FREE GIVEAWAY! Tell Me the Story of Your Name
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I know it’s been awhile since I’ve updated my blog. 
I’ve been juggling projects, but I miss you, darn it!
So I decided to do something fun to celebrate my return to Blogland …
I’ve been thinking about NAMES and how we grow into the names we are given at birth. (I can’t imagine being called anything other than “Lucille”.)
But TG women have the unique advantage of being able to choose their feminine names …
So I’d love to know how you chose YOUR name!
To make this fun, I’ve decided to turn it into a FREE GIVEAWAY!
Leave a comment below telling me your feminine name and how and why you chose this name for yourself. I’m going to put all the names into a hat and choose one winner for a sterling silver necklace personalized with her feminine name! (Just like the one you see above.)
I’ll announce the winner on Tuesday, May 24, so submit your entry by leaving me a comment now!
Love,
Lucille
P.S. Comments posted by Midnight Pacific Time on Monday, May 23 are elibible for the giveaway. The giveaway is open to worldwide entries. The necklace will be shipped by June 7, 2011. If you are located outside the U.S., you will be responsible for any customs or duty fees charge by your country.
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Dear Lucille,
Most Tgirls I have met use a female name similar to their own male name or least using the first letter of their birth name. Like Karl to Karla or Carl to Carla or Carol, James to Jamie or Janey, Stephen or Steven to Stephanie or Steffanie and using Steph or Stef for short, Leonard to Linda or Jack to Jaquelin and Jackie for short. These are names of Tgirls that I have actually known.
I have been a Tgirl most of my life starting being transformed to being a girl when I was very young at the age of 6 by my babysitter who’s own daughter that was close to my age was a tomboy and wanted to be more like her father. The babysitter wanted a feminine little girl for a daughter and started feminizing me, dressing me as a little girl to take around town and introduced me as her daughter. I came from divorced parents and I let all defenses down and allowed the babysitter to do with me as she pleased because I was requiring the attention she was giving me. She paid lots of attention to me and doted over me making me feminine while her own daughter was out catching grasshoppers and frogs. She even had me wearing her daughter’s panties under the dresses and sitting on the toilet to tinkle. She selected the name of ‘Joanie’ for me because it was close to my male name that also started with a J. My mother never knew of our activities at the babysitter’s house because it was our ‘secret’ that we could tell no one about. Only her, her daughter and myself had knowledge of my feminization.
Even after my mother and I moved away this still affected me and I had thoughts and desires of femininity and being a girl and much of the time thought of myself as ‘Joanie’. I stared living as a girl after I was older and got my own apartment when I was 18 but still had to work as a male. I was totally a female around my apartment and it looked like a girl’s apartment. I put on my makeup and dressed as a girl just as soon as I got home from work.
I continued to use ‘Joanie’ for a while but wanted to try different female names so I started using different ones for short periods of time but they still started with a J and were similar in ways to my own name. I started with ‘Jan’ for a while and used variations of that like ‘Janet’ for a while and then ‘Janice’ for a few years after that. Those were the names I used when I introduce myself to people at a gay TG friendly bar or club or used with the men I dated. I used to date men as a woman. I was still ‘Joanie’ when I lost and gave up my female (anal) virginity to a man that became my boyfriend and I his girlfriend. I had a fake female picture ID that looked just like a California drivers license with a facial picture of me as a young woman and my sex listed as a female and it had the name of ‘Joanie’ on the first one and ‘Janice’ on the second one. I became ‘Joanne’ for a few years and then finally became ‘Joyce’. I liked ‘Joanne’ but being ‘Joyce’ appealed to me more. Being that I was over 21 at that time I still needed a fake ID to use as a female and had one with ‘Joanne’ on it and later got another with ‘Joyce’ on it. I have been ‘Julie’ for many years now and do have an ID card that says ‘Julie’ on it and has my sex listed as a female. Before ‘Julie’ I used ‘Joyce’ the longest. I hadn’t thought of ‘Julie’ and it happened kind of like an accident. I was on a date with a dreamy guy and after we left the club we went to a motel to have sex. After he made love to me like I was a woman and I was lying beside him on my side with his arm around me and my head on his chest he accidentally called me ‘Julie’. The name instantly rang a bell, excited me and I loved it. I thought that it was the prettiest and most feminine name for me. Of course he did catch me at a vulnerable moment because he had just made me feel like a woman sexually and I was very much in a feminine mode. I decided I needed a feminine middle name also and chose one close to my birth middle name and it also had the first letter ‘L’ of my birth name. So now I am ‘Julie Lisa’.
