Names similar to Katherine?

[DawnieOwl]

I have always loved the name Katherine and had it as my number 1 name for our baby. However, today DH has informed me that Katherine is the name of one of his former partners and therefore is obviously not suitable. Any suggestions of similar names?

Eleanor

Catriona, lovely name

I agree that Eleanor has a similar vibe, also Alice, Julia, Christina, Caroline, Susannah or Abigail maybe.

Just go with Katherine. It’s a lovely name. Does it really matter about an ex-girlfriend?

Are you looking for classic British names?

Elizabeth
Margaret
Jane
Clara
Philippa

Flora
Constance
Dinah
Cecelia
Rosemary

Caroline
Harriet
Emily
Sarah
Daphne

Ruth
Imogen
Felicity
Jemima
Rosalind

Frances
Eleanore
Frida
Laura
Emma

Josephine
Anne
Joan
Greta
Isobel

Alice
Edith
Beatrice
Alexandra
Dorothea

Penelope
Millicent
Jessica
Jocelyn
Tessa

Katherine is lovely. I understand your reservations but it’s a pity not to use a longstanding favourite for that reason.

What about
Katerina
or doubling it up with another name like
Anne-Katherine?

Otherwise, I’d say that names like Caroline, Elisabeth, Susannah, Victoria, Justine or Miranda have a similar feel.

Caroline
elizabeth
alexandra
victoria
caitlin
isabel
margaret
juliet
josephine
vivienne
louise
maria
julia
helen
harriet
eleanor
charlotte
mary
anna
abigal

Laura

Katarina

Katya

I know this isn’t the point of the thread

but how can you know someone well enough to marry them and have a baby with them but not know the names of their significant exes? I assume it’s someone he lived with / was engaged to and not a girl he snogged behind the bike sheds when he was 15.

Katrina

I'd just spell it with a C Catherine and still have it.

Katherine or ...

Catherine
Catriona
Caitlin
Cate
Kathleen
Katrina
Kaye

Using a different first initial is a distict difference.

I just love Kate !

Katerina
Katya
Katrine
Katrina
Kayley
Kayla
Catriona
Cerys
Celeste
Coral
Corinne
Camille

I don't think it is obviously not suitable and if it is the name you love them I would still go for it.

I had a Caroline and a Katherine in my primary school class, and people mixed up their names ALL the time (despite the fact they looked nothing alike - one was Korean!) So clearly everyone felt those names were very similar!

Those saying go for it, does the OP’s FH not get a say?!

Sisters of Katherine / Catherine that I know:

Victoria
Sarah
Elizabeth
Helen
Alice
Lucy
Rosemary
Diana

DH, that should say. He clearly doesn’t want it!

Similar sound... Kaitlyn. Carolyn. Cassandra. Catrina. Caroline. Erin. Evelyn.

Similar vibe.... Elizabeth. Charlotte. Victoria. Rebecca. Abigail Eleanor. Rachel. Alexandra. Sarah. Hannah. Lucy. Alison. Jennifer.

Daphne
Yasmin
Carmen
Zephrine
Erin
Corinne
Lorin
Aerin

Katherine is my favourite girls name. Other names that I like are Elizabeth, Eleanor, Jennifer, Helen, Zoe and Maria.

I'm Kathleen and have always preferred ir to the harder sounding 'rine'.

Mind you, I go by Kat, so it didn't matter much!

Corina

That's my name. I like it. It's not popular/ common, but it's not unusual either. I do get a lot of mis-spelling but that doesn't bother me, I suppose there are just a lot of ways to spell it. I get called Catriona sometimes which is also a lovely name.

Caroline or Tessa