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 started to dress in the 80’s and dubbed myself “Leah”…why? I’ve not a clue. Then I came out to my wife who threated divorce and Leah died along with all of her clothes.
The sex stopped between me and my wife in the mid-90’s and needing “it” I sought out escorts, never giving dressing a thought.
One of my escorts named Shyla, in Orlando, Florida became a friend. I quit cheating on my wife when she was around because for some reason when I did cheat and have sex, she instinctively knew it. Well, I wanted only oral from Shyla and ordered her to not kiss me nor touch me because I thought wifey was smelling and picking up the scents of the other women. Shyla went into her closet and not knowing my dressing history, produced a dress that had just come back from the Dry Cleaners. She said, “Here, put this on and there’s no way she’ll smell anything”. I donned the dress and OMG, what a rush! I then divulged to Shyla that I used to be Leah and why I gave it up. Shyla then volunteered that if I wanted to re-start, I could have clothes, wigs, heels etc. shipped to her address…..and I took her up on her offer to the tune of $5000 worth of stuff.
A few months later, wifey returned to Ohio for her annual 5 month vacation and I made a bee-line to Shyla. We shopped at Wal-Mart for makeup, pocketbooks, and a few dresses. Back to Shyla’s apartment on Lee Road and she applied makeup to me as I talked into a tape recorder, documenting every move so that I could repeat the process.
Now complete as a girl and a stunning one at that, I said, “I need a name”…..not telling her my birth name is Robin. She thought a moment and blurted out, “Rhonda Sheer”…..not a takeoff of the “Up All Night” girl, Rhonda Shear but because Shyla knew I wanted to dress slutty and wear lots of see through stuff. And that’s how Rhonda Sheer was born on May 26, 2004.
Eventually IF I meet the man or Trans Girl of my dreams, I’ll relocate to my favorite place, Indian Rocks Beach and live with or marry my lifetime lover and live as Robin R*******n for the rest of my life.
There is a movie coming out that we ALL have to see. THE DANISH GIRL. 20 seconds into the trailer I had a feeling where it was going. At 45 seconds “his” wife tossed “him” a dress so “he” could replace a no-show model for a painting. As soon as she tossed it… knowing NOTHING about the story… I said, ohhh S***! You shouldn’t have done that! The genie was let out of the bottle. …and I KNEW at that second that there would be no getting Lilli back inside! I can’t WAIT to see it… take a BUG box of tissues!!!
Christine has always been my favorite girl’s name, but I wanted to keep my male initials, M C. Anyone of a certain age will know ‘Mork & Mindy’, and ‘Mike & Mandy’ goes equally well together. Hence Mandy Christine, though I always introduce myself as just Mandy.
Being the oldest of four children, I remember my mom discussing if it’s a boy names and if it’s a girl names before my brother and sisters were born. I asked my mom if I was a girl what my name going to be? She said Karen… and so it is. 🙂
Well,, oddly enough. My given name is Philip and I dated a girl in high school who’s name was Phyllis…so needless to say I adopted that name as my femm name…it is so close to my given male name I just thought I would be natural and it has been….
My female names have changed over the years several times before I settled on . Kate (after Kate moss );mindy (I like the name ) ; and (Monterey (after great aunt mother’s side ).my last name being the most dear to me because before she past away she supported me in my transformation into a girl .she would not trip out when I would wear tight clothes and make up ! She keep it a secret until I was ready to come out all the way . She was like my grand mother which I never got to meet .she told me to be confident when crossing my legs and wearing your bra . That’s my story girls ! Xoxox! Kate Monterey
My name came about when I was very young. My identity as a boy was not as it should have been as I believed when I was very young that I am and always have been a girl. when I became a teen, I was always picked on and beaten as per anyone whom is different from what the bullies say they are. So I was an effeminate teen, that got along a lot better with girls than with the crude, and cruel boys. when I was 16, I made a friend who’s mother understood some of what my issues were at that time and offered me a way to be with my friend and be myself at the same time. My friend, her mom, and I were having a discussion as to what to call me when I was over at their house so that I would not have to use the name I have come to despise and hate. My friend said that she thought that Jennifer was a good name for me, and her mom said that Jenny would be good. I was not sure about those, so her mom brought out a book that had names and their meanings in it.. We looked up the name ‘Jennifer’ and the book came up with several derivative’s of the name Jennifer. One of the names was a Celtic derivative of the name, which I loved – ‘Jenae’ – I like the name very much. My friends mom asked what middle and last name would I like to go with my ‘new’ name. We talked about a middle name, this was harder than choosing a first name. We talked and talked for almost three days, and decided that there was no reason to have just one middle name. So… this is my full feminine name, which will soon be my real name.. My chosen name is – Jenae Danielle Josephine Elizabeth ***-Heart. My sur name will be hyphenated, and to keep me safe for now, will not be stated here. This will be to keep my name from being used for illegal purposes. I unofficially use my name as Jenae Heart, and my last name was chosen for me by my friends mother, her reasoning being that I have such a big heart, that is still un-broken and strong. Even in spite of all that has happened to me over my lifetime so far. I still have a long way to go to become whole. However, with the changing laws, and changes of acceptance’s in society, I now have a much better chance of surviving in my true form.
Sincerely,
Jenae Heart
My first and last name start with B, so instead of using initials, I used the BeBe. I then went with the sound that my lover made when I was going down on her, O…..and how she repeated my name. “BeBe…..Oh…BEBE!”
love ur name and outfit looking good girl
I tried many different names, some were derived from my birth name, some were from women I admired, Some were derivations of my adopted name, some were old family names. What I finally wound up with is simply a feminization of the adopted name I grew up with. It was my moms favorite uncles name, with the first and middle names reversed. Nothing else that I considered seemed to fit.
Michelle Denise Flynn.
My name was actually an androgenised version of my birth name, that also happened to be the name of my favourite actress.
I took this path whilst living in university accommodation which was dorm based and in the 90s there was no acceptance of trans people