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Zay is ... what? Male, female, just an initial with two letters tacked on?
Anthony is an excellent name, but I'd use Antony rather than risk people pronouncing -th- as in thistle.
Isabella Abigail will never be able to lie about her age! She should have been told, in advance, to stay away from biological-family names. Or, encouraged to choose Abigail Isabella instead. She was right to shed the awful Skylar, like a bird without a tail.
Luke is an all-right name I suppose, but having once met a very young one who was known as Pukey Lukey, I've cooled towards it considerably.
Bella. There are two 19th-century Bella people on my family tree; at least one of them was an Isabella who went by her nn. We adopted a very pretty Schnauzer and named her Bella-Bark; unfortunately she was permanently traumatised and couldn't be reassured. She ran away if anyone held or touched a broom, a spade, a rake, a feather-duster ... and one day she was so terrified by a garden spade that she jumped a very high fence, ran into the rush-hour traffic, and died. Very sad story in so many ways.
I might have chosen to be Alice or Lucy if I'd been adopted. If I could have chosen my own name while remaining in my own family, I'd have become Cecily Beatrice after my parents, or possibly Cecily Beatrice Anne.