Zsuzsi

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for a girl?

(It's Hungarian).

Zhuzhi is short for Zhuzhanna, isn't it? It's basically Susie short for Susanna?

thans alex - this one
so like the si in television

'Zhuzhie'

nope, still sounds awful

Susanna / Susie is lovely

Call her Susia. If you have any Hungarian connections, at least call her Zsuzsanna and Zsuzsi for short. But what on earth is wrong with Susanna? You could have a family nn of Zhu-Zhi (phonetic).

I would have guessed zhuzhi (like the sound in ZseZse)

so as Juji would sound in French?

If you have no Hungarian links then don't do it. As others have pointed out it is hard to get the pronunciation right. And I have been here in Budapest for 5 years!

oops, sorry, meant call her SusiE

(if Juji was a French name!)

Nightmare for someone living in the UK. She'd have to spell her name everywhere every time for the rest of her life.

It's a very sweet name but everyone she meets in her whole life will assume that

a) her name is pronounced Susie

and

b) her parents either can't spell or think themselves terribly original

Don't do it!

Gorgeous name, and I know some really lovely Zsuzsanas. Yes, they are all Hungarian.
If you have any kind of link to Hungary, go for it.

at a slight tangent, how about Georgia? Georgiana?

Isn't that the name of Zoe Zebra's twin baby sisters in peppa Pig......

I'll get my coat.

Sounds like a car...sorry

Is this the name of the daughter in it's a wonderful life? or similar anyway

MrsB, Georgia's lovely but it doesn't mean anything to me - I'm choosing from a list of names with some personal/family significant, so am not really looking for suggestions, thanks!

(It's also way too popular for my taste - I have an unusual name and would love my child to have one, too!)

Pronounciation would be Zoo-zee, btw

significance

If you're looking for an unusual name, then don't pick one that sounds so much like Susie.

Aye aye, cap'n! That's me told

If you like the name Zoo-Zee then why not use Zuzi. Zsuzsi is not quite Zoo-Zee really.

Good suggestion, Buda - we might go with that!

I think it's lovely.

It reminds me of the little girl in It's a Wonderful Life which is my favourite film ever. It's not exactly the same but it made me smile to think of it.

I have a cousin called Zsuzsana. She has always, always, been called Susan. Her sister's name has been similarly anglicised. Their brother is called Gary.

(They are half Hungarian and half German.)