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The original was posted on /r/exmormon by /u/AchingAmy on 2024-04-10 00:40:55.

So, as we are all probably aware, the temple names are Hebrew in origin, basically just taken out of the bible. Now, for context, I’m a transgender woman. So, since I hadn’t accepted myself as a woman yet, they’d have given me a new name from the men’s new name table and as far as I’m aware, the vast majority of those are definitely masculine names. Except mine wasn’t. Mine was Asa. It’s a gender neutral name in Hebrew meaning “doctor” or “healer”, but it also has an origin in old Norse. There, it is strictly feminine and means (this part is even freakier, given what we know about temples) goddess. I know this is probably just coincidental but it’s still something I look at as pretty neat. It gets even wilder when I found out the day I went to the temple was the last one where that name was given. The next year all through now it’s no longer a name on their temple names’ list