Your name is an important part of your feminine identity.
Some names feel sweet and innocent, others are classic and elegant, and some carry an exotic or mysterious vibe.
As a crossdresser or trans woman, you have the unique privilege of choosing your own female name—a name that truly reflects who you are.
For many of you, there’s a special story behind your chosen name.
So, I’d love to know: What’s the meaning behind your feminine name?
Share your name and the story of how you chose it in the comments below.
I can’t wait to hear your story!
Love,
Lucille
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.