Talk:Zoe (name)

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Gender of name

This article says that Zoe without a diaeresis over the e is a male name, I have seen no evidence of this anywhere and know of many Zoes that don't use the diaeresis and are female. ZoeL (talk) 12:07, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect this is a globalize issue - I would contact the original contributor but it was an anonymous editor from an IP that's since been blocked so it should be uncontroversial to remove. ~Zoe O'Connell~ (talk) 12:15, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Among the very lengthy list of people in the article, there's not a single case of a male first name. Thus, it doesn't look "gender-neutral" to me, nor even mostly-female. In some places like the US people _rarely_ give their non-transgender kids names from the opposing gender (unlike eg. Poland where this practice was until recently forbidden by law) -- thus no name can claim being 100% specific. Yet this one has such an overwhelming female bias, and 100% of people notable enough to be included here on Wikipedia, that I'd change the article to say simply "female". -KiloByte (talk) 14:51, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wording of gender

I replaced "feminine" with "female" because I think it is a better fit and is more descriptive of what the name means. Now the debate is left to be decided if its just a female name.DaltonCastle (talk) 22:58, 16 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Variations of the name

Would be good if there were given variations of the name in different languages, if any. More versions, anyway. Is there in more languages names meaning 'life'?

And please, may I clean the talk page of comments not attributing to betterment of the article? Deffinitely not keeping with talk page guidelines. Best, if those attributors (my cat is named zoe; i .. my name) did it themselves. If not, may I? Please? BirgittaMTh (talk) 07:58, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Wire723 (talk) 09:18, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Septuagint - Eve

Shouldn't there be some mention as to Zoe being the Greek translation of Eve? Kempee (talk) 12:43, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

To add to article

Basic information to add to this article: since this word wasn't used as a female given name in Ancient Greek, we should explain where and when this word first became used as a female given name. Apparently, in the 3rd century AD, Alexandrian Jews translated the Hebrew name "Eve," which also means "life," to its Greek equivalent, "Zoe." 98.123.38.211 (talk) 00:06, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]