When there were many alters living in my host body my real name never really seemed to fit (not even to me)...... each one of my alters had their own name and they desired to be referred to that name when I was talking about them or their issues.

But now after eight year T and a lot of integration there is just me and one other alter left and we are both comfortable with our names - my alters name is a shorter version of my real name.