Day 2: How did you choose your name? What names were you thinking about using and why?
When it came to choosing my first name, I didn’t have anything in mind. My birth-name isn’t unisex, and there isn’t a male version of the name either.
My first thought was to transition to a name with the same first letter as my birth-name.
For a while, I wasn’t actively looking for a name, or asking others what they thought I should be called (like I see some people do on tumblr). As I read articles online, or heard names on the news, that started with my birth letter, I would constantly be asking…. Does that name fit me? Do I really like that name?….
It wasn’t until later that I decided I was ready to find my own name, and that just reading the checkers name-tag, at the supermarket, was taking too long.
So, I started looking around baby name websites. Still interested in finding a name that starts with the same letter as my birth-name. But, I looked and looked, and I said names out loud… none of them really did it for me. So thats when I decided to look at all letters of the alphabet.
The very first name that i decided was going to be my own, was Josiah. I loved the name, and I didn’t know anybody with that name, which was one of my requirements. But, the first couple of times that my therapist called my Josiah, I was like…. No. Im still not feeling the name.
Thats when I changed to Jeremiah. Which, is now my name. When my doctor, therapist, dad, friends…. when anyone uses my name, I feel comfortable. I feel like it belongs to me. Rather, with Josiah, when my therapist called that name, I felt disconnected. Like, if you were to call out that name, I may not turn around, because I wouldn’t realize you were calling me.
As for my middle name, that is something I hope my parents will help me figure out further down the road. As of right now, I don’t have one, but I wont need it until I go to change my documents.
