How Did You Choose Your Female Name?

[Guest Becky Lynn]

Hi,

I've always liked the name Becky- Rebecca. I think it has a cute innocent school girl sound to it, nice and feminine. It was between Lynn and Sue for the middle name. I thought Sue sounded just a little too countrified if you know what I mean. Lynn seemed to roll off the tongue a lot better.

OXOX

Becky Lynn

[Guest Sarah Dreams]

I have gone by Kimberly, Michelle, Melissa, Laurie (still fond of that one) and others, but Sarah was always whispering on the wind. It sounds like a whisper and its meaning describes me.

~ meaning ~

Princess or lady

~ motivation ~

Aims to achieve their goals.

~ character ~

Constant with their decisions

~ feelings ~

Intimacy is important to you

~ intelligence ~

Speaks with authority

~ spiritual ~

Has a free spirit

~ nature ~

A sunny disposition

~ inherent ~

A love of freedom

[Guest Jennifer1339]

I just started thinking of feminine names and I came up with several names and I picked Jennifer for now but I am still wavering between a couple of different names. For me the more feminine the better. Everyone is different and you just have to choose one that seems right for you and make you feel like a woman in my opinion.

Jennifer1339

[Guest julia_d]

Mine came from a mistake on a piece of officialdom through the mail.

Maybe they got me mixed up with somebody else or maybe not.. but I liked it and when it came time to do the legal stuff it just happened.

It's not a comfortable name as the last letter of the first and first letter of the second are the same.. but that seems to add realism because my documents marital status wise say divorced.

Odd coincidence.. there is another person with the same name as me living on this street. I had their mail once too, but long after I changed my name. It's a small town, we have probably met more than once

[Guest Emily1]

6 years ago (I was in 6th grade) my school had a spirit day called cross dress day - you can imagine how excited I was - and my friends and I selected Jenny for me to go by that day. Ever since then, I have often used it on games and fake accounts. However, a couple weeks ago when I really started considering that I might be transsexual, I thought over Jeanie, Hilda, and Charlene because they are my grandmothers names (first or middle), Emily because that is the name I would have had if I were born female, and Jenny and Amy simply because I like those. Once I thought of Emily, I knew it was just the name for me. I looked it up (as I had for each of the other names), and found that it means "To Strive Or Excel," which perfectly suits my personality. As for the middle name, I spent a long time just thinking about which one sounds best, eventually settling on Jenny (Jennifer to be more accurate). I chose to simply keep my last name, Graetz.

Hope this helps someone,

Emily Jennifer Graetz

[Guest anna123]

Aaron Sifritt -> Anna Simmons

It just sounds nice and it's pretty close to my actual name

[Guest AnnaH]

I picked the name Anna after some long thought. Originally I toyed with the idea of Alexis or Melanie, but my mom really liked those and they didn't seem to fit. After making a deal with my mom that she could pick my middle name if I got to choose my own first name, I took some time to think of many things. For some reason, most movies and novels that have a character named Anna are the ones I can relate to that character in some way. "Music From Another Room" and "Anna Karenina", even the Russian version of my favorite ballet "The Nutcracker" all have Anna as a main character. It is a name that is simple and elegant, nothing too outlandish or overdone, just an average girl's name who has some sophistication. Thus Anna fit very nicely for me and it is my name now.

[Guest Valerie]

I started thinking of names for me about a year ago. Idk, but as soon i thought of Valerie, I just knew it was the one for me. Im still trying to think of a nice middle and last name with a nice sounding cadence. Any suggestions?

Love ya!

Val

[Guest Selene Lavelle]

It's kind of funny. My first name, I sorta just chose it. I loved it. It means a lot to me, and why, I don't know.

My second name, well, that actually was cool how I got it.

One night in the middle of July, I was really depressed so I turned to a friend to help me. Rebecca, is the most amazing person for spending long nights with me on the phone when I'm crying, and when I'm down. I trust her with everything, anyways.

