There is no male version of my name, and I don’t like it anyway. I’d go with something completely new.
I’m female. My name is Amanda.
If I were a guy, my name would be A Man, Duh!
Benita. It’s a real name.
You could be Armando.
There is no male version of my name, so I’d have to go with something totally new.
Damn you Der Trihs, that’s my new feminine name! huffs and crosses arms over chest, realises that looks weird on a guy and uncrosses them, looks mildly confused
Anyway, just adding an ‘a’ to the end of my real first name is kind of boring (if easy to remember) so I’d use Alexandra (probably shortened to the gender-neutral ‘Alex’ as my first name) and use my mum’s maiden name for my second.
So, Alexandra Brady it is…actually that has a nice ring to it. 
I’m Robert/Bob, but I wouldn’t care for Roberta/Bobbi. I like the name Amy, so I’d switch to that if I woke up female tomorrow.
I like Drew, and there are plenty of women named Drew… so I’d literally just keep it.
Amado; same meaning, masculine ending. Or Ames; related meaning, shared phoneme (I’ve even heard it as a nickname for Amy).
Are you sure?
My current legal name has a creative spelling which can be used both ways, although one of them is rare nowadays.
Real transsexual chosen names tend to fall into one of four categories:
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An attempt to re-use the birth name (“Steve” to “Stevie”)
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An attempt to hyper-feminize or hyper-masculinize their name to help their own and others perception of themselves (“Bob” becomes “Celestina Rosemarie”).
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The name is a pun or joke (this is not as common among people who would really, legally change their name).
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The name is based on a TV, movie, or book character (“Rose Tyler”). This is also uncommon among those who intend a legal change.
And sometimes a seemingly random change of name is driven by some special event or epiphany in their lives. One transwoman I know chose her name based on a dream she had, where she appeared as female and was addressed as “Roseanne.” The dream spurred her to finally get counseling and start transition, and she took the name from the dream.
Ambrose?
Amistad?
Am I Will?
This sounds useful. Having heard this observation I think I’d act on it.
Ok, I’m not 100% positive that there’s no feminine equivalent to my name. A quick googling reveals that (according to one website) my name can be used for either gender. But I’ve only ever met about 3 males with my name, and I’ve NEVER met a female with it. As for a Steve -> Stephanie type equivalent, if I have one it’s not obvious to me.
Cuthbert / Cuthbertha
There is a male form of my name, but it can almost sound feminine. I might go with Jay, since that is my initial. Or since my last name is also a male first name I might use that. Not planning on this anyway. I enjoy, being a girl!
I have a gender neutral first name, similar to Stacy, more common for girls, but not unheard of for men. There is an alternate feminine spelling, but I have the either or version, so should I decide to transgender, which is highly unlikely, I could keep my original name.
If I had to choose a name… I just can’t come up with anything I’d want to be called. I guess I’m pretty used to the name I was given.
No male version of Elizabeth that I can think of.
Tucker.
Is there a feminine version of that? Has anyone ever met a female Tucker?
I dislike Shannon for a boy (I’m not too fond of it for a girl, honestly), so if I were to become male, I think I’d switch to Shaun - which is the only good way to spell that name, IMO. Sean? Shawn? Hell no!
There’s a 1953 Ed Wood film called Glen or Glenda that examines this “cross dressing” phenomenon which was one of Wood’s hobbies. Not all MTF trannies feminize their male names. Candy Darling changed her name from James Slattery. Annette Bening and Warren Beatty’s FTM daughter Kathlyn changed her name to Stephen Ira Beatty when he started transitioning. Changing your gender opens a plethora of possibilities for reinventing your name to match everything else. Chaz Bono opted to keep it simple and merely shortened Chastity to the more masculine Chaz. But Candy Darling is my favorite example of what you call going balls to the wall. It sounds better than Josephine.