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 got my name when I was first coming out. I was using another first name when I was first trying to find myself. Which did not seem to suit me or my personality. I currently have that name as my middle name. With my first name all my friends just started referring to me by it and the name just stuck. I also think my name really fits me. I changed my first name to Victoria. Vicky for short and my old first name now my middle name is Veronica. I got that name, because it is the name of some I knew a long time ago who is very feminine and sorta reminded me of myself.
I picked the name Julia because my dad wanted a girl and would have been named Julia so I’m making it my name and use it on here often. It’s a very feminine name so it fits my life just fine and my partners only call me Julia.
Hi there, My story is a little elaborate. Although I am only blossoming into my completely cherished femininity later in life, i have forever identified as fe-male. In my study of Ancient Near Eastern religion during my college days, now decades ago, I was deeply impressed with the Babylonian Goddess of Love and Beauty, Innanna, and associated this with the Ancient Near Eastern form of my given “male” name john, which survives to this day in Scots-Irish dialect as “Ian”, the feminine form of which would be “Ianna”. I prefixed to this the Latin root “Laure” (to praise) to arrive at laur-ianna, Laurianna, “in praise of the feminine form of john”. i added “Payot” as my surname, after the Institut Payot, a temple of love and beauty on the rue de Castiglione (just below the place Vendome) in Paris, which i frequented for beauty treatments during the years of my residence there, et voila, Laurianna Payot, the name of my true and delightfully feminine self !!! Sorry that this is so involved !!!
I chose Emma as it was a favourite book, but also as it means “whole or complete” which seemed rather apt
I never liked the name Hartmut my parents gave to me. Hartmut was horrible hero in old sagas. When I changed my confession to Greek Orthodoxy, I became Nikolaos, which is a great saint I always loved. When I chose to live finally as the woman I always had felt inside to be, I wanted to remain faithful to St. Nikolaos, so I just feminized my saint to Nicolina. I had considered to be Nicole, before, but Nicolina sounded better to me together with my surname (same number of syllables)
Dona clean ,simple and nothing like my male name of steven. It could have easily been steff or stephany but i wanted it to be different because Dona is very different from steve.
I chose a name to suit how I like to present as a girl
Charlotte feels elegant, classy and very feminine
Well my male name started with an A but really I wanted my middle name and first name to blend together. My new middle name was inspired more by my ex as it was her middle name and she hated so I chose Maria for my middle name and with that I chose Ashley as my new first name and I love how I can use both together and that they just roll together.