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Kit as a Girls name?

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mondayGinaB · 05/06/2022 22:15

how do you feel about Kit as a first name for a girl? I know it’s considered unisex but i’d love to know y’all’s thoughts on it!

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BestIsWest · 08/06/2022 16:12

I’m another with an Aunty Kit. She was a Catherine.

babyjellyfish · 08/06/2022 09:41

Yes it's fine. I'd use it as a nickname for Katherine or Kathleen.

AuntTwacky · 07/06/2022 22:10

It's a boys name

pinklavenders · 07/06/2022 21:51

Short for Kitty

Oblomov22 · 07/06/2022 21:45

I love Kit for a boy. Kit Harrington. Related to Christopher isn't it? Not at all keen on it for a girl.

Luredbyapomegranate · 07/06/2022 21:42

If it’s short for Katherine then great.

Not as a stand-alone

MissPocket · 06/06/2022 12:58

I like it. The little girl in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society film is called Kit. Not sure if it's short for anything.

Rosekeeper · 06/06/2022 12:51

I only knew this as a nickname for Christopher but I think it sounds great for a girl!

Heckythump1 · 06/06/2022 12:37

I would assume it was a boy tbh. Love Kitty though!

KimikosNightmare · 06/06/2022 12:35

LuckyCharm9 · 06/06/2022 08:25

I have a friend named Nikita, we all call her Kit.

Nikita as a girl's name really and irrationally annoys me. I'm old enough to remember Nikita Khrushchev. It's just not a woman's name.

I first came across Nikita as a girl's name in the film ^La Femme Nikita" (which also annoys me for Luc Besson casting his wife Ann Parillaud in a role she was far too old for)

ChagSameachDoreen · 06/06/2022 12:33

It's a bit try hard. I put it in the same category as Tess and Joss.

KimikosNightmare · 06/06/2022 12:30

pinklavenders · 06/06/2022 07:53

I know only female Kits.

It could be short for Katherine or Kitty. But I could also be standalone.

KittyKitten/Kit sounds very feminine.

Kitty is a diminutive of Katherine-why would you want a diminutive of a diminutive as a standalone name?

LuckyCharm9 · 06/06/2022 08:26

TheGirlOnTheDragon · 06/06/2022 05:14

yes i am in the US!

Ah. Ok. Then pick whatever bonkers thing you want to, we can't help you judge! I mean people in the US name their children things such as Randy or Johnson as a first name. 🤣🤣

I don't think they'll ever - truly - grasp English. 😆

Well, if we hadn’t colonised the entire nation pretty much, they wouldn’t have to truly-grasp English now would they?

LuckyCharm9 · 06/06/2022 08:25

I have a friend named Nikita, we all call her Kit.

TheLadyDIdGood · 06/06/2022 08:06

I just think of sports kit so it's not something I'd name by baby as a full name. It's OK as a nick name but not as a standalone, it seems too casual and incomplete. Giving a longer name with a shorter nn gives your child lots of options for later on in life.

SoupDragon · 06/06/2022 08:04

I don't think they'll ever - truly - grasp English. 😆

Much the same as some people are unable to grasp American English.

Dalekjastninerels · 06/06/2022 08:02

not as

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Dalekjastninerels · 06/06/2022 08:01

Kitten sounds like a stripper.

Kitty/Kit ok as short forms of Katherine/Kathleen- but notas names in themselves.

pinklavenders · 06/06/2022 07:53

I know only female Kits.

It could be short for Katherine or Kitty. But I could also be standalone.

KittyKitten/Kit sounds very feminine.

Twizbe · 06/06/2022 07:46

I went to uni with a female Kit. Just Kit, not short for anything.

She was a lovely woman. It wasn't until recently that I even knew Kit was traditionally male.

Go for it.

SmellsLikeMiddleAgeSpirit · 06/06/2022 07:44

Sorry, OP, I should have added… I like Kit for a girl if it’s a diminutive of something… but am less keen if it is a stand-alone name.

SmellsLikeMiddleAgeSpirit · 06/06/2022 07:42

TheGirlOnTheDragon · 06/06/2022 05:14

yes i am in the US!

Ah. Ok. Then pick whatever bonkers thing you want to, we can't help you judge! I mean people in the US name their children things such as Randy or Johnson as a first name. 🤣🤣

I don't think they'll ever - truly - grasp English. 😆

What a stupid, ignorant and discriminatory post.

The US is not the UK. Nor do they want to be. They have their own popular names that have evolved over the centuries, and their own variation of English. They are not trying to ‘grasp’ any of that from us, and why would they?

There are plenty of stupid names here!

Sorcha69 · 06/06/2022 07:42

I love it!

esoryelneh · 06/06/2022 07:27

TheGirlOnTheDragon · 06/06/2022 05:14

yes i am in the US!

Ah. Ok. Then pick whatever bonkers thing you want to, we can't help you judge! I mean people in the US name their children things such as Randy or Johnson as a first name. 🤣🤣

I don't think they'll ever - truly - grasp English. 😆

How rude are you!!!!

esoryelneh · 06/06/2022 07:26

Love it as a stand alone name for a girl!

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