Katie

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Still to common?

I love it - it was a possibility for DD.

It is not, and never has been, common. So there!

I much prefer Kate and personally I'd call her Katherine or Catherine to give her options but if Katie is to your taste then it's a perfectly reasonable name.

It's no more common than Chloe or Emily or Isabella etc. Names become popular because people like them.

Oh...you don't mean common as in popular? Is that correct? Or is that just Lostart's interpretation?

I love Katie. I would have had it for one of mine, but we have a close relative already called it.

I like Katie, prefer it to Kate. Would have it as a nickname for Katherine/Katrina/Kathryn/Kathleen though.

Sorry should have said "popular" rather than common..

I adore "Katie". It's a lovely name.

I've been a Katie for 35 years. Not short for anything, just Katie. And I've always loved it.

My dd is called katie dont no about how popular it is but i only no one other katie and that was a girl from school.

Very, very popular in Ireland but doesn't seem to be as common over here.

Love the name Kate (and not short for anything - don't like any other names beginning with K). Do not like Katie. Go figure.

Common as in Katie Price? Nothing's as common as her (boom boom)!!

My sister is a Catherine (but everyone calls her Katie)

I think it's a lovely name although I know of at least seven Katie/Katys (just checking in my mobile phone contacts!)- all aged late 20s/early 30s.
Although maybe not as popular for little girls nowadays?

I prefer Catherine or Kate.

Might be the influence of Katie Price but it just sounds far more common than Kate or Catherine/Katherine.

What do people think about Katharine? (as opposed to Katherine/ Catherine)

Katie is lovely.

Futiremum-Much prefer the Catherine spelling.
I think if you go with katharine she will forever be correcting people and there are already enough spellings of the name.

Thanks muminthemiddle. I prefer Katherine, but Katharine is after K. Hepburn (would be shortened to Katie or Kate in ordinary speech and just used Katharine for passport/official business). Still undecided! (we have a tendency to change our mind at the last minute)

We named DD (20 weeks) Catherine.

I've been wondering if we should have gone for the Katherine spelling though (not Katharine as that looks wrong to me - sorry FutureMum) as I'd imagined that she could use Kate and Katie as nicknames but I'm not sure they go with the C spelling.

I'm now worried that she might get 'Cat' as an NN and I hate that!

How would you feel about Cathy? I think it's lovely.

Loads of them everywhere

I hope this doesn't cause offense swanandduck but Cathy reminds me of a gobby Eastenders character and I'm really not keen.

Hadn't thought of her. I just always think of it as a very gentle, feminine name. It also reminds me of Wuthering Heights.

I'm a Katharine. I do have to spell it out a lot, and it is often misspelled (they even misspelled it on my degree certificate ) but it's never been a problem. I think it looks prettier than Katherine.