Zadie

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What is everyone’s honest opinions on Zadie please?

What heritage comes to mind?
Is it a bit too much like a nickname?

I’d love to know why you do or don’t like it.

Thank you!

Love it, beautiful name
Associate it with the super Zadie Smith author. Not a nick name it’s a complete name
Heritage? Arabic and Hebrew
I'd pronounce it Zay-Dee

Zadie Smith is a brilliant writer.

I'd think lots of people are initially going to mis-hear it as Sadie.

I love it! Such a unique name. Sounds strong and elegant. Good name choice OP!

Yes, I like it

I’m a big fan of Zadie Smith actually but I just loved the name regardless. She will have Arab heritage but mixed race so I’m glad that’s what was in mind.

So pleased a few of you like it so far but it’s early days and a Bank Hol weekend so I’m sure I’ll get some candid views on it which will make me hate it in due course. 🙈😂

I prefer Sadie.

What about Zelda?

Love it

Also think of Zadie Smith

Thanks! Lovely but it reminds me of a Game of Thrones character. Not a bad thing perhaps!

I think it’s the Zay sound I like in Zadie and I also like girl names ending in -ie or -y. I know many don’t. I think that’s why I wondered if it sounds a bit like a nickname.

I like it and much prefer it to Sadie. My thought would be mixed heritage but doesn’t really matter.

It’s lovely but how about Zaida, Zayna or Zeinab, to add some similar names you might not have considered into the mix (and all the multiple different spellings of the same names 😂)?

Zadie sounds quite cool and edgy to me, I like it.

Really love it!

It was on my shortlist for a girl with Arab/ English heritage. In case it’s helpful, the rest of the list was…

Zara
Yasmin/ Jasmin
Noor
Saffron
Maryam
Dinah
Roya/ Raya
Roxana

I really like it, and I never like unusual names on here! I think it's the Z

its a lot more common these days with Rebecca Zamola calling her DD Zadie

Isn’t Zadie a “made-up” name? I can only think of Zadie Smith, and her name is actually Sadie. She changed it aged 14. I think the z “exoticises” it.

A quick Google will tell you that it is a real name.

No, a quick Google did not. Some stuff on those rubbish, invented baby-name sites which is always more fiction than truth.

It means Grandad to mean (it's what Ashkenazi Jewish people often call their Grandfathers).

I don't dislike it as a name. It would just sound a little bit odd! I'd assume some Arabic heritage if I had to guess, although really you never know, names can be used by anyone.

Zosia / Zaida would sound better to me.

I’ve never heard the name Zadie before only Sadie which I really like and would make me think Scottish heritage. When I say them both the Z doesn’t really sound much different to the S other than the S being a bit softer sounding.

I thought it was because you like Sadie but don't like that "sad" "die" thing (something I've seen mentioned on here) so assumed it was a way to avoid that

Pandora Sykes has as well. I like it but I’m imaging a lifetime of correcting people who will hear Sadie.

Much prefer Sadie

I personally don't like it but it seems like I'm in the minority.

Thank you! Really lovely shortlist. Love Noor/Nour (we’d have spelt it) but she’ll have a cousin called that. Nobody tells you about this when you put off having babies in your twenties… 😁