Katherine or Catherine?

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I prefer Katherine as you can have Katie/Kate but several friends prefer Catherine as that is the correct spelling.

Another Kathryn vote here

Kate Middleton is Catherine with a C too!

Kate Middleton is Catherine with a C. You can still use the nickname Kate.

Katherine.

I prefer the K.

Do people genuinely say that either is the 'correct' spelling?

My dd is Katharine with a K and A like Hepburn :-) we call her Katy

Ohdearnigel

Katherine

Another vote for Katharine and no bias here either

I prefer the K - then you get Kitty and Kate more naturally.

KathArine - think it looks so much nicer.

With a K. Especially if you already have a DD with a C!

I LOVE Kate and Kitty, not so keen on Katie.

k is original and best!

Katherine.

My sister's Katharine which I think is the best spelling but she was nearly ten before she learned to speak her full name properly because she's always been known as Kate and everyone always spells it wrong. I think with any of the spellings people will always have to ask or get it wrong anyway though because there are so many different ways of spelling it.

Catherine. It's softer somehow and classier.

Catherine - obviously!

Nooo.. Go for Katherine with a K. To me it sounds a lot more classic and elegant. It's a name we are thinking of too (MIL and my grannie are both Katherines) but I'm not sure as really don't like Kathy, kath, Katie etc.

No competition. Catherine.

Katharine - by far the best version!

Slightly prefer Katharine (with 'a' not 'e')

Don't like C/Kathy or C/Kath so much as it sounds a bit old.

I much prefer Catherine. However I ruled it out in any form for DD because I hate Cat/Kat as a NN.

Definitely Catherine for me, but I'm a bit bias cos that's my youngest's name.
You can still shorten it to Kate/Katie. My dd's friends use her full name or Cat and I call her KitCat

Catherine, its the one everyone will automatically think of (especially post KM) and I think it looks prettier with a C, the K looks hard. NN can still be Kate or Katy (or Cate/Caty if she wants to be a bit different) or Cat.