Catherine or Kathryn?

[kardacheyenne]

Pros and cons? Is one harder to spell? Is it harder for a Catherine to be Katie? What about Katharine or Katherine or Cathryn even?

Cate and Catie look like typos

Definitely Catherine. It's just classier, K names are a bit faux and American and that dreaded K obsessed family esque for me now, sorry.

It must be a huge pain to CONSTANTLY spell out the spelling of your name...!

Katharine
Kathryn
Katherine
Catharine
Catherine
Cathryn

I'm a Katherine but have never had issues with spelling if I just say 'Katherine with a K'. People just seem to spell it like that by default.

And yes I was a Katy growing up so the K spelling made sense.

Catherine

I like Catherine best but Katharine/Katherine also fine, probably in that order.

Not so keen on Kathryn/Cathryn but don't like Kate/Katie/Katy either.

I choose the spelling of my 2nd dds name after I had 100 birth cards spelling it one one and two cards spelling it the other way

my theory was, she should go through life with most people spelling her name correctly

but don't like Kate/Katie/Katy either.

😝

Catherine

Kathryn is the right way to spell it

Catherine or Katharine.

Any of these can be Kate or Katie.
Don't complicate things , either Catherine or Katharine.It's a lovely name.

Catherine or Katherine, whichever you prefer

Many Catherines are Kate (eg Middleton) but Cate for C Catherines is gaining ground.

Kathryn is an uncalled for modernised spelling. Although I did once get told it’s the usual one in Wales (no idea).

I love Katharine, which is an old spelling, but it would be a pain compared to the standard two.

Katherine is the nicest, followed by Catherine then Kathryn imo. Really dislike the spelling with an 'a' in the middle, just doesn't read right to me.

If she’s going to be a Kate anyway, you could also have Kathleen. I also know a Cait (from Caitlin).

I know many people love to hate K names these days, but I think Katharine and Katherine are perfectly respectable.

Much prefer Catherine

Catherine would be my preference.

Snap! Despite having to spell it I love the spelling Kathryn.
It’s a more popular spelling in Scotland so I’ve never had to spell it up there or to my Scottish colleagues

@Luredbyapomegranate Kathryn is not a modernised way of spelling it. It’s a traditional spelling in Scotland and like you said Wales.

Katherine

Not true about Wales. Don't know about scotland.
No K in Welsh or Gaelic.
It's a 1960s type name

Katherine of Aragon was faux?? 😱

The K spelling is the original - from the Greek, I thought.