Zooey
Zooey is a given name.
The name was, at least for decades, best known as a masculine nickname for "Zachary" or "Zechariah", from its use by J. D. Salinger for his character Zooey Glass.
Those bearing the name include:
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- Zooey Deschanel, an American actress and singer named after the Salinger novel. (She pronounces it as "Zoë.")[1]
In fiction
- Zooey Glass, male Jewish-Irish character in Franny and Zooey and other parts of the Glass family narrative of J. D. Salinger
- Zooey, truck (anthropomorphized as female child) in Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks
References
- ↑ "Zooey Deschanel Interview" with Conan O'Brien, at 3 minutes 59 seconds (To be precise, she pronounced it in that way in recounting a letter purporting to be written to her by her missing stuffed animal.)