Stephanie is a slight variation of my name, I love the name and I also love the shortened version Steph, and it feels right.
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Stephanie is a slight variation of my name, I love the name and I also love the shortened version Steph, and it feels right.
Funny how things come back to me. A half century ago, as a kid alone on the lee side of a barrier island in Florida, I had a really cool boat. It wasn't much more than a gloried toy. Her name was Lady Stephanie. I've never known a bad Stephanie. There is something about the name, it has no special Victorian roots but it isn't one of those name that rose with the time and drifted away. Stephanie will alway be Stephanie to me.
This is such a great question! I have thought about it now for like 2 weeks and I seriously can't remember how or where the name Allyssa came from for me...maybe it's a psychological thing from childhood? Maybe growing up having a crush on Alyssa Milano (but different spelling!) or something, but I seriously can't remember for the life of me how or when that started. It's been with me for at least 15 years now, so it almost feels like I was "born" with it (haha!). I know I've taken other names for a spin over the years or thought other names were cooler, more fitting, etc. but for some random reason I come back to this one and just like it!
Monica - fav character in an online story I read once. Really connected with her for some reason and just felt right...
My wife gave me the name joanne.
I picked Rebecca because I've always loved that name. Its an interesting experience naming yourself. Few people get to do that.
I have always loved the name Alexandra and thought that Santora had a nice ring to it, thus Alexandra Santora.
Mine took a while to sink in but I love the show NCIS and one of the first females was a Katelin Todd, so thats why I had taken Katelynn as a first name and I have a niece that her middle name is Rose. It just felt right. It also had taken a long time to figure out the spelling of Katelynn cause I wanted it to be alittle different than normal. :battingeyelashes:
My wife actually came up with mine , she thought Nikki just fit and I agree with her , we considered the feminine version of my male name but we have a good friend with that name she even same middle name as I do , we just thought it would be weird especially since she knows about my crossdressing.
Hugs , Nikki Rich
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Originally Posted by Nikki Rich
Nikki was from from a Prince song, one of my wife's favorites. It fit.
Like so many others I played around with different names trying to get as girly and sexy as possible. Joking around with some friends one day about names (they have no idea about my other life) I being a smartallic said I'm changing mine to Amy. The next time I got to dress up I thought about my comment and it just felt right. I changed the spelling to Amie to be different because I was different on the outside. The Marie just fell into place shortly after and I've been Amie Marie since.
My female name is Teresa its a name I find quite feminine which is how I like and want to be. My wife doesnt know about my feminine side and would like to keep it that way, she has mentioned to me at various time that she thinks I may a gay side to me it something I am unsure of, as I do fancy men,especially if they are int cross dressing
I like your name really nice
I wish I could be so open with my wife but no chance of that
You are really attractive, I chose Teresa as she is such a lovely girl
I chose Cathern because it's a different spelling of the name I hike and Kelly for Kelly's heroes. I thought it was neat to have a name conjered up from a really good WWII movie.
I always dressed like a gothy asian school girl when I first started going out in public. I looked like a character named Emiko Watanabe so I was called Emi alot. When it came time to get an ID, Emily stuck and has every since.
Emi ^.~
Actually Erica is the second female name that I have used. Recently I have been doing alot of thinking trying to figure out who I really am. I used to use the name Mellissa. I had chosen that at the time because it was cute and a little different. After some time I realized that dressing isnt just something cute that I do but its part of who I am. So I decided to use a form of the middle name that I was given at birth (Eric). I just feel it is more fitting.
Josephine or Josie
I created a list of names, and thought about each for a while. Finally decided on Allie. The others I like though are:
Alexis
Jamie
Alexa
Kristie
Alayna
Ashley/Ashleigh
You do look really feminine
My name I chose from my favourite brand of daywear panties.I just love the microfibre range. Possibly, the most comfortable panties I have ever worn. I had so many pairs when I lived in Canada. Unfortunately, I now live in Spain, and I can't get them on this side of the pond.
My girlfriend has a couple other names for me, Stephania and Daniela. I prefer Elita though...
I just got my real name which is George and added an i to it to make Georgie :)
Hello everyone.
A local fiend who is a full time TV and make up artist named me Perla. this is spanish for pearl.
I really like my name !!
welcome to Perla and Georgie to our family
i like both names
My name is Marci
I'm afraid I wasn't very creative with my femme name. Jennifer is the name I would have had if I'd been born a girl.
Lori is the name of my first crush.
My actual name is gender neutral so I just go by either Alex or Lexi
I don't have any particular attachment to Edith, it's something I came up with quickly when making an account on reddit. :)
That said, I do really like it as a name because it's simple and nice and a bit old-fashioned. To me it sounds very feminine without being flashy or over the top, which is my approach to dressing.
Anita is my real given middle name (I was named after my mother's favorite aunt.) My first name is unisex but more typically a girl's name. My mother really wanted a girl and raised me as one from age 5 onwards. From childhood everyone who liked me called me Anita. Everyone who didn't like me called me "sissy" or "fairy" or "princess" or much much worse (use your imagination).
