Hepzibah

[Mumblyboo]

right....i love this name...what do you lot think, yay or nay?

I love it. Means "my love is in her" (or similar!) and it would have been a name my DD would have had.

Never had a DD though, so you can have my permission to use it instead!

I wanted it, with the nn Eppie because I have loved it since I read Silas Marner at school. DH veto'd it though

yes it was the seven brides ref that has made me love it since a child....

I absolutely love it and wish we'd been brave enough to use it for dd3. Silas Marner is one of my favourite novels, and Eppie is a lovely nickname.

Love it :)

Love it!

Wow kinda shocked at the positivity! I was bracing myself got a flaming! I like Zizi as nickname xp

Go for it

I'm not keen, sorry. I have only heard of it from Harry Potter and as someone said earlier she wasn't a nice character so no positive connotations!

love it!

Zizi is willy in French so be prepared for some giggles if u ever end up living there!

I know of one, now about 45 yo, nothing hippy dippy or unpleasant about her AFAIK. Called Eps or Epsy for short, I think. Bet it's all the same lady we're talking about, lol.

Love it (with Eppie as a nn) for Silas Marner reasons too!

Don't do it!

I love it! I've known a couple of people with Hepzibah as a middle name - normally evangelical christians as it is quite an obscure biblical name

Was there one in the Roman Mysteries? Because I didn't like her.
But I like the name. Wouldn't go with our name choices though.

I knew a hepzibah. Everyone called her hep or Heppy. I thought it sounded like hepatitis.
I'm afraid it is on my list of top 5 ugliest names to give your daughter, together with Ghislaine, Tegwyn, Dolores and Berengaria.

Poor child.

Hepzibah was the aunt in a book I read as a child called Carrie's War, I think.

Zizi just reminds me of the pizza chain. Loved Carrie's war and think Hepzibah is a wonderful name.

I love it, I also like Bathsheba.

I think it is absolutely lovely. It is unusual but not ridiculous. My daughter went to school with a Hepzibah (Eppy). It is also the character in one of my favourite books, Silas Marner, which is a lovey story.

Bathsheba is also a tremendously grand name isn't it.

I would go for it OP.

Celestia those are lovely names, especially Berengaria and Ghislaine (well, in my opinion obviously

LOL this is what I tell the kids at school my first name is (it starts with an H but it's a lot more common than Hepzibah!)

They don't believe me . I think it's a bit out there as a name, unless you are going to shorten it at once and always.

I love love love Eppie (Silas Marner) but tbh have always thought that if I used it, that would be her actual name, not Hepzibah.

I am aware that MN frowns on doing such a thing, though!