It’s amazing how much our names shape our identities. Some names feel like a perfect fit from the start, while others never quite resonate with us.
However, crossdressers and transgender women have the unique opportunity to choose their own feminine names.
Every great MTF name has a story behind it, and I’d love to hear YOURS.
How did you choose your feminine name?
Please tell us your story in the comments below, and if you can, share a photo too. It’s always lovely to put a face to a name!
Love,
Lucille
A dear friend of mine who was helping me to understand my female side died of brain cancer .From then on i took her first name .i feel she is part of me and i her .she will live on in me ,god rest her soul.
Rosalie or Rosaliy, was based on a key ring I fond back in high school. The name was Rosa Lee I believe. I joined alt.com and needed a new me to reflect my coming out and an open honest, nothing to hide attitude. So I asked for Rosalie which was already taken. I simply changed the ‘e’ to a ‘y’ and viola, Rosaliy.
My old gf was Sherry Lynne and I, for whatever reason, have always loved ‘Lynne’ names, with or without the trailing ‘e’ or the double ‘n’. Rosaliy Lynne became my alt.com name and that served two purposes. Rosa was much more open even to accepting and declaring her
underlying male basis for existance, and it kept that part distinct and separate from my undernet personna. Of course putting out my initial profile and pictures sorta revealed, what was over due to be known anyway, and pointing to my yahoo.com photo albums has removed the separation. The total name is terribly unique in that It was entirely constructed around my femme side.
My name came to me as i woke up one morning. I never considered the name before, but the sense that it was right was so strong I have embraced it. Funny how that works!
I always felt like a Kimberly so after my 2 nd failed marriage I decided to see what I missed growing up
wow so free sexy love to where hose heels make up dresses I was raised in the 70s and 80s it was shameful
to want to where what I wanted so now I live 90 % of the time as Kimberly
My birth mother gave me the name Antoni. It got manipulated to Anthony and I was always called Tony with the occasional person asking if you spell that with an I or Y.
When I found out I was intersex at late 16 and late puberty. I always thought it funny
Funny how a single letter is so impacting on an individual soul, a life path and social interactions. Y would I let a birth defect define me? I will define me.
In closing thank you for what you do for others confidence
I always loved the name Tammi and since my male name was Tommy , I dropped the Y and O and added the A and I and now go by Tammi , I have yet to do a formal name change and would love to live full time female .
I knew from my earliest memories I was a girl… but in a Marine Drill Instructor’s home in the late 1950s it didn’t feel safe to show that….. and I was instinctively aware that I shouldn’t be caught looking directly into the TV screen when commercials fir THE CHRISTINE JORGENSEN STORY were on!
I didn’t have a name until I was a Marine stationed in Japan in 1976. My birth name was Billy….mom’s was Billie. … so I tried variations on that…Billie-ann …. they didn’t fit. But Little House on the Prairie was big then… so I took my first name from Laura Ingles…. my middle name… Elizabeth ( hers too it turns out)…. was chosen because I had read that there is a “Legend of the Biesley Boy” which claims that the daughter of King Henry the 8th, Elizabeth was a favorite of the king… even though he NEEDED a son ( something that cost several women their lives)…. but the child DIED and the nursemaid panicked and scoured the city for a replacement. The only child available was a boy…..who was raised as Elizabeth. By the time the king figured out what had happened they continued as things were to not look a fool. She had a reputation for “ruling as good as any man” …. traveled with a coach just for her dozens of wigs… and other things that lend some credence to the Legend. In the 1980s a request to take a look at the remains was firmly squashed!
So… Laura …. and Elizabeth. … and my Mother’s maiden name. I guess it really IS who I have always been.
Hm.. my Born Name was Kai so here isn´t any Gender name so can f or m
So i only loocking for an second (gender specefic) name and so i try Jolie sound for me nice, short and Harmfull ^^ so i get it. My GF like it too ans so was completet 😉
Mosty of my friend know me as m too befor i change full so i hear @ both name
That’s a wonderful story.
And very pretty name, Laura.
Thank you Maxine
I have always “played” a Fem character on-Line, usually with the name “Montana”, or some variation thereof, since that is where I was born and raised. A friend started calling me “Tana” which I immediately loved, and adopted.
The middle name came from a conversation I had with another friend, about how I was helping my stylist get her new salon ready, doing drywall, painting, etc. I commented, “Just call me Rosie the Riveter”. She replied, “Tana Rose! That’s a beautiful name.” I had to agree, and took the steps necessary for it to become my legal name.