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Although I have another name that I use in other groups, 'Gena' is less complicated. the name, 'Gena' was given to me by a wonderful saleslady at the Estee Lauder counter at Macys. She asked me to use 'Gena' when I would call to see if see was working. I'm only 'Gena_2' here because 'Gena' was not available for me. Love this website!:)
I choose my name because first of all, I liked it and secondly, it is a derivative of my male name.
JoAnne Wheeler
I'm not sure how I came up with my name. I'm irish so I guess Maggie sounded like it could be a bit irish.
My therapist recently asked if I had a middle name and after a brief thought Katherine (or Catherine .. I haven't decided on the spelling yet :D) came to mind.
I like the way Maggie Katherine sounded ... sort of classy in my opinion.
hugs - Maggie Katherine (or is it Catherine)
Secondly- I am a Beatles fan and had "Lovely Rita, Meter Maid" going through my head- the 2 ideas came together as a tribute to my 1st "love" and my favorite band![/QUOTE]
I LOVE the Beatles, too! Lovely, Rita!
My wife came up with my first name after seeing me fully dressed up, complete with makeup. I tossed around a few last names and came up with my last name, which my wife liked as well. And "Gabrielle Hermosa" as born. :)
As a child my perents would dress me in a panties and a little girls dress and call me sue sue. It was suppose to be for punishment and as I grew up they along with my brother would call me that to tease me. So for about six months after I came to the conclusion that I was more fem I used Sue.
But I decided I didn't have to have a name with so many negatiaves behind it. I alwasy like Jill and it matched my real first initial, so it worked out well.
BTW, my dad was from the same area in Arkansas as Johnny Cash and they did know each other. So I figured the song "a boy named Sue" was written about me.
Jill
my so picked mine when she first discovered my cd'ing. she asked if i had a name for my alter ego and when i said no, she thought about it for 2 secs then said "jasmine" sounded right to me :battingeyelashes:
You know the feeling that you get, the reaction that you make, when someone calls out your name (often to a person nearby)? It’s that kind of familiarity, that kind of identity, that I’ve had with the name Melissa for as long as I can remember. Unlike some of you, it’s not the name my parents would have chosen had I been born a biological girl and it’s nothing like my birth name. Yet, it’s every bit as much “me.” The other part of my login name (Sue) is actually not a middle name. It’s short for Summers, the last name that I’ve adopted. Summers is a simple name, again not at all like my more unusual (and sometimes hard to pronounce) given surname, but also a word that signifies the enjoyable times in my life when I celebrated my birth (often with my favorite dessert, strawberry shortcake with Bisquik!). My middle name is Eve, the first woman as told in Scripture and a word that refers to something immediately preceding an event, date or activity. For me, a complete name as a woman properly sets the stage for a changed life that follows.
By my mother, if I was born a girl my name is Lotte (Charlotte).
Blue favorite color.
Orchid favorite flower
Blue Orchid
I am Hispanic but didn't learn Spanish very well while living at home but sometimes my mother would say i looked muy linda(which means pretty) when i would dress up when I was a child so I thought she was calling me Linda. oh well lol.
I received my name while meditating about spritual introspection. I have always considered my name a gift It is as important to me as my given birth name. A great question! lv dana.
Thank you Joanne I think you have just helped me to find a last nime! I had never even given thought to mothers maiden name... Sarah Marie Bowe... it runs well I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joanne Curl
The rest of it just fell into place years ago, always thought of myself as a Sarah, all the Sarah's I know are lovely people inside and out. Marie came from my ex-wife and my initials, S&M (she was the S and I was the M). So S M always made sense to me, so Sarah Marie I became. Now to ask mothers permition to use her maiden name to complete my self.:daydreaming:
Ok I will have to give a bit more thought to my last name... Any thoughts?
My name, Cathy, is special to me. Many years ago when I was a lowly Biology undergraduate I had a crush on a girl named Kathy. She was able to keep up with the boys and do all the field stuff we did, but she managed to remain very feminine all the while. I always admired that. I am Cathy and not Kathy because I had a brain lapse in spelling.
I picked up this genji name (alias) after searching for my real name meanings, instead of the real name, I found out "Izzy" in the list. So I remembered that one of the cartoon I watched when I was a kid use that name (of course it's boy character).
Luckily, "Izzy" is suit for both gender.. So I paired it with Valentine as my last name.
There you go "Izzy Valentine", and I found another name, which is I often use too.
An initial for Izzy, which is IV.. So I got "Ivy" as my another (yet girly) name. :D
I chose Kathryn for my most beloved fictional female ever, Captain Kathryn Janeway of the USS Voyager. She's strong, intelligent, outside the box, and principled to a fault. That said, she cares deeply for her friends and crew, and is flawed in just the right ways.
Oh, and when she's angry, she's hell on warp nacelles. For the best reference of this, see "Equinox Part I & II" from Voyager. Her humanity guides every decision she makes, for better or worse.
