Femme Names

[Dee Model]

I'm interested to know how all you gals got your femme name...I thought about it for years and for a long time i wanted to call myself Sadie. It was back in the early nineties when at an after club party she introduced herself as "Sadie" or "David". I was totally convinced she was a GG until she spoke (voice pretty deep,etc). Anyway she was totally sexy and cool with sublime style...

I always felt, however, that i can't just go around nicking femme names, it just wasn't right. So it was about seven years ago when i was reading this excellent SF novel (The Stone Canal, by Ken MacLeod) when i came across the character Dee Model. It was an epifany. I had found myself in black and white. She is so me!


Dee. x :doll:

[Sedona]

I think there's a couple more postings on the subject, but for me, I've always loved visiting Sedona, AZ, and thought it'd be a different and pretty name.

[Angie G]

If I named myself after the place I love to visit my name would be Anchorage
:hugs:
Angie

[Paula Thomas]

Dee - I use the feminine version of my first name, and then my middle name as a last name.

That way if I react to someone saying my first name (and you will almost always react - without thinking, because you have done so your whole life), I can say "Oh, I thought you said 'Paula'".

If I ever have to use my real last name, I will say that it was my "married" name, but I don't use it except when necessary.

[Kimkandy]

My cousin was called Kim, but she changed her name to Denise.

I had a crush on her when I was younger and I liked her name. I think she made a mistake changing it, but she's happier with Denise.

I'm a writer, so maybe I'll write a mobie script as Kim Kandy. Lots of writers use nom de plum's to write under.

Kim Kandy

[Sweet Jane]

I had never even thought of myself by a femme name until I came to this forum. I needed a login here, and it most certainly wasn't going to be my real name, and I'd have to remember the login. It just so happened that I had been playing away on my guitar not long before finding this place, and one of my favorite songs to play is Sweet Jane....and the rest they say is history!!

It's funny, but now I do think of my alter ego as "jane"...wierd

[Billiemarie]

I got my name from my first name and adding ie and the middle name of my wife which I like. Billiemarie.

[MissAnnM]

I love the stories of Anne of green gables. Would check them out and read them, she was a strong red head girl. She was the girl that I dreamed to be. That is how I came by Anne

[AprilMae]

Needed a screen name and figured this was as good as any. I don't need a fem name as I only dress for myself, so if someone is calling me I have a problem other than crossdressing

[cathie]

I always liked the name and the spelling was different.

[Calliope]

Yeh, Dee Model is pretty cool. With the Beatles' song still out there, I'd stay away from Sadie, for sure. I'm looking into getting my name legally changed (not as DayTripper). I'm considering one I've loved for many a year but I have my apprehensions - it's an old girlfriends' name, my first crush, and I wonder if I'd be stealing it in a way.

[linnea]

I've tried a couple of other names, but Linnea is the one that I have kept and liked the best. Linnea comes from the name of a Swedish taxonomist/biologist whose name was Carl von Linne (aka Linnaeus). Among other things that he wrote was the statement, "Nature does not proceed by leaps." I think of this when I get impatient or anxious for something to happen or develop. There is a mountain flower named after Linnaeus and a small songbird called a linnet (not named after Linnaeus): I identify with both.

For awhile I went by Carol which is a variation of my male middle name. At a few other times I used Willa which is a name I like very much and relates to an American novelist (Willa Cather) whose novels I read and liked. However, Linnea has outlasted all of those, although I still use Carol as my middle name.

[phoebe61]

i came about my name from a richie valance song oh donna

[Francesca Chantel]

Francesca - name for daughter I never had
Chantel - My first girlfriend's name - She was tragically killed by a drunk driver the night I proposed to her.

:cry:

[Crissy Kay]

I took my name from the part Sussan Summers played on "Three"s Company" Given the fact, that I like dressing as a maid, most of the time, "Maid Suzzette" might be more appro for me LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dee Model]

Francesca,

Oh my gods, that makes me cry. I feel very deeply. I can't stop now.

Love.

Dee.

[Dee Model]

My cousin was called Kim, but she changed her name to Denise.

I had a crush on her when I was younger and I liked her name. I think she made a mistake changing it, but she's happier with Denise.

