When I (re)start a game, I always like to play as a girl and name myself as my name would be in real life ;) I always seem to get fascinated by the fact I like to represent myself in the game as much as how I look and dress irl :)
I remember the good old days when Pokemon Crystal came out, and you could play as a girl for the first time! I was thrilled to do so (finally), not playing as a boy like there are NO female trainers ... ;)
But, with Pokemon X and Y we even can customize our trainers (brilliant imo), so now it's even more nice to play almost as "myself" in-game, I absolutely love it!! :3