Katie

[sunchild77]

Still to common?

[LostArtOfKeepingASecret]

I love it - it was a possibility for DD.

It is not, and never has been, common. So there!

[woosam]

I much prefer Kate and personally I'd call her Katherine or Catherine to give her options but if Katie is to your taste then it's a perfectly reasonable name.

It's no more common than Chloe or Emily or Isabella etc. Names become popular because people like them.

[mowcop]

I love Katie. I would have had it for one of mine, but we have a close relative already called it.

[woosam]

Oh...you don't mean common as in popular? Is that correct? Or is that just Lostart's interpretation?

[oceryo]

I like Katie, prefer it to Kate. Would have it as a nickname for Katherine/Katrina/Kathryn/Kathleen though.

[sunchild77]

Sorry should have said "popular" rather than common..

[carrotsarenottheonlyvegetable]

I adore "Katie". It's a lovely name.

[KnitterInTheNW]

I've been a Katie for 35 years. Not short for anything, just Katie. And I've always loved it.

[starynight]

My dd is called katie dont no about how popular it is but i only no one other katie and that was a girl from school.

[swanandduck]

Very, very popular in Ireland but doesn't seem to be as common over here.

[5DollarShake]

Love the name Kate (and not short for anything - don't like any other names beginning with K). Do not like Katie. Go figure.

[wahwahwah]

Common as in Katie Price? Nothing's as common as her (boom boom)!!

My sister is a Catherine (but everyone calls her Katie)

[amandine07]

I think it's a lovely name although I know of at least seven Katie/Katys (just checking in my mobile phone contacts!)- all aged late 20s/early 30s.
Although maybe not as popular for little girls nowadays?

[muminthemiddle]

I prefer Catherine or Kate.

Might be the influence of Katie Price but it just sounds far more common than Kate or Catherine/Katherine.

[FutureMum]

What do people think about Katharine? (as opposed to Katherine/ Catherine)

[proxystix]

Katie is lovely.

[muminthemiddle]

Futiremum-Much prefer the Catherine spelling.
I think if you go with katharine she will forever be correcting people and there are already enough spellings of the name.

[FutureMum]

Thanks muminthemiddle. I prefer Katherine, but Katharine is after K. Hepburn (would be shortened to Katie or Kate in ordinary speech and just used Katharine for passport/official business). Still undecided! (we have a tendency to change our mind at the last minute)

[GoldenSnitch]

We named DD (20 weeks) Catherine.

I've been wondering if we should have gone for the Katherine spelling though (not Katharine as that looks wrong to me - sorry FutureMum) as I'd imagined that she could use Kate and Katie as nicknames but I'm not sure they go with the C spelling.

I'm now worried that she might get 'Cat' as an NN and I hate that!

[swanandduck]

How would you feel about Cathy? I think it's lovely.

[brimfull]

Loads of them everywhere

[GoldenSnitch]

I hope this doesn't cause offense swanandduck but Cathy reminds me of a gobby Eastenders character and I'm really not keen.

[swanandduck]

Hadn't thought of her. I just always think of it as a very gentle, feminine name. It also reminds me of Wuthering Heights.

[JazzDalek]

I'm a Katharine. I do have to spell it out a lot, and it is often misspelled (they even misspelled it on my degree certificate ) but it's never been a problem. I think it looks prettier than Katherine.