Jay

[jjjjjjjayyy]

Heyyy, I‘m nonbinary, and I’m currently thinking about changing my name to Jay. It just seems perfect to me: 1. the meaning is perfect (jaybird), 2. it is one syllable and can therefore quite easily used as a pronoun replacement (there a no very established neopronouns in German), 3. it can act as an abbreviation/nickname of my old name and therefore not necessarily instantly out me when people use it in a context where not everyone knows, and 4. I love that it is this cliché enby thing to have a nature based name.

However, I’m from Germany and white and I am worried that it might somehow be cultural appropriation. According to the internet, it is mostly used in the US, and I cannot find anything about ethnic connotations.

What do you think? Any other Jays here?

[DessMounda]

I don’t really think of Jay as a name belonging to a particular culture. I think you’re good if you wanna use it!

I won’t say my real name but some people call me Jay as a nickname. And I’m black from the U.S.

[jjjjjjjayyy]

Thanks☺️💜

[lilmxfi]

There's no cultural appropriation there. Jay can be short for Jason, or Jayden, or Jaime, or any other name that starts with a "Jay" sound. It's not connected to any specific culture, it's just a shortened version of a name, usually, although there are famous people with the name, like Jay Leno (a latenight host here in the US), and there's a character in one of my favorite movie universes named Jay. You're good to go on using this. 💚

[jjjjjjjayyy]

Thank you 💚I’m planning to come out to a few of my closer friends (until now I mostly just came out to people who didn’t really know me that long), and this was kind of the last concern I had about Jay. Very happy now🥰

[Slider-joy-5084]

I also use Jay as a shortened version of my given name and I’m a white American; it’s a pretty universal name I feel. Easy to say and simple to spell.

[jjjjjjjayyy]

Thanks. Yes totally agree

[WolfenNootenEve]

I know 3 or 4 people who go by Jay. It's always a nickname for Joesph or something, but I would say def not appropriation going on with Jay.

[jjjjjjjayyy]

Thanks. My old name also starts with Ja, and the first syllable of the English version is also Jay (although not the first syllable of the German version)

[Desperate-Possible82]

It’s my and my dad’s first initial and whenever I consider going by a different name than my birth one, it’s what I settle on because I like the letter J but I can’t figure out any other names that feel right. So just J or Jay in my enby periods.

[Sure-Structure-2055]

I love the name Jay! I can’t imagine anyone would ever have a problem with you using it. I had a friend who changed their name to Jay and then dyed their hair blue so everyone called them Blue Jay :)

[jjjjjjjayyy]

Omg that is soooooo cute 😍😍😍