Do you Love your name?

[Stacy Darling]

I Chose my new name in a flash, it was random yet in someway thoughtful! I'll never look back as no matter what I'm "Stacy"

Do you so love your name or may you wish to alter it so it sits better?

[Patience]

I had my heart set on “Prudence”, but it was already taken.

So I ended up with this name. I think it suits me.

[Crissy 107]

My male name is Chris and when I was bullied as a kid they said, Crissy is a sissy. I hated it then but love it now.

[Linda E. Woodworth]

Linda is the name of the first girl I had a crush on. (surprisingly I never dreamed of wearing her clothes)

Woodworth is a compilation of Natalie Wood and Woolworth (yes, the store)

I added "Elaine" because I wanted a middle name and felt it sings.

So yes, that is my name!

[Jillian Faith]

I originally was using Debra Ann, Debbie to my friends. When my wife started to get involved with my dressing she told me "you don't look like a Debbie, you look like a Jill". So from that day forward I've gone by Jill, I added Faith as a middle name so I'm Jillian faith, Jill to my wife and friends. To answer your question yes I love the name Jill because the most important women in my life named me.

[Cynthia_0101]

Cynthia was not my first Fem name, years ago when I first started on the internet I used Anastasia, which after a while I grew to dislike as I had picked it in haste. I cannot remember where I heard the name Cynthia but I started using it over 15 years ago and I really do love it.

Over that time I have also added the middle name Nicole, I like how is sounds.

Cynthia

[Teresa]

Stacy,
I didn't have a femme name before I joined the forum, I typed in Teresa and was very surprised it was accepted , I'm so happy for the coincidence as it's derived from my male name . Now I'm finding paperwork and name changes are proving easier . I'll possibly use the shortened Terri version for most of the time , I've already changed to this name at my GP's surgery and my blood donation name . It also will make it easier for my mail address as the initials can remain the same .

I'm one happy bunny with my name !

[wendy]

I do like my en femme name. When I went to college, my class mate/friend wore the most beautiful clothes, and I really admired her outfits. So I picked my en femme name after her because I was enamored with how she picked her outfits and she really rocked the clothes she wore.

[Sherrii]

Sherrii is the name my girlfriend sort of picked. The spelling is because other spellings were taken. But I like it. Sherrii

[deebra]

Yes, D for the size of my breast forms and bra for what they go in. Deebra, also like the nickname Dee.

[Stacy Darling]

Oh Chrissy! that resonates so much with me! I was called Stevie for as long as I can remember. I'm a Steve obviously, yet that doesn't sit well!

I'm who I am!

XXX Stacy!

[Sherrii]

Deebra, now that's cute. Love it! Sherrii

[Stacy Darling]

I Should have mentioned if not obvious

I'm a Candy Darling adorer!

[Sissy Sandy]

I used to hate my name when I was growing up
everyone used to call me things like Sindy or Sandra
I don't know if that was part of the reason I got into crossdressing
maybe some sort of psychological damage
Now I quite like my name
My name is Sandy so I never had to think up a name and no one ever had to give me one

[Beverley Sims]

My name suits me as I get the shortened version whether male or female.

Very convenient.

[Cheryl T]

I love my name.
Over the decades I had used a few different names, but when I decided to come out to my wife I thought long and hard about how I wanted to be known.

[Stephanie47]

I was suppose to be a girl. My mother's deal family was husband and wife and son and daughter. My brother was born first. I was suppose to be the daughter. Blame it on my dad's sperm, not me. My brother was named after my grandpa. I was suppose to be named after my grandmother, So I got the masculine name of my grandmother. How novel. Twelve years later my parents did have a daughter and named her Stephanie. When choosing the name for this site I was estranged from my sister due to family issues with our mother. Now, since mom is dead in her grave (Thank God!) my sister and I have reconciled. I figured at the time I was suppose to have first dibs on Stephanie. However, I was suppose to have that name in the first place. I really could not think of a different name at the time. I still think about it.

