Chizara
Meaning of Chizara
Chizara, a feminine anthroponym rooted in the Igbo linguistic and theological tradition, derives from the morphemes chi ‘deity’ and zara ‘has answered,’ thus semantically encoding the concept of divine response. Phonologically rendered as /tʃiˈzaɾa/, the name manifests a voiceless postalveolar affricate onset, a high front unrounded vowel nucleus and an alveolar tapped coda, reflecting established phonotactic constraints of the Igbo language. Over the past two decades in the United States its frequency has gradually increased—most recently attaining an incidence of 27 births and a rank of 923 in 2024—signifying a modest yet consistent integration into Anglo-American naming conventions. Its analytical appeal resides in the intersection of cultural heritage, semantic precision and measurable demographic data, rendering Chizara an exemplar of transnational onomastic convergence.
Pronunciation
Igbo
- Pronunced as chee-ZAH-rah (/tʃi.ˈza.ɾa/)
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