I used to have to come up with a lot of names when I played DnD a while back. I’m usually good at taking in my surroundings or my existing knowledge and mash it up into something interesting.

ok so the chmod command from Linux, plus Siemens (yes, the tech/rail company) and a random suffix with vowels: Chiemyu

not my best thinking, but gets the point across and would be good for some silly character 😅

Took the equivalent popular name from the year of my birth. As in second most popular boy name to second most popular girl name.

It felt correct immediately, but YMMV

Got drunk with friends and wrote down all the names that might work, and tried then one by one. Good thing the first one stuck, cause the next one was womannator 3000

Idk, I just tried random things until it felt right and sounded cool. I love myself, Nell. I love you too babe.

On a sidenote: try googling popular dog names…

My mom had told me from a young age, long before either of us knew, what I would’ve been named if I’d been a girl. She’d had names picked out for boys and girls but didn’t have a born girl. I call it my “chosen given name”

My wife and I are one and done, very happy. We both really liked our potential daughter’s name and decided I should use it :)

I let my tiktok followers pick it out in 2021. (RIP 🪦 my tiktok)

I chose Flora because I love plants :)

I made a spreadsheet, of a bunch of random nouns I thought had name potential, and then asked my partner and friends their opinions and documented the results

Came across a really cool musician who’s name was an unusual feminization of my deadname and I liked it.

Thought about it for years, my girlfriend asks the lemmy gremlins… They recommended my Name, i loved it. (no i dont usw meow as my name…)

My first name (Sophie) was picked by strenuously looking through the top 1,000 girl names in the US, and writing down anything that felt “right”. I ended up with a short list (including Amber, Luna, Aurora, Bri, and a few others I can’t remember), and I looked up the meaning and histories of each. Sophie is the French form of the Greek Sophia, which means knowledge and wisdom. Given that I’m highly autistic and have a whole damn encyclopedia of facts in my head, I felt it fit the best (and it’s super cute). I was going to go with Sophia and just have Sophie as a nickname, but I liked Sophie so much that I just had to have it as my legal name. I also picked my middle and last names, though. My middle name (which I won’t say as to not doxx myself) is related to my favorite wildflower, in a language of the country I wish I could immigrate to. I spent a very long time on it. My last name is a common US last name that is also from the region of that country, and I picked it mostly so I didn’t have an immediately searchable name (harder to doxx/stalk me). The reason I picked a new last name was because…well, let’s just say I had a horrible childhood, and want nothing to do with my family. I didn’t want my name to feel like it was “owned” by them. Which is also why I didn’t ask them what they would have named me if they knew I was a girl, as others here have done.

Mine was picked from a character in a show who gave me so much (at the time unidentified) gender envy as a kid. I used the name in a game for a while to see if I liked people referring to me by that name and fell in love with it.

And then I picked a middle name that was more out there, but that I also liked, so if I ever wanted to change things up, I could use either.

stole it from the swapnote girl cus shes cute

Born with a unisex name, so my parents 🤷