Whats in a name?

[Neith.goddess]

I recently read a post (which i wanted to comment on and cant seem to find now) that said that allot of girls here are unhappy with there name...it was a poll or something...

So..

I'll tell you about my name...maybe it'l help anyone with this problem?

I had a dream about a river goddess...and for some reason when I woke up I had the name ~Naryest~ in my head... I had never even thought about giving my crossdressing side a name...but I kept thinking about my dream..

In my dream...it was very short, and it was just an image of some feminen looking figure at this river I used to hang out at allot but I couldent remember what she looked like when I awoke...

the more I thought about it...I realized it was me...
my holy sanctuary, the freedom to feel feminin... and look pretty

that river was always like a dream world to me...I love it there and I have never crossdressed there...but the reason being, people are always there bikeing around...and the thought never occured to me at the time anyway...

but the point of the dream was that I subcontiously feel boxed in, and I want to express myself, in places where I should be able to...

I looked up the word Nary online... and its a popular name in forign contries like japan...

in english it means...Not A...like...I heard nary a sound...
so in a way my name Naryest Goddess means "mostly, not like a goddess"

which I found stoopidly ironic...

thats just how I got my name...

but I know that its a name that came from myself
which Is my favorite part about my name...Like an indian I chose my own name...through a vision

whats your name... and how do you feel about it?

[AlyssaT]

Nothing cosmic for me, unfortunately.

My male name starts with an A, which I like. I chose Angela a few years ago, then I went to a convention and the hostess who checked me in said, "Oh, look, we've got yet another Angela."

So I decided to go with something less common. Hence, Alyssa, which has the first two letters the same as my male name.

Now you're going to laugh when I tell you what my male name is. It's Alexis.

Nowadays, it's a well-known girls' name, but thirty-five years ago (before TV's Dynasty) it was a rare and mostly male name.

So if my real name is commonly thought of as a girls' name, then why do I need a femme name? Well, because after years of using Alexis as my male identity, it doesn't feel feminine to me, even though it does to everyone else. For me to feel feminine, I have to choose another girls' name.

So I'm Alyssa.
:winking:

[Teresa Amina]

Great name story! Lot of things show up in dreams you wouldn't come up with otherwise. [I]Gifts of the Gods![I] Teresa is just Me, not sure where it came from, perhaps an unremembered dream? Amina came from a name list I found at random via Google. Turns out to be the inversion of anima- the Jugian term for our inner feminine. Cool, huh?:D

[JoAnnDallas]

I asked my mother one time what she would have named me if I had been born a GG. She said "Josephine Annette, or JoAnn for short". The only problem, is I hate "Josephine", Love "JoAnn". :rofl:

[DonnaT]

When I started writing TG fiction/erotica I needed a pen name and separate email account. The pen name I chose belonged to a next door neighbor of mine back in the 60s-70s. Then, when signing up for an email account, I added TvTg to Donna, something easy to remember and not long.

When signing up for my first forum I shortened it to DonnaT, again easy to remember and not long.

On one forum, Rose's, I had to use DonnaTvTg because someone else had already taken DonnaT, even though she didn't post using it, which is good since folks from there wouldn't confuse us on other forums such as this one.

[Caitlintgsd]

I changed my name. I used to go by Caitlin and a friend thought that it wasn't feminine enough (yea right, I know a lot of guys named Caitlin). So I changed it to Kathleen. I didn't like Kathleen much so I eventually changed it back to Caitlin.

[Taffy]

My choice was pretty straightforward: I went through a book of 20,001 names for babies and wrote down a list of all the names that appealed to me. Each day I would read through the list out loud, crossing off the ones that just did not have the sound I wanted to hear. When the list got short enough, I went outside and shouted the names one by one. The difference was amazing. After a couple of days I finally selected "Taffy" as the perfect for me name.

At that time, iName.com was signing up users for their online email service. They had registered a whole bunch of domains, e.g., DogLover.com, Engineer.com, etc., including Cheerful.com. You got to select the domain you wanted from their list and then provide your own ID, thus [email protected] became Taffy Cheerful. It is a name that I respond to. People have called my name across a parking lot or even across a store and I respond without reservation. It fits perfectly...

A year or so later, iName made an offer for "lifetime" registration of the email ID for $79.95, an offer that was simply too good to pass up. Many years later, I am still pleased as punch that I had the good fortune to get exactly the name I wanted and a matching email account to boot.

The one disappointment is that I have never been able to convince Mail.com, the folks who bought iName.com, to allow me to use the name to direct folks to my website, e.g., taffy.cheerful.com pointing to www.geocities.com/FashionAvenue/1492. That would be real icing on the cake.

Taffy

[linnea]

I love the outdoors and nature, and though I'm not a botanist, I have always thought that Linnaeus (the botanist of the 18th C.) had an interesting and a somewhat feminine sounding name. His full name in its European form (rather than it's Latin form) was Carl von Linné. I took that and made it Linnea Carol. I have a last name (Nydatich) too, but it is really off-the-wall.