Re: Cato is not a unisex name ...
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I have seen, in some older novel or other, Cato used as a nickname for Catherine (a la Caro for Caroline), so although it's extremely rare, I don't think it's completely unknown.
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There was a girl named Katie in elementary school; a couple of her friends called her Kato/Kayto for fun, but to me that's not even really a nn the way Kate/Katie/Kitty would be. It's more like on the level of back in the early nineties when people got called Stevo and Jenny-o. (Come to think of it, Kayto called one girl, Amy, Aymo.)