What are your thoughts on this girl's name.....

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Keziah, Kizzy for short

All views welcome! Thanks

I like it. I have heard it before, didn't realise it was biblical but certainly doesnt sound chavvy to me.

Rumer Godden's name for the Diddakoi

The only Keziah I know is beautiful and talented. Her mother got the name from a Katherine Mansfield story.

sounds very different with 2 different pronunciations

ke zee a (with emphasis on ke)
ke zi ah (much more biblical sounding)

tbh, anything with k and z in together has a chavvy ring to it nowadays, regardless of origin, BUT depends on your social circle as to how it is taken. only you will know about that.

Whatever you do, don't go for Kizzy. Who wants to be a 40 year old kick-ass business woman called Kizzy. Or a 85 year old trying to be taken seriously and not patronized in a geriatric ward called Kizzy.

You're not just naming a baby you know, you're naming a woman.

Alex Haley's book of his family line from the origional African taken as a slave, featured a Kizzy, the first to be born in the US, into slavery.

Keziah - I like. However would anticipate problems with spelling and pronunciation.
Kizzy - I hate. Sorry it is a bit too wacky for my taste.

I know a wonderful Keziah (3). Her name gets shortened to Kezzy. Not keen on Kizzy.

Aha! Have investigated further and the noun Kezia (in Hebrew) is equivalent to Cassia in English, which is a cinnamon-like spice or the tree from which it comes, so I was very nearly right, and is actually quite a pretty name as well!

Yes you do need to do the test .......

'This is Kizzy Maynard, News at 10, in the Gulf.'

'Welcome to our new Prime Minister, Kizzy Foster..........'

'this is your captain, Kizzy Griffiths, speaking.....'

As I said, you are naming a woman....

Ah you see, Hatrick, I think that those girls should have been called Keziah, Isobel, Catherine, Rose or Rosemary and Lucia - then have the -y or -ie form as a nick name. But as you know, I am a dies in the wool traditionalist in this area. (still think you were cheating when you used Thea as an example of a wacky, unusual name though.....!)

Kizzy was in the film Roots. She was Chicken George's mother. When I hear Kizzy I remember that film series as I loved it.

But surely, Collision, it would be
'your captain Keziah Maynard' etc

They don't call him Gordy Brown at PMs question time!

ooh I remember being really really upset by that programme Kizzy - especially the bit where the bullies banged her head against the brick wall. Having said that, I know I young Kezia and she is lovely!

I am surprised that it's perceived as chavvy - I know 2, and they are anything but that!

Looking over the thread, it seems to me that the people who fail to recognise the name's Biblical/literary background think it's chavvy, and those who know the background mainly disagree with them. So it probably depends a lot on whether the people around you will register the background or not.

I hope I've put that delicately enough!

Rumer Godden, don't belive it, well i do as i was a sucker for stories involving lost kids, kids without homes/ parents. I have only just finished reading Holly and Ivy to dd 6, its a Rumer Godden one. I shoce that book when i was 7.

I was a very serious, ( and depressed!!) kid, too grown up.

I adored Kizzy on tv, and would love love to see it again.

Like the name Kizzy alot.

I think it's lovely, and not at all chavvy.
I think you're supposed to say it " ketzziah"
but you can obviously say it however you want!

btw, one of the Keziahs I know pronounces it KAY-zee-ah - not 'correct', it seems, but I think it sounds very nice. I really like it! know a Kizzy too, also cute, but agree that diminutives as stand-alone names are ill-advised.

Was my great granny's name (and nearly mine)

And so, I like it.

Love it, its pretty and unusual and a real name

It's one of my favourites, and I also like both diminuatives.