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Anonymous wrote:I like it. Do not spell it with a y.

+1

Plus 2' (love!!)

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience while most people pronounce Zoe so it rhymes with Joey, a not insignificant number pronounce it as if it rhymes with Joe. But every name can be mispronounced.

In English, the dots are often termed dieresis, not umlaut.

My sister is a Zoe, no umlauts, rhyming with Joe. She likes her name and does not find it annoying. Normally I'd agree to just spell it the traditional way, but there's no other way to spell "Zoe like Joes".

Thank you for this. I'm the one having a baby soon named Zoe and I haven't once been asked "like Rachel Zoe" and don't assume that Zoe was always pronounced like "Zoey". Like I said, she's named after my husbands grandmother...who was born in the 1920's so it's not like it's a made up name. I have met other Zoe's (and Zoey's) and love both variations of the name! My name is very common and I still have to correct people on how it's pronounced, even though it's *very* common and not spelled weird (think along the lines of Rebecca)

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience while most people pronounce Zoe so it rhymes with Joey, a not insignificant number pronounce it as if it rhymes with Joe. But every name can be mispronounced.

In English, the dots are often termed dieresis, not umlaut.

My sister is a Zoe, no umlauts, rhyming with Joe. She likes her name and does not find it annoying. Normally I'd agree to just spell it the traditional way, but there's no other way to spell "Zoe like Joes".

Surely it would be 'Zo'?

Anonymous wrote:In my experience while most people pronounce Zoe so it rhymes with Joey, a not insignificant number pronounce it as if it rhymes with Joe. But every name can be mispronounced.

In English, the dots are often termed dieresis, not umlaut.

My sister is a Zoe, no umlauts, rhyming with Joe. She likes her name and does not find it annoying. Normally I'd agree to just spell it the traditional way, but there's no other way to spell "Zoe like Joes".

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a Zoe! She's a tiny little peanut, but she will stand up for herself. She'll be kicking ass and taking names some day.

No Y, but people will often spell it that way (including my brother - grr)

And FWIW, she's the only Zoe in her daycare.

What a peculiar non-sequitur.

Why? People often worry about the popularity of names that they like and Zoe is often stated to be a popular name. I was surprised that we have not run into many other Zoes.

Why would someone worry about the popularity of a name? Popular names are good, right? Who would deliberately give a child an unpopular name? That's nuts.

I like it, spelled both ways (nothing wrong with the Y imo) and think it's spunky AND smart

Anonymous wrote:In my experience while most people pronounce Zoe so it rhymes with Joey, a not insignificant number pronounce it as if it rhymes with Joe. But every name can be mispronounced.

In English, the dots are often termed dieresis, not umlaut.

It's a diaeresis if it's supposed to show that you pronounce the two vowels separately: naïve, Laocoön, coöperate, reëlect, Zoë.

It's an umlaut if it changes the pronunciation of the vowel: Brünnhilde, schön, Führer (when there's no umlaut, you write Bruennhilde, schoen, Fuehrer).

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis

In my experience while most people pronounce Zoe so it rhymes with Joey, a not insignificant number pronounce it as if it rhymes with Joe. But every name can be mispronounced.

In English, the dots are often termed dieresis, not umlaut.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are having a Zoe in less than 2 weeks (hopefully!).

Rhymes with Joe, not Joey. After my husbands grandmother. I think it's a great name but I'm obviously biased.

Zoe rhymes with Joey. Sorry. I get that the umlaut is missing, but it's presumed and not needed in our language.

I agree. You really are going to spend the next 18 years saying "it rhymes with Joe."

+1

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are having a Zoe in less than 2 weeks (hopefully!).

Rhymes with Joe, not Joey. After my husbands grandmother. I think it's a great name but I'm obviously biased.

Zoe rhymes with Joey. Sorry. I get that the umlaut is missing, but it's presumed and not needed in our language.

I agree. You really are going to spend the next 18 years saying "it rhymes with Joe."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a Zoe! She's a tiny little peanut, but she will stand up for herself. She'll be kicking ass and taking names some day.

No Y, but people will often spell it that way (including my brother - grr)

And FWIW, she's the only Zoe in her daycare.

What a peculiar non-sequitur.

Why? People often worry about the popularity of names that they like and Zoe is often stated to be a popular name. I was surprised that we have not run into many other Zoes.

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Anonymous wrote:General opinions on Zoe? Dh thinks it would be pretty adorable to have matching first letter names (ds is Zachary), and I'm warming up to the idea. Zoe is just not a name I ever considered. Sounds like a cute little girl name, but do you think a Zoe would be kicking ass in a board room?

ha. We know a Zac and Zoe siblings. spelled as i wrote them.

And I know siblings who are Zach and Zoe. Their mom calls them "my little Zs"

Aww, sweet! So we may not be original, but it's still pretty cute.

Just as a question, what middle names have you guys heard being used?

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Anonymous wrote:General opinions on Zoe? Dh thinks it would be pretty adorable to have matching first letter names (ds is Zachary), and I'm warming up to the idea. Zoe is just not a name I ever considered. Sounds like a cute little girl name, but do you think a Zoe would be kicking ass in a board room?

ha. We know a Zac and Zoe siblings. spelled as i wrote them.

And I know siblings who are Zach and Zoe. Their mom calls them "my little Zs"

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:General opinions on Zoe? Dh thinks it would be pretty adorable to have matching first letter names (ds is Zachary), and I'm warming up to the idea. Zoe is just not a name I ever considered. Sounds like a cute little girl name, but do you think a Zoe would be kicking ass in a board room?

ha. We know a Zac and Zoe siblings. spelled as i wrote them.

Isn't that a brand?

Ha, right you are! "Zack and zoey" is a brand of dog gear. I'm cool with that. The spelling won't be the same and we're beyond dog people.

Anonymous wrote:We are having a Zoe in less than 2 weeks (hopefully!).

Rhymes with Joe, not Joey. After my husbands grandmother. I think it's a great name but I'm obviously biased.

Zoe rhymes with Joey. Sorry. I get that the umlaut is missing, but it's presumed and not needed in our language.