Many years ago when I was first contemplating a femme name I tried picking a cute moniker for myself but nothing felt quite right. Whatever name I tried just felt too...I dunno...made up. I wanted to own the name so to speak and didn't feel right naming myself. I hit upon the idea of asking my dad in a round about way what my name would have been if I had been born a girl. It turns out that before I was born my folks thought they had a girl on the way and had selected the name Elizabeth. Hence Beth. Short, simple and relatively close to my guy name. I liked it, it felt like something I could have just for me and given (albeit unknowingly) by someone I love very much.
it is a cute name and so, for that matter, are you.
come out of the closet. you look way too good to be hidden away.
A few weeks ago, I was in San Francisco for Macworld. I got totally dressed up and went to Diva's - a fun little drag bar. The bartender found out it was my first time dressed up and out and about, and said "What's your name, hon?" I gave her my guy name. She shook her head and asked again, "What's your name, hon?" Thinking she hadn't heard me the first time, I gave her my name again. She fixed me with a stare, and emphasizing every word, asked me again, "What's your name, hon?"
Suddenly, the light dawned (yeah, I know. I'm slow, but I'm a guy - it's expected). I said "Kathi." She smiled, and said "Welcome, Kathi." And that's where my first name came from - desperation. Why did I say Kathi? I'm not sure. Kathi was the name of my first kiss. She wore what is now my favorite perfume (Oscar De La Renta). Who knows, maybe I associate femininity with her. As for the last name? Ummmmm, it sounded good?
Oh yeah, learn from my mistake. If you go into a drag bar dressed as a woman, don't use the men's room like I did. I got some weird looks from the men in there as I left the stall, washed, touched up my gloss and fluffed my hair. One of the guys came up to me later and told me of my faux pas. Sigh. So much to learn! :battingeyelashes:
Kathi
I don't know that I ever responded to this thread before but since my response would be rather lengthy, I include instead, a link to my name history. In so far as I am aware, both my name, and the manner of my chosing it, are rather unique. If you are interested, you can connect to my site by simply dropping everything in the following link from /data on.
http://home.earthlink.net/~rlynne9/d...0My%20Name.pdf
My name came from a girl in my secondary school. She was with her clothing, attitude, make up and hair a sort of rolemodel for me. Now more than 20 years later I still use this name for my femme alterego (still in the closet).
I can't even remember when or why. I just feel like I've always been Stephanie. I never even gave it a thought. I just identify with.
You all has so beautiful stories about your femme name. The story behind Lisa is not as beautiful, but may be funny in some ways.
Since i was eight years the love of my life was computers, that year Apple also started to sell their new computer which was named the Apple Lisa. That is not why I choose Lisa.
Later in my life, when I was about 18-20 years old I and a friend decided to have fun on a few IRC channels, we would present us as girls and see how everyone reacted. I choose the nick Lisa14_70C. That femme name was taken from that old Apple computer, I had a lot of fun with that.
And now when I started to CD Lisa came to me somewhat naturally, I really had called myself that before.
I remember a TV show from the late 60s earily 70s who had a lady named MaryAnn...loved that show.:heehee:
My first name is Lee and my middle initial is A. Could have been Leah. My wife helped me come up with Leanne.
Diane Marie myself. not to conserned with my last name to be honest lol. Diane cause its always been my favorite name and Marie cause its tradition in my family to name your daughters middle name Marie, and Moms happy that im continuing that so its pretty awesome.
I had become obsessed with Fado when I started learning Portuguese a while back and i loved Amalia Rodrigues's name, so I decided on Amalia.
I haven't come up with one yet.
I've no idea how I came up with Kate Longman, the name just sounded so nice, I used it.
I had never really thought about a femme name until I started going online about a year before I first started going out dressed and found I needed a name to sign to my posts and, eventually, emails. The female equivalent of my given name "David" is Vida. That sounded a little too unusual for me, but it suggested Vicki, a name with only pleasant associations for me; most notably an attractive redhead I knew in school. Since I planned on being a redhead myself, it just seemed to fit. (I later saw "To Wong Fu" and was glad I hadn't picked Vida because a.) people might've assumed I borrowed it from the Patrick Swayze character, and b.) I couldn't do justice to that character's sense of style anyhow!)
I chose to spell my first name with an 'i' because it seemed trendier and fit with an idea I had for a last name: I decided the two 'd's in "David" could be the 'c-k' in "Vicki" and then I took any leftover letters and rearranged them into Felaise. It was only later that I found out it was a real name. So I guess I have a whole other family out there? Maybe I should see if they have any reunions nearby!?! :D
LOL
A very interesting thread indeed. . . Jacie is sort of a femme derivative of the name I was Bourne ;) with :)
And I'd like 2B Jacie 24/7 :D maybe someday.
BTW- I haven't added a last name, yet. maybe "Lyn" as I like that name as well and I flows smoothly
Jacie Lyn
My name came from a series of names I made up in a MMORPG called Eternal Lands. I created a full alias to fit any situation of the online world. Naleen was actually the surname of my Male avatar, but now it sounds femme. "Naleen Atrens" is my current full female name.