I'm a writer, so maybe I'll write a mobie script as Kim Kandy. Lots of writers use nom de plum's to write under.

Kim Kandy

Hi Kim, I am a writer also. But unto myself only. I have kept a journal over the last five tears, i mean years. I have tried to read over it but it is invariarably too painful.

So full of hurt. I honestly do not want anyone to read it because, for one...it is too personal, and another, it would, i feel, cause them pain. I have never wanted ever to hurt anyone.

My pain is my own.

Dee.

[Dee Model]

AprilMae,

You is one hot chick regardless!

[Francine]

I've answered this before in another thread too, but my mother gave me my fem name. She once told me if I had been born a girl... my name would of been "Francine". When I started crossdressing, I remembered what she had said, and have refered to my fem name as Francine, since.

Francine

[Marlen]

The choice of my name was a little bit casual. When I was choosing a name... I listened to the song by Marlene Dietrich "Lili Marlen" (i like very much retro: songs, cinema...) also i decided - why not?

P.S. I write Marlen (not Marlene) because it is Russian transcription of a name.

[AprilMae]

AprilMae,

You is one hot chick regardless!

Well thanks, but I only wish that was a picture of me........:straightface:

[Holly]

Short version, I stole mine from a contestant on Big Brother a few seasons ago. You might want to look at this thread (http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27219) to see how this question has been answered in the past.

[MJ]

hi there i like mj but i have friends call'd mary jane. and so i look'd up baby names and change mj to Marissa Jennifer and my friends call me mj and thats what i wanted all along

[Taffy]

I bought one of those 20,000 Names for Baby books and went through it, carefully selecting the names which initially appealed to me. I created a list which I then read through each day for a week or so, crossing off any name that lost its appeal. When the list was down to around 10, I started saying the names out loud several times each day, once again crossing off those which did not feel like "me." After this, I was left with three or four names and I took time to go outside, in a fairly isolated area, and shout the names at the top of my lungs. Several times through this exercise and I was left with one name: Taffy.

When I went looking for an email account, I stumbled upon iName.com (now Mail.com), the free email service. They offered email accounts in a large number of domains, including cheerful.com. I was fortunate to be able to register my account as [email protected] and Taffy Cheerful was locked in as my name. By the way, I really, really, really do like my name.

Taffy

[MissAlyssa]

Well mine came from I guess Alyssa Miliano or however you spell her last name and I love the way Alyssa looks when you write it not print it so boom there you go.

[Dee Model]

Hey Holly,

Thanks for directing me to previous threads re Femme Names, it was great. Babe, i could spend hours!

Dee.

[Holly]

Happy to help, Dee :hugs:

[Sejd]

I chose my name from the Norse ancient tradition of shaman women. A Sejd woman is a woman shaman who knows how to heal, curse and hold great powers. That's how I feel I am as Sejd. A mystic and a healer, if not of anything else, at least, of my own heart. I like to listen to my fellow human beings, to understand and to bless.
huggs
Sejd

[suzanne]

Hold on to your stockings out there. I actually use two names. Sometimes I'm Kim because it's formed by the initials of my boy name. Most of the time, though, I'm Suzanne and that's the name I'm trying to get my SO to use. I tried on dozens of names over a long period of time and that literally was the name I felt most comfortable calling myself. I have used this name for at least three years now.

The interesting part: summer of 2005 my SO and I are staying at my mother's house for a week. In one conversation, I overheard my mother telling my wife that "If I had ever had a daughter, I would nave named her Suzy" What she did have was three sons, myself being the oldest, and it was her practice during each pregnancy to pick out one boy name and one girl name to cover all the bases (since when do two genders cover all the bases, right gurls?).

That stopped me dead in my tracks and I could think of nothing else for the rest of the day. I wanted desperately to pursue that thread and ask her if any one of her pregnancies felt more likely to produce a girl than the others. Or alternatively, what was the name she had picked in case I was a girl? It wouldn't have surprised me in the least had she said I was the one who was to be Suzy. But I felt that would lead to a very disastrous outing, since she is a Christian Fundamentalist with very narrowly defined standards. The only faster route to Hell is to marry a Catholic girl (which I did). I didn't let on I had overheard anything.