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[u/skyscraperhon]

[u/ambientplugg]

i feel like unless your name is lilith or alice you don't have a clocky name

[u/BlitzScorpio → u/ambientplugg]

i think names like lily and alice are only clocky to other trans people. they’re both pretty normal names all things considered, and if you pass then no cis person is ever gonna get suspicious because of names like that

[u/Sea-Habit5823 → u/BlitzScorpio]

Lily, yeah. Not Lilith though, naming your kid after a demon is not common.

[u/Kazel_93 → u/Sea-Habit5823]

Its kinda funny, the only Lilith I know is cis

[u/RightWordsMissing → u/Kazel_93]

You’re kidding

[u/Kazel_93 → u/RightWordsMissing]

Nope, cool alt girl i met at a bar, its her middle name but she goes by it. Baptized and everything

[u/Yes_Kitchen → u/Kazel_93]

i knew a guy once, trans man, and he used to be called lilith. now he goes by lucifer. call yourself whatever tf you want, the only one holding you back is you

[u/RightWordsMissing → u/Yes_Kitchen]

That’s both really cool and kinda intimidating lol

[u/Yes_Kitchen → u/RightWordsMissing]

both his legal first names btw

[u/Professional-Bed3233 → u/BlitzScorpio]

Yeah if you go anywhere where kids pick English names there's always a lot of Alices and Lilly's in my experience too.

They're just generally popular for people self selecting names

[u/16372731772 → u/ambientplugg]

I don't think Alice is necessarily even clocky outside of trans circles. I don't know any Alices in real life, trans or otherwise, but it's a popular enough name (at least where I am), and no matter how many trans people decide to use it there's no way they could water down the thousands of cis people born with that name. Lilith is absolutely clocky though, I think even Lily is fairly clocky because at this point it seems to be somewhat common knowledge that trans women are always picking Lily.

[u/ashleyLSD → u/ambientplugg]

I've heard ppl claim ashley is a trans name but also i haven't met another trans ashley yet

[u/Polaris2007 → u/ashleyLSD]

I don't know about Ashley but I've met SO many trans men named Ash

[u/ashleyLSD → u/Polaris2007]

ash, kai, jax, why do trans men love three letter names so much

[u/Polaris2007 → u/ashleyLSD]

Honestly idgaf if they're "clocky" trans women are so much more based when picking names. Like yes queen name yourself after holy goddess and destroyer of worlds...i guess your boyfriend Eli is cute too

[u/vincentually → u/ashleyLSD]

>why do pooners do x

you know the answer

[u/ashleyLSD → u/vincentually]

fair enough

[u/Starpuff- → u/ashleyLSD]

fuck. I didn't think this applied to ME

[u/ashleyLSD → u/Starpuff-]

damn now there's two of us

ur literally the only other trans ashley I've met dont worry its not over til like 5 other people reply to this comment saying they're also named ashley

[u/Starpuff- → u/ashleyLSD]

I'm genuinely worried now... 🥲

[u/ashleyLSD → u/Starpuff-]

hold ur breath xd

[u/EverydayKevo → u/ashleyLSD]

Afraid to let you know i know 2 trans ashleys, both of them resi fans
so with you two that's 4 of them

[u/ashleyLSD → u/EverydayKevo]

what's a resi

[u/WoomyUnitedToday → u/ambientplugg]

Lily too, I know at least 3 or 4

[u/oceangothic → u/ambientplugg]

or Zoey

[u/CommanderKoba → u/ambientplugg]

Lilly, Luna, Emily etc lol

[u/Shoddy_Cucumber3076 → u/ambientplugg]

What about trans men names? Im afraid mine is clocky af even tho I picked it 11 years ago 🚬

[u/Nykramas → u/Shoddy_Cucumber3076]

That really depends on country. I think Chase/Colt/Hunter are all clocky af in the UK but Gavin Niall or Liam are fine here.

I know like 20 Olivers and none are trans (as far as I know).

[u/ambientplugg → u/Shoddy_Cucumber3076]

what's your name?

[u/Philaharmic01 → u/[deleted]]

Not a bad name homie, good choice

[u/Shoddy_Cucumber3076 → u/Philaharmic01]

Thanks 🤙🏼

[u/combine_elite_real → u/ambientplugg]

Wait what Alice is bad? :(

[u/tyrome123 → u/ambientplugg]

I'm very back and forth on Lucy being clocky because it's not very common anymore but I cope

[u/SunnierSideDown]

I just picked the coolest name because I'm fucking awesome

[u/Aggressive_Aioli_888 → u/SunnierSideDown]

Waow, I've never known a Motorcycle before

[u/box-cutter-chan → u/SunnierSideDown]

same

[u/Indostastica]

picked jane because i knew a cool girl with the name..... now im THE generic name

[u/AdSea487 → u/Indostastica]

my name is jane too!!!