So we were talking about having a middle name and I told her I didn't have one. She was like "Sel, you need one..." so she went and got a baby name book.

When she opened the book, she opened to the "l"s and the first name she saw was Lavelle.

Lavelle is old Gaelic or something of the sort, for the word "Reborn", kinda cool I think.

Further looking into Selene... turns out that that's another name for the Greek Goddess.

Goddess, did I feel like an idiot when I found that out... and I'm supposed to be Wiccan... ewww, I'm dumb XP

Anyways, that's my name story.

[Guest Melanie_C]

It took some time (A grand total of two weeks of thinking ) over mine. It started with Claire, and ended with Melanie. People I kept asking for advice kept thinking "Justine/a", but it feels too... forced? As confusing as that sounds.

I just always liked how well it fit my personality.

[Guest Shannon Marie]

This is kinda creepy or maybe more ironic but, I chose my name when I was very young. There was a girl at school I really admired and I thought she had a very pretty name so, I copied her "Shannon Marie". The creepy part came after I got caught dressing up a few times. My mother and I had a little chat about things and she told me that until the day I was born all of the doctors were sure i was a girl. The name she chose was "Shannon Leigh." My current name was something she and my father came up with in the spur of the moment when things didn’t turn out as planned. Weird huh?

[Guest sara w.]

well i havn't officially figured it out yet, but so far i like sara beacause its very feminin and i've always felt that i liked that name(btw it has nothing to do with my male name)

[Guest suzanneCO]

Ive always liked the name Suzanne. Plus I would dance alot to the song Suzy Q growing up, imagining they were singing about me. For a middle name, Evelyn sounds nice for some reason but still thinking about it.

[Guest joanna09]

wow I never been so confused over choosing a name one or two of you got it right All I did was just change my former male name of john to Joanna end of story. Sorry guys I am from Scotland and its in our nature just to get straight to the point but I will admit some of your names are very beautiful and if it makes you feel good thats what its all about another reason I changed my name as I did I don't have to changed my signature that can be pain very much so here in France and UK anyway ladies just you all take care and enjoy being a female I am.

Fondest Regards

Joanna

[Guest Selene Lavelle]

Val hun, you've got a middle name now. Tell everyone Let it be your rebirth!

[Guest Apriladam]

Hi,

Mine is April, I like the Month and the name always stood out to me!!!!!!!

[Guest mia 1]

The nane Mia came to me out of nowhere, It seemed so non definitive, ambiguous and unquestionably femine. I loved the name and it loved me. Love to your sweet inquisitive mind...............Mia.

[Guest Courtney Hamilton]

When I got dressed up the first time with make up and everything and looked in the mirror it was the first name that came to mind and i really liked it.

[Guest Kelly Ann]

A man on a flaming pie....oh wait a minute...that's been taken, sorry John. I'm really not sure...Kelly sounds so nice and it's gender neutral like me...and I've always liked Ann's, like, ForEver...I HAD to sign up on this site <sigh> no choice at all, darn smart choice...it took about .0000058/nanoseconds to reach a junction...it just hit the page on the login/password...never considered it before...but it makes me giggle and smile everytime I type it. Kelly Ann (-; <giggle>

[Guest Amanda L Richards]

Hello all,

My first name came to me by such accident that it still baffles, but I sort of chuckle at it today.

When I first started to go out. It took me three months to build up the nerve to do it. The only thing on my mind then was what am I going to wear and where am I going to go??. I never once gave it a thought as to what name I wanted to be called, but I never expected to run into anybody either.

Up to that point, I had played around with many different names, but never settled on one since they just didn't seem to fit right, Tina, Pauline, Tammy, and the list goes on.

Finally the night came and the anxieties were off the chart and the next question that entered my mind was Should I do it or not, am I going to do it or not??