[Sarah Doepner]

I'm just not that fond of Dave. I'll stick with Sarah as a preferred alternative. :o

[Jean 103]

Not really. I'm stuck with it.

I picked it when I signed up here.

A few years ago I asked a friend about changing my name. She said " Sweety you can call yourself anything you want but I will always call you Jean"

Now I'm use to it. To all my friends I'm just Jean.

[GaleWarning]

The Gale in my name refers to windy weather. I am me regardless of how I am dressed. No-one knows me as Gale in my real world.

[Elizabeth G]

Elizabeth is a name I always liked and thought was pretty, so yes, I suppose I do live my name.

[Periwinkle]

I love Periwinkle! It's the name one of my characters uses when he dresses up.

[docrobbysherry]

Call me anything but, "Late for dinner"!

I dressed at home in a vacuum for 10 years. Never had a name. But, when I went online I needed a female name.:battingeyelashes:

i could have been "Sherry 39763". But, didn't want a number, just a name. So, I picked our high school class prez and his girlfriend. Robert and Sherry. There were others with that same name so I added "Doc". And, there is still only one "Docrobbysherry", that I'm aware of!:devil:

[Shawn Michelle]

Shawn Michelle is a variation of my male name. I wouldn’t say I love it, but it’s easy to manage. I may change it later, but it’s good for now.

[Eemz]

My "official" femme name is Eimear (E-mer, like e-mail) but somehow it changed to Eemz over time. I talk to myself when I'm late for things and "for God's sake Eemz, get your .... together!!" seems to work better :)

I'm sort of at a crossroads though now that I'm out. My male name is one of those that can also be a woman depending how you spell it and I am wondering if I should just do that, since the two are not separate anyway - I'm always Eemz regardless of what I'm wearing. So Jean I know what you mean - my long-term friends would much prefer <male name> since I'm still me...


Doc - "Sherry 39763" has a certain ring to it LOL

Periwinkle - I love your name. It's perfect

[RebeccaV]

Of course! Rebecca is an adaptation of my male name and it rolls off the tongue. Plus it's adaptible. Can be regal casual even bitchy depending on the situation.

[GracieRose]

I considered finding a female name that started with the same initial as my male name, but didn't come up with anything that I liked.
I then found Grace by changing a few letters in my male name.
It reminded me of Gracie Allen (George Burns's wife for those of you who are too young to remember).
I always liked her wit, so Gracie it is.
The more I think about it, the more I like it.
-Gracie

[biancabellelover]

I do love my name (Michelle that is; not Biancabellelover).

Michelle is loosely based on my male name, which doesn’t really have a direct female equivalent.

Michelle

[MarinaTwelve200]

My fem self sort of resembles a certain woman I admire, and the first three letters of our names are the same---so I went with Marina.

[KimberlyJean]

Yes I love my name, I was supposed to have been a girl and Kimberly Jean is the name my mother picked out for me.

[Diane Smith]

I was looking for a female name that had no obvious male equivalent, but would still be a reasonably close variation of my legal name. My given middle name is "Dane," so I just added the "i."

My femme middle name is Victora (not "Victoria"), which is a tribute to my two grandfathers, whose first names were Victor and Ora. A few people know this and call me "Vicky," but I use Diane more often and whenever I have to sign something.

- Diane

[alwayshave]

Mine is just the feminized version of my male name, so it feels natural.

[CarlaWestin]

Westin is from a prepubescent heartthrob who leaned through an open front door in an opened robe to reveal her beautiful generous attributes.
Carla is just a nod to Charles. I do love both of my male and female names.

[t-girlxsophie]

Yeah I do love my name is preferable to some of my earlier efforts.I get a wee warm feeling when I hear my name being called out.When thinking of what to call myself I wanted something feminine and imo classy which couldn't be shortened especially to male sounding.Funnily enough a lot of my friends call me Soph now. And I actually quite like it now

Sophie

[Robertacd]

Well Roberta is and feminine of Robert my given name and (speaking of labels...) back when I joined this forum it was common courtesy to add the cd, ts, gg, designation suffix to your nickname on all the other forums so I used the same here.

