Which names could I have to use Kitty as a nickname?

[Summertime10]

Hi everyone, I'm really liking Kitty as a name for DC3 at the minute but I'm not really a fan of Katherine as a longer name to put on the birth certificate.

Dd1 is Evie and I've always regretted not putting a longer name on her birth certificate which she can use when she gets older. She loves the name Evangeline and wishes that had been put on her bc to allow her to pick and choose, hence why I don't want to make the mistake this time round of just giving a cutesy name for baby.
So mumsnetters, can you think of longer names I could have to go with the nickname Kitty?
Thanks a bunch
K x

[Awwlookatmybabyspider]

Katherine
Kathleen
Katerina
Katherina

[Gallavich]

Kaitlyn (looks horrible with a K though)
Cathleen
Katerina
Cartriona/Katrina
Basically only Katherine derivatives will give you Kitty. What's wrong with Katherine?

[llangennith]

My friend Katrina is called Kitty.

[TisMeTheLadFromTheBar]

Catherine
Cathy
Kate
Caitlin/Caitlin

[KayTee87]

Do you like other spellings of Katherine?

Kaitlin and other variants
Katrina and other variants
Kathleen at a push
Kirsten maybe

[Sososososo]

Nikita
Keira

[Summertime10]

Hi, thank you. Nothing wrong with Katherine per se, I just know quite a few of them and it just feels weird for me to use it.
I quite like the pronunciation of Catelyn (as in game of thrones Catelyn Stark) but it's pronounced Cat-a-lin, which isn't initially evident from the spelling and I just know I'd end up correcting everybody 24/7. Decisions decisions!

[orangepudding]

Kezia
Kimberley
Kiera
Kayleigh
Kerenza
Caroline/Carolina

[blossom101001]

Katrina, Katlyn, Katarina, Keighly, Keisha

[HarrietVane99]

I like Katherine. Classic and dignified, a real grown up name.

Kit is a short for Christopher, so you could have Christine or variants. But I prefer Katherine.

[MollyHuaCha]

If the nn was Kitty, I wd expect the real name to be one of these:

Catherine (any spelling)
Christine (any spelling)
Caitlin (any spelling)
Katrina (any spelling)

Kitty is a nice name. Definitely a nn of course.

[Summertime10]

Some great ideas ladies. I wonder if I could get away with Katlyn without people thinking it was a made up variant of Kaitlin?

[MrsHathaway]

Any of my three sons would have been Kitty so I've explored this question at length!

I'd probably have gone for Catherine but here are others from the various lists:

Caitlin
Christabel
Tabitha

[VirgilsStaff]

Kitty is short for Katherine (and all its traditional variations).

Its pretentious to think it's anything else. If you don't like Katherine, just call your daughter Kitty. Don't make up silly longer names which aren't connected.

Katherine is a perfectly good traditional solid name.

[Summertime10]

As previously mentioned it's associated with too many people I know so don't wish to use it- there is no question of it being a lovely name, it really is. Think I'll just go back to the drawing board.
Thanks all

[SayNoToCarrots]

I think you can give your daughter any nickname you like. It doesn't even really have to have a link to her actual name.

[weemidden]

Kathryn - Scottish traditional and not common

[Doilooklikeatourist]

Elizabeth can be Kitty
I had a Great Aunt Kit , whose real name was Elizabeth
It's your baby , you choose

[Summertime10]

Thanks. I do love the name Elizabeth so that's food for thought.
K x

[user99009960546]

I had a great Aunt Kitty (Kathleen)

I know one Kitty (age10) she's a Catherine

I know a Girl age 11 who is just Kit

I'm a Catherine known as Kate

[MikeUniformMike]

Christina, Catherine, Kathryn, Katharine, Christabel, Kathleen...

[MikeUniformMike]

look on babynamespedia names beginning with kit - there are a couple of really pretty ones

[DonkeysDontRideBicycles]

Kirsten, Katrina, Christina?

Plus, bit of a stretch but perhaps Kitty from Nikita if you didn't like Nikki as a nn.

[FartnissEverbeans]

I also know a Kitty, mm for Elizabeth. She's young.

Catalina maybe? That's a gorgeous name

The Welsh name Catrin is very beautiful and goes nicely with Evie. How about:

Katarin: Breton form of Catherine
Katrine: pronounced like Catrin, the name of a Scottish loch
Katya/Katja