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Hi there!
Can anyone tell me the origin of the name Adzubah/Azubah? My sister has Adzubah as her middle name and we are told its Welsh (as our grandmother was Welsh). Having Welsh ancestry myself, I've never heard of it (and I do know a good few Welsh names) and wonder if anyone can shed any light on it.
I do know that Azubah is a biblical name (she is the wife of Caleb, son of Hezron) but am particularly interested in the Welsh origin.
If anyone can help it would be most appreciated.
Thanks
Can anyone tell me the origin of the name Adzubah/Azubah? My sister has Adzubah as her middle name and we are told its Welsh (as our grandmother was Welsh). Having Welsh ancestry myself, I've never heard of it (and I do know a good few Welsh names) and wonder if anyone can shed any light on it.
I do know that Azubah is a biblical name (she is the wife of Caleb, son of Hezron) but am particularly interested in the Welsh origin.
If anyone can help it would be most appreciated.
Thanks
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Hi, I'm from Wales. The Welsh alphabet doesn't contain the letter z or the z sound, and female names in Welsh (apart from a few Anglo-influenced feminisations) don't have -a or -ah endings. So your sister's name is very unlikely to have a Welsh source, as there are no names that could sound like it. For most of the 19th and 20th century, names of Biblical origin were far more common than Welsh names in Wales, so an obscure Biblical name wouldn't be unexpected.
Wikipedia lists two Azubahs in the Bible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azubah
Wikipedia lists two Azubahs in the Bible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azubah
This message was edited 3/30/2012, 3:16 PM
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