[Diane Taylor]

I chose my name after carefully considering about three or four different choices. I will never change it.

[DIANEF]

Another Diane here. I have had that name since 1989 (previously it was Julie) I felt it was a little more in keeping with my style, plus I knew a Diane and was very fond of her. It is nothing like my male name.

[lynnstar]

It's kind of funny how I picked Lynnstar for my female name. When I started on this site, I had been looking at Western outlaws on the internet and noticed a female outlaw named Bell Star. Well a short time later I got on this site and wanted to pick a new name that srtuck me as wild. Guess what. Bell star came to mind. I didn't want a outlaws name, but I did like the name. So i changed the first name from Bell to Lynn,. I chose Lynn star. That's how I became Lynnstar.

[Maria 60]

Whenever we were in stores and my wife would ask if I wanted something fem, I felt uncomfortable. I wasn't even thinking of injuring a fem name. One day she asked if Maria would like an item, I asked her where she got Maria from. She said she didn't know it just flowed out. It wasn't my name of choice but because my wife picked it, I kept it.

[rachel_rachel]

I named myself after Rachel, Jennifer Anniston’s character on friends.
I orginally did like Mariah (yes the Singer) but I’m happy as Rachel.

[Ineke Vashon]

I was going to go with Ellie until I found that there were quite a few Ellies already. Trying to be different I recalled a dutch girl named Ineke I once had a crush on. I found only one Ineke online, a California perfume business. So Ineke it has been. I thought you had to have a last name so I picked Vashon out of convenience (it's an island in the Puget Sound area).

Ineke (EE-nuh-kuh)

[Asew]

Asew was a name I made to use for video game characters as letters from a girl I liked at the time. To me it was girly, but not obviously girly in case anyone I knew saw it. I hate Brianna (fem version of my name) due to name calling as a child. I recently heard the nickname Brina (anagram of Brian) for Sabrina, and thought about switching to Sabrina, but decided to stick with Asew since it better fits my non-binary-ness.

[Gillian Gigs]

The name came from a children's book that I used to read to my daughter when she was young. The name of the book was Jillian Jigs, and I changed it to Gillian Gigs as my given name begins with a G, so a J got changed to a G. I always liked the name Jillian/Gillian...whatever.

[Becky Blue]

I love my name, I chose it myself :) I love the fact that I can be formal Rebecca, relaxed Becky or friendly Bec. Also there were no Rebeccas close to me when I chose it back in 2005. It has no connections to my boy name, which to me was another plus. As for Blue well thats a long story.

[sometimes_miss]

The name I use here is the feminized version of the male name that I would have chosen for myself, Alexander. I always thought Alex was a cool name. So, Lexi, Alexa, Alexandra, I'll answer to any of those.

And because the guy who molested me, butchered my real name. I'd be quite happy to never hear it again.

[Alice B]

Yes and have fun with it. Often, on the golf course I have been heard shouting "Alice, you ignorant ****" A take off from the Honeymooners and Saturday Night live. Usually when I blow a shot

[Stacy Darling]

Oh! So Nice to see so many responses!

When I went to Stacy my life changed.

[Ressie]

I changed my name on this site once already. My name was Dee but there were several other Dees and deedees at that time so I wanted to change it to something completely different. It's hard for people to get my name (Ressie) when I introduce myself so I tell them it rhymes with Jessie. I don't love it, but I don't see any point of changing it again. Dee is still my nickname with some people.

[Bea_]

I don't feel a sense of a female persona for myself but i did consider Sammi for use while shopping with my wife, as in "That's something Sammi might wear". (She called me Sammy when we were dating) I mentioned it to the bride and got a definite "NO". I settled on Bea_ as the phonetic of one of my initials. I like the simplicity. Also, when i was registering to the site, i tried to go with just "B" but it was too short. Even 'Bea" is too short so I added the underscore at the end. If I'd thought it through more it would be "B___" (three underscores).

