Names that Kate can be a nn for?

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As many as possible please! :)

I'm a Kathryn, but I've been kate my whole life

Katherine, Kathryn or Katie spring tO mind!

Kathleen, Kate-Lynn, Caitlin, Kitty too.

Catriona
Katerina

Kathryn

Katence

Katrina

Katarina

Caitlin

Catriona

Katya

Love the nane Kate, top of my list for a girl ( not that I'm even pregnant yet!)

Catriona - I'm a Catriona!

I'd just use Kate.

To me, it is the most chic option.

The most classic option being Catherine.

I've got a Catherine who's sometimes known as Katy or Kate. Love the full name and the shortened versions - always a classic but I never get tired of it

What about katelain

Wow lots of repliess, thank you!

Love Kate, but would like to give here a longer first name. Probably like Caitlin the best. Modern twist on the Katherine/Kathleen classics. Which I do like but not very 'us'.

Keep suggestions coming! :)

I'm a Catherine known as Kate always have been, I had a great aunt Kathleen known as Kitty

Oh and I know a little girl called Kstherine known as Kitty to

Karen

Caitlin is lovely - but it's worth knowing that its actually a mispronunciation of the Gaelic spelling of Kathleen. Was mis used in Australia so much it became an 'actual' name

This history put me off. It might jot you x

*not bother ( jot?????)

Sorry to hijack but can I just ask those who have a Catherine why is it shortened to kate, not cate? It's been puzzling me for a long time.....

Catrin is the Welsh equivalent (though admittedly I've never heard it shortened to Kate - but don't see why you shouldn't)

Kathleen

Katharine
Katharine
Katharina
Kathryn
Katya
Katinka

I would shorten Catherine, Cathryn to Cate - makes it easier to have the same initial (when it comes to labelling things for school).

There's Catherine or Catharine.

Plus:
Katrina
Katerina
Katja
Catrin
Catriona
Kathleen
Kathryn
Caitlin
Catiness
Catalin
Catalina

My name is Kate. It is katharine on my birth certificate. I hated being known by a different name to my actual name so much that I changed it by deed poll as an adult. It caused so much confusion at school etc, with different names on exam certificates, etc - and when I got married they said it couldn't be Kate in the ceremony, I had to be called by this name that wasn't mine - so I changed it by deed poll before the wedding.

I deliberately gave my children names that can't be shortened.

Each to their own, but just another perspective.

Katarzyna.

Granted it is a form of Katherine.