Do you feel differently about Cate vs. Kate as a first name?
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Anonymous
| Cate always reminds me of Cat when I see it. I would stick with K if my plans were to call her Kate. |
Anonymous
| I prefer Catherine/Cate. I think Cate (or Kate) on its own is pretty, too. |
Anonymous
Catherine/Cate is also my preference. Like Catherine Deneuve, very French. Another advantage is that, in a roll call, C comes before K. 
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Anonymous
| Cate reminds me of the knock off version of anything, lets say perfume for example. Whilst Kate reminds me of the real deal- the authentic. My vote is for Kate. |
Anonymous
| Cate looks like you spelled it wrong. |
Anonymous
| I love Cate as a start alone name. Go for C since it isn't as common as Kate. Cute!! |
Anonymous
| Love the name Kate as a stand-alone. |
Anonymous
| I am a Katie - just Katie, not Katherine, etc. I love it. My mom didn't want me to have a formal name so that I didn't have to write it out unnecessarily all of the time, and it has never confused anyone ("do you go by Katherine or Katie?"). I think Cate seems more modern but I am partial to Kate (as you can imagine) - seems less pretentious. |
Anonymous
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My daughter is Cate and I have a non-pretentious reason. I love the name Catherine with a C. I like Kate, but wanted there to be consistency between the spellings (since we mostly call her Cate). I am Allison/Ali and it always drove me crazy to have 2 L's in one and 1 L in the other. I guess I could've changed it at some point, but that's the way my parents spelled it and I didn't want to deal with it.
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Anonymous
| I like Cate as a nickname for Catherine, but if you are going for one of them as a stand-alone name, then I'd go with Kate. |
Anonymous
| Cate looks stupid |
Anonymous
| I like them both but my DD is Katie, Kate or Katherine so that's my preference. I usually go for the traditional spellings of names. |
Anonymous
| I like both but Cate seems slightly more sophisticated to me. |
Anonymous
| My daughter is "Cate." When she was born and the nurse scoffed "It's Cate with a C!!!" I said "No, it's cute with an "a". |
Anonymous
| Just found out #3 is a boy. Won't ever get to use my dream name: Catherine like my mom, Katie for short. So, that's how I would vote. |