I use my real full legal name in my email and job applications so most people assume I am female. This is convenient since I am now living and working full-time as a woman.
I have had a few names in the past but I finally chose Marissa because I thought that the actress Marisa Berensen was a perfect representation of femininity. Of course, I mis-spelled it the first time (two s's) but decided to stick with that spelling
there is a trans woman i follow on twitter named morgan who i think is a bad ass chick and i also think of like morgan fairchild who i think of as being super-feminine but also kind of a bad ass in a way and there are lots of girls named ashley who are my age or a little younger so i have always thought of it as the ultimate girl name - and morgan ashley just has a nice ring to it to me
2 very special ladies accepted me for what I am and helped me dress the right way. WOW can they apply makeup. If only I could do it as well.
Yes, you guessed it, their names are Alexis and Lisa.
Kisses.
I picked Kelly as my female name because of Kelly Ripa.
I have no formal first name as I can never get it just right. I just say it's Kathrin to save trouble. Though I took up the last name Grant in honor of Tina Louis' character from Gilligan's Island. Does anyone know of a better first name I could use.
Went through many names. Wanted something to end in i so when I write it, I can dot it with a heart.
Somehow settled on Traci. It is also the name of the main character in my first published novel and my pen name Traci M Knight. (Still thinking about the M - I do like Melissa)
Hugs,
I've been trying, since I came out a few weeks ago, to pick a female name. It's one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make, and I've not made it yet. I've run through dozens of ideas, and they all get rejected for one reason or another.
Well, my guy name is Johnny. My very understanding wife suggested Janie, because it sounded alittle like Johnny.
Deborah Kaye because I asked my parents once what they would have named a daughter. They don't know it now, but their daughter Deborah Kaye finally arrived!
I picked Johnna James since it is close to my real name. I used to go by the name Cameo LaRue. According to my therapist it made perfect sense to make the name change, since it brings my two personalities closer together.
I picked Daryl because of the spelling of my male name Darrell. When I was yong my mother would get mad at some of my school
for spelling my name wrong. For some reason my mom didn't like the female spelling.
This is too funny. My male name is spelled Daryl. Ha!
I know it's a unisex name. Of course there is Daryl Hannah. I also went to school with a girl named Daryl in grade two or three.
No wonder I don't have a big urge to take on a female name. I guess I already have one and just didn't know it. :daydreaming:
Hi so glad to be finally a part of the board I have been viewing it for about 2-3 weeks now and finally signed up.
My name I have 2 that I go by, the first name and middle name is Libby Betty hence the short of Libbyb
Libby was a name given to me by a female friend who helped me when I was in college and finding out later that I would have been called Betty if I had been born female so I have used that .more in the past year for myself.
Amy for me. After a woman I thought was so beautiful and I wanted to be like her, to dress and feel her....make sense?
My female full name is Sarah Brianna Jackson. Sarah came to me last year, Brianna is based on my male name, and Jackson, well, I just liked the sound.
I just love this thread, and learning how everyone decided on a name. For me, Claire is based on my male name and my mother's name. Her name was Clara Beatrice, but she dropped her first name and everyone called her Bea, or Bee. So that's where my e-mail name (Clairebee) comes from. As a kid, everyone called me Cookie. I loved that because that was Dagwood's daughter's name ... but of course I never told anyone that.
My choosen name is London Mckinze. I have a best GG friend who has known about the fem side of me and after talking to her for hours, She insisted we name her. We went back n fourth for an hour. London was choosen becuase I Loved london while I visited there and Mckinze was choosen because thats my Bestie favorite name and future baby name. It was like as soon as we said the names together it clicked. And London Mckinze was truely born. Since that night 5 yrs ago, London has taken a creative roll in my life. My ex wife embraced London and help mold her. She is an Ex for other reasons, not for Londons reasons. I love my life and my friends. They are the ones who have helped me thru everything.
My female name is Tanna Marie Davis. Tanna well that was simple its my real first name (got lucky there ). Marie for a middle name because that's what all the Luther girls in my family middle name is. And Davis its my moms Maiden name and it just fit.
NOt so sure how Joanne came about.. i like the name, and have used it now for many years...
I just found this thread. Very interesting.
For my name, I thought I'd switch the order of my first and last names and then transmogrify both names. My Germanic last name is close to Valerie, and my first (nick)name is Dick. (Can you think of anything worse for someone on the TG spectrum?). Rather than go by Dix or Dixon I selected my mother's maiden name as she helped start me on this path.
It's a bit bizarre in my case. Just before my very first day out a few weeks ago, it struck me that the people I would be meeting would have to call me something! My femme persona had never had a name, as she had never been out in public or met anyone. Just at that point, I drove past a JoAnn fabric store and thought "that's close to my actual name, that'll do!". For the occasions when I need a surname, I use the one I was born with (I'm an adoptee, and it came in handy this time!).