Use DD1s middle name as DD2s first name?

[jennimoo]

DD1 has Catherine as a middle name, but I like Katie (and using full names...) but wonder if using the same name is a but odd. DH says use Katherine, but that seems weirder. What other full names shorten to

Katie?

Caitlin
Katrina

I think DD2 will feel shortchanged that you couldn't think of a name specifically for her.

Catalina
Katelyn
Kate

I wouldn't use Catherine/Katherine if it's your other daughters middle name - not sure why, just seems a bit unoriginal

Also, can you not just have Katie/Katy on its own? Why does it have to be a nickname for a longer version name? It wouldn't strike me as odd if one child was called Katie and the other had the middle name Katherine. Plus, not many people on the planet, outside of immediate family, will know or remember your DD1's middle name.

I know a few Katie / Kates where this is their whole name and it feels like a name in its own right to me.

I have 3 sisters and all of us share a name at some point!! I've never thought about it in a negative way, nor have my sisters. If anything we like it!!

I would try really hard to find another name I think. Each child needs her own identity. I have two boys quite close in age and it felt like we had used all the best names on DS1, so DS2 got the names we'd rejected previously. But you will love your daughter, and whatever name you give her will become more lovely as a result, because it is her name.

My DD2 has DD1's middle name! . DD1 was old enough to protest briefly but now sees it as a link between her and her beloved sister. DD2 has yet to comment but I seriously doubt anyone will care by then.

A friend of mine has his brothers first and second name just the opposite way around. He's a titchy bit resentful.

I'd try really hard to think of a similar alternative.

I think its nice actually. Like a family link, especially as girls often change their surname on marriage.

No.....there are so many names out there, pick another!

A bit unimaginative.
Dh has sibling twins called Robert David and David Robert which I think is ridiculous.

I don't really see why it matters.

But then I'm from a country where sometimes all the children in the family (including the boys) would be given the middle name Mary.

"Dh has sibling twins called Robert David and David Robert which I think is ridiculous."

:o

That's kind of brilliant.

OP just asked my children about this (10 &12). They both thought it would be too weird and DS2 said he would want his own name, not his brother's.

i read the name Catienne on a thread the other day, and thought it was lovely.

i also love Katerina, would you consider either of those op?

Go for it but spell it properly. Katharine.

Why yes, that is my name, how did you guess?

athinginyoutlife my cousin is one of 8 (3 girls 5 boys) they all have the middle name Mary.

Except the eldest.

His is Eugene

Poor Eugene :o

I have a friend Katy. Her full name is Kathleen.