So I’m pregnant with baby #2, and we are really stuck on girl names. My first daughter has a very classic name with a spunky nickname, and I think it would be neat to have the same for our second if it’s a girl.
I’m currently reading Where The Crawdads [name_m]Sing[/name_m], and the main character is called [name_f]Kya[/name_f] as a nickname for [name_f]Catherine[/name_f]. What an unexpected nickname! I kind of love it!
Upon further research, I couldn’t find much about [name_f]Kya[/name_f] as a [name_f]Catherine[/name_f] or [name_f]Katherine[/name_f] nickname outside of this book, but I did come across [name_f]Caia[/name_f], which is apparently the name of the [name_m]Roman[/name_m] goddess of fire and women. [name_m]How[/name_m] cool is that? I think like that even better!
What do you all think? Would [name_f]Kya[/name_f] or [name_f]Caia[/name_f] work as a nickname for [name_f]Catherine[/name_f] in real life?
First time seeing it and loved it! [name_f]Catherine[/name_f] nn [name_f]Kya[/name_f] is awesome imo!
I think it works very well. I’m especially partial to [name_f]Caia[/name_f] because of the additional goddess association!
I love [name_f]Kaya[/name_f] [name_f]Kaia[/name_f] and [name_f]Caia[/name_f]. However just so you know, [name_f]Caia[/name_f] [name_f]Caecilia[/name_f] wasn’t REALLY a goddess (based on your fire and women thing I’m assuming that’s who you’re talking about). Sometimes the romans would “promote” someone to the title of god, but they were still human. [name_f]Caia[/name_f] was just a queen who when she died they gave that title, kind of like they did for [name_m]Augustus[/name_m] [name_m]Caesar[/name_m]. Not the same as like…[name_m]Zeus[/name_m] or [name_f]Athena[/name_f] or something. A real goddess, [name_f]Gaia[/name_f], sometimes called [name_f]Caia[/name_f], was a kind of Mother [name_f]Earth[/name_f] goddess though.
I love [name_f]Caia[/name_f] (pronounced as [name_u]Kay[/name_u]-a) and I think it works beautifully as a nn for [name_f]Catherine[/name_f]. I’m less keen on [name_f]Kya[/name_f] ([name_u]Kye[/name_u]-a), but think it works as a nn for [name_f]Katherine[/name_f] with a K. I think the choice of nn really depends on how you’d spell [name_f]Catherine[/name_f]/[name_f]Katherine[/name_f] in this situation xx