Your Female Name

After over fifty years or dressing and many names, my name for the past ten years is Catherine Severine, a name that comes from the first name of Catherine Deneuve, and the last name being her character in Belle de Jour, a film from her glory days. She is unable to share intimacy with her husband, but leads a complicated fantasy life. The first time I saw the film I felt such a connection with her character I had to take the name. When I finally got my feminine Id card, it felt to me more natural a name than my "normal" name. If only I bore the slightest resemblance to her, as opposed to Jim Belushi (for who I have been mistaken...you see what I am up against here)...sigh.

my name comes from a woman whose style in dress is very elegant and sexy, she provides a lot of inspiration

Sheila feels right to me. Feminine and Musical
Interesting Thread! Thanks.

It's nice how most everyone's name is so meaningful to them.

My Christianity has been important to me for a long time. So, when I finally confessed wife and church marriage counselors that I had always fantasized about crossdressing and was asked to leave the church and my wife filed for divorce, I took the name "Faith" as my first name. My Surname, Grace, is what should have been extended to me instead of being expelled from the church. I don't blame God, but I do blame the ignorance and prejudice of my pastor and counselors. Thus, Faith Grace, through an unfortunate divorce, was born and has been able to flourish and I am now more comfortable and happy than I, she, has ever been.

I've lived a vicarious "second life" as a tgirl in the virtual world Second Life for almost five years. I can only dream of having all the cute clothes in real life as I do there, where I'm known as Elfin Skytower, so that's who I honestly think of myself when i'm dressed! Soo much fun!

I always liked the name Jenna. So when I joined a site that would have been awkward that is the name I picked and have stuck with.

Christina is close to my male name and I just think the name is a beautiful.

Christina

I really cannot recall how I came to chose Kimberly, perhaps the name chose me :D
I was happy to see KimberlyTX spells her name the same way.

Sadly, the fantasy name I have for myself, Seitari, wouldn't fit real life norms but I've always liked the name Kathleen, or Sakura. I know of a couple people named Sakura, and they're all wonderful women. So if I had to choose between the two, I guess it'd be Kathleen, because I can't pull off Sakura. :)

~Krasus

I knew a gg once that always dressed the way I'd like to dress. So I took her name - Kelly.

I dont know how i came up with my name. I think "Andrea" was always inside me. I just needed to verbalize her to bring her to life..

The first time I visited my favorite store the owner asked me what my female name was, and I told her I didn't have one. She said don't worry, it'll come to you. About a week later I had a dream, woke up in the middle of the night and had my name. It's one I made up, I've never heard it anywhere.
Your Sister,
Velece

Robbin is close to my other name. My real first friend as a young kid was a girl named Randa. We were Randy and Robbin and inseparable. The Sinclair part started out being St. Clair. I've always like people (and places) with St for the first part of the last name but after a while, it reminded me too much of a stripper's name. I wouldn't mind being a stripper but don't need the name. Sinclair reminds me of the out of business gasoline company dinosaur logo. Rob' bin Sin' Clair sounds strong with a nice four beat melodic ring. Hell, I'm a lady dinosaur so why not. xr

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Originally Posted by Rachel M

For the longest time i did this with out the use of a name. Back in college, I had a friend named Meghan. I said hmmm, I like that name so for a long time that is the name that I used. Well, I eventually got married and came out to my wife prior to us getting married. She was okay with it and very supportive. Then one day I was all dressed up and we were planning on going out for an adventure. She asked, "What shall I call you, do you have a femme name that you used? She didnt want to make a mistake and call me by my male name. I told her that i had been using Meghan. She had met my friend in the past, but didnt think the name fit me. So, I asked who do I look like to you? She replied..."Rachel, you look like a Rachel." I think it was the hair and my femme personallity that reminded her of Rachel Aniston in Friends. I like the name and and it stuck with me since.

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Rachel was my second choice. A strong name. Hopefully, I don't offend you but MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is my favorite person on television. I love your story about your wife. I would like to think my wife will be as open about this as your's is. She's a flaming liberal like me, so there's hope. xr

Danielle has an elegance about it that atrracted me to the name.

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I dont know how i came up with my name. I think "Andrea" was always inside me. I just needed to verbalize her to bring her to life..

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Hi Andrea... same thing with with me... once she had a name she became a reality...

My first name was Michelle, since that was close to my boy name. I finally decided on Elizabeth as I adore Elizabeth Taylor. I also picked a middle name of Rebecca after a GG I knew who inspired me. And I even picked a last name of Kelly which I chose in honor of a beautiful GG I knew in high school. So my full name as a female is Elizabeth Rebecca Kelly.

I picked my name "Laurel", because I felt it was a true reflection of my feminine side.

Choosing my name was a tough decision. Motivating factors was the Neil Diamond song and it was the daughters name in one of my favorite movies, Captain Ron. I also didn't want a name that contained any hard vowels except for the first letter.

It was actually easy for me. Call me lazy, but since she and I are two sides of the same coin, I just used the female version of my First name and used my Christian last name.

My mother always said if I was a girl, I would be named Lauren (she loves Ralph Lauren.) I would have stuck with that but I had a cousin come along and her parents used Lauren, which for some reason I feel funny about the same name. So, I tweaked it to Laura.

I started with an alternate name listed in my baby book, Kendall Ray (there weren't any girl names listed). I actually used that name during a stint as a radio DJ. Kendall is a boy/girl name so I started referring to her as Kendall Rayanne. After several weeks it still didn't feel right. Looking at my pictures, I saw that Kimberly would fit but Rayanne didn't. A little more tweaking and Renee sounded good. Choosing a surname was a bit of a hunt & peck and throwing a dart but finally Kimberly Renee Cooper was decided on.

