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
For I chosen Brenda because one of my friend is Brenda Cochran, but I took that name from her & Nicole because of Nicole kidman, she was so beautiful too. & I loved her swimsuit tooo.That’s why I pick Brenda Nicole Vaughn. For me love that name toooo.
Hello.
My original femme name was Belinda, which is the name my mother would have given me had I been born into my appropriate gender/sex. It worked out well for my early years of transition but during one of my doctor’s appointments when I was taking heavy hormone doses, a nurse took me aside and said “You really should change your name,” since legally I was still using my masculine, original name.
When I changed it, I decide to feminize my original name and use Belinda as a middle name. This way my family members and other old friends could still call me Jo(e).
Then, years later a girl on facebook contacted me. She had my exact name and is from Australia (she goes by Bel). Eerily enough, since she is really young she was born about the time I settled on my feminine name.
I chose Sneha as she is one very beautiful actress.
She is everything a woman should be, and I would like to be
like her.
I chose Julie after Julie Christie and the great films she was in in the 1960’s, I thought she was beautiful. Gee is simply because my surname begins with “G”.
My mother was going to name me Philip instead of tom so I feminism the name philp
I was coming home on the grey hound bus from Galla Ball and was listening to Michael W. Smith song called “Emily”; a litte voice spoke in my head and said this is your name. It felt like divine intervention not thought process; I used to use the name Lolita allison. I choose the middle name Lynn from a friends first name who helped me slow down when I first realized I was Transgender as I wanted to get everything done at once right off. I now prefer the name Emily Lynn Blaisdell.
My male name is Mark and with that said. I was talking to my therapist for the first time and he asked me what my female name was. I had never thought of that before and what came out of my mouth was Marlean. He then asked me how do I spell it and after I told him we went hum, interesting. I never did find out why he did that but the name struck a cord with me and it has been Marlean ever since. Maybe it’s just different like me. I later found out that usually people spell it Marlene. Well that’s it.
You have helped me so much.
Thank you,
Marlean
Tatiana was my Grandmothers name and the Romanova came from the early James Bond movie from Russia With Love