Everyone has a name. They receive it from birth. Some pick up names along the way due to religious practice, or nicknames bestowed upon them by peers. Most people go through life content with their names and think nothing of it. But there are those who find that their name doesn't quite sound right, doesn't feel right. it sounds foreign, it doesn't sound as if they are truly calling your name.
For some, the gender is wrong. They are born female, but their gender identity is not female. They would be inclined to alter their name to that of a more fitting, masculine name. For some, it's the way it sounds. Some names, the mere sound makes them cringe or doesn't sound quite right. On the simplest ground, the name does not feel like them, or at least the "them" that they are now.
After a change in one's life, they may feel like their name was who they once were, not who they are now. After said change, when hearing that name, they feel strange, the name sounds alien. It sounds as if they aren't talking to them anymore. It feels like someone is saying the wrong name.
I guess names can be strange, finicky, little things that sometimes like to worm their way in and out of people's lives.
But really, can we even answer, what's in a name?
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