Origin of the name Katherine:
Cognate of the Greek Aikaterinē, the root of which is katharos (pure, unsullied).
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Kitty is an Irish nickname for Katherine or Kathleen, but may be used independently. It was formerly much more popular than it is now.
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Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress, and panelist on "To Tell the Truth".
Kitty Wells (born Ellen Muriel Deason), American country singer known as the "Queen of Country Music".
Kitty Kelley, American journalist and biographer.
Kitty Genovese, New York woman who was famously stabbed to death in 1964 although more than three dozen people witnessed the crime.
Kitty O'Shea, wife of Irish president Charles Parnell, whose affair with him while she was separated from, but still married to her first husband damaged Parnell's political career.- Kitty in song, story & screen: | Edit
Princess Kitty Shcherbatsky, winsome character in Leo Tolstoy's novel "Anna Karenina".
Kitty Bennett, fourth Bennett sister in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Kitty Pryde, of the X-Men, Marvel comics character
Kitty Forman, mother of the Forman family in the TV series "That '70s Show".
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Global Popularity of the Name Kitty
- #509 in Scotland
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