Baby Name Poll Results

Wren, Cassie, or Cate/Kate would be so cute for a girl.

Charles/Charlie for a boy

We aren't looking for female variants of Catherine, sorry! Catherine will stay exactly as Catherine as a middle name if we have a girl so we're only looking for first name suggestions that are unrelated to Catherine. Again, sorry if that was a mix up!

Charles is nice but it reminds me more my name, which in truth makes me feel a bit weird, rather than my mother-in-law's name. I also just realized that I never stated but the male variant will also be used as a middle name!

Castor, Cathal, or Cathán.

What about Cameron? It sounds slightly similar at least

Cathal
Cato
Kit

Percival- nn Percy
Cyrus- nn Cy
Oliver- nn Ollie
Fletcher
Clifford- nn Cliff
Emory
Augustus- nn Gus/August/Auggie
Edmund- nn Ed/Eddie
Basil
Emmett
Benjamin- nn Ben/Benji
Sebastian- nn Bash/Baz/Bastian/Ian
Harold- nn Harry/Hank/Hal
Everett- nn Rhett
Archibald- nn Archie
Oscar- nn Ozzy
Arthur- nn Art/Artie

We really enjoy the ideas of Cathal, Cathán, and Cato! We also love Augustus, Edmund, and Archibald as a first name! Sebastian is great as well however that is my godson's name.

Aikaterine is the Ancient Greek feminine form of Katherine but I think it could work on a boy.

Cătălin is the Romanian male version of Catherine (According to behindthename) not sure on how well that would work in America / or exactly how it's pronounced.

One of the possible meanings (and the most accepted) of Catherine is "pure" so you could go with a boy name meaning pure, like Candido/Candidus. But there's not a lot of boy names with that meaning so I'm not sure if you'll have much luck on that front.

Or you could just use Catherine, how many times do you truly tell people your middle name anyway? It's generally just an initial.

We actually like Candidus! We considered simply using Catherine but it just doesn't seem "right" to us to use it on a boy.

Before you call your child Candidus, be aware that Candida is a fungal infection.

The first name wouldn't be Candidus, it would be a middle name only (as would any of the variants) but that is good to know, thank you!

I just recently met a little boy named Cates which I thought was really surprising and handsome! When I heard it I actually wished that I had a Catherine to honor.
Edmund Cates would be insanely handsome. I'm kind of in love with it actually :)

Caton
Cathal an Irish name that is pronounced Ca-hal.

We actually do like Cates! (And Cathal)

What about using Catherine's maiden name for a son?

Her maiden name isn't really "name suitable" in our opinion but we really appreciate the suggestion! As of now we really like Cathán and Cates followed by Cathal and Cato

Of the variant suggestions I've seen, I love Cato best! First name suggestions...

Henry
Forrest
Raymond
Benjamin
Richard
Frederick
Davis
James
Andrew
Robert
Oliver
Alexander
Peter
Jack
Carsten
Arthur
Adrian
Lincoln
Duncan
Myles/Miles
Emmett
Edward
Sterling
Rudy
Eric
Harrison
Gunnar
Reuben
Neil

Good luck!

We like Edward as a first name, thanks! Harrison is nice too but too close to Hattie's name

Kit

Katharos

Katharos is clean in Greek

Christiane has all of the same letters that catherine has, except its just missing the second e thats in the name catherine. maybe something like using the letters of the name catherine to make a boys name. congrats

I was born with Kathryn as my middle name and I changed it when I changed my gender but I wish I had given it more thought and changed it to a masculine form to honor my mother like: Caterino, Kieran, Kevin, katerine or Caterine, Katryn, Catrine, Kateryn, Kahryn, Cahrine, Kahryn, Kitryn, Kithryn, Kethryn, Kade, Kader, Kaderyn, Caderyn Therin, Theron, Kato, Aikitryn, Catalin-romanized official, Katheros, Kathret, Cathrit, Catrit, Cathrinus, Cathan, Cattrit. The name is to honor the person more than to be like the definition of the name.

Małe form of Catherine is Caesar