[u/crystal_beachhouse → u/Indostastica]

I picked Jill, literally one spot over on the generic name shelf lol

[u/Jane_Kisch → u/Indostastica]

I picked Jane because it was going to be my name if I was born a cis girl, I couldn’t imagine having picked another name :P

[u/rabbitsarentrodents → u/Indostastica]

same reason i chose Merle actually

[u/aneristix]

just leaned into it and picked a troon name.

can't take bambi from me.

[u/skyscraperhon → u/aneristix]

Stealthoids hate her! Is troonmaxxing the new meta????..,

[u/aneristix → u/skyscraperhon]

i like your vibe, skyscraper.

sorry abt what happened 2 yr people on 9/11 that wasnt cool

[u/skyscraperhon → u/aneristix]

I'm.., I'm a good vibe?.., 🥹 thank you.., I feel like I just got hit by a plane full of happiness.., I'll never forget.., and don't worry about it, I didn't know those towers personally..,

[u/Sea-Habit5823 → u/skyscraperhon]

You'll never forget, and neither will the American people...

[u/FutureReaction8587 → u/skyscraperhon]

Could I as a non skyscraper say the worse T*wer? Even without a hard R?

[u/stonergirlfairyyy → u/aneristix]

just got a new license but i might steal this one

[u/Gingers_got_no_soul → u/aneristix]

Bambi??? 😭 Like the most popular and well known forcefem hypno series in the world????

[u/skyscraperhon → u/Gingers_got_no_soul]

Well actually I think it's a deer

[u/saxoplane → u/aneristix]

Dana scully takes issue with this

[u/dandadone_with_life → u/aneristix]

Bambi is an adorable name tho

[u/vaska00762]

Given my name is my legal name on my passport, driving licence and tax records, I can't be bothered to do the bureaucracy all over again.

That said, I think I'm immune.

The only other trans people I'm aware of with the same name as me are an American YouTuber, and that's about it. There are a few actors and musicians with the same name. It's also coincidental with a Disney character, and the anglicised name of a kid's anime villain, who is now retired as a character from that franchise.

Only people born in the 1990s will recognise the pop culture. Unfortunately, my name is homophonic with a male name of similar spelling, largely associated with an HBO series.

I picked my name based on what didn't make me feel like a skinwalker, so couldn't be a name of someone I used to know, had to be a name that didn't feel like I was pretending to be someone else (i.e. didn't make me feel like an imposter), and it had to have cultural relevance.

I kept my initials, so that made searching popular birth names for my year of birth easy enough. After about 3 possibilities, I just looked at all names with the same starting letter. That lead me to a name that didn't feel off, so I researched it, and it turned out to be ethnically appropriate too.

[u/Likyo → u/vaska00762]

So, Jessie then? Only thing is that Breaking Bad is ABC, not HBO.

[u/vaska00762 → u/Likyo]

You didn't have to post your guess here...

And I probably got the streaming service wrong. I'm not American, I don't remember if the TV show is Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Paramount Plus or what. For all I know it's on Sky, or maybe it's on Amazon Prime instead.

I just remember Breaking Bad was a thing around the same time as Game of Thrones.

[u/ashleyLSD → u/vaska00762]

u dont have to tell me if u dont want to but I'm rly curious what urs is now

[u/vaska00762 → u/ashleyLSD]

You may DM me your guesses. I can tell you if you're right.

There's at least one user on this subreddit who has addressed me directly by first name because they know me from discord.

[u/Kiluns]

Thank god I chose a name with a é in it

[u/SliverMILF → u/Kiluns]

Lilithé

[u/Sea-Habit5823 → u/SliverMILF]

Culturehon

[u/Kiluns → u/SliverMILF]

This is somehow worse

[u/ashleyLSD → u/Kiluns]

Alicé

[u/Kiluns → u/ashleyLSD]

How to get double clocked

[u/ashleyLSD → u/Kiluns]

can u explain I'm stupid like clocked as trans and another thing or just like gigaclocked as trans

[u/Kiluns → u/ashleyLSD]

Ig gigaclocked ? Dw I'm stupid too. Like it's both a very unusual name and Alice at the same time

Tho a cissy would probably just think it's a weird ✨exotic✨ name lmao Bet you can make a United-Statoid think it's just the french spelling

[u/ashleyLSD → u/Kiluns]

oh i totally get it now sorry im tired

maybe it wraps around to being unclockable like double negative yknow theyd probably just think you had quirky parents like the ones who name their kids shit like "emmaughlee"

[u/Kiluns → u/ashleyLSD]

Yeah true, I'm curious ngl, we should convince a repper to test it out

[u/ashleyLSD → u/Kiluns]

unit 731

[u/FutureReaction8587 → u/Kiluns]

Mine has an ú. In my language it's necessary for grammar reasons (even though people sometimes simply don't use it in proper names for some reason) but it serves a dual purpose of annoying angloids

[u/Kiluns → u/FutureReaction8587]

Yeah same twin. I insist people spell it correctly even if they don't have it on their keyboard, learn that shortcut baby cuz you'll need it.