Lucille, it can be a lot of work being a woman but it is also can be very fun being a girl and female and I would not have it any other way. I am in my senior years now but when I was younger I was very passable and passed as a sexually attractive woman many, many times. Straight hetero men used to try to pick up on me for sex.
I am not as active sexually as I used to be but I still dress and live as a woman every day when I am not at work. I still date men on occasion and have sex as a woman with them. I love a man that knows how to make me feel like a woman in bed.
I still also enjoy viewing your website because you do have lots of good advice to offer and you yourself are very pretty and attractive. The advice you offer is pretty much the same things I learned during my life. I cannot wear 4″ heels anymore because of lower back problems but still wear 3″ or sometimes 2″ heels. I am 5’8″ tall though so I don’t like being taller than the man I am on a date with.
I still like getting dolled up in full makeup, earrings, wig, cocktail dress, back seamed stockings, heels, clutch purse in my hand containing the usual contents of a woman’s purse, and of course a couple of squirts of my favorite perfume (Giorgio) and a couple of squirts of female pheromones to make me smell like a woman. My male dates sometimes take me to a movie theater but mostly to a TG friendly club and afterwards to a motel to put the final touches of a man and woman on a date together and me being used as a woman.
I think of myself as a woman.
Julie Lisa
I took my name from Anne of green gables. She is a fire ball she is, but so speaks to me. If i could i would have red hair like hers too. I like the Ann with an “e” and when her teacher ridiculed her for it, it stuck with me.
Early in my femme days I chose the name Cristina. If I wanted to it could also be converted to Chris which I could use as a male (even thou that wasn’t my real name). Later on I changed the spelling to Krystyna which I thought was sexier.
More recently I met a femme by the name of Tomy (was Tommy as a male). With her I go by the name Bobi (I’m Bob as a male)
Hello everyone
Well it starts back when i was young.Somehow i got the nickname D after my born name..After some time i sorta liked it and added a few ee’s to it..Dee. Sounded kinda nice so i kept it for along time. After a few years i came across a person with the name Deenah, i was like Dee…Deenah omg yes i love it, so i held onto this name. I think it has a nice younger snappy ring to it along with a older im a beautiful women sound. And i have only come across 2 women with this name, so it feels more special.
Now this may be a little odd, but I was in the USAF in the mid 1980′s and my mother tought me at a young ge to walk through cemeteries and look at the different heardstones, I came across a young woman named Laurie Ann, and she had died in her teen’s. I fell in love with the name Laurie Ann right away and have practiced writting my new name out right away. I cn’t tell you how many times I wrote it out before I felt at ease writing out the name of Laurie Ann. It’s just got a very nice ring to it to me.
Hi everyone. Thank you lucille for the offer of necklace. Although i don’t need it Am happy to contribute to article.
I think it is very important that one should choose a name that you feel happy with, as this is your main identifier.
How i arrived at my name came through lots of self exploring and how i wished to be seen known and presented to the world at large.
I was not about to entertain or adopt any of the typical stereo type names that are commonly associated with Transgender Folk.
Using such names are not good for self esteem as are a giveaway
to natural women as to your true gender.
By far the easiest and most logical way to select a good feminine name for yourself is to consider what name your mother would have gave to you if you was born as a natural female.
At first i struggled with selecting a name for myself. How i arrived at my chosen name came through considering my personality.
For those whom are into astrology, i am a libra child (born october) astrologically speaking. One of the ruling planets in my astrological chart is venus.
