Comments for the name Hephzibah

A famous bearer of the name was the pianist Hephzibah Menhuin, sister of the violinist Yehudi Menhuin.

In George Eliot's book "Silas Marner", it was Silas' mother's name. He named the beautiful young girl he took into care Hephzibah and nicknamed her Eppie.

In the Harry Potter books, Tom Riddle visited an old woman named Hephzibah Smith. He killed her and then stole a locket and a golden cup from her.

As well as referring to the mother of Mannaseh (2 Kings 21:1) the name is also used to refer to the people of Israel (Isaiah 62:4) as a people in whom God delights.

I love this name and the sentiment it conveys, however it can be hard for some people to pronounce, so I usually shorten it to Eppie.

Pompous and foreign-sounding, and the nicknames would all surely be crap.

I knew an Israeli girl with this name who spelt it Hefzibah, and I always liked the sound of it. Also, Eppie is a perfectly sweet nickname!

A marginally more attractive English form of the name is Hepsibeth.

Too religious to use, but sounds kind of cool.

I thought this name was always pronounced "HEP-zi-bah", regardless of whether it is spelled with an "h" after the "p" or not. Perhaps "HEF-zi-bah" comes from too many uninformed people reading the name phonetically.

In Hebrew the letter "pe" can be pronounced either as a "P" or an "F" - that explains the differences in pronunciation.

Hepzibah Pyncheon is the name of the old spinster in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The House of Seven Gables.

Hephzibah... represents, to me, the "call" of God to His beloved church to come away and rejoice in Him. To separate itself unto His Joy and Peace.

This name may have a nice meaning, but it's still incredibly pretentious and overly evangelical. And Hepsie is a stupid nickname.