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Kitty or Charlotte?

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MrsC2010 · 15/07/2010 11:47

We're getting close to her making an appearance (it feels like she is trying to claw her way out at the moment), and as much as I know we will prob completely change our minds when she appears I am still torn between these two as my vote! (We both love them, I'm just trying to foist them on him!)

I know Kitty is slightly more unusual, but we do love it and feels that it has enough 'tradition' to not be a mean name to foist on a child/future adult.

Whereas obviously Charlotte is used far more commonly, but we don't know any and feel that it is both pretty and traditional.

We think we will have Rose (after family) as the middle name, and our surname rhymes with Dollier!

Any opinions would be appreicated!

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SirBoobAlot · 15/07/2010 11:50

I love Kitty, but don't personally feel its a "real" first name - can't you call her Charlotte and use Kitty as her nickname?

Good luck, hope she arrives soon

Mollydoggerson · 15/07/2010 11:53

I love Kitty and Love Catherine, so I'ld name her Catherine and Kitty for short.

bytheMoonlight · 15/07/2010 11:55

Agree with SirBoobAlot about Kitty not feeling like a 'real' name and more of a nn.

Love Charlotte and it's on our shortlist of girls names, along with Jessica and Dulcie. I would use Lottie as a nn.

SirBoobAlot · 15/07/2010 12:13

There was a girl called Kitty at my sixth form (just remembered) - her real name was Kathleen.

CapitalText · 15/07/2010 12:19

How about Katie or Clara?

swanandduck · 15/07/2010 12:53

Both lovely names. Charlotte just about beats Kitty but I like both. You have great taste.

BeatrixRotter · 15/07/2010 13:07

Kitty has been around since the 16th century so you don't need to use it as a shortening for something IMO.

Both nice.

Shirleygoodness · 15/07/2010 13:11

I love Kitty. If I wanted a long/formal name, I'd go with Katherine - I hate names shortening to a name with different initial, y'see. Katherine also leaves open other shortenings when older if she prefers.

cardy · 15/07/2010 13:17

Charlotte for me...then I would say that

I like shortening it to Charlie or Lottie

DastardlyandSmugly · 15/07/2010 13:23

I also love Kitty and would definitely just have it as it is.

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MrsC2010 · 15/07/2010 13:24

Thanks all! I'm glad to hear that there isn't anything fundamentally flawed in either of them. I like Lottie as the nn for Charlotte, I think I prefer it to Charlie. Will carry on pondering! Maybe it'll become obvious when she appears.

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cardy · 15/07/2010 13:33

It did for me...chose Charlotte over Jessica

Lucycat · 15/07/2010 13:47

Cardy - I have one each of those two names! and my name is another on this thread.

Charlotte was meant to be the most popular name the year my dd was born but there is only one other in her primary school - and more importatntly I've never taught a horrific one She is Lottie sometimes too.

cardy · 15/07/2010 13:54

and my neice is Jessica (born the year after Charlotte). There is only other Charlotte at DDs school too.

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BikeRunSki · 15/07/2010 14:01

I had a lovely great aunt Kitty, which was short for Kirsten, but I'd reckon on Kitty being quite a good nn of Charlotte.

Hedwig3 · 15/07/2010 14:03

Kitty

LoveJules3 · 15/07/2010 14:13

Kitty. I had a great aunt Kitty and she was so fabulous and young at heart! Lovely old(ish) name.

trilottie · 15/07/2010 17:23

I'm a Charlotte Rose!
I have to say I'm not that keen on it myself, and I also dislike people calling me Lottie or Charlie (despite my nn on this forum!)
When I was born, people thought I was named after Charlotte Rhodes, a sailing ship on a tv program, but I don't think you'll have that problem now.
I do like Kitty, but I can't picture any grown up Kitties. Oh apart from the Mum on That 70's Show.

skyeplusbump · 15/07/2010 20:47

i love kitty...it's so sweet!

Diamondlover · 16/07/2010 08:48

I love both though Charlotte quite popular sadly. Truly love Kitty though DH says no- reminds him of kitty cat! Personally think it would be nice to call her Katherine with Kitty for nn. Prefer catherine though but feel you would have to have the K spelling if baby was to be known as Kitty!

ThatVikRinA22 · 16/07/2010 08:51

love Kitty, prefer it to charlotte.

PuppyMonkey · 16/07/2010 08:51

Kitty ten times better. No offence to all you Charlotte fans, but we have quite enough of them already.

Mum72 · 16/07/2010 09:09

Charlotte Rose sounds lovely. I think that goes together beautifully. Mind you I am biased as I am a mum to an 11yo Charlotte who at school is also referred to by friends and teachers as Lottie and occassionally Charlie and even more unusually (rarely) Sharley. She is an always have been just Charlotte to us.

She loves her name and enjoys being called Lottie at school.

Although now the only Charlotte in her school at age 5 and 6 she was one of several Charlottes. I think it is a popular name in her age range, in that I know of several Charlottes a year or 2 older and below her. I do not know of many baby Charlottes recently - probably because the name was so popular in the late 1990's and early noughties!

My DD is at school with 3 Kittys - not all in her age group. One I know of for sure is a Kitty and not a Katherine etc. The other 2 girls are always called Kitty at school and appear in the school magazine etc as Kitty but one of the is a Katherine. No idea if the other Kitty is a Kitty Kitty or a shortend Kitty.

Both Kitty and Charlotte are lovely names but being a Charlottes mum I am biased towards Charlotte! LOL

Helokitty · 16/07/2010 19:34

I love both names. In fact DD2 is a Kitty (shortened from Katherine) but Charlotte was a very strong contender too. I would have used Lottie as the nn. The reason we went with Katherine/Kitty in the end was that I really dislike Charlie as a nn, and it is entirely possible if I had a Charlotte, she might choose to call herself Lottie.

Incidentally, we initially did not call our DD Kitty - it was a nn she chose for herself, and at first I was a bit unsure, but it totally suits her and I love it now.