[name_f]My[/name_f] daughter’s name is [name_f]Caitlin[/name_f]. [name_f][/name_f] All the Anglicized and “yoonique” variations irritate me to no end, although my kid (who’s 40 this year) shrugs it off.
[name_f][/name_f]There are multiple reasons why I chose [name_f]Caitlin[/name_f]. [name_f][/name_f] I babysat a Welsh girl whose name was [name_f]Caitlin[/name_f] (pronounced Catlin) and fell in love with it then. [name_f][/name_f] [name_m]Little[/name_m] did I know that a TV show would bounce the name into the Jennifer/Jessica range but with an Ashley/Ashleigh/Ashli vibe.
[name_f][/name_f][name_f]My[/name_f] great-grandmothers were Sofie-Katarine and [name_f]Maria[/name_f] [name_f]Luisa[/name_f]. [name_f][/name_f] [name_f]My[/name_f] daughter, in Jewish tradition, was named [name_f]Caitlin[/name_f] [name_f]Louisa[/name_f] (Leah Gavriella).
[name_f][/name_f]Because the [name_m]Achille[/name_m] [name_m]Lauro[/name_m] terrorism had just happened, we didn’t want to give her a name that would signal she was Jewish by her passport despite adhering to Jewish tradition when we named her. [name_f][/name_f] I was involved in international publishing and we travelled all the time. [name_f][/name_f] As it turned out, the year we travelled together to the Bologna Book Fair, Americans were told to leave [name_f]Italy[/name_f] because of Reagan’s bombing of Tripoli.
[name_f][/name_f]In her life she’s gone by [name_f]Katie[/name_f], [name_f]Kate[/name_f], and [name_f]Kitty[/name_f]. [name_f][/name_f] Currently she prefers [name_f]Caitlin[/name_f].