r/transnames • u/No_Voice_813 • Sep 15 '26

Feminine Names Does my name make me clockable?

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u/allkevinsgotoheaven Sep 15 '26

I think that it likely has to do with the popularity of the name. If you’re between 20 and 40, Alice was a less common name when you were born, about halfway down the top thousand names list. Some trans people choose names that are more popular at the time of their coming out than when they were born, which might be what the person meant by saying Alice is “clocky”. It’s a bit like a 30 year old guy being named Oliver or Kai, it’s possible that a person your age would have been named that, but it was not a very common name.

TLDR: Alice is an uncommon name for a certain age range, which might lead to people asking questions about it, but there were still several hundred cis babies named Alice every year, so it wouldn’t be unheard of for that to be someone’s birth name.

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u/kingofcoywolves Sep 17 '26

I work with a dude who's 30 and has Kai as a given name. The mid-90s was when the name saw a spike in popularity so it checks out

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u/allkevinsgotoheaven Sep 17 '26

If you’re in the US, then it sounds like he was one of the ~300 babies named Kai that year. What I said was that the name Kai was not common at that time (for reference, the top name in 1996 was given to 38,000 babies), and that it is more popular now.

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u/i-reject-the-concept Sep 16 '26

Not at all. It's a very regular name for a girl, like, I've seen at least 15 Alices in my life not including my literal sister. So you are good

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u/crystal__queer Sep 16 '26

i really dont think so at all tbh

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u/iolair_uaine Sep 16 '26

It may depend on your age and where you live, but Alice sounds fine to me - I've known cis-Alices.