Off-Topic Tranny names

[2ndBest]

I think it would be interesting to keep a catalogue of tranny names that can easily identify them as trans.

I’ll start:
Sophie
Alice
Persephone
Lilith
Clara (or Clarissa)


These are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head but if you can add more go ahead.

(Very) Less likely to be a troon:
Katelyn (or kaitlyn, any sort of variation)
Abigail
Catherine
Amy

And I guess the list goes on.

 

[David Glowie]

Hulking Britbongs go in for Zoe and Chloe.

 

[lolcow yoghurt]

Arson, for FTMs and MTFs.

Persephone

I don't think I've ever seen a tranny named Persephone, any examples?

 

[Need4Sneed]

FTM's are my favorite:
Oliver
Aiden
Noah
I think there is an intersection between FTM names and country musician names based on a perception of masculinity. I'm thinking of Cody and Caleb.

 

[2ndBest]

Arson, for FTMs and MTFs.

I don't think I've ever seen a tranny named Persephone, any examples?

In an old FFXIV guild there was a tranny named Persephone, I thought it was just their username but they actually changed it to that IRL. Anecdotal, yes, but it still happened.

 

[Online Fossil]

Wasn’t it a meme that a lot of the FTMs go for Kai?

For the MTFs, any sort of goddess or mythological name is a giveaway.

 

[Mayor Cody Travers]

FTM's are my favorite:
I'm thinking of Cody

First of all, how dare you.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Wasn’t it a meme that a lot of the FTMs go for Kai?

For the MTFs, any sort of goddess or mythological name is a giveaway.

Kai, Aiden, Jaiden, Jayden, etc. Basically look at cringey boy names over the past 10 years and coincidentally they also are Tif names.

 

[LargeChoonger]

Hilda is a pretty big MtF one

 

[Jean ValJean]

Every single tranny I've ever met seems to be named Chelsea.

 

[AnneRipper1010]

Met a Xzanakya once

 

[Nynaeve al'Meara]

Tims also love granny names like Moira or Josephine IME

 

[Schatzi Katze]

MtF: Zoe, Amber, Lily, Hazel, Natalie

FtM: Oliver, Kai, Jax, Aiden

NB: Bug, [plant name], [inanimate object]

 

[Pitbull Victim]

After the death of Maya Angelou, there are now zero actual women named "Maya"

 

[Chao Garden]

Elliot, Elias, Eli for ftms

 

[Joe Lieberman]

Have seen trans women with 3 of the first 4 names in OP's post, although I think Caitlyn/the like are a lot less common because of Caitlyn Jenner. I generally don't judge people who pick relatively common names, but when someone's named Paprika or whatever, I'm just reminded of another post here, where someone said that these people choose these names because they want an IRL username.

 

[Joe Lieberman]

The super funny trend that I've seen a decent amount is when someone really doubles down on both being trans and their Jewish identity, and gives themself an old-timey Biblical name like Solomon or Ruth or Esther

 

[Nothingmuchtosay]

I swear all forms of the name Isabel are cursed. Belle, Bella, Isabelle, Izzy, so many MTFs. Why? I don't know. There's the one from Animal Crossing, the Disney princess, and the main character from Twilight. I think they pick the name out of vanity because it can mean beautiful.

 

[Spangled Drongo]

For the TIMs, I've noticed flower names are common - Rose, Lily, Violet, Daisy mainly. Also mythological names - Freya, Persephone, Venus. Some tend to go for difficult to pronounce Celtic names too, particularly if they fancy themselves as witches - Aoibheann, Saoirse. Noticed a few going for very old fashioned names too - Gretchen (Felker-Martin, author of the troon zombie novel Manhunt), Doreen (the r/antiwork guy) and Mildred (Thought Slime, mega-woke youtuber who's recently come out as non binary.)

With TIFs it's mainly the sort of names millennial parents are giving their sons nowadays - there's the infamous Aiden/Cayden/Jayden etc. and Elliot, Kai and Noah, but there's also Jasper, Rowan, Phoenix, Theo, Leo, Oliver, Finn, Chase, Connor... Really it's anything you'd expect to hear on a love interest in a YA paranormal romance novel or a teen popstar with a horrible zoomer perm. Or they'll just straight up rip off the name of a character popular in online fandom circles - Loki, Draco etc.

Either way, if it's troons renaming themselves, you almost never see them picking a name common amongst their age group, or one from their family tree.

 

[WingsOfTarkov]

Anytime the name is spelled in a quirky way with a Y you know its a troon. For example Alyx, Myk. Etc.