Your name plays a big part in shaping your feminine identity.
Some names sound sweet and innocent, some are classic and regal, while others exude an exotic and mysterious vibe.
As a crossdresser or trans woman, you have the unique opportunity of choosing your own female name.
If you’re like most of my readers, there’s a story behind your chosen feminine name.
So, in this blog post, I’d love to hear about the special meaning behind your name.
Please leave a comment below, sharing your feminine name and the story of how and why you chose it for yourself.
I’m excited to hear the story!
Love,
Lucille
I chose Tammy because is the gender opposite of my real name Tommy. Think I’m going to change it though to sheila, a much more feminine name. sorry no pictures as of yet
HI All
I chose Sharon whilst at school, Every Sharon i knew had a particular look about them just the great sparkle about them and there ora so that had to be it Rose as a second name came from my sister
Well The name I picked was pretty simple really . My given name was Mark so i ended up with Marcie. This way i dont have to worry about changing too much signiture wise…The second part Claire I got from my grandmother. Her name was Clara(german) so when I put them together it had a nice ring to it. I didnt want anything fancier that just isnt me…
It was simple for me. My parents had told me if I was born a girl my name would have been Lisa. When I realized at a young age that I was Transgendered. I knew that I should have been named Lisa from the start.
Thank you!
Well, I wish I had a more exciting story about my own femme name… when I started joining IRC chats around 1995 or 1996 (this was way before there were webcam chats… even video on the Internet was very, very rare), I naturally adopted a female personality, because it came easier for me that way to deal with complete strangers. Before that, to be honest, I never thought of a female name for myself.
For some silly reasons, Portuguese tend to love reverse names (even today, I’d guess that half the passwords used around here are the first name in reverse; the rest, of course, being birthday dates and/or ID card numbers). I guess I was influenced by that too, and instead of using a reversed name (which in my case would be pointless garbage), I used… reversed initials. That was the starting point: using the initials “sml” for my female aspect, “lms” being one of my popular identities back then on the Internet. So next I had to fill in the initials.
Names are often part of a trend. By the turn of the 1960/70 decade, the name “Sandra” became very fashionable among newborn female babies (they have rarely been used before that; and the trend somehow died by the 1980s, so the name is unusual again around here). So this would have been an “appropriate” name for a woman of my age. Being a computer geek, I naturally had always a crush on Sandra Bullock (who is half a decade older than me). And on top of that, in my teens, when I started having doubts about my gender identity (which I afterwards suppressed very strongly), I had a terrible crush on a girl named Sandra, a lovely blonde with long, curly hair, blue/green eyes, and slightly pointed ears, who always made me remember one of Tolkien’s elfs — and who had been my girlfriend for, oh, perhaps 5 days 🙂 So I always associated the name “Sandra” with beautiful, exquisite females, and the name naturally popped up in my mind.
The last name, “Lopes”, was not so easy to pick up, and I have no real reason for using it, except that it’s possibly the third or fourth more common variety of surname around here. It means “wolfish” or “of the wolf”; originally, in the Middle Ages, it would be used by sons of called “Lopo” (“wolf”) and would mean exactly that, “son of wolf”; both the meaning and the practice of creating surnames like that have been abandoned for centuries, though (unlike, say, Island, where this practice is still common), and “Lopes” just became a very, very common surname. I suppose I also had Jennifer Lopez in mind (note that the Spanish now write “Lopez” with a Z; the Portuguese still keep the old, middle-age form of the surname). There was also a Finance Minister in Portugal at that time with that surname, and I used to admire him very much — I still do, as a matter of fact (he died just a year ago). But to be honest, I had not a concrete idea about my preferred surname (I’m an amateur writer and always have difficulties when picking surnames; I tend to use “Lopes” a lot because it’s so obviously a common name), unlike the first name. I just wanted to make it quite different from any surname of my family, relatives, or close friends. In the very unlikely event that one day I’ll transition fully to female — which is hardly going to happen — it’s quite likely that I’ll keep my current surname anyway.
The “M.” was something I never knew what it stood for 🙂 I couldn’t decide back then in 1995/6… and I still don’t know what it means 🙂 Jokingly I say it means “Mystery” because it’s a mystery what it stands for… hehe. However, and again, if I’d ever transition to female full-time, that “M.” would stand for “Marta”, which is one interesting name that is used in Portugal both as a surname (a rather uncommon one; it means “mink”) and as a very popular first name (like in most of the world, where “Martha” is a common name, even though old-fashioned these days). I was very lucky to get “Marta” as one of my names (I’ve got five 🙂 ) and although as a kid I always hated it, after my teens I started to appreciate it. Legally, I could actually write my name and sign it as “L. Marta S[…]” which would be perfectly valid, e.g. technically I wouldn’t need to change my name at all if I transitioned. In practice, I’d drop my first (male) name, which I hate (and the female version I hate even more!) and always hated, and would certainly change it to Sandra. “Sandra Marta” is a rather unusual combination and a bit strange, but it would work.
But for now, the “M.” stands for “Mystery” which is much nicer 🙂
Hi, I am Sweety, actually behind this femini name there is a story, i was at that time 12/13 yrs pld, i used to wear female clothes secretly of my sister in low or some times my sisters frock, etc, at that day i was started to wear a Bra of my sister in low n i dont know she was watching me since 10 minutes n i was unable to wear the Bra at last she came to me i was stand like a statue i could not decide what should i tell her n after some times she laughed n laughed n she helps me to wear that Bra n she called me wow u r looking so sweet, n she told darling from to day i will call u Sweety, right n i dont know what to say but i only bow down my head n told yah n from that day i became Sweety from Harish. I am happy to share my story with u , Thanks Lucille. Thanks a lot.
My nameis Rebecca. I chose the name Rebecca on holiday when I was 7.( I am 48 now) I was playing with a girl whose name was Rebecca and whilst playing with her I thought t myself ‘I wish I was her’. My pyscologist says that I just fancied her at a young age. Thats not the case. I didnt fancy her, I wanted to be her. Everyday since that holiday I have wrote my name down on paper on various documents as Rebecca. I have naver date a girl called Rebecca and I have dated a lot of women and on my second wife but cannot date a Rebecca
My name was given to me by my Mother, albeit indirectly… at some point growing up she had mentioned that if I had been born female she would have named me Sandra, and for SOME reason that offhand comment stuck in my head for years and years…After she passed, it seemed only fitting to somehow follow her wishes as I began my transition.