I was trying to come up with names, and happened to be listening to the album Treasure (Cocteau Twins), and the song Cicely came on - and I sort of fell in love with the name, it just clicked.

Many years ago I was traveling on a business trip which required me to be away over a weekend. All of my non work time was spent en femme and when I woke up on Saturday morning and looked in the mirror I saw Nicole. The name sought of chose me first and then I just fell in love with it.

My name situation is a little different, as I am genderfluid (flowing between masculine and feminine, rather than two boxes) and I am out.
My born first and middle names are Kim William, (yes I was born a Kim, named after the Rudyard Kipling book).
And so I have changed my name (not legally) to Kimberly Michelle William, to have a nicer flow, and to honor my masculine aspect, my feminine aspect and my androgynous aspect. I have come out very recently, and so have been playing femme a lot. One of my friends calls me Kimberly Michelle, and I like it.

It's the name of an ancestor of mine I discovered when I was researching my family history a few years back. I liked the name, and it cropped up a few weeks ago when I needed a username to post pics of my newly found alter ego. It's more of a nom de plume than a name I identify my female persona with.
Charlotte x

Well my name was given to me by my girlfriend while she was half asleep in the morning. I was bugging her as to what she would call this side of me and the name Sheryl came up. She said that my "female persona" felt like a Sheryl. So be it I said :)

My real name is Leon and Leanne seemed a logical girl's name, as for the Rochester, I 'borrowed' it from the Earl of Rochester from the film 'Plunket and McClain'.

Amia it was given to me by a friend who help me find a name for my self

I have always liked the name Valeri since I was kid. One of the first girls that I kissed was named Valeri which I remember very well to this day so maybe that is a good reason. I had a good friend in High School named Valeri. It has always been a positive association for me. But the most logical reason was because I no longer know anyone with that name. None of my current friends or relatives have this name. This was important for me in choosing Valeri.

When I was getting my transformation, the woman asked me what I was going to call myself. I hadn't really given it ANY thought at all. When I said I had no idea I told her that she can name me....she said I looked like a young Sophia Lauren. Frances is actually my middle name, just with an "I"

Mine is just a natural extension of the guy name my mom gave me. I think that if I had been born female that is what she would have named me
Danielle ;)

Mine is the name of the girl I had a secret crush on and admired all through highschool.

I did the same Laurel, I picked "Danni" because she just seems to be me.

My female name is Tracy. I just took my male name Travis and changed it.

My name was after an old friend, she was great but moved to America.

i have picked Juanita but the more i think about it it just does not fit. i just picked what is the female version of my name. not very creative. so looking to change it. but it feels odd changing ones name after picking it.

Mine was chosen by a very uninhibited girl I worked with years ago. It was Halloween week and she asked what I was going out trick or treating as. I replied that I hadn't done that in a long long time then asked her what she thought. She said "a woman". I dismissed it with a laugh but she persisted by asking me if I'd ever worn pegnoits, bras, etc. I denied each one but her tone was increasingly of disbelief. She said I should get them because she could make me over into a beautiful woman. "Then I'll call you Michelle and we'll go out to bars".

Mine is a play on my middle names.

No special meaning to it, other than the leading initial matches that of my given name. I picked it years ago, and it suits me.

This is my new name.

I am an Italian recently joined this pressing that my eyes looks wonderful, like being female, true with all the pros and cons.

My desire is not to forge ahead, to live day by day all the news and savor dino at the bottom.

Of nature are submissive, servile, slave, obedient, passive, willing to fulfill every desire of my master or mistress.

I will not bore you again and I hope to make many friends.

kiss, kiss ...

Silvia

Luna Nyx. My wife helped me pick it.

I didn't want a name of anyone we know. I've always liked the name Dana plus My favorite actress is Dana Delany and have you ever noticed how Dana Delany is always wearing awsome shoes in every role she plays?

I have always loved the name Deborah. As far back as I remember I wanted my name to be Deborah. So, I took it ...........

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From the first girl I was ever attracted to. I didn't know whether I wanted to be with her, or to be just like her.

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Ditto. Mine was Amy. Very attracted to her and she wore outfits that just turned me on so much....

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This is your opportunity.

Please tell us all how your came to choose or were given your female name.

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I like Marlene, it reminds me of the only girl I ever dated that shared my dressing.

Chantelle. Chose it initially when younger as it sounded a little cheap where I was from and a few of the trashy girls were called it at school. The surname was a teacher at my school and I had a massive crush on her, not a glamourous lady, plump and overweight. It was simple as that. :-)

Seeing as my mother said a number of times when I was young 'you should have been born a girl' (I know for sure that a Ouija board told them I would be female) I have taken the name that I would have been given if that had happened: Victoria Louise

I haven't given a lot of thought to why I settled on the name that I did. I have gone through a few. At fourteen, I originally went with the name Marlene. That was because it sounded elegant to me, and it was the name of a teacher I really admired both for her personality and her beauty. Later I went with Jenny on a whim but that lasted a couple weeks and I was back to Marlene. I didn't really think about the name I settled on, but it has stuck now for nearly twenty years. So I really doubt that I'll ever change it. My first name Lisa, I believe was motivated by my admiration for a co-worker of mine. My chosen middle name, Sue, I'm more than certain was spawned by a girl I knew in Junior High/High School. She was beautiful, kind, and sweet (and one of the few people who didn't mock or shun me when she found out about the Lisa side of me). She also dated a guy I used to hang out with, who knew about Lisa, and with whom I was totally infatuated from 3rd grade all the way through college. So I'm thinking that Sue was chosen somewhat out of both envy and admiration. If folks will put up with it, I'm sure you'll hear about that guy more in the future.

I chose Ninotchka in honor of Greta Garbo who played that character in the movie of that name. One of my all time favorite flicks.