3 years ago, mere days after coming out to myself as transsexual I traveled to the north of the Netherlands for work and a female colleague picked me up at the trainstation. It was a long journey and I was frequently near crying. Did break down in the station hall in front of her and about 40 other people. Told her in the car what was happening and the first thing she asked was if I had a name picked. Yes, I blurted, Naomi Clare. It was as if my worldview shifted and that was that, never a doubt about those first to names and the only thing I did about it was append the name Sigrid a few months later.

Naomi is both a Hebrew and Japanese name, meaning pleasantness in Hebrew and honest, straight ( Nao) and beautiful (mi).
Clare is old English for the Latin Clara and means clear, bright, famous.

Sigrid is a kind of promise I made to myself, no matter what happens along the way, I will survive this ordeal and be a better person, happier and more open to others. Some give the meaning as riding to victory and others as victory and beautiful, fair.

Names that are not that easy to live up to…

greetings from the Netherlands,
Naomi

I picked my femme name from the girl I had my first crush on. I met her when I as a Junior. She was a Freshman. It took me 2 full years to get the nerve to ask her out. She said yes. Too bad, I couldn’t get the nerve to actually go. Her name was LeAnne. The James part just popped in my head because I don’t want to really give out too much about me personally.

– Leanne

I told my friends at school the next day about the name Jeremy, and that became my new nickname. I didn’t tell them about the name Sarah though because I was more boyish back then and I also probably didn’t care, yet.

When I got into crossdressing at age 11, I thought I was only a one in a million crossdresser. Then at age 12, when I started crossdressing more often and more seriously (privately at home of course), I discovered the full potential of the internet, and the crossdressers that have joined it. I soon learned that my ‘one in a million’ was more like a ‘one in one hundred’! I became more confident while in et femme.

At age 13 I did my first ever public appearance. Even though it was just going to the mailbox and lasted around 15-20 seconds, it was so alluring, I just had to do it again. Soon enough, every time the moment struck, would be outside for at least 30-45 seconds, (crossdressed of course).

Then one day, I went outside in public for around 41/2 to 5 minutes. Soon after that, I remembered how most crossdressers have a femme name, a name they have when they go out et femme. I thought long and hard but no names came to mind.

Then one day one the internet I read a story on how to choose a femme name(not this site though). After listing the different techniques, only one struck me, it was ‘follow your heart’. I shut down the computer and went to my room and tried to follow my heart. Nothing.

Then one day I remembered the day I asked my mom about the other names, the thing I had asked her 5 years ago, it came back to me, and I remembered the two other names, Jeremy, the nickname I had until I was 12 when in got replaced by a new nickname, and then, Sarah. Sarah, I liked the way the way that sounded, it seamed to flow quite nicely with my crossdressed self. From that day forward, I declared my femme name to be Sarah. Sarah will always we a part of me. I guess it is true what they mean about following your heart. It worked for me, I just hope it will work for all the other new crossdressers out there.

As Always, Sarah

I moved from the East Coast of the USA to California. I wanted a new identity and never really had much of an Internet presence prior to that anyway. On a whim, I needed a name for an email address. When I told my friends on the East Coast that I was moving to California, many times the reply was, “Your so lucky to move to Cali!”. I did not like that spelling, so I thought about Callie with two L’s but wanted something a bit more original so I went with one L. I never thought the name would stick. Indeed, if I were to transition today, I would simply have to use Calie as my legal name. There are just too many who now call me by that name.

When it came to entering a name for the email account Stacy just dropped in there. So I decided to keep it – it seemed very natural so why pick something else.

I still switch between “Stacy’ and ‘Stace’ but then do something similar for my actual name in real life as well…