[Roxanne Lanyon]

Roxanne. Yes, I AM Roxanne! I adore my name. Every month the members of my Support Group call me by Roxanne. Hell, I don't even know that I have a male name! Roxanne is the female lead in the play Cyrano de Bergerac. I fell in love with that character years ago, and "became" her.

Roxanne Lanyon

[Tracy Irving]

I do not love this name. It is what my parents picked for me had I been born a girl. I would change it if I cared more and / or wasn't so lazy.

[Jillian Faith]

Whenever we were in stores and my wife would ask if I wanted something fem, I felt uncomfortable. I wasn't even thinking of injuring a fem name. One day she asked if Maria would like an item, I asked her where she got Maria from. She said she didn't know it just flowed out. It wasn't my name of choice but because my wife picked it, I kept it.

My wife gave me the name Jill in a similar situation, walking into the mall. She had a habit of asking me when out shopping with me in DRAB if I wanted a skirt or a top while browsing women's clothing which would get curious looks from other female shoppers close by. I suggested she use the name Debbie the feminine name I used online. My wife looked at me and said "you don't look like a Debbie, you look like a Jill".

[audreyinalbany]

actually "Audrey" was the name of a bartender at one of the local watering holes. She wasn't classically beautiful...she had sort of a Sara Jessica Parker vibe as I recall...but she had a certain" j'nai se quoit" common to attractive women bartenders

[Ceera]

I grew up with what was technically a unisex first name, and with a middle name that I hated. Funny thing was, there was no driving reason for my parents to have chosen either of those names. No family member or family friend or really even any specific famous person who meant something to my folks had the names I was given... Mom did say she rejected giving me the same name as my dad, because he was already a “junior”, with the same name as his own dad, and she did not want me to be saddled with “the third” as part of my name. Sounded too pretentious to her, for a child in an upper middle class, blue collar family.

Mom said once, that if I had been born a girl, she had been thinking of the name ‘Cara’ for me. That did not quite suit me by the time I was seeking a female identity, but it did slightly shape what I ended up with today as a woman.

So... I grew up as “Jay Bruce” and my surname. Not short for “Jason”, but “Jay”, like the bird, a Stellars Jay or Blue Jay. Like other “bird names”, such as Robin, it could fit either a boy or a girl. I have met several girls named “Jay”. More popular as a boy’s name, though, and today it isn’t feminine enough to be widely recognized as a woman’s name. Not bad though, during my transition, to own up to it when using credit cards, as if I was no different than a girl named Robin. When I finalize my legal name as a woman, I plan to keep Jay as my middle name, at least in part to honor my past, and my parent’s choices for me. But I had hated “Bruce” - my middle name. All the more so from my pre-teens years onward, when I knew I was bi, was trying desperately to stay in the closet and appear straight, but... in my generation, a guy named “Bruce” was the stereotype for a limp-wristed gay male. Mom tried to point out that a Scottish king was named “the Bruce”, and that our family was part Scottish, but that wouldn’t have shielded me from being taunted by my peers. So I pretty much ignored my middle name.

As I grew older, I did a lot of fantasy role playing gaming where I chose to play female characters. I often chose names like Kyra or Thyra for them, because it sounded exotic and feminine, but did not sound modern, like Jane or Sally. One of those characters was “Ceera”, a name I made up at the time I created her. Sort of like a mis-remembered variant of Sarah, which I thought suited a character whose back story included being orphaned and living on her own in the wild woods at a very young age. I could not find anyone else with that given name, in early Internet searches or elsewhere. To me, it sounded like a pretty and feminine name, and I liked the uniqueness. I pronounce it “See-rah”. Two syllables, equally stressed, and still sounding a lot like Sarah. Turned out to become my most well-liked RP character. She had several surnames, as she evolved and was adapted to new roleplay venues. Her last incarnation was in the Second Life virtual world, where she, and I, became a content developer, making things for others to use in the game. Got enough business that I needed a real-world bank account with the gaming character’s name as an “assumed business name”, so I could cash rather large checks from clients that included Rutgers University.

