Girl's name Ziska

[Jooni]

Hypothetical as I'm expecting a boy this time but heard this name on the radio yesterday and I rather like it.

Have at it MNers!

I've never heard it before. Has an Eastern European/Russian ring to it, I think. It's oooook. Not that keen.

Sounds like a brand of cheap household appliance

Thought it said Zika. As in the virus. . Sorry.

Too similar to zika

Zika virus was my first thought too. It reads slightly strangely? like a fairly unusual combination of sounds in English, it takes me a few gos to pronounce it. My opinion only of course but it doesn't appear very 'name-y' to me.

Another one who associates it with the Zika virus, and agree it sounds like a cleaning product otherwise

It's the name of a pharmaceutical company.

As a girls name, its short for Franziska. Similar is Ziske, which is yiddish.

I'd assume it's short for Francisca/Franziska

Oof, OK, thank you everyone. Had a feeling it wouldn't be liked but the Zika thing hadn't occurred to me so thanks for making that connection. I don't know, there's still something about it... Guess it's lucky I'm having a boy!

Ziska sounds too close to Piska which is the Russian slang word for vagina

Oh and Siska which means breast

So boobs and fanny rhyme in Russian? You learn something new every day.

My first thought was that it's pretty but then people said the Zika thing and now it's all I can see

It sounds Polish or something to me.

I think it's pretty.

And it sounds nothing at all like Zika??

Zika here too.

Zosia is nice though.

It is definitely not Russian, sounds Jewish to me. I imagine a very old Jewish woman...Closest Russian name will be Zinka, which rhymes with "basket" in Russian.

Zika virus