Kate or Katie?

[flowerbum]

What sounds better? And no i dont like Kathryn!

That's ok

I was called Kate or Katie until about 11-12 I would say so 'pre-teen' age I wanted to lose the less 'cutesy' version.

My name is Kate but it's amazing how many people call me Katie and I have to correct them.

To be honest I would have been happy to be named Katie and would probably just say to people 'my names Katie but call me Kate' when making introductions etc.

Katie Maria is lovely

Also with spelling I know a Katy who her name gets shortened to Kat and she hates it.

Definitely Kate. I think Kate Maria sounds lovely.

I love Kate, but would always give the proper name even if you're only ever going to call her Kate or Katie, personally!

Katie Maria does flow better but how often are you going to say her whole name out loud? Pretty rarely.

I have a Kate and get SO many compliments on her name. It's got potential for an adult, whereas to me Katie is very child-like.

I think it's a lovely name - prob prefer Kate. Benefit of a longer name on birth certificate is that it gives more options for the child when they're older.
Weirdly at the moment, in the small village where I live, literally about 50% of my friends are Kate or Katie (all in their thirties) and it was the most popular name at school as in there were about 6 in the year (of 90)

I have a 9 year old Kate and she LOVES it. We have never called her anything else (apart from Kajagoogoo!) and she has only ever had Katie from a couple of teachers. We gave her a long, posh middle name in case she didn't like it, but she thinks it's brilliant. She is confident, with a straight-to-the-point personality and a name to match. :)

I vote for Kate, nn Katie.

Katie is lovely and it is also shortened from Katrina

Choose what YOU like

Definitely Katie. Katie is beautiful, Kate is a bit mumsy. I love old fashioned names but no Kate just sounds boring.

I am Catherine (after grandmother) but always shortened to Katie (am now 34!). I don't like being called Kate as it seems lazy that people can't be bothered to say "ie"!! And I do prefer Katie, never felt it was too young, although I am the only person of my generation I know to be Katie rather that Kate. But that's quite nice!

I like both but probably Kate best. If my youngest had been a girl, we had the name Caitlin lined up and was going to shorten it to Cate. I did have some reservations about Cate spelt like that, didn't like the spelling of Kaitlyn with a K and it felt wrong to spell Caitlin with a C but shorten to Kate with a K!