name and harness their power.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I had two options. One was the name my parents would have used if I was born a girl. The other was just a name I really liked growing up, a girl had it in middle school and I remember of being jealous of it.

    So between Haley and Madeline, I chose one that just sounded more like me.

    Did you never use a name in your head?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Did you never use a name in your head?
      No. I barely think of myself as my birthname. I don't think it sounds like me, but I don't think anything sounds like me. I kind of don't feel like a person with an identity sometimes, just something nameless living behind a series of masks and roles. It's really weird, but I'm more confident in my gender identity than my actual identity. I kind of just wish I was a shapeshifter and could be as many different people as I feel like

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I think you probably have a short list of names you like. Try one out!

        Call yourself that name internally. Practice a signature. Read letters and emails as if they were addressed to your new name (or imagine it, idk how much mail you get).

        If you absolutely hate it, then you probably know what's wrong with it and what you want instead.

        You said you're a DM, so you are probably having a writer's block. Stephen King said that the first draft is always perfect because it's only purpose is to exist. Just try one that you think you like and see how it goes. You just have to make *any* decision. A wrong one can be changed, but not making one isn't an option.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    you dont HAVE to change your name, you know

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I just picked a name i always thought was cute and had a nickname i was okay with and rolled with it. Its not that deep.

    T. Nicole

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Historical figures or flowers.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    By not making this thread, not reading the replies, and not interacting with any other troony over this topic. They are autistic freaks and they will give you a moronic name.

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