Kitty

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Just wanting to put the feelers out with this name for DD1?

I love it. It was on my list as I loved the character from Anna Karenina. Its not too out there or too over used either.

I love it too!

God no it sounds like a cats 🐱 name

Katerina
Katie

But not Kitty

Love it, I've only ever known one Kitty, I think hers was a nickname of Katherine.

Love it. It was on my list

As short for Katherine, yes, but definitely not as a name in itself.

I liked it as a nn for Katherine. Not as a stand alone name.

Only decided against it because my eldest is known as Puppy in the family

I love it! I was going to call my DD2 this but STX vetoed it

It just reminds me of a sleazy bloke using it as a slang word for ... well, you know what. I don't know why, it's just the first thing I think of - followed by it being cliff Richards alleged sex name at the elm tree guest house

I appreciate the above is particular to me though! But to my ears, the name doesn't sound pretty

Love it, so cute on a little one. The girl I know is Kathryn on the BC.

Not as a given name for me - it's lovely but quite cutesy sounding, so might not suit every adult. There are a lot of options for the birth certificate though (apart from the obvious Catherine variants like Katharina, Katia, Caitlin etc) - Kitty could be used as a nn for any of the "Chris" names too (Christina/Kristen/Kirsty/Christabel etc) or even Tabitha, Perdita, Sheba and Claudia too (thanks to the "cat" associations for those names).

It's really pretty and would suit a toddler but I'm not sure if it would work for an adult woman. I'd go for Kathryn or Katherine on the birth certificate and use Kitty as a nickname.

I really like it!

I know an extremely competent and accomplished Kitty in my professional life. Great name.

I like Katherine or Katie with the nm kitty

Too cutesy as a name in its own right. Fine as a shortening for Catherine, Christina etc.

People actually saying they like it!! I am genuinely surprised, sorry but I thought it was a joke!! Can you imagine how much stick the other kids would give a child named Kitty!!!

Like it as a nickname for Katherine but not as a name on its own

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People actually saying they like it!! I am genuinely surprised, sorry but I thought it was a joke!! Can you imagine how much stick the other kids would give a child named Kitty!!!

Mine’s 6 and hasn’t had any stick yet it’s not her given name though, just a nickname that derives from her given name. There are several others she could use instead (as well as her full name) as she gets older if she chooses.

Not as a given name. Fine for a baby, cute for a toddler, a teenager not so much, a grown woman nope.

Taught a Kitty once - lovely girl. No one ever batted an eyelid at her name as far as I know. Some adults are called Cat and no one bothers about that, it's not so different really. It's is a very old fashioned name and you come across it quite a lot in literature if you start looking for it.

I really like it. The Coren's have called their daughter Kitty fwiw, so it's probably West London-mum friendly, despite the gasps from some here.

I also taught a Kitty. She's a lovely girl and wasn't given any stick for it.

I'm in my 50s and when I was at school, everybody had a fairly conventional name. These days, children are so used to unusual names that they don't bat an eyelid at words which I wouldn't even have thought of as names until I met children called that word. Kitty is pretty pedestrian compared with some of the names that I've come across.

My granny was called Kitty (born in the early 1900s). Her full name was Kate but I never heard anyone call her this, only Kitty it Kit. I love it, as it reminds me of her and she was such a lovely woman.

Can you imagine how much stick the other kids would give a child named Kitty!!!

I just don't think they would. I think children being teased about names is an MN thing. I have never come across or heard of a child being bullied about their name in my 23 years, so far, of having children at school! There are so many unusual names around, that I don't think Kitty would merit a second thought, other than thinking what a pretty name it is.