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
i liked teh name Danielle and have been a fan of poet Dante. so i went with danie
about 3 months before my mother passed away we were talking and she told me that if i had been born a girl my name would have been Emily so it seemed right.
Growing up with 2 older sisters, a younger sister, our divorced mother, and us all living with our twice-divorced Aunt Catherine who took us all in, I was dressed early and often, with mother detached-ambivalent, while our auntie was a very enthusiastic encourager and even participated in a lovely routine for us 4 siblings when in dress-up playtime . . . allowing us to enter her elegant bedroom where she would do 3 things for each of us: we could pick out clip-on earrings from her huge collection, then she did each of us with a little of her lipstick, and a little spritz of her perfume. When she finished with me, she always smiled and held my shoulders to say, “How pretty you look, are you my little Cathy?” and I would smile and agree with such nice positive affirmation. In those early years age 3-to-6 my sisters adopted that “little Cathy” for me and it just stuck from then on as I continued to dress up thru elementary school, into Jr. High and High School, on to university and grad school, and all these years till today! 🙂
My dead name was Alan, I had always thought Alice was an awesome name and I wanted to keep my initials, So me and my wife got together and she help me come up with Allyce Jayde(Jade) because I wanted it to be spelled uniquely.
I was in a FLR (female led relation) and she wanted me to have a new name. It was around christmas. And Natasha means new born. I am now a trans woman.
With a male name of Julian, Julie just seemed natural to me.
My friend’s dad had difficulty pronouncing my dead name because the vowels are different in Spanish, I played with different spelling of what he was calling me and came up with this – pronounced as in Xmas – I can now sign my name with a X
Although the Mexican/Siri pronunciation is different I always get positive comments on the spelling. The joy of being able to choose your own name.
No real story. I wanted a very feminine sounding name. How Brandi came to me I don’t remember, but I know I really liked it. The name fits who I really am.