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Katie

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sunchild77 · 04/05/2010 19:36

Still to common?

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randomimposter · 07/05/2010 21:36

like
Cate (over Kate)
Katy (over Katie)

have Katrina as a MN myself.

MoppingMummy · 07/05/2010 21:30

I'm Katherine, always called Kate, and always loved my names!

GnocchiGnocchiWhosThere · 07/05/2010 19:47

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AnnVeronica · 07/05/2010 18:53

Love it! Also liked it spelled 'Katy'

LadyCressida · 07/05/2010 14:04

I like it and think though it's classic you don't hear of many these days. + I reckon there are so many variations of the name that it doesn't matter which you pick as they would prob have to say 'with a C' or 'with a K' or 'ending in ryn' anyway

JazzDalek · 07/05/2010 13:49

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.

swanandduck · 07/05/2010 12:45

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

GoldenSnitch · 07/05/2010 12:38

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

brimfull · 07/05/2010 12:25

Loads of them everywhere

swanandduck · 07/05/2010 12:22

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

GoldenSnitch · 07/05/2010 11:22

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!

FutureMum · 07/05/2010 10:56

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)

muminthemiddle · 06/05/2010 16:11

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.

proxystix · 06/05/2010 15:50

Katie is lovely.

FutureMum · 06/05/2010 15:39

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

muminthemiddle · 05/05/2010 22:17

I prefer Catherine or Kate.

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

amandine07 · 05/05/2010 17:18

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?

wahwahwah · 05/05/2010 14:21

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

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

5DollarShake · 05/05/2010 14:01

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

swanandduck · 05/05/2010 13:59

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

starynight · 04/05/2010 23:47

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.

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KnitterInTheNW · 04/05/2010 21:52

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

carrotsarenottheonlyvegetable · 04/05/2010 21:49

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

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sunchild77 · 04/05/2010 21:44

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

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