So how did you pick your name

[Michelle M]

Well, I guess I picked it for a couple reasons. Michelle was the first girl I had a crush on in elementary school. Also, I like double L's so it worked well. I picked my female name Michelle Kelly McClelland. I think it sounds pretty.

[Bernice]

I'm experiencing major Deja Vu here. Anyway, my femme name shares one or more consonants and vowels with my given name, which had no corollary for the other gender.

Hugs,

Bernice

[Kayla_H]

My wife picked it out two weeks after I came out to her, while we were dating.

She helped me change on a friday night while we were house sitting for her mom one weekend. She jumped on the internet and started looking between a list of girls names and me. She said I most looked like a Kayla, so it stuck. That was the first weekend of many where I would stay en femme full time. It was so GREAT!

Otherwise, I think it would have probably taken what my mother would've named me had I been a born a girl: Sharron. Of course now that I've become so used to identifying myself as Kayla, I think I look nothing like a Sharron.

[Lily]

That is so great. You are very lucky to be able to share your life with her that way Kayla.

[Susan]

I think I have answered this elsewhere but here goes again.

I picked Susan as it is a name that has figured large in my life, from my first adolescent crush on Susan Dey (Partridge Family) through Susan St James who I think has the most sexy voice ever to my friend in Southern California who is 6' 2" in her bare feet. MY daughter's second name is Susan.

All the Susans I have met have been lovely people and I hope I can continue in that manner. If I had been born a girl, I would have been called Claire but that name does not fit me.

I am proud to be a Susan

[Debra Russell]

I chose my name because my first name is the same as my wife's best friend. My last name is a family name used on both sides and the initals are the same as my real name. Debbie

[MissJenny]

mine is the name my parents would have given me if i was born a girl.

[Kittie]

I was called Kittie at Primary School

[Stephanie_Gael]

after Stephanie Seymour, the Supermodel
Gael is just short for 'Gaelic'

[Laycee]

Not quite sure where I came up with my femme of LeeAnne. I keep my real last name the same, giving me the initials of LAC. LayCee

[Mary Ellen]

After getting a good scare from a grizzly last year I did a lot of thinking about what life is about. I concluded it should be more fun and its too short and I should let more of the real me out. So I came up with the name Mary Ellen aka me.

[KimberlyS]

I choose my femme name because a previous forum I was a member of they would hound any MTF CDer that they needed a femme name. So at the time I conformed and picked a femme name that is similar of my male name for lack of any better ideas. I have thought of changing it to a femme name that I like better or just back to a male name as that is really who I am is a guy in femme clothes. But it is not a strong pull for me to change so I do not. In fact when I go to counseling I just told them to go by my male name no matter what mode I am in. So they do and it does not bother me as that is who I am no matter how I am dressed.

kimberlys-cd
joe in a skirt

[MelodyPerkins]

I always loved this film, and wanted to be Melody.

[Kyra]

I needed a name for the forum and at the time, I noticed all the members had fem names. Up to that point, I never really thought about a name for my fem self. My wife helped me pick this one.

At first I was thinking of Karen, or maybe Kristen. But Amber said, "No, you don't look like a Karen or Kristen." So I asked her who I did look like. She said, "How about Kyra?"

...and so it came to be...

[Sophie Scot]

Wanted a Nice,Feminine name that couldn't be shortened into Male e.g.jo-joanne.At the time I started out on my journey.there was a few Sophie's about And I thought it was really pretty,so that was it,my wife thought I should have a middle name.So Sophie Louise I bacame xx