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HelpRe: Zany Names
in reply to a message by Ottilie
Of your Zs, my favorites are Zelda and Zephyr. I also like Zachariah and Zacharias.
My personal favorite "Z" find is Zenoby which I pronounce as "ZEN-o-bee". I came across it several years ago while searching page by page through census records looking for my ancestors who weren't turning up in the index search. There were several families who had the name as a surname but what actually caught my eye was finding several instances of it used as a feminine given name. If you go to Ancestry.com and do a search of census records with nothing but the first name Zenoby, lots of them come up all through the census years, right up to 1940, mostly in the Southern U.S.
Other "Z" names I like...
Zella
Zinnia
Zora
Zoraida
Zebedee
Zebulon
Zane
My personal favorite "Z" find is Zenoby which I pronounce as "ZEN-o-bee". I came across it several years ago while searching page by page through census records looking for my ancestors who weren't turning up in the index search. There were several families who had the name as a surname but what actually caught my eye was finding several instances of it used as a feminine given name. If you go to Ancestry.com and do a search of census records with nothing but the first name Zenoby, lots of them come up all through the census years, right up to 1940, mostly in the Southern U.S.
Other "Z" names I like...
Zella
Zinnia
Zora
Zoraida
Zebedee
Zebulon
Zane
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