So how did you pick your name

DanteCarrie (FTM) · Post by **DanteCarrie (FTM)** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 1:46 pm

Well Carrie is a short form of Carissa which is my name but only my parents ever called me carrie. dante is from the xbox game devil may cry featuring the oh so cool half demon Dante. very famous in the gaming world. he basically goes around in a full legnth red leather coat with a big sword murdering stuff and looking cool and has a really gorgeous girlfriend with big breats also demon fighter obviously.
gosh would really like to be like dante. if i was a guy I'd want the red leather coat for sure..in fact might get it anyway lol

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:55 pm

Dante,

Dante Aligheri was an Florentine (no Italy in those days) who famously wrote "The Divine Comedy" between 1308 and his death in 1321.

On the surface the poem describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven; but at a deeper level it represents allegorically the soul's journey towards God.

Methinks this is where your Dante originates.

HUGS

Susan

Kittie · Post by **Kittie** » Mon May 17, 2010 1:58 pm

It was picked for me by my peers when I was 5 yrs old. They must have known!

Wendae · Post by **Wendae** » Mon May 17, 2010 6:56 pm

I took my fem name from a MTF TS that worked for me. It was her middle name spelled differently. I really admired her. She was quite a lady. Never told her about myself tho.

Anouk · Post by **Anouk** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 2:21 pm

First I choose the name Katariina just because it sounded nice. After that I signed in to a forum where there were already on Katariina. So I had to find some addition and that was a Finnish name Anu and that made me Anukatariina. Then I had a correspondence with a yankee girl who found my name too fard to spell and she abbreviated it to Anuk. So I modified it a bit and Anouk was born.

Mány B · Post by **Mány B** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:25 am

For my name I was looking for some translation of " the moon'. I thought that if real girls and women would be the "sun" -:shining during the day-, then I found myself more like the moon, shining only occasionally and only during the night, or hardly visible during the day. Somewhere I found the hawaiian translation which would be Màny (with the accent the other way ). This 'à' seems to be quite a problem: In the chat sessions it doesn't show -or just as a square- and I just couldn't find the right combination on my Mac-keyboard.
I added the B of Belgium.
Like some of you I would like to use the name my parents would have given me if I were born a girl, but I haven't asked them until now.

DanteCarrie (FTM) · Post by **DanteCarrie (FTM)** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 12:40 pm

Susan wrote:Dante,

Dante Aligheri was an Florentine (no Italy in those days) who famously wrote "The Divine Comedy" between 1308 and his death in 1321.

On the surface the poem describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven; but at a deeper level it represents allegorically the soul's journey towards God.

Methinks this is where your Dante originates.

HUGS

Susan

Yes I do know of Dante's inferno I am not literary ignorant and this is probably where the game gets the name but i am not naming myself after the poet in any sense. i like the character from the game hence the choice of name.
people always mention literary dante when i say my chosen name but i got it from the game not that.

JoAnnDallas · Post by **JoAnnDallas** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 8:09 pm

Mine is what I was suppose to have as a name if I had been born a girl. When I was born it was common to pick out both a boy and girl name because back then couples had to wait until the child was born to find out the sex.

Robyn Katie · Post by **Robyn Katie** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 7:57 am

I'm a bit like JoAnn, from the days when the sex of the child was a big surprise on emergence. With a slight difference though.

It may be that my parents also had "Robin" in reserve in case I turned out to be a girl. In any case, even as a boy, they told me they did consider naming me Robin (apparently after Christopher Robin of the Pooh stories), but decided against it because it might seem too feminine.

(giggle ...)

So all during my growing up, Robin was a sort of alternate name in the back of my mind, a feminine name, the roots of an alternate me who was a girl.

Also I always longed for a sister with a longing that just wouldn't go away. (All I got was a brother.) I had this elaborate mythology about how I must have had a sister, a real soul mate, but somehow she got lost, and if only I could find her ... In some way I think the sister I wanted was an embryonic version of my girl self.

So when I came to choose a name for myself I thought of "Robin" first. I felt the "y" spelling was more feminine so I used that.

"Katie" is the name of the first girl I ever fell in love with, at precocious age 12. (Don't let anybody tell you it's puppy love at that age; I fell hard and never lost my feelings for her.)

Thus Robyn Katie. It feels much more right for me than my birth name. As if I had uncovered the true person underneath.

Cindy Louise · Post by **Cindy Louise** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:39 am

My Dad always liked Cindy and that would have been my name if I was born a girl. Louise was the name of an old girlfriend who was the most supportive person I've ever met she was never judgmental... unless I picked a really bad outfit

Sadly she is no longer with us so I chose her name in honour of a beautiful soul.

Lacy Mitchell · Post by **Lacy Mitchell** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:53 pm

my nane was really easy lacy as in i love anything with lace . panties ,dresses, bras, socks. beside that satin sounded like a porn star name.

Karren Hutton · Post by **Karren Hutton** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 12:25 pm

-W + K = Karren and Hutton is my grandmothers name... Karren has been my fem name since I first started crossdressing 52 years ago... I think my mother may have mentioned it as my name since I was supposed to have been a girl.. She never stopped letting me know that! Lol. Till my sister was born..

Rae · Post by **Rae** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:47 pm

just a different spelling of my name Ray to Rae

Karen Ski · Post by **Karen Ski** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:29 pm

The first person that ever found out about me was a neighbor girl back when I was 10 or so. She wold dress me and tell me she always wanted a girlfriend named Karen, thus Karen. Being a good Polish girl, Kowalski, theSski became my nickname when I used to go out to the bars and there was more than one Karen, thus karen Ski

Mary Ellen · Post by **Mary Ellen** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 9:46 pm

Last year when I decided to get out and have fun and let the real inner me come out I realized I should have a new name. I considered a variance of my male name but it didn't seem right. Then I decided I should just be me. M E Mary-Ellen.