#name stuff

I wasn’t comfortable telling her about Misha as my name choice yet…I impulsively came out (long story, but I could have been outed locally if she worked a certain event — so I decided it was best for me to tell her myself).

So I told her that I had picked out Elliot as my middle name and that I was sure on that. I told her I was thinking of first names and would let her know when I was ready to tell her.

Anyway, I think I just figured out what to do name wise. I can keep Misha and use it as a nickname that I largely go by. But I can make my full/legal name Michael when I change it. And I can tell my mom what my choice is but to use the nickname for me whenever possible.

Honestly, she wanted to name me Michaela (idk what spelling she wanted), but she ended up picking a totally different name for me when I showed up into the world due to family members being weird.

Misha is a nickname of Michael. But for me it obviously has other importance to me with Misha Collins and SPN.

Mary Simmons, 1805

Susannah Alton Jones, 1806

Mary Dalby Hills, 1806

Elizabeth Day, 1807

Gendrada Araminta Cleopatra Johnson Prescott, 1807

Elizabeth Stewart, 1809

Idfk man. Yeah. Btw none of this is bad, even if it sounds like it.

@knickknat - Knat: You're first because yeah. Your name comes like a snap. It's not exactly pointy, but if it were a weapon it could do some damage. Like uhh throwin a brick at someone.

@poetaster-crow and @jaykaythe1st - Jay: Woahh two Jays. Anyway y'alls name is like splashing (not stepping, splashing) in a puddle. This puddle ain't clear, it's a bit murky, but what puddle isn't? The name's a bit twisty, but not exactly like a spring, more like a wave kinda.

@what-the-actualhell - Zero: Hold on there buckaroo, that name got some WHIMSY to it. It's prolly just cuz these both start with Z, but it's got a zing to it. Very fast and wobbly. Like people fighting in a cartoon. I could see it being spring-like.

aka names that mean any of the following and more: camels, sheep, goats, deer, bison, giraffes, pigs, antelopes, hippos, and whales...but not horses, actually, which is good because the number of names meaning horse deserves its own list. these are the even-toed ungulates, and the variety of names we have that directly related to them just really show how significant human-ungulate interaction and domestication has been!

but anyway, enough of that...onto the names! source is behind the name, not user-submitted.

[format: name - meaning, origin language]

~ feminine ~

aegina - of goats, greek

ahu - deer/gazelle, turkish

alana - possibly deer, old breton/old welsh

aqbota - young white camel, kazakh

aqmaral - white deer, kazakh

arwa - ibex/mountain goat, arabic

awinita - fawn, cherokee

ayala - doe, hebrew

ayalet - doe/gazelle, hebrew

burçin - hind/doe, turkish

capri - wild boar, greek or etruscan, or goats, latin

caprina - see above

ceren - gazelle, turkish from mongolian

ceylan - gazelle, turkish from persian

delphia - dolphin, greek

delphine - see above

delphinia - see above

dorcas - gazelle, greek

dymphna - fawn or calf, old irish

eilonwy - either deer/stag or song/melody, welsh

erva - ibex/mountain goat, turkish from arabic

euboia - good ox, greek

everly - boar clearing, old english

fawn - young deer, english

hazal - possibly gazelle, turkish from kurdish

hind - possibly group of camels, arabic

jorunn - boar + to love, old norse

maha - oryx, arabic

maral - caspian red deer, persian

meral - see above

nyala - nyala antelope, bantu

oanez - lamb, breton from latin

ofra - fawn, hebrew

ovidia - possibly sheep, latin or sabellic

periboia - around/exceedingly + ox/cow, greek

porcia - pig, latin

portia - see above

rachel - ewe, hebrew

rahela - see above

rasha - young gazelle, arabic

reem - white antelope, arabic

tabitha - gazelle, aramaic

tzvia - gazelle/roebuck, hebrew

úna - probably lamb, old irish

~ masculine ~

aegeus - probably goat, greek

alan - possibly deer, old breton/old welsh

aniello - lamb, Italian from latin

aries - ram, latin

ayal - stag, hebrew

bakr - young camel, arabic

buck - male deer

buğra - baby camel

damhán - fawn or calf, old irish

delphin - dolphin, greek

delphinius - see above

delphīnus - see above

dren - deer, albanian

eberwin - boar + friend, old high german

everald - boar + power, old high german

garnik - little lamb, old armenian

gautama - best ox, sanskrit

giles - young goat, greek

hirsh - deer, yiddish from old high german

hjörtur - deer, icelandic

howard - possibly ewe herder, middle english

irwin - boar + friend, old english

jaala - wild goat, hebrew

luay - little wild ox, arabic

ofer - fawn, hebrew

oisín - little deer, old irish

ophrah - fawn, hebrew

oscar - possibly deer friend, old irish, or god + spear, old english

ovid - possibly sheep, latin or sabellic

ovidio - see above

porcius - pig, latin

roscoe - roebuck forest, english from old norse

skenandoah - possibly deer, oneida

tatanka - bison, sioux (dakota/lakota)

tauras - aurochs, lithuanian

taurus - bull, latin

tzvi - gazelle/roebuck, hebrew

vitellius - young calf, latin

wilbur - wild boar, middle english

zsombor - possibly bison, turkic

~ neutral/unisex ~

hartley - (male) deer clearing, old english

isi - deer, choctaw

jael - ibex/mountain goat

ofri - my fawn, hebrew

yael - ibex/mountain goat, modern hebrew

I'm quite happy with this list, so I hope you enjoy! as always, additions, corrections, and questions are welcome :)

been thinking about names and True Names (™️ to ursula k le guin) and transness.

to cis people, i look cis. i have a full beard and mustache, flat chest, short hair, and dress masculinely. the Trans Tell is that i’m 5’1 and have 15 facial piercings—so some trans people can clock me and be like hey that’s another trans person, but to most of the world, i just look like a cis guy. a queer cis guy, maybe, but a man.

this is weird to me. i’ve only had a beard for 6 months. before that, people did gender me as male when i spoke (i have a deep voice), but were often confused about my gender and tactfully avoided gendering me at all.

i never really thought i’d be pass as a cis man. i wanted it for a long, long time, but i had sort of come to accept that people would always be confused as to my gender. but then i grew the beard and bam! cis man vibes.

with that sureness that people are gendering me as a Man (which i am not, i am 100% nonbinary), i’ve wanted to express androgyny more. i’m growing my hair out, which i’ve wanted to do for a while. i want my hair to be shoulder length or longer.

and with that desire for androgyny i’ve been thinking about my name. ozzie, my name, is short for oscar, a very male name. i picked ozzie because i liked the way it sounded and my birth name also started with o. however, recently, ozzie has been sounding a little too masculine to my ears.

i don’t want to go through the hassle of changing my name to the whole world again, so i’ve been going slowly, just changing my display name on some social media and telling my partner about this.

i looked through a lot of nature names for a while as that’s what i felt drawn to. nature names have always felt androgynous to me (and often are perceived as such in the world). nature is something that is incredibly important to me as has been since i was a child. and i talked about it with my fiancé and figured out that what draws me to “river” is that it contains so much of what i love. other names i considered—moss, lichen, heron, finch, sparrow, fen, all of those can be found in a river! whole ecosystem! some of my fondest childhood memories involve hiking in bear mountain and following the rivers.

anyway, long story short to say that my display name on here is different now and maybe i’ll phase that into real life, maybe not!

if you’ve read this far, enjoy some photos as a reward