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The first name 
Zanie

Zanie is a first name for girls.

Zanie – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Zanie has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Zanie. That means that a girl named Zanie is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Zanie

Zanie has 5 letters 
and begins with a Z

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Z. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.

With five letters, the name Zanie is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 1.9% of all girls' names beginning with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with Z that are quite popular, the most common at present is Zoe.

Other names with 
Z, a, n, i and e

If you take all the letters in the name Zanie – Z, a, n, i and e – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Zaine or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Zanie

If your name is Zanie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Zanie

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zanie, you can simply say:

Zebra

Apple

Nut

Igloo

Elephant

This is how the name Zanie is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Zanie in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Zanie

Zanie

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Zanie

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Zanie is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

Z
A
N
I
E

Have you ever waved the name Zanie

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

Z
A
N
I
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Zanie sounds like this: