Katie?

[Lironlavie1]

What do people think of Katie for a girl? Thanks x

I would go with Anna or Ada to go with your other names.

I think it’s lovely. Both my best friends at primary school (early 90s) we’re called Katie and it was pretty common then. I know three adult Katies now. But I don’t think I’ve met any little girls with the name recently.

I know two little Catherines who were born around the same time as 2 year old DS and they are both always Catherine.

Please don't be put off, OP!
I'm called Kate and have always loved it!
Also, my children's school of 80 has two Katies, so it's definitely not unheard of nowadays!

I have a Katie . She is in her 20s. I still think it is a beautiful name. Timeless imo.

My 2 year old is Katie. She's great, a smiley happy girl! My husband didn't like any unusual names, and Katie really suited their one syllable surname. I think it'll age well.

I think it’s a beautiful pretty classic name. I know a few teen Katie / Katy’s and none have a longer version on BC

I think it is a lovely name and will go well with the names of your children.
I personally would use Catherine on the birth certificate though.
It was the name I wanted to use but I ended up with 3 boys.

So using “office of national statistics” data for 2018, the current percentage of babies called “Katie” is 0.04% a year. That means there’s one child called Katie in every 2,500 girls.

The name Kate is given to even less babies- 0.01% - thats 1 in every 10,000 children are called Kate! 😂 it’s practically extinct!

(I can do the same calculations for Catherine/Katherine if anyone interested (probably not 😂) but those names are even rarer than Katie these days.)

So that’s 1 child called “Katie” per 2,500 girls and one “Kate” per 10,000!!! whereas in the 80s, it felt like one in ten children were called Katie or Kate! Sorry but Kate or Katie is just one of those names that had a massive hurrah in the 80s and the next generation will just consider it a “mum’s name”.

He is Benjamin but only on BC. Ben to everyone else... (Benny a nn)

Of your suggestions, I like June which is due a comeback. I second the ‘dated’ issue. My DD has a friend called Helen which her friend finds really embarrassing as ‘Helen is a mum’s name’ not for a 13yr old. I actually like the name, but I can see that she has different associations. Perversely, most people with my name are a generation younger and I quite like it - better to be at the start of a trend than the end.

I know a 3yr old Katie and that is her name on birth certificate. I think it's a nice name and not overly common.

I was born in the 80's and didn't know any growing up and today I still don't know any. I know lots of Katherines but known by full name.

I really like Katie, and I like it best from the names on your list. And just lovely with the sibling names.

I really like it. It was in my list.

Off the top of my head I can think of at least 8 Katies/Kates that I know of of school age; it’s never really ‘been away’ in our area, although the days of having 7 or 8 Katies in a class (yes, that happened!) have gone!

Not particularly keen, but I do think Emily Ben and Kate/Katy work well together. Very balanced and all in the same mode of fairly traditional.

By the time your DD is a mid teen, Katy will be unusual and maybe even hip and trendy in the same way Alice and Ivy have recently become trendy again.

I say go for it.

@Eyewhisker ah yes that’s a good point about Helen having a similar feel to Kate/Katie to the next generation. Both good (but overused) names in the 80s but a child nowerdays won’t thank you when they get old enough to realise it’s the name of all their mums friends’

I also remember the days of 8 Katie’s in a class 🤣 in our little French group growing up there was only 8 students, 4 of whom were called Kate or Katie 🤣 I think the name just got too saturated

Very very average, plain, dull, overused, non special.

Sorry.

Ivy is trendy again because it’s a name that was popular 70-80+ years ago so we think of vintage photos and beautiful glam ladies in black and white photos. All the iris’ are very old now or dead sadly! So the new generation of Iris’ nowerdays are being told amazing stories about ladies from the war and before. Kate and Katie were popular 20-30 years ago so it’s just too recent to have a revival. Because every other “dowdy” (in their child’s eyes) mum at the school gate is called Kate or Katie 🤣 so it’ll be seen as very uncool. In a similar vein to Darren and Keith where you just imagine some ageing bloke sat in accounts with a pot belly and receding hairline 🤣(sorry, dont all hate me)

Love it!

Because every other “dowdy” (in their child’s eyes) mum at the school gate is called Kate or Katie 🤣 so it’ll be seen as very uncool. In a similar vein to Darren and Keith where you just imagine some ageing bloke sat in accounts with a pot belly and receding hairline 🤣(sorry, dont all hate me)

I think it’s little dated

I like Kate, I don't think it's dated.

Catherine known as Kate/Katie is my girls name if I ever manage to have a child. Love love love this name. Popular name, but timeless.

I disagree with a pp that said Elsie, Mabel etc are romantic old fashioned names. I think of old ladies when I hear them. Katherine/Catherine is a lovely name - not sold on Katie as a formal first name as I am quite traditional but definitely a shortened version.

If Kate or Katie isn’t classified as “dated”.... what on earth is 🤣

It’s the definition of “dated” surely?

I can’t think of another name aside from Sarah that was SO popular and saturated for two decades around the 80s (in the 1975-1995 timeframe), that has since totally sunk without trace.

1 in 10,000 girls now called Kate! Anyone that gives their name over the phone as “Kate” nowadays will be assumed to be a certain age. ( I know there will be exceptions.)