Venus in pagan times was considered to be the goddess of love.
I am a loving and caring person so the choice was simple.
For me it was like a rebirth.
I added an (s) to create venuss ( ven-uss)
From then on my self esteem rocketed as i slowly but surely adopted my new life.
I am a post op transgendered person for many yrs.
Everyone knows me as vee. Am accepted as who i am where ever i do go, and couldn’t be happier, because i am living the life i was meant to live.
I hope my brief story has inspired you all to better things.
To re-cap.
My advice is when considering choosing a feminine name, is to consider what youR mother would have named you.
Also to consider if your chosen name will suit your personality and demeanour.
If anyone should need advice on any subject, please don’t hesitate to ask, am always happy to help.
Good luck to all and everyone.
Venuss.
Who knows what one would know what their mother would have named them if they would have been born the opposite sex? I know of any Tgirls that asked their mother what she would have named them if they were a born a GG.
The mother might like James for male and Carol for a female.
Julie Lisa
I got my name from my wife using my name first ketters which spells out Jess, which became Jessica…very fitting I might ad. Love your work Lucille.
When I went in guy mode and arranged for my first makeover, I was asked “what is your feminine name”. I had never been out as a female before and although I had thought about female names I had not chosen one. However, Jennifer just popped into my mind and that is what I told her. Jennifer had been born in a spur of the moment decision and I feel so natural using it that I have never considered changing it, not even once.
My middle name is Linn (boy spelling) first name is Jeffrey so as a secret between my Mother and I when she needed to talk to Lindsay when others were around she called me Lyn (short for Lindsay) not to confuse that with “JEFFREY LINN”! when she was mad at me, “YIKES”
Luv ya Lindsay
My name came kind of roundabout. Early on, I used a feminized version of my male name. I have been a freelance artist and writer for quite a while now — and some years ago, I first illustrated and then worked up a storyline about a transtimeline heroine whose given name was Katrina.
As time went by, I came more and more to like the name and finally
adopted it as my own. (It certainly sounded better than the feminine version of my very masculine moniker!) My last name came along on a completely different tangent — one I can’t totally remember the cicumstances of.
Well, to make a long story short, I found it convenient to shorten it (primarily as an online tag) to KatyK — which, strangely enough, seems to be fairly unique! Other than that, I usually am known simply as ‘Katy, even though the vocalization of “KatyK” kind of sounds cool.
I chose the name Paige Marie Halliwell from the tv show Charmed. I went out as Paige from 2007 till 2010 then my friends/now family told me that name did not suit me at all. We both had a movie called Tamara a scary movie. Then I remembered Miley Cyrus in Hannah Montana movie, Her last name was Stewart so I used that last name. I then thought for a few minutes and came up with Tamara Nicole Stewart for my Female name.
I thought of Tamara also; and another spelling, Tamura. It has a foresty, maybe wood-fairie quailty to the name, and that’s why I chose it. Also “mother nature” is female energy and the name Tamara is sounds naturalistic.
When I was a very young person it was around age 5 or 6 for some reason I knew my name was Denise. Well as I was older and going out in public people would se my name on name tags and call me denis. So I seen a mechi bag with the spelling of Deniece, knowing that this spelling would not cofuse people a adopted it as the spelling of my name. The a on the end goes with family tradition all my sisters have an a at the end of their name so I added it and became Deniecea. My middle name Marie was given to me by a female friend of mine that told me to be my self and go out in puplic as Denieca. I told her I cold never seem to find a good middle name and she asked me to take her middle name that it sounded good together and so I became Deniecea Marie Swint.
Hi,
noel to noeleena look it up on the net,
birth names noel or no-el edward manfried Von Reutchthos & is Prussian. Loch-head.
I did not wont to change my names so i thought noeleen would be okay . was for about a year till i went to Phuket june / july 07.
