Do you pronounce 'Hephzibar'...

[Flangelica]

With a 'p' or an 'f' sound (if you are familiar with the name.)

Like 'Hep-zee-bar'

Or

'Hef-zee-bar'?

There seems to be some difference in opinion, wondering which was more common/popular.

Thank you!

Hep-zi-bah. I first heard it in 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'...

I met somebody with this name recently and it was pronounced with a hard P

For your child's sake don't choose a name that even you don't know how to pronounce.

I'd go with a P sound but that's because I don't think I've ever noticed it with a H in it - even with your thread I didn't notice the H 😂

(As an aside, I like Zee as a nickname rather than Effie or Eppie)

If you bothered to read the thread you'll see it can be pronounced both ways and the OP is well aware of this.

With a p - as in, ‘please don’t give me this hideous name, mummy’

With a P. I love it.

With the p sound. Hep-zee-bar.
Beautiful name by the way.

Thanks @SoupDragon ! 💐

P but I've never met me and only heard it in relation to the bible. Never on a real person.

Only come across "Hepzibah", would pronounce with p sound. Definitely a girl's name, unusual, but not completely unheard of. I'd definitely heard of it before Harry potter but no idea where originally.

It is a beautiful name and I am rather surprised that some posters have either never come across it before or have an intense dislike of it. Rather more unusual these days, but certainly not uncommon in Victorian and early Edwardian times and was, (maybe still is!), widely used in the Romani and travelling communities, along with many other Hebrew and biblical names.

Gorgeous name and, had circumstances been different, I would definitely have used it, pronounced with a hard 'P', along with, possibly, Keziah, Rebekka and Bathsheba

I would assume that any sites suggesting there’s a valid pronunciation of an F in the middle have it wrong. I’m also surprised that people haven’t at least come across the name, even if they don’t know anyone actually called it.

This is what I was going to say!

'Eppie in the coal hole!" So cute.

To be fair, even in Silas Marner Dolly’s a bit taken aback by Hephzibar as a name 😂

*bah

Same

I remember reading Carrie’s War at primary school and thinking, “Hepzibah? What sort of name is that?” I’d never heard of it before then.

Hep-sa-buh

I think it’s always pronounced w a p in English, so unless you are Jewish and want the f for a particular reason I would do that.

I like it, but I think it’s worth considering spelling it Hepzibah as that’s what people will know from HPotter and Marvel and it gets rid of the issue

"Eppie in the coal hole" was Patsy Kensit as a child, wasn't it?

I would pronounce with a P, OP.

God I forgotten Carrie’s War! I did love that book!

I'd pronounce it with a P but I've only ever read it, I've never met one in real life.
I thought it was a bit weird when I read the OP but it's grown on me as I've read the thread.
The nicknames are cute!

This

‘I’d have assumed…’. Why assume when, in the space of seconds, you can check?
That phrase ‘Lord, give me the confidence of a mediocre white man’, could so easily be tweaked to ‘oh for the confidence of an uninformed subset of mumsnetters’. Of which there are many.

I thinks it’s a marvellous name, but it is bold. And I have only heard it as Hep-zi- bah.

Neither HEP-zi-bah

(As pronounced in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers anyway!)