Citations:deadname

Noun: "a previous name of a person (especially a transgender person) who has since changed their name"

 * 2014, Natalia Moorin, "My Illness Is Not Your Inspiration", Damsel (University of Western Australia), page 21:
 * And when people constantly refer to you as your deadname [a name that you previously went by], or use the incorrect pronouns, it really is like getting slapped with a wet fish.
 * 2016, "The Queer Agenda", Salient (Victoria University of Wellington), Volume 79, Issue 4 (2016), page 32:
 * Victoria University has no mechanism in place for avoiding deadnaming and pronoun misuse. This means that deadnames, and the presumed pronouns that accompany them, continue to dog trans students throughout their time here, continually outing them to peers, staff, faculty, and administrators.
 * 2016, someone quoted in Xavier Richer, "Trans women of colour and law", The McGill Daily (McGill University), 31 October 2016 (online; https://issuu.com/mcgilldaily/docs/the_mcgill_daily_vol106_iss_8 on Issuu, page 7):
 * "If you're a trans woman like me, you still have your deadname on the document. You cannot change it, so basically I still have a masculine name [on my document], [one] that I was given at birth and did not choose."
 * 2018, Amy O'Kruk, "Apology to readers", Western Gazette (Western University), 27 February 2018, page 2:
 * One of the articles in our last issue contained a major error: we referred to a transgender student by their deadname.
 * 2018, Alex McFadden, quoted in Noni Cole & Ruby Perryman, "The Unfair University ID Card", Farrago (University of Melbourne), Edition Three (2018), page 7:
 * "My deadname is everywhere because of my ID card, and not only do I have to look at it but lots of other people get to see. "
 * 2019, Cassandra Mansuetti, "Graphic Content: A New Dawn with 'The Pervert'", The Michigan Daily (University of Michigan), 26 March 2019, page 6:
 * I make steps like buying new clothes or changing my email accounts, but I still get called my deadname by people that don't know better and even sometimes by people that do.
 * 2020, James Michael Nichols, "Cruel and Unusual", INDY Week, 4 March 2020, page 10:
 * Every day, when Kanautica Zayre-Brown walks the halls of Anson Correctional Institution in Polkton, North Carolina, she's misgendered by her fellow inmates and correctional officers and called by her deadname.

Verb: "to refer to someone (especially a transgender person) who has changed names by a previous name"

 * 2015, Luca Kuchinka, "Caitlyn's story inspiring, spotlight should be shared", Estevan Mercury, 17 June 2015, page A7:
 * Using trans peoples' dead names – names that they were born with which are either wrong through either legal or preferential means – has been and always will be an act of aggression, not just to the person you're deadnaming but to all trans people.
 * 2018, Alex, quoted in Sylvie Woods, "Students pay the price for 'tired' administration", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Volume 90, Week 9 (2018), page 12:
 * "Right now, it's unclear whether they are choosing to deadname me maliciously, or just can't be bothered to accommodate trans students in the way we require them to," he said.
 * 2019, Taylor Jonson, "Transgender community feels susceptible to ‘deadnaming’ by the university", The Nevada Sagebrush (University of Nevada, Reno), 12 March 2019, page 1:
 * Transgender students at UNR say they are commonly deadnamed and misgendered by the university.
 * 2019, Hannah Shumsky, "History in transition", The Rocket (Slippery Rock University), 25 October 2019, page 2:
 * For one transgender student at SRU, she is typically deadnamed by professors at least two or three times each syllabus week.
 * 2020, Matthew S. Bajko, "Idaho set to be added to CA, SF banned travel list", Bay Area Reporter, 2 April 2020 - 8 April 2020, page 10:
 * Cordova, who has [sic] backing a California bill aimed at ensuring the state's public colleges don't deadname trans graduates on their diplomas like UC Berkely did to her last year, criticized Idaho lawmakers for supporting the two transphobic laws.
 * 2020, Kirkus Reviews, 1 May 2020, page 130:
 * Felix's dad deadnames him despite supporting his top surgery and hormone therapy, and he hates his mom for leaving when he was 10.
 * 2020, Kirkus Reviews, 1 May 2020, page 130:
 * Felix's dad deadnames him despite supporting his top surgery and hormone therapy, and he hates his mom for leaving when he was 10.