I ran across the name [name]Zenobia[/name] while I was reading the other day and it really strikes me as having great middle name potential. Exotic, but not used enough as MN to cause problems. So I was reading along pronouncing it in my head until I came to the woman’s nickname, Nobby. Now I don’t know how to pronounce it. Would you say it with the long o sound, as in noble or the short o sound as in knob? I was pronouncing [name]Zenobia[/name] with a long o, but Nobby seems to need a short o sound.
I knew a girl named [name]Zenobia[/name] and it’s pronounced zen-oh-bee-uh. Not with an O like [name]Oliver[/name]. I think it’d make a fine middle name, but I remember I thought it was the strangest name and I thought her parents made it up.
[name]Zenobia[/name] is pronounced zen-oh-bee-uh as the pp said. With a long O sound. I think it has wonderful middle name potential! [name]Love[/name] it!
I pronounced it zen-oh-bee-ah straight away too. I think it’s quite nice, in an African royalty sort of way! The ‘nob’ part sticks out in an unattractive way though, and Nobby is not cool. At all.
[name]LOVE[/name] [name]Zenobia[/name]! I have a huge thing for Polish names and [name]Zenobia[/name]'s one of my favorites. I love it so much!
I say it zen-OH-bee-ah, too. I don’t think Nobby is completely outlandish, though, as many people use the nn [name]Evie[/name] (EE-vee) for [name]Evelyn[/name] (with the soft “ev” sound at the beginning), so I don’t know why [name]Zenobia[/name] nn Nobby would be any different.
I know someone with [name]Zenobia[/name] in the middle! She says it [name]Zee[/name]-no-bee-uh
[name]Tina[/name] [name]Fey[/name]'s first daughter is [name]Alice[/name] [name]Zenobia[/name]. With this name and her new daughter [name]Penelope[/name] [name]Athena[/name] she is very “nameberry.”