While it is acceptable, I don't particularly like this spelling at all... While the name feels boring to me due to overuse, it is acceptable and my preferred spellings are
Catherine,
Kathryn and
Katherine. Changing the e to an a or just omitting it completely w/ the ine spellings somehow just doesn't look right.
Kathryn is at least different enough as a whole that the omitted e is expected.
Cathryn would look awkward to me though, for some reason... prob'ly the same way
Cate looks awkward to me.
This message was edited 3/23/2012, 12:35 AM