Katie - first thing that comes into your head when you hear the name?

[RaceyLacey]

DP & I both really like the name & it sounds really good with our girl middle name & surname, but when looking on a few websites they said something we hadn't thought of, just wanted to know the 1st thing that comes into peoples heads when they hear the name to see if we need to change our minds. Thanks

my dd4 katie, fab name

my best friend!

I did think of Katie Price but also of a few other Katies. I prefer it to Kate.

The name of the super bright, really lovely head girl at the school I teach. She's going to Oxford to study law!

Katy Hill who presented Blue Peter in the late 90s. Really confused as to why she came to mind, but quite a wholesome image.

Katy Carr in What Katy Did

Hmmm.... mostly Katie Hopkins (Apprentice not very nice woman) or What Katy did next?

But also feel Katie is a very twee shortening of Katherine/Katharine/Kathryn/Katharyn etc. I like the Katherine names, and feel that Kate or even Kath/Kathy is acceptable, but really dislike Katie/Katy. I would go for Katherine (or a variant of the spelling) and then use Katie/Katy as a shortened form, which would at least give you a choice.

Definitely not Katie Price! Had not occurred to me and dd1 has been around a while!

When we picked it I felt like it was a 'safe' option, but have never regretted it. She's the only Katie in her school and I'm sure is going to be a Kate (which I adore) in the next few years.

I may be biased but think of a gorgeous, happy, friendly girl

My very beautiful and wonderful little cousin Katie whom I love and adore. she is vivacious, giving and an all round lovely person

I only think of Katie Price when someone says orange coloured whoremonger who isn't fit to raise a stick insect let alone 3 children

Prefer Kate as it just seems more grown up. But then again I prefer Catherine, although Katie is a name in it's own right too.

Katie is a little blonde girl.

Katie Price didn't occur to me until I read the rest of the thread.

plastic titted katie price.for that reason avoid

what katy did, being a nice middle class gurl

First thing that came into mind was my dear departed cat.

Second was an image of a bright, friendly girl. Have known some Katies and two of them were pains, but the third one was lovely and it's her I think of

me too with katie price

My best friend, who is very dear to me!

Katie Price / Jordan - wouldn't worry about that though - with EVERY name you will find someone who associates someone or something awful to it

Price and Waity

I think it must be a nice name, but I am so used to it, that I can't even form an opinion on it. there were Katies in my class at school, there are Katies in my daughter's school. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe it's classic. BUT... it's the sort of name that makes me think 'o'. not ah!

My lovely lovelyl Mum, and DD and DN who both have variations of her name as their middle names

Don't worry about KP she'll be long forgotten in 5 years

god i would never think of katie price, that old slagbag will always be jordan afaic. it's a lovely name, we would have used it for dd2 but v popular round here.

Katie Price (sorry).

Also the book 'What Katie Did Next' (in a nice way).

What Katy Did

I think it's a lovely name

makes me think of my wonderful best friend....every katy i have ever known has been beautiful too!! its a fab name.

my grandad.

He used to call all us girls "kate"

We used to joke that it was because he could never remember our actual names.

I seriously considered it for DD but my grandad had only just dies and im not sure i could have. I didn't want it to remove from the memory i have of my grandad.

But i think the name is simple and pretty and timeless.

I think of a pretty little girl

It's a lovely name and was on my shortlist when I had dd