Long story, but by the time I realized I wanted to go out in the real world as a woman, I had been playing as Ceera for more than ten years, and had it as a legal assumed name already. So I just kept it as a woman. Got lots of complements on what a pretty and unique name it was, too. Now virtually everyone who knows me as a woman knows me as Ceera, so I plan to keep it when I do my legal name change. My final legal name as a woman will soon become “Ceera Jay” and my birth surname. And yes, it feels comfortable and I think it suits me.

Many people who first meet me think I am saying the more common female names “Sarah” or “Sierra”. But Sarah sounds too biblical for me. Interestingly, Ceera can also be a spelling variant for Sierra. Break it into three sylables - “ce-er-a” and pronounce it “see-AIR-ahh”.

In the historical recreation group that I participate in, the Society for Creative Anachronism, I chose the given name “Katherine”. I also like that name. But one of my sisters in law is named “Catherine”, so I avoided using that in my new legal name.

[Sherri_Christopher]

I like my femme name, Sherri Christopher, very much! "Sherri" is similar to my first name and "Christopher" is my confirmation name.

[Rhonda Darling]

I had no female name until I joined my first onlone group. I'm a Ronald, and initially chose Rhonda Girl ("Ron da Girl" -- "da" is American slang for "the") as a play on words. Much later, when I joined this site, I chose the excellent last name of Darling, as I knew a georgeous woman of that last name when I was young.

Rhonda

[Jenny22]

I don't know what my female name would have been had I been born female. In calls from overseas to fix my computer, etc., the caller almost always mispronounced my name, and it usually sounded quite like... Jenny. It's a plain, nothing fancy name, and I liked that. But, I needed just a bit more added, and I tried 'Tutu' . JennyTutu got shortened to Jenny22.

[Samm]

When I joined the forum in 2012, I wanted a name that could go either way, male or female. Something in between that tied the two together perhaps. S, A, and M are my initials, but not in that order. I added the second M just because it looked a little more 'girly' lol. I only decided to expand on that, and chose a full name just a few weeks ago.
I chose "Sammara", (keeping the second M) which is derived from "Samara", which means "guardian" or "protected by God".

[LeannS]

I have always like the name Leann that was suppose to be my youngest child when it was born but he turned out to be a boy so dad took the name and have been in love with it
ever since. and it has nothing to do with my given name at all. and when I told my wife what my name was all she could say was interesting what is that suppose to mean?? lol

[beckypanties]

I'm just 'meh' about it. I only use Becky in a couple of websites. Maybe one day a better name will come up.

[Krisi]

Anyone who has a male name that also functions as a female name us lucky indeed. It works for ID cards, checks and credit card purchases. I wish I was that lucky.

My male name doesn't work that way. I would have used the name my mother had picked out for me if I had been born female but my wife had a problem with a woman with that name in the past so that's out. The name I use here is the name of a woman I worked with for a few years. As for a "real" female name to use with my wife and in public, that's really up in the air. My wife would probably pick a female variation of my male name but I'm not fond of that.

[APRIL0401]

I chose the name April because I was born on April 1st.

[Shayla]

Started out as Shelley, named for a high school cheerleader i thought was cute. But after a few months, it just didn't seem to fit. Sl when I started to go out, I just picked Shayla. Not sure where it came from, but I liked it and it is a bit less ordinary than Shelley. Mods here were kind enough to take the time to help me change it on the forum.

[Lana Mae]

I do love my name! Lana is for a very young playmate I had long ago(I was also very young!) who used to flip her dress over her head! This caused me to want a dress so I could do it also! Got my first dress at 65 years old! Mae is my mother's middle name which I always liked! Hugs Lana Mae
(Just a note: there is a real life Lana Mae who is a hula hoop champion! I can not do it anymore! I was fairly good when younger!LOL)

[Leslie Mary S]

Leslie along with Lee-sell were names that the other kids used to taunt me with is school. Mary is in memory of a good friend deceased now. Shy is the personality I really am.
I am thinking of dropping the Mary and start using Leslie Shy.