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
My mother wanted a girl while she was carrying me. She had picked out Barbara Anne. So, I chose that to honor her. RIP Mom.
It was easy for me to my name because of my middle name being Daniel, so I just made Danielle to make it simple
I didn’t come up with it. The girl who was my mentor when I first started dressing came up with it, and I figured that it was kind of fitting that just as one doesn’t pick one’s birth name, I wouldn’t pick my girl name either.
always like the name Karolina o curse I use when I cross dress and always love it the name and want to use when I go in femme
Virginia Irene: My mother’s name was Virginia and her mother, my grandmother’s name was Irene.
I know they would be proud of their daughter.
Virginia
Halloween, 2008, I had just moved into a hip part of town. I dressed in a jumpsuit with scarf, full makeup, and hair long and flowing. I needed some things for the holiday, and went to the neighborhood supermarket. When I was checking out, the register clerk told me that – with the outfit and hair – I looked like Lauren Bacall. Since my previous name was given to me by roughnecks on a river dredge, and not complimentary, I was delighted and immediately assumed my new name!
For quite some time now I have been researching psychology papers on my obsession with feminizing myself.much reflection on my entire life from my earliest memories till recent times….I read a paper written by a psychologist who fully transitioned….her words struck a deep cord in me…..she wrote that it is important to acknowledge the male you were….because it helpes make the woman you are to become….than it came to me as a Beautifull flower opens to share itself with all the world.my old name is Brian…my new name……Bri-Anne…..if no picture at this time…I am just starting my journey to womanhood…and would just like to say…THANKYOU…for being you!!!!!
I always felt like I was stuck between being a man and a woman, so just started looking for a gender neutral name. I fell in love with Reese as soon as I saw it. Reese Witherspoon and reese’s pieces…what’s not to love.