Catherine or Katherine

[OooShiney]

DD has always been insistent that my bump in fact contains a kitty cat and not DC2, we haven't found out the sex but if it's a girl we've thought about C/Katherine with the nickname Kitty.

DD is Beatrice.

But don't know if we should put Catherine or Katherine on the BC... What d'ya think?

[amck5700]

I prefer the K for Katherine or even Kathleen instead :)

[Sharpkat]

Definitely Katherine although I am slightly biased

[bridgetsmum]

We have a Catherine, much prefer it spelled with a C but don't know why

[Bluelightsandsirens]

What about Kathryn?

[PixelAteMyFace]

Katherine doesnt look right to me, Id spell it Kathryn.

But if it was my DD I would choose Catherine - it looks prettier with a C

[mrsnobby]

Just to add to the mix I like Katharine.

[SorrelForbes]

I second Katharine (the original spelling, apparently).

[BookWormery]

Nooooo HAS to be a C. It's classic.

A K looks hard, seems to sound more hard.

You could still use Kitty with Catherine.

[chickabilla]

Katherine

[cate16]

Catherine :) :) :)

[whattodoo]

Katherine. Makes better sense of Kkitty, Kate, Katy etc.

[HappyJustToBe]

I prefer Catherine.

[Spoonful]

I like it with a C.

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

I prefer with a K, but both are beautiful names and go really nicely with Beatrice.

[HoratiaWinwood]

I prefer Catherine and think the nickname initials are a red herring. You don't spell William with a B, nor Margaret with a P.

[GetOrf]

Katharine. It is the original spelling (from the greek katharos meaning pure, to be a pedantic twat about it ).

Also the late great Katharine Hepburn spelled it so.

And it is my dd's middle name.

So completely unbiased of course

To me Kathryn is a very 70s variant, like Jayne, Carole or Karyn.

[noddyholder]

Yes katharine one of my faves

[GetOrf]

You have to be careful though. It's an oft-repeated Mumsnet baby names rule that only plebs names their children with names beginning with K.

(I am a prole with a K name )

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

WTF? How is it pleb-y to name a baby Katharine?

If you want to be poncey about it, Katharine is surely more correct as it's from the Greek for 'pure' and the Greek letter kappa gives us our 'k', not our 'c'.

(I owe this piece of pedantry to my mother, btw, it's not original because I'm not quite that barking mad.)

[nickelbabe]

definitely Katherine.
my best friend is Katherine and it's dd's middle name.

plus all of the nicknames make more sense with a K

[GetOrf]

There was a thread (or two) some time ago where people said that names beginning with K were chavvy.

Madness. I don't agree, obv.

It's mumsnet though, isn't it

[gymboywalton]

definitely catherine

[HoratiaWinwood]

Catherine and Katharine are probably not derived from katharos anyway.

If we are going to be etymology pendants!

[amck5700]

The K thing I believe is where a name that normally begins with a C is replaced with a K instead i.e. Kaleb, Konner etc and not that all names beginning with a K are plebby/chavvy/schemey.

Katharine is a perfectly (lovely) legitimate name that happens to begin with a K, not the same thing at all....and not that it actually matters anyway.