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

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Summertime10 · 18/02/2017 11:43

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 Smile
K x

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lottieandmia · 18/02/2017 22:41

I would definitely go for Katherine - it's a great name.

m0therofdragons · 18/02/2017 22:38

Kitty has been a name in it's own right since the 16th century. Dd3 is Kitty and I still love it - she was named after my great aunt Kitty (who was baptised Kitty).

I never get calling a dc Elizabeth and then using the nn that's not even close but each to their own. I wanted dd to be Kitty and worried that going with Catherine or similar would lead to her being called Kate or katie (which I didn't want as that wasn't the name I'd chosen.) it's hard to enforce nns imo but then according to mn dd3 will never have a good job.

Birdsbeesandtrees · 18/02/2017 22:32

You could call her Geoff and still use the nickname Kitty if you wanted. Doesn't always have to relate to the actual name.

Sophronia · 18/02/2017 22:29

Christina
Christine
Christiana
Christabel

user1472334322 · 18/02/2017 20:14

My friend has a dd called Caitlin and her nn is Kitty. (She's 6 months old). I'm Katherine, nn Kate.

iamapixiebutnotaniceone · 18/02/2017 17:02

I have a Katie that we often call Katie Kitty Cat or just Kitty Cat or just Kitty.

AliciaMayEmory · 18/02/2017 17:01

I have a friend who is a Kate, but known as Kitty.

SuiteHarmony · 18/02/2017 16:57

Katniss? Smile

Pemba · 18/02/2017 16:48

I know pps have already said, but Christina is a possibility as Kit is short for Christopher, then Kitty could be for Christina maybe? Nice name.

Katherine, Katharine, Catherine normally though, a great classic name. Katlin looks made-up. Just Kitty on the birth certificate is very cutesy and little-girly.

ivykaty44 · 18/02/2017 15:41

Use kitty as dds name and put whatever name you like on the birth certificate, you could even put Catlin or something similar as a middle name but just tell everyone from the off DDS name is "kitty"

I know plenty of people by thier middle names and not thier first names.

Also remember just because your DC wants a linger name than Evie, doesn't mean this DC will have the same thoughts

FartnissEverbeans · 18/02/2017 15:26

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

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 18/02/2017 14:03

Kirsten, Katrina, Christina?

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

MikeUniformMike · 18/02/2017 13:36

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

MikeUniformMike · 18/02/2017 13:31

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

user99009960546 · 18/02/2017 12:49

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

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Summertime10 · 18/02/2017 12:48

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

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Doilooklikeatourist · 18/02/2017 12:43

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

weemidden · 18/02/2017 12:22

Kathryn - Scottish traditional and not common

SayNoToCarrots · 18/02/2017 12:22

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.

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Summertime10 · 18/02/2017 12:22

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

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VirgilsStaff · 18/02/2017 12:18

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.

MrsHathaway · 18/02/2017 12:12

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

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Summertime10 · 18/02/2017 11:55

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

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MollyHuaCha · 18/02/2017 11:52

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.

HarrietVane99 · 18/02/2017 11:51

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.

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