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?

I like them all but Catherine is my preference; I can't even tell you why for sure. I think a part of me feels it's more authentic?

Oh and I LOVE Cate as a shortening, like Blanchett, prefer the look of it to Kate which I know is weird!

I prefer Catherine. Lovely name.

I thought it was Catherine of Aragon.

www.peterboroughmatters.co.uk/local-news/katharine-or-catherine-or-katherine-of-aragon-whats-in-a-name-13

She signed her own name in various ways too I believe, but often with a K to start.

Totally agree with this 😁

Agree with this

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I would go with Katherine or Catherine.

The Duchess of Cambridge is a Catherine with a C and known as Kate.

Agree with this"

Except I thought she was never called Kate in real life, only ever Catherine? I thought Kate was made up by the press for easier headlines???

I think Catherine works better with es and Katharine better with as. I like Erin and Reeney as shortenings but that doesn't work with as or ryns.

Me too! You’re right, it is weird. I am attached to how words look as well as sound. For reasons unknown to even myself I prefer the look of a C.

Catherine.

It's the proper way. And can still be Kate.

ps lots of spellings of K Katherine / Katharine / Kathryn but when you say 'with a C' nobody spells it wrong or questions it.

@moofolk I think I agree with you .

Catherine- be a Cate? Or a Kate. This is my favourite. Don't know why!
Kathryn - my friends who are Kathryn have not been Kates. Always Kathryn.

Katherine/ Katharine - either. My friend Katherine is not a Kate either!

So there you go. And now I've written them too often and they all look weird!

I love the name and if we'd had a second daughter she'd have had this name, but the one tiny niggle I had was that it wouldn't be immediately obvious how to spell it. We weren't keen on anything ending in -ryn, and preferred the K over C spellings (but not by much), so the remaining issue was Katherine or Katharine. I marginally prefer the latter but the former is the more common spelling, so we might have gone for that. Never had to make the final decision as child #2 was a boy!

I have two simple, common, names but each with a slightly unusual spelling. I have spent my life spelling it out to people. I should have learned; but we gave our DD one of the names being discussed here! I love that it can be shortened in so many ways, but people spell it all sorts of ways.

All of these spellings are fine but I prefer Katherine.

If you are planning to call her Katie why not just have that as her official name. I have a long traditional name but everyone knows me only by the shortened version. They begin with a different letter and when I put my initial on anything at work people are a bit confused! My cousin is named 'Kate', no short version, long version or having to spell it, just 'Kate'. I envy her sometimes 😊

I have the long version and the short version and much prefer having both!

Especially since the short version I use now isn't the same as the one my parents used for me when I was little.

I agree with Anne Shirley that Catherine with a C looks smug. Katherine would be my choice.

K is a better initial than C eg JK Rowling. Using a y just looks illiterate.
I like Katharine.

And ‘Katharine with a kicking kuh’ is a good way for a girl to introduce herself.

I know a Katharine and a Kathryn. Both pronounced the same, both shortened to Kat.

I also know a Catherine. Also shortened to Cat.

If you wanted Katie, as a natural nickname I would probably derive that from Katharine. Considering the Duchess of Cambridge has a Kate nickname though, perhaps it's not too much of an intuitive leap nowadays.

I prefer Catherine with a C - I don't like any of the complications introduced with using a K or a Y. I think Catherine is the oldest, most traditional and popular spelling - check out the googles NGram data - it charts the use of words over time in printed matter.

books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Catherine%2C+Katherine%2C+Kathryn&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2CCatherine%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CKatherine%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CKathryn%3B%2Cc0

Shakespeare used a ‘K’ @larkstar.
Anyway, if it’s from the Greek ΚΑΘΑΡΟΣ then Katharine makes sense.