If I had been born as a boy, my name would have been Manuel. My mother said that she and my father chose this alternate name because it starts with the same letter as the female name they had chosen for me and that was aparetly chosen because of one of my mother's favourite characters from a movie back then.
They considered me calling Jennifer, as an alternative female name, but decided that clashed with our family name too much. The combination simply doesn't sound good. What male name they would have in store for me then, I don't know and I'm probably better off this way. There is not many nice male names in German that start with a "J".
_________________
Yes, I am serious about that avatar...