I was flustered and excited at the same time. So I got dressed, took me about 2 hours of trying all the clothes I had, The only thing that was settled by that time was underwear. I finally got dressed and made it to the place where I knew was a good place, the first time I had been there, so I was nervous, and names still hadn't entered my mind. I was only in the door for about 15 minutes and sitting at the bar and someone came over and introduced themselves.

So untill next time,

Thank you Dr. Metropolis

Amanda Larissa Richards

"hi I am Cindy.... I froze for about what seemed like eternity, but I knew I was going to have to respond, in the first moments nothing was coming out of my mouth and then as if it were someone else speaking for me the name Amanda rolled off my tongue.

After I got over my intitial anxieties, and got to know some people at this gathering, The name Amanda was sounding powerful when applied to me. Each time someone called me Amanda, I felt a resonance in my heart like no other time when my male name is used. I thought that name doesn't sound like I am trying overly hard to express my feminine, and it just seems to almost feel familiar, like it has been my name since birth. The more I thought of it, the more I was feelinglike it fit me and the more I felt like I fit it.

I have used Amanda ever since with the same consistant resonance inside that I had when I first heard someone call me Amanda.

As evlution would have it, I decided that I needed to complete the name. The second name Larissa, came from a girl that I went to school with (Laurice). She told me that Laurice was french for Larissa. When I heard that I though I never liked being a knock off or copy so I decided to take the english version, I felt better about it being my own. Laurice and I were friends and fairly similar in alot of ways. She and I had the same hair color and eye color. We were also the same size. I often wondered what some of the nice clothes that she had would look like on me and I know very well they would have fit too. Because of this I felt that not only did thename sound nice and not overkill, it sofar had a nice flow. It wasn't complete yet.

The last name I am a bit embarrassed about but this forum is about honesty. The last name is Richards. This is variation of the middle name of a man I was seeing for a short period of time. His middle name was Richard. I just put the s on the end, Richards.

So at that time Amanda Larissa Richards was well into learning who I feel I am. these names, All three of them to my ear have a smooth flow and they feel like a fit like I have felt at no other time in my life.

I apologize for the lengthy explanation of something as simple as "How did you get your femme name?" that is how the full name developed. The time actually took about a year to come together.

[Guest Amanda L Richards]

Hello all again,

In case anybody is wondering, I was proof reading my post and didn't realize that the cursor was not at the end when I added the closing. OOOps!!

Amanda L

[Guest stephphorever]

I talked to an FTM name Ethan, and his birth name was Stephanie. I loved it. I don't know exactly why, but that name just seems to go well with my personality and I simply adore the name. And I chose Julianne as the middle name because I also liked the name Julie, but that's my Fundamentalist Christian Aunt's name, so.....I hose Julianne (plus it's the name of this really cute girl who I hope to look like some day). Giordano is my last name because it's my mommy's maiden name.

Love ya,

Stephanie Julianne Giordano

PS my birth name is Alexander Jordan Roberts (but I hate it)

PPS any FTMs looking for a name can have mine lol

[Guest Shannon S]

For me I always held a liking to the name Shannon so for me my name was no contest at all (it's a plus when you mother loves the name but, doesn't know about the true me witch will change AFTER Christmas) and a friend of mine helped me chose my middle name witch is Hayley. My last name I could never get rid of my middle name. At least untill I get marryed one day.

So the name my friends (all the ones that know) use is Shannon Hayley *insert last name here*. I couldn't be happier with it.

[Guest brain(katie)]

its wierd i think mine just kind of picked me. Its Kaite if i transition. I was going to go with brianna but to close to my real name Brian.

[Guest Donna Jean]

its wierd i think mine just kind of picked me. Its Kaite if i transition. I was going to go with brianna but to close to my real name Brian.

I so sorry, dear...I've been having trouble with your name for a while......If you look at your post name it says BRAIN/KATIE.......(thats the thing in your head.... :P )

Brianna IS close to BRIAN, though...Ha ha ha

I'm sorry..I couldn't help it, Hon.......

Love ya....

Donna Jean