male or female?

[Gwen@coggiecorner]

Good morning I've been seacrhing the birth indexes picking out children with the same mother's maiden for a particular family I am researching.
I came across this name NEZBIA does anyone know whether it is a male or female name I tried to google it but nothing comes up. My thoughts may be a girls name?

[BridgetM]

I have never heard of this name - but a Yahoo search shows it as the nickname of a girl on a forum somewhere. This suggests it is female!

[Christine in Herts]

I had a look on Ancestry just now for first names starting Nez*, and found a number of
Neziah (when other given names, they seem to be male)
Nezelea (female)
Nezlie (prob the same as the one above, really)

Were you looking at typed names? - presumably 'yes' if it were late enough for MMN.
What county were they in? Is it possible that there's an alternative source for the info?

Christine

[Gwen@coggiecorner]

The name was clearly typed and was in Lancashire. I have still not decided to add the person as a boy or girl

[Little Nell]

My instinct would be that its a girl's name. If typed, perhaps it was a mistake for Kezia?

[Christine in Herts]

Are you able to tell us which surnames are involved? Perhaps one of us might be able to pick up a clue from some other source?

Christine