What’s in a name?

That simple that easy, love ❤️ it.

So that would make me Queenie Lisle.

I love your story!

I chose my name as a pun to remind me that I am still male. My male name can be shortened to Al, so I chose the name "Al-is-son", a reminder that I am still a son, not a daughter.

Then the question came up as to the spelling. While I would have liked the direct Alisson, that form is very rare, and when used, is more often a surname than a first name. The more common spelling, Allison, reads more like All is son, not the message I want to get across. So I chose Alison, with the "s" serving a dual purpose of "is" and "son"

I chose Madeline because I don't know anyone named Madeline. I want to be unique and not like someone else I know. I didn't want the memory of someone influencing my new feminine personality. I just want to be me.

Hi, AnnaBeth, well, I happen to be a fan of Chloe Sevigny and I like alliteration.

Hugs ChloëC

Mine also has a little story, I started out with Deedee as it is a play on my real name and sounded really cute but my wife is also a De and we have a business together called Deedee's and she did take too kindly to me calling my feminine side Deedee so I had to find something else.

Then I remembered a name I came up with years ago Tanika (play on Juanita a manga character that was really cute) but Tanika did not resonate with me until I saw the nickname Nika and it suddenly hit me, I really liked it and Nika was born 😊

My real name is unisex and I find it more natural to use it in real life, regardless of my gender expression. Nikki is really most useful as shorthand for en femme me: "this top would look great on Nikki" that kind of thing. If we meet new people while out, my wife will introduce me as her friend Nikki, but that's pretty rare. It feels better when people meet me as Nikki, but from people who've known me for a long time it sounds stilted. It's hard to say where it came from, as it really just popped into my head and resonated.

I always liked Katie, based on someone I knew when I was younger. But my second name was picked in haste after watching an advert for the new season of Carnival Row and, as such, is a derivation of the actress/actor Cara Delevingne.

However, the more I look at it, the more I think it looks like some kind of toothpaste brand 😊

About 20 years or so ago I saw 2 Journalists on television with the name Lara. I thought it was a pretty name, and a little unusual. I didn’t have the feelings to dress up as a woman at that time, but I do remember thinking that if I were a woman I would love to have that name.
As soon as I  began cross dressing I took the name for my feminine self.

💕Lara

My first name was chosen by my wife, which I never would've chosen for myself.  It's actually based on the character Josette from the Dark Shadows soap opera, which is a show we became obsessed with.  Whenever I was out, I just introduced myself as Josie with no last name, as I had no idea what to choose.  My hand was forced when I registered to join this site and was asked for a last name, which became "Dwee".  Why that?  Well, a few years ago, before I became Josie, I decided to try to become an artist, but I wanted to use an alias rather than my real name, which I never really liked.  I took the artist name "Ojrd Dwee".  The name is a play on the French word "aujourd'hui", which means "today" in English.  The reason why I chose it was so I could use it as an anti-procrastination device.  In other words, in order to get my ass in gear to be productive I would ask myself when would I be able to earn the name "Ojrd Dwee".  Today.  And that would inspire me to do something.  In any case, right now I just go by the name of "Josie Dwee" just because it's easier but perhaps I might combine both names to be "Josie Ojrd Dwee" in the future.

I had to ponder it when opening up nearly 6 years ago. After really putting some thoughts into it I realized a few times that one name seemed to have come up through my life. Starting back when I was just a teen in the seventies. Having long hair my mother only requirements was keeping it clean and never in my eyes,  she would constantly calling my Stephanie saying if you were a daughter thats what I would have called you. Secondly it's a throw in of my male name and thirdly it's my wife’s middle name so between them all it was my obvious choice. When opening up to my wife actually set it in motion when opening up to her she just said " I  guess I'll just call you Stephanie " go figure  🌷

Thinking of the old Dark Shadows series, I recall a character named “Angelique” I don’t think she played a very nice person but I wished I would have thought of it before. It might have been the perfect name for the ShadowQueen.

I have started a few times that I kind of picked my name at random. I wanted the superhero style of alliteration and landed on J and just kind of went with it. Actually been debating about going back and fine a rebrand with a different name for awhile.

I have an "aunt", my mother's cousin, whose mother's name was Mary and father's name was Don. Their names were combined to christen her name: MaryDonna, and that is how she spells it; not split.

My femme name has different spellings; Britney or Brittany. I've always liked the name, but I didn't want to take the name of a once famous teen pop singer and the "Britta" in the second reminds me of the Brita water filter pitcher commercials. I wanted mine to be different and special, so I spell mine as Brittney.

That's what I think is great about us MTF CDers who identify as women; we can name ourselves. So, in the end, arrange and spell your name how ever you want; it's your name, you're the one that has to be happy with it.