Hattie or Hettie?

[PreciousPeach]

I know it is only a teeny difference but anyway which do you prefer?

Hattie, but it's a close one - I know a lovely Hetty as well. Couldn't use Hattie with our surname, otherwise it would be on my list. (I would go for a longer name and shorten it, but I don't understand people who get upset about other people's children having shortened names on their birth certificates - how can it possibly matter if that's what the parents want? As for what the child wants - well, nobody gets to choose their own name unless they change it!)

Dislike both, but like Hattie as a nn for Harriet

I had an absolutely inspirational chemistry teacher called Hetty, and on that basis would choose it over Hattie.

Personally I would go with Harriet known as Hattie.
I get the whole name them what they will be known as, however I think it's nice for a child to have an option of a more "grown up" name as they age. By giving the longer name, then shortening it, the child has options as to what they want to be known as.