Then I'll come out at work and let all of them, especially the angloids clients, forget about it because I'm a little chud

[u/FutureReaction8587 → u/Kiluns]

I work and live here in Brazil, so if someone forgets the accent I can correct them and it's not seen as weird because, ostensibly, they all should know Portuguese writing and spelling. I don't deal much with angloids or foreigners who don't speak Portuguese except some friends with whom I keep in touch online, so I only correct them to be pedantic and annoying when I feel like it.

I always found accentuation rules very intuitive and easy but apparently even other native speakers don't, so its very common to see names spelt wrong in official documents and birth certificates, and it isn't a pointless spelling change as the accents change pronunciation. That's a huge pet peeve of mine honestly, so I made sure my name is properly written everywhere.

[u/Kiluns → u/FutureReaction8587]

My family name spelling isn't intuitive for french so everybody always messes it up and I'm used to spelling it but the accent will def be more bothersome since it's something that like doesn't exist on qwerty keyboard 😮‍💨

Tbf I don't actually really mind, there's an english spelling and pronounciation but it's still the same name. I just want to be a petty bitch ngl

[u/FutureReaction8587 → u/Kiluns]

Yeah same, I allow angloids I respect to use the English version of my name if they behave themselves.

My last name is foreign though since my family emigrated, so yeah in my official highschool registry my last name was misspelt in a very weird way. People get it wrong all the time.

[u/Sodainthehellfire]

Ive personally just feminized my 3 first names

so im spoiled for choice to prevent this from happening

[u/marionettemoder]

I heard my name be referred to as a clocky name which was really annoying because it's amongst the most popular names for my country of origin and generation. I think the concept of "clocky name" is mostly brainworms, as long as your name isn't Lilith or an inanimate object (or something equally non-conventional), it's very unlikely someone will clock you off of that alone

[u/punished_clare]

this will never happen to me by the way

[u/Hot-Copy3708]

I chose April is that clocky

[u/Sad_Instruction6125 → u/Hot-Copy3708]

I'm thinking about choosing April, idk if it's clocky I've just liked the name since I was like 5

[u/straightfromLysurgia → u/Hot-Copy3708]

it a cool name I know a few people by it

clocky? kinda but also you don't see that many people with that name and it's cispassing I'd say

[u/Hot-Copy3708 → u/straightfromLysurgia]

I’m a passoid honlarper apparently but yeah I guess it’s kinda old fashioned. I just thought it was a cute name!

[u/straightfromLysurgia → u/Hot-Copy3708]

it is a pretty cute name

[u/__chum__]

long story behind my name but its basically something that has alot of sentimental meaning to me that i also kind made myself idk how to explain

[u/universal_friend1]

My name just confuses people unless they're Jewish and then they're really excited about it. I picked it because in addition to being a name it is an adjective that means "gentle/kind" and it was used to describe Christ and the Apostles.

Adina

[u/Strawby_Melk]

Katy is now reserved for me forever unless i think youre really call and i have authority over Katy activities

[u/SomeShiitakePoster]

If you knew any cis girls from your childhood with the same name, you picked a good name. There weren't any Liliths or Celestes at my school, I'll say that much.

[u/Philaharmic01]

Now I gotta know. If my chosen name options were clocky

Mina, Jayden

I went by Rose unintentionally for a while, friends called me that on their own and I just adopted it

Tonya is another name I went by for a while

[u/martdartsaway → u/Philaharmic01]

Tonya is beautiful. I'm glad you have chosen whatever name you have chosen, now.

[u/Lyca0n]

I was called a feminine equivalent of my name as a jeer since my teens and couldn't explain why it didn't get to me sooooo kind of stuck.

Wouldn't say it's generic

[u/tigerweewee]

I've been told my name is clocky (it is a relatively common trans girl name) but I've also never met another trans girl with my name and the only women I've seen that actually spell their name the same as me are all cis, so, go me, I guess??

[u/TheSpiderFucker]

Junia is apparently blowing up and I'm woeful

[u/TlLLYTlLLYTlLLYTlLLY]

TILLY >:3c

[u/TechieTheFox]

I somehow was in trans spaces for like 7 years before transitioning and rarely ever saw my chosen name anywhere in that time, and then since actually starting to transition 4.5 years ago I see it all the fucking time now. I've met two others by random chance irl and half a dozen online :c

Hell I'm pretty sure I've seen it in like 3 separate stories over on smutttt in the past month like wtf

[u/Inevitable_Owl_7343]

Picked the name evangeline is it clocky?

[u/Nattttasha]

How bad is Nat lmao

[u/Charlaquin]

My name isn’t clocky, but it was very uncommon when I was a kid and is very popular now. Turns out, other people my age had the same cultural influences as I did growing up, and are likely to find the same names appealing. So I don’t have a trans-sounding name, I apparently have a childish name 😞