Katie?

[mummytobemaybe]

Opinions please :)

Would you be using Catherine, Katherine, Katharine or Kathryn?

I like it but do much much much prefer the long version on the BC.

You can't move for Katies around here - they're everywhere. Very, very common name. I liked Catherine for my daughter but vetoed it as everyone else appeared to be having Kates or Katies.

Katie is a name for a little girl. Let her have K/Catherine as an official name and it will give her options for other stages in her life.

Kate and Katie are also perfectly good stand alone names. They're not necessarily short for Katherine!

I have a Katie so I may be bias but I think it's a lovely name. She does get Kate quite often though.

I agree, Kate544! I've never wanted a 'longer version' and it wasn't until I lived in England that people assumed I was a Katherine!

If a name can be shortened.
It's perfectly acceptable for a kathrine to choose to be called Katie, Kate, kitty, Kat.
Then why isn't it just as acceptable for a Katie to choose to be known as kathrine if they want to?

Katie is gorgeous.

It's my sister's name and my daughter's middle name.

Why on earth are people saying it has to be Katherine? First world problems

Love it. Never met a Katie I didn't like. Don't think you need a longer name on the birth certificate, Katie is fine by itself.

I'm a Katherine who is called Katy - I prefer it to Katie, think it looks more grown up.

DD is Kate not Kathryn/Katharine/Katherine/Kathleen/Katie/Katrina.
I don't like the Katey spelling. Katie is ok and Katy is ok.

@MikeUniformMike
What do you think of it spelled like this Ceitidh? It's Gaelic
I'm undecided

Love it, know loads in their 30's and 40's as well as children. No need for a longer name on a bc as it's a perfectly proper name. None of the Katie's I know are Catherine's