I chose Emma just cause it felt right. It was also my great grans name and if I'd been a girl or had a sister they would have been named after her. I flirted with the idea of using Charlotte or Jamie (close to my actual name) but I trust my instinct for most things in life and they never really fitted. So I reverted to Emma:)
I just chose Elizabeth. I love the name, especially one friend who had it. Love saying it. I always said if I had a girl I will like to call her Elizabeth, since it didn't happen, I decided to take it.
Elizabeth
How? Jack went up the hill, and Jill came down. Simple.
Why? Because I find when I am shopping for a new bra and pantie set while en femme, or appearing for a reservation at a nice restaurant while en femme, referring to myself as 'Ralph' doesn't seems to have the correct ring to it.
i've always liked the name Amy, and the alternative way of spelling it :)
I took a lot of time trying to come up with just the right name. There are lots of girl names I really like, but they didn't feel comfortable on me until I hit on the feminine version of my name -- decided to spell it with a "y" which helped me to feel even more feminine and then I realized, that was it! It felt right. If pressed for a middle name, I chose Kelly. So I would be Robyn Kelly. I like it.
The first time I completely dressed, head to toe, makeup etc, I looked in the mirror, smiled and said Hi Kathy! and that was that--Kathy I am!! Silly but true!:battingeyelashes:
I have a long history with the name Caroline. I first noticed it as a teen, in the song "Pretty in Pink" (I had a huge crush on Molly Ringwald). I had already started CDing on a regular basic. I was a bit of a loner as an early teen, and didn't have many friends. I lived in a rich fantasy world. In one of the fantasies I was a rock star and one of the members of my band was a tall, tom-boyish girl named Caroline Scott. Years after that, in College, I tried to write a comic book (which I later wrote out as a full length novel). Basically a Metaphor for my teen years. The main character was a 16 year old girl, otherwise normal, who had her genes spliced with a lion, turning her into a Lion Lady. Her name was Caroline Anderson. Years after that I added a middle name, Emily, after Emily Dickenson, since I fancied my femme persona to be something of a poet. So that's how I became Caroline Emily Anderson today.
Jeannie was a real estate agent I used to by a house with along time ago and it is totally different from my male name. She was very nice and helpful and I really liked her. I am trying to decide on a last name but haven't picked one yet. I am thinking of something on the order of Smith, Smyth or something like that.
Jeannie
When I first dressed I chose the name Maria, my sisters best friend but when I started to dress more seriously I chose Kellyanne as this was the name of a girl I knew from college and I liked it as I thought it was different and not as well used as other names at the time and as what usually happens friends call me Kelly or Kel anyway.
My surname of Stewart was my mothers maiden name and in case your interested I chose a middle name of Louise as this would have been my name if I had actually been born a girl.
I have recently thought of changing my name because I have been feeling it was a bit young for me but then I think why..... its part of me now.
Kelly xx
I only decided on my name recently, my misses thought it would be easier if we were out and about,
Eventually decided on Bethany, it is a very similar structure to me real name, and i think it suits my personality, it even stats with the same letter which makes all my atm cards easy to use when out as her,
and more importantly i like the name.
Beth.
I love it. And I can relate about the mirror. I smile every time I see Rosaliy.
I was thinking about this topic early this morning. Why we choose the names we have? Are we still happy with the ones we chose? Do they fit the feminine side of ourselves today? I recently chose the name Rayne (Ra-nay) but found out that someone else had already choosen it. I thought it was an original, but someone else here thought of it also; so I had to add a 1 to the end. That is alright, there are many others who choose similar names with others and have to change there's slightly. I think it is a fabulous name. I am not sure where I came up with it, but it seemed to fit me.
Someone should use the name Miss L. Toe.
I always loved the name Lily, it was pretty and sweet. I had debated long and hard between Lily and Lillium (A Type of Lily). But while I was debating the name Lillica came to me as a cute girly sweet name that would be cute and unique for myself.
Eventually after alot of though and feeling about with the sounds of names, I've settled on Lillica Kirsch Hart. Kirsch being german (Which my grandmother is) for Cherry (One of my favorite fruits.) and Hart because well... I'm to embaressed to use my real last name and well it's cute and is a real last name. :o
With my tongue firmly in cheek, I added a trailing 'a' to my male name. Don't think it's the prettiest girls' name in the world but my SO routinely uses it and a CD can't ask for much more than that.
Hi Rita,Quote:
Originally Posted by LovelyRita
I only came up with my name recently, in order to post on this site. I am still not sure of it. I too would definitely want to avoid a 'stripper name'. What names would you suggest to avoid?
Celeste
I came up with my name for this site, I'd been thinking of a name for awhile but couldn't find one I liked. When I went to the chat site I couldn't log-on as Rebecca Sue or Rebecca so I looge-on as Rebekka which I like a lot better so Rebekka it is. I just need to figure out how to change it here on the message board and I will be set.
my name is tied to this hot friend I had