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 feminine name was given to my by the first girlfriend I told when she asked to see me dressed. She said that I looked like a “Kimmy”. It clicked.
I was filling a TG questionnaire in Internet. One of the question was: „What’s your female name?” I was looking for myself not long female name but immediately wrote Laura. My subconscious responded. Laura was the name of the beautiful servant girl of our family when I was 3-4 years old – maybe she was my first love. Since them I feel in my soul that Laura became my real name and I named my man side Narcissus – falling in love with her/female me.
I chose Serleena after Lara Flynn Boyle who played a Kylothian shapeshifter in the sequel to the original Men in Black. My reason for doing so was quite simple really. Like Lara, I also shapeshift, but from male to female and do not view myself as human, because I clearly do not fit in, nor do I belong in this earthly world. Therefore I thought it was only appropriate to choose an alien’s name.
I chose my name of “Angélique” rather casually. I was watching a “feuilleton” on my Swiss or French channel while living in Geneva, Switzerland. I just thought it is a pretty name. Decades later I was to be told by my somewhat psychic astrologer that she felt that I was Angélique in another life, perhaps in the 16th century or hereabouts when Spain, not France was the most powerful country of the world. She did not clarify if I was a man or a woman at the time but probably a woman though the practice of giving masculine as well as feminine names to both male as well as female persons has been going on for a long time and continues to go on today.
Iwas told by both a woman friend who dressed me and a TGIRL whom I am acquainted that I resemble when dressed a refined, middle-aged Country Club-type woman, and the names Marsha and Victoria suited me perfect. First, I was named Marsha by the woman ‘FRIEND”, but I changed it to Victoria as I thought it gave me a better sense of confidence as I have become more outgoing and passable as a woman.
My mother told me that if I was born a girl, this is the name I would have been given. simple as that!
Some thirty years ago, I wanted a name which was unmistakably feminine. I’ve always thought lily the flower to be very pretty, so I chose Lily. I live in Japan, so due to pronunciation problems my friends often say Riri, but I am happy to be called either name. If I have a soul, surely its name is Lily. The name just feels so ME!
I added Marie in memory of my aunt who was the first person to dress me as a girl when I was a child. A kindness never forgotten!
Beautiful story and name Lily
With the male side of me named “teddy” or “Theodore ” which I’ve always thought it sounds feminine (and LOVE it). I looked online at several websites to find confirmed what i thought it was, and it is “teddi”. Some people call me teddy bear not really knowing that it makes me feel all the more feminine.
Thank you so much for understanding our unique way of life.
Many thanks to you, Lucille.