Nn for Catherine

[wildpoppy]

Love the name Catherine. What NNs are there other than:

Kate/Cate/Katie
Cath/y
Cat
Kitty

Katya, K or C or Rina (not that I like the latter) possibly? More diminutives than for most other names.... Think you/she will have plenty of options as she grows up!

Kay? Maybe more of a shortening for Katheryn though...

Kizzy
Caitlin
Casy,
Kathleen,
Cathie/Kathie
Katrine,
Kit
Catlin/Katlyn
Cari/Kari/Karrie/Carrie

If you like the name why have a nickname

Love the name too and am considering it for DC2, but my question is: how do I stop people calling her by nicknames?

I like nicknames and want to choose one while a baby to avoid it being one I don't like once at school.

Reeny? I'm not sure that's spelt right,

I know a young Kizzy and think it is lovely - she is officially known at school etc as Kizzy so no chance of another nickname being used unless it is something that is short for Kizzy as I don't know if anyone knows that her official name is Katherine

It's her name, let her pick her own nickname.

It happens to be my name and I refused to answer to nicknames when I was growing up because I hated them.

Just because you pick a nn, doesn't mean that's the one her schoolfriends will choose to use.

I have a friend whose mother insisted he was called James. All nn were completely forbidden. Everybody, absolutely everybody except his mother calls him Jimbo.

Im a kathryn. I was Katy young, Kate in juniors and kat from mid high school on. Sometimes kath, never kathy. Some people now don't know I'm a Kathryn as everyone calls me kat.

Have to agree with the others - it's not the parent who picks the school nickname !

Wondering if Lady is my sister, as she did exactly the same thing .

She is now known as Kate and has been all of her adult life - had anyone called her that as a child or teen though, she wouldn't have liked it, not at all.

I agree that parents don't choose nicknames for the whole of their children's lives - but they do pick them for the pre-school years.

I've known a Catherine and a Kathryn -neither got shortened as they always insisted they were called Catherine (I also know a Jenifer that has never been Jenny or Jen but that's a different story)

you can't dictate nicknames

my niece was called Rebecca to be know as Becky, as soon as she got to high school she insited on her full name which I find quite funny as my sister doesn't actually like the name Rebecca and only gave her the name because the inlaws insisted she should have a proper name

This isn't going to make sense I fear, but here goes anyway!!
My dd has a long name which is shortened to a "normal" more popular name at home, mainly by her brothers and grandparents. The two are interchangeable and she doesn't only get the "long" one when she's in trouble or on Sundays or anything daft! However, she insists on her full name at school (and tbh would tag her middle name in too if she could get away with it) and simply ignores anyone calling her the shortened version. Including the headteacher

Nina? But you'll have to really hammer that in to stick i guess. In school she might be Kate, or Kat though.

I'm a Catherine and can honestly say I have never been called anything else and it's never shortened. I guess when I was small my parents always used my full name and it just stuck. I always introduce myself as Catherine so that's what I get called.

My friend is called Catherine. Some people call her Kate, some call her Katie, and some call her Catherine.

I would call my DD Catherine if I thought people would stick to it, but you just cannot predict what she'll end up being called, as this thread proves.

Katherine is a lovely name on its own. I have never liked the idea of parents choosing nicknames before the child is born, if you like the name just call her Katherine. A nickname might evolve organically or it might not.

If you want to call her Nina or Reenie then call her Nina or Reenie

Why force a nickname based on a tenuous connection that sounds nothing like the actual name?