Zoe?

[Sall23]

Thoughts on Zoe? Is it a bit dated / 90s? Do you know any?

Why make your kid's life more difficult by adding letters that we don't have in our language?

We do have them in our language though (English). It's an E. A normal E. With a dieresis added to it to tell the reader to pronounce it separately from the O.

Why make your kid's life more difficult by adding letters that we don't have in our language?

Wit does exist! It's a dieresis:

the mark ¨, in writing placed over the second of two adjacent vowels to indicate that it is to be pronounced separately rather than forming a diphthong with the first, as in some spellings of naïve.

Zoe looks like Joe. Zoë is Zo-ee.

Zoe looks like Joe

Only to you though.
Everyone else realises when you see the letters 'Zoe' it is pronounced to sound like "Zoh-ee".
It is a weird thing about the English language. The same patterns of letters can be pronounced in different ways.
Think
bough
cough
though
through
even before you start adding in
thought

or lives and lives
or read and read

and there are thousands of other examples.

I can only speak for England and Wales and I can only speak for folk over the last 55 years, but people seeing the name 'Zoe' will read it with the sounds "Zoh-ee" and will not read it to rhyme with Joe.

Love it! Wished it was my name when I was a kid! Spell it Zoë though.

Biased but really really like it. It’s classic but cool and suits both a child and an adult!