What does “Keziah” make you think of?

[BabyBrainJane]

Hi all,

Me and DH have mixed feelings about this girls name (he loves it and I keep changing my mind lol).

If you heard this name (pronounced; Kez-EE-ah) what would you think? Who would you expect to use it? Do you like how it sounds?

Don’t be afraid of being rude in any way! I want your gut reaction lol x

Dugdale

I'd pronounce it as Kee-zha

Romany travellers

My gut reaction is just that I had no idea how to pronounce it until I read your whole OP.

Didnt have any other reaction either positive or negative!

Thought it would be Kay zee ah

The 1980s

Kez-ee-ah.
I've known three, all v clever, involved, energetic kids. Middle class rural families.

Cracking name.

Keziah features in my family tree. It's a Hebrew female name. It's a lovely name.

An Old Testament prophet!

The Guardians of time books by Marianne Curley! It's a strange name but not awful.

I think of the countryside prior to the industrial revolution; also Dugdale.

I like it, I know a six year old called Keziah, she pronounces it more like kezzy-a rather than kez-EE-ah.
It's an old testament biblical name.

I’d say it kez-aye-ah, I’ve only known one before and that’s how she pronounced it.
I don’t really have any real feelings about it.. it’s quite sharp sounding to my ear, but I don’t generally like k or hard c names

I think of a girl called Keziah from a school I worked in. She was really lovely and I’ve always liked the name

Kizzy which was a children's TV programme in the 1970s.

It’s a biblical name I think. In a similar vein to Sarah and Rebecca.

And it seems I was half right! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keziah Having read that I decide I like it, but I'd avoid the third daughters name as it sounds a bit like a medical problem!

One of my 8 year old DDs best friends. Lovely Girl.
Pronounced the way you said it in your op

Dugdale for me too.

I thought the emphasis was at the start, so KEZ-ee-ya

We knew a Kezia growing up - Keh-zee-ah; I quite like it as a name. As the family were pretty well-off, into horses, slightly hippy, I've always associated it with that.

Interesting to see it is an old Hebrew name because in our family tree there are a couple and siblings had names such as Issac and Issachar as well as William ,Mary Ann, Emma,Fanny etc. I suppose Old Testament names aren't in fashion here currently as well.

It's quite hard looking/sounding I would think Kezzy ah ..
Also family old school religious/brethren type .... not keen

I'll be honest I would have thought it was a bit chavvy (and I have no idea why!) Until I met a cambridge educated senior corporate Partner at a law firm whose children all had very rah names, one of them being Keziah and I realised I had the total wrong end of the stick.

I taught aa keziah about 10 years ago. Lovely girl who will now be a young adult.

I know one. She's very stroppy and rude so it makes me think of that unfortunately. I do like the name though!