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[Facts] Origin and meaning of the name "Zane"
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Barb Hehnke
(guest)
9/19/2001, 12:57 AM
As my husband and I were chosing a name for our 3rd child and came up with "
Zane
". We found that this name is a English version of "
John
" and had the same meaning as
John
.
#Zane
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Pavlos
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9/20/2001, 2:44 AM
Interesting :) In Greece "Zanes" (pronounced zanEES) is also sometimes used as a verion of Yiannis (
John
).
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Zarine
(guest)
11/3/2003, 12:42 PM
Zane
means " God's gracious gift" or " God is gracious".... from the Hebrew root name "
John
".
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