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Gender: M Popularity: this week. Origin of Kit: English, diminutive of Christopher Meaning of Christopher: Greek and Latin, "bearer of Christ"
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Nickname occasionally used on its own, has a bit of a western twang thanks to Kit Carson. Actress Jodie Foster used it for her son. Also used as a female pet form of KATHERINE.

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Kit Carson, American frontiersman
Kit Harington, British Actor (plays John Snow on Game of Thrones)
Kit Watkins, American muscian
Kit Culkin, American actor; father of Macaulay, Kieran, and Rory Culkin
Kit Marlowe, 16th century playwright (Christopher, went by Kit)
Kit Bomer, son of actor Matt Bomer, of "White Collar" fame
Kit Foster, son of American actress Jodie Foster

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Kit Walker is a main character, played by Evan Peters, in FX's "American Horror Story: Asylum"
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Kit

Gender: F Popularity: this week. Origin of Kit: English, diminutive of Katherine Meaning of Kit: "pure"
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Kit is a crisp, old-time British-accented unisex nickname that sounds fresh and modern today. Kitty is another so-retro-it's-cool nickname.

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Kit Hoover, American broadcast journalist

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Kit Snicket, character in Lemony Snicket's (pn of Daniel Handler) "Series of Unfortunate Events"
Margaret Mildred "Kit" Kittredge, from the "American Girl" doll collection
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