Your Female Name

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!).