Katie

Meaning

Katie is a familiar Scottish pet form of Catherine/Katharine. The older name ultimately comes from Greek, and the excerpts connect it with the sense “pure.” In the 19th-century sources, Katie is treated as one of the contracted and diminutive forms of Catherine, alongside Kate and Kitty.

Origin

Fun fact

One excerpt specifically calls Katie the Scottish form, while noting that Kitty was once more common in the previous century.