Talk:Zoe (name)

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Gender of name[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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