While i was there one of the R N’s, nurse’s said no no no it has to be noeleena. sounds good so yes it sounded better,
so insteed of the end of noeleen being a hard n . tha a is as aaa as in are. & every one has said my name is right for me & who i am as a womam.
so its noeleena, edwina, Loch-head, for the other two names i do not have a female way of saying them till then they remain the same.
mind you i had so much help from people my names were no different people were so helpfull in so many ways it was just another example of how people went out of thier way for me,
…noeleena…
I also know its to late for the contest, but wanted to share. I love the necklace and also would like to buy one if you could share. I came by my name by changing a few letters, changing jeff to jess and formally becoming jessica, for a middle name, I wanted something that “flowed” and used an old girlfriends name, and became jessica lynn. Thank you for your expertise, I just found this site today and enjoyed it.
sorry aboutthe spelling , my fingers stuter
i was given the name aime at birth, my mon kknew i was going to be agirl , did everything i knew to that and grew up as a girl, and still live 24/7 as a woman now , would not know how to be a boy or man at this time, nor do i own and male clothes its great to bea oman, and loving every minet of it
My name was a long process in coming, when I was 11 i tried on my sisters clothers and behold i just knew I was a girl at heart. I chose her name, Dabbie at first, then I became, Victoria, after my friend , that was great until I was in my 20.s and personning as a girl most of the time I was a musician and performed as a woman, and chose the name Kitty(My Mom was aperformer that was her stage name) I entertered my 40′s and soon kitty was too imature so I opted to change it to Lauren, whci my Mom called me one day,at home when she saw me dressed.It evolded to Lauren Georg-anne, then a friend called me Laurel, by mistake and I liked it better, so it became, Laurel-Anne.
I rambled on so much, I forgot to tell you how I chose my name. “Chrissy”,played by Susanne Sommers on Three’s Company, was my inspiration. The clothes she wore, her Dainty-Feminine mannerisms and yes, even the “Ditzy-Blonde” act, made me SO want to BE Her! I chose “Christina” as my Whole name, with Chrissi-(with an “I”) as a nick-name, because it SOUNDS as ‘Girly’ as I Feel! and here, lately, as I AM! I would LOVE to have my name on a dainty necklace. I have key-rings and all kinds of other things that say Chrissi, or Christina on them. I almost bought one made of Sterling Silver but it was WAY too expensive for my purse to handle.
I have been a “Girl as far back as I can remember. I am 60 years old and TRIED my very best, to live the MACHO lifestyle that Society expected me to live. No one ever knew that, under my Macho work-Uniform I was always wearing the laciest panties and bras,I could find. I found it difficult to purchase clothes for mself because I didn’t want people to know that they were REALLY for me. I moved to another state and began living as a woman. My whole lie, I was afraid what paople would say…or how they would react when they “found out” my little secret. At first I thought I was just a Transvestite ( Rocky-Horror Picture Show) because I loved the feeling of silk nd satin on my body. Then, when I was 8 years old, and until I was 14, I had been SOLD into sexual slavery, by my NATURAL PARENTS! If wanted to eat ( The next day) I had to be a GOOD-GIRL and perform , whatever sex act I was asked. Th Only time I found real LOVE was when I was Daddy’s Little Girl, or Mommy’s Princess. It wasn’t until I was in my late Teens, I discovered that I WAS, ALL GIRLY-GIRL!. As I said, I hid it from everyone as long as I could and now, I live as Chrissi, 24/7/365. I do not Own any clothing that even resembles Male attire!I wish I could afford to buy the whole program from you but, I have been Un-employed for the last 4 years, due to the fact I have a deep “Radio” voice ( Which, by the way is how I made my living, Working Radio and Television, with particular attention to mt Voice-work. I lived on $60 a week. Now, I colect Social Security abd, even with the “extra” income, I can barely afford Housing and food. Sorry for rambling on, But I would do anything to be able to BE more Girly and have the walk, Talk, and attire down so good that no one would question my Gender. I am, now and always wil be a Woman. Thanks to people like you, (whom I stumbled on… accidentally), and will never want to lose contact with You!! Thanks, again, Lucille. You Give Me HOPE!!
Your Sister, Chrissi
Hi! Do you know where I can buy one of those necklaces? I’d really like to have it.