Kizzy

Variation of Keziah

"cassia tree"

Kizzy Origin and Meaning

The name Kizzy is a girl's name meaning "cassia tree".

Kizzy was a character in Alex Haley's Roots; this and other Keziah variations were widely used among enslaved people. In Roots the name is explained by the hero Kunta as 'you sit down' or 'you stay put' in the Mandinka language meaning that 'this child would never get sold away'.

Kizzy Rank in US Top 1000

# 648 in the US

Popularity of the name Kizzy

• 1711 Nameberry 2021

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Famous People Named Kizzy

• Kizzy Yuanda Constance Getrouw Dutch actress/singer
• Kizzy Crawford Barbadian,Welsh singer
• Kizzy Kay Neal British teen mother, subject of film "Kizzy: Mum at 14"

The name Kizzy in Pop Culture

• Kizzy Waller Lea character in book/TV miniseries "Roots"
• Kizzy "Kiz" Shoemaker character in web series "Afterworld"
• Kizzy character on TV's "Snobs"
• Kizzy character in "Turn Left at Gilgamesh" by Rory Winston
• Kizzy orphaned Romani or traveller girl who faces persecution, grief and loss in a hostile, close,knit village community in Rumer Godden's children's novel "The Diddakoi" (1972)
• "Kizzy " 1976 BBC adaptation of Rumer Godden's "The Diddakoi"
• "Kizzy" song by Don McKenzie