My given name was Samuel and growing up the called me Sammy or Sam.  It seemed logical to become Samantha and it feels right to me.

I asked my mother what my name would have been if i was born female. she said my name would have been Juanita.

I'd have been Natasha.

Most of my stories are published under the female name of Rose though.

Quote from: Tammy Hope on August 04, 2011, 02:46:07 AM
I wanted to stay away from anything that didn't "fit" - for instance, a middle aged woman named "Brittney" would probably be laughed at.

Every Brittney will eventually be middle aged. 

  My given name is very "Androgynystic" in form and I happen to like it,  the only problem is, both my brother and I hold the same name [We are twins], mine is the female version of course...But since we both live in opposite coastal regions... I take pure delight in using the male form of our birth name...[it's ok to "piggy-back"] we have the same name right? hahaha...[Mother didn't know she was having twins] 

P.S. the name I chose here, denotes the direction I'm in: --->>>La [feminine] (2) --->>>Papito [Masculine]

I chose mine as a feminine version of my boy name coupled with a girl's name that sometimes is also used by guys.

Personally, I have a bit of a fantasy about star-crossed CDing couple (he's an MTF CDer, she's an FTM CDer) who take opposite gender names as their middle names for interactions in the 'real' world. You know names like:

David Suzanne
Timothy Michelle

or

Stephanie David
Diane Michael

I think THAT would be cool

Huggles

Toni-Lynn

Like many others, I've used several different names for myself. The 1st name I tried was "Roberta" which was just using my real name's female variation. This was when I was 9/10. When I got more involved in cross dressing in my mid teens, I felt "Roberta" was just too lame and really wanted to see my female self as her own person so decided to be a bit more creative, and chose the name "Laura" for 2 reasons. 1-it would have been my name if I was born a girl 2-it was coincidentally the name of my girlfriend at the time. I really loved that name and really connected to it and it is still one of my favorite girl names. However, once I broke up with Laura, I couldn't continue calling myself that. So one night I was watching my favorite show "Who's The Boss?" which starred my first celebrity crush, Alyssa Milano. I though about using her character name "Samantha" but didn't like how the show always shortened it and called her "Sam". I decide to use her real name because it was truly feminine, unique at the time, and she was and still is extremely hot. So that is how Robert became Alyssa.

I'm not sure why, but I just like the name Mackenzie. My given name is Matt, so I guess I chose it since it's somewhat similar to my current name, while being different at the same time, if that makes sense.

My male name is Michael. So, when I began creating my feminine persona, I naturally used Michele. But, I didn't really feel attached to it.

As I refined this persona, I somehow picked up Michayla; I think that I heard it on TV, or somewhere. I like it better because it's a rare name, and it sounds like my parents put some thought into naming me.   

My wife and I were watching Springer years ago and she noticed all the outlandish names the crossdressers were using, (Not sure how they categorized themselves, so CD is an assumption.) But anyway, she said why don't one of them just stand up and say "I'm Pansy!"? Well, about then I spit my drink out all over the living room and laughed so hard my ribs about split. Now that's the name I use and I'm not sure how excited she is to have dubbed it, but it stuck enough that I have it tattooed inside my lower lip!

Quote from: kate durcal on April 09, 2011, 01:39:23 PM
When  was 4 my mom caught me wearing my sis dress, she said: "I guess you want to be my Kate, ah?" And so Kate was born. I grew up with the name, my dad hate it and never called me Kate. Since I presented as a boy, when people first met m and I would say "call me Kate," the conversation would invariably go to "a boy called Sue" or Alice Cooper. My daughters call me daddy Kate

Love it love it!  Your mom sounds like she has a great sense of humor. Great story! Must be nice to be called by your name from family and friends.

I have always liked Jaime because its unisex. I used susie for a while as my internet name and as a "friend" name when I had to explain my girly feelings to the guys. ("My friend susie thinks that") it worked for a while...lol! I have always known Jenny was my name, I just didn't want to use it, I don't know why but I always felt it would out me for some reason...silly me lol! I now just prefer  to go by my last name it works great because its neutral.  But I like your idea of saying "just call me Kate"  I might used that with " just call me  Jenny, Jen or Jen-Jen" , I will consider it.  The a boy named Sue and Alice cooper are great for explaining to people who might not be comfortable with it! Sneaky but works Lol.

*Jenny* ( I go by Jen-Jen!)

Quote from: rieko on April 11, 2011, 06:57:21 PM
My criteria were:

• First name
  
  
  
  • Nothing crazy unique. Not just to avoid being clocked, but crazy unique isn't my personality.
  • A meaning that fits me
  • I like the nicknames thereof
• Middle name
  
  
  
  • Of a foreign culture, probably Japanese (anime fangirl )
  • A meaning that fits me
• I kept my last name 'cause I like it.
• Of course, the whole name has to go well together, both audibly and written.

I had many candidates, but decided on Jennifer Rieko, going by either Jenny or Jen, addresser's choice. Jennifer meaning fair, smooth. Rieko meaning child of logic (perhaps obvious from my organized, scientific method of problem-solving).

I like your thinking!  And your name! -wink-

I eventually settled on my name because it felt right...but I originally chose it because it's unique, with a sort of medieval/gothic/old english sound, and its shortened nickname (Amy) is the name of one of my favorite singers.

This is my first post.  I haven't even done the introduction one yet!   

Anyway, since I'm bi-gendered I wanted a gender neutral or cross gender name.  I actually haven't picked bi-gender name for myself until I needed to create my Susan's Place account so I did a Google search on unisex baby names and came across several sites with suggestions. 

I really really wanted Teagan since I'm part Scottish on my mom's side but it was already taken on this site and I thought Tegan (Brittish spelling) would be confusing.  Would it?  Teagan / Tegan is my first choice.

So I settled on Ember.  It's a Germanic name used in England and Western Europe.  I was thinking of Ember Rain (opposite ends of a spectrum, right?) but that's the name of a band in Utah.  Hard to find anything unique, really.

So it's Ember for now but if it wouldn't be too confusing on this board I still like Tegan.