Kate

[17caterpillars1mouse]

What are your thoughts on Kate as a full name

I love it. Have a very good friend called Kate and she's kind and beautiful- probably affects it but I think it's a great name.

I’d expect the full name to be Catherine, Katherine, Katharine or Kathryn.

Every single Kate / Katie / Katy I know is really some form of Catherine.

Boring!!

It's nice but not individual - depends on whether you want her to have a popular name or not. I'm in my 40s and know loads of Kate's in their 40s, 30s, 20s

My friend said her mum named her Louise as it couldn't be shortened?! I've known her 30 years and she's always been "Lou' or "Lou Lou' to all of our friendship group! Never Louise

I like it. Agree with the pp that said it has similar sort of vibe to Emma. Though has the advance of not being used anything like as much at the mo.

I really like Kate, it's a name I'd be happy to be called. Don't like Catherine, it's too fussy.

dull, plain, overused, ordinary, everywhere

I love it. Classic but cool. Never met a Late I didn’t like.

It's fine, perhaps a little dull - I know at least five different Kates so generally need to add a surname to identify them.

Kate not Late!

Really dull and boring and overdone.

Every other child will be saying to your child “oh my mum/aunty is called Kate”.

Rhymes with “hate” too!

Got any others names?

It's nice. There are three of them in my nephew's class though (reception) so it seems quite popular

That’s interesting. I think it will feel like an older lady name to a young child as every other parent will be called Kate or sarah or whatever

Yes, it will seem like a 'dated' name to our kids as it's such a popular 'mum' name - Kate, Sarah, Clare etc

There are far nicer and more interesting names!