Zoe vs Karen - What's the difference?
zoe | karen |
, a common spelling variant of .
* 1833 , Lloyd Wharton Bickley, Zoe, or the Sicilian Sayda: A Romance , Key&Biddle, page 112:
* 1921 , , Stardust , BiblioBazaar, LLC (2007), ISBN 1426437080, page 20:
. First taken up as a given name in the U.S.A., and popular in the English-speaking world from the 1950s to the 1970s.
* 1878 , Drift-Weed , Houghton, Osgood,1878, page 28 ("Karen"):
* 1918 Cecily Ullman Sidgwick, Karen , W.Collins, 1918, page 12:
As proper nouns the difference between zoe and karen
is that zoe is {{given name|female|from=Ancient Greek}}, a common spelling variant of Zoë while Karen is {{given name|female|from=Ancient Greek}}. First taken up as a given name in the U.S.A., and popular in the English-speaking world from the 1950s to the 1970s.zoe
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Rosalie smiled faintly, and at the clapping of her hands, the raven-haired Zoe , in all her surpassing beauty, entered the apartment.
- "Who ever heard of a girl named Zoe ! You never did yourself." ¶ "I know I never did, Roy Kemble, but just the same I think it is the most beautiful name in the world. It isn't so much what it really means; names don't have to mean anything - it's what it feels like it means.
karen
English
(wikipedia Karen)Etymology 1
From (etyl) Karen.Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Left you a lover in that far land, / O Karen sad, that you pine so long! / Would I could unravel and understand / That sorrowful, sweet Norwegian song!
- I was not called Karen after Hans Andersen's dancing girl, but after a Danish friend of my mother's who married an Englishman and was my godmother. So much for our family affairs.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .External links
Ethnologue report on the Karen languages
