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
It’s a rare name in my own country and I can not explain it, but it’s my favorite name ever since the first time I put on my mother’s heels and bra and looked in the mirror. I said to myself: “Hi, Christina!” I was 7 years old. Since that it seems to me that it is very beautiful, very feminine and very sexy name. I love it !
It was very easy. I was raised with 2 older sisters, one younger, our neurotic-eccentric mother, and her never-married sister (our father was gone right after our youngest sister was born). From my very earliest memories, my older sisters were dressing me up in their old clothes that no longer fit them (all stored away in the basement steamer trunks) and including me in all playtime with Barbies, pretend dress-up fashion shows, weddings, and Dating Game – and our mother ‘allowed’ it, our Auntie encouraged it and participated in dressing me. Saturday nights after baths they put my hair up in curlers and under the Norelco hooded hair dryer while they did my nail polish as I sat there in panties, training bra, fuzzy pink slippers and our pink and red matching flannel granny-nightgowns, then popcorn and Tang watching TV – I was always just another girl, another one of the sisters, along for everything.
So Cathy is for our dear, sweet, loving, kind, and generous Auntie Catherine who constantly doted on me while always enjoying dressing me and treating me like a girl – one of her nieces. Laura is for our oldest sister who was in charge of everything we did/played/pretended and from the beginning thought nothing odd at all about dressing me in panties, lace tights, lace sleeveless undershirts then training bras as I grew, full slips, half slips, ’60s party dresses with puffy crinolines, and all the jewelry, hairstyles, nail polish, perfumes, and shoes/heels. Peterson is our mother’s maiden name and she started to use it again about 4-5 years after our father left. ALL wonderful memories in those names!!
Hi Cathy,
I must confess to being envious of you. You had the childhood I wanted and it sounds like you grew up in the same era as I did. I didn’t have any sisters but I wore my mother’s clothes and makeup when I had some privacy. Sometimes I wish she had caught me. Although my father would have gone through the roof, perhaps I didn’t give my mother credit. Maybe she would have understood that there was a girl buried inside this boy body and she needed to come out. My mother always regretted that none of her sons were girls. Maybe she would have welcomed this girl had she known. I would have loved your childhood. I would have loved to have sat in front of the TV with my freshly washed hair in curlers, sleeping in pretty nightgowns, wearing mini-skirts and granny gowns and just being myself.
So tell me if you don’t mind answering, did you go out as a girl as a child? At what age did you start? Are you living fulltime as a woman now?
I’m just curious and a little bit envious.
Love and kisses,
Barbara
This is going to sound weird but I chose my name back in high school im 24 now so this was a long time ago but she was the girl I idolized and I took on her name which was “Amy staab” so I call myself Amy
I know hella weird
I wanted a very feminine name and I always like Maryellen and this was an easy choice for years
Quite easy. My birthname is Emerson. Originally I chose Emma for myself, but my friend’s told me it was an “old ladies name” so they recommended Emily and it stuck
My choice of name was easy — Had I been born female, my mom would have named me “Linda Marie” . To honor her, I chose Linda Marie. I have always felt more like Linda than my “male” name.
I have been dressing for many years and had started going out to clubs, etc. in the 80’s in my 20’s. The lovely gal who did my first (of many) makeovers named me “Samantha”, and I liked it so I went with it. After putting Samantha aside for ten or so years, I started going out again, but thought that my name was not fitting for my age and what I was about, so I changed it to Anna mainly because I am olive-skinned, usually wear brunette hair, and, well, it just seemed more age-appropriate for me! My middle name is Nolyn because it is ‘nylon’ backwards, and I have had a life-long addiction to sheer hosiery. My last name is a take on my real male first name, Jeffrey.
Anna you are beautiful!
What fun…My first name was originally Carol, but I also liked the name Lyn, so I combined the two together to get Carollyn. Carol was the name my first ever “serious” girl friend, but Lyn has no real significance. Olson is in honor of my maternal Norwegian grand mother. My nickname is “CC” given to me by an old friend who could not spell my name correctly. Oddly, my the first girl I ever kissed was named CeCe.