I accidentally named myself entirely after book characters 🤦♀️
21d 2h ago by lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/quantumgenderino in mtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone
My first name came from The Numbers trilogy by Rachel Ward about 16 years ago when I was still 15 years from realizing I was a girl. I put it aside for when/if I ever had a daughter, but I wanted to try it when I figured out I was trans and my wife and I weren't planning to have kids, and it was just, right. My middle name came from For Whom the Belle Tolls by Jaysea Lynn, which I read in January, then again in March. It was such an impactful book for me, so I love that I'll have it as part of my identity. I've been living with my first name for the last year, so the origin of it was well out of my brain when I settled on my middle name last night, but then the realization struck 😆
It is ok, don't feel badly! Your name obviously means something very special to you. You conjured it, it is yours. No one will likely know where it is from unless you tell them. And you know what? I think your story is cute, and awesome.
My name also grew out of something from long ago, my first female character in Everquest. So when you mentioned starting to think of femme names 16 years ago it really tickled me.
Literature is a solid choice to pull names from. I love nameday stories, thank you so much for sharing yours!
I really just find it hilarious that I picked names from literature twice entirely independently 🤣 proof I'm a book nerd
Pft! I consciously named my kids after TV characters. Bortus isn't happy about it.