Sookie

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Sookie is a variant of the name Susan or Susannah, from Hebrew שושנה (Shoshona) meaning "rose" or "lily."^[1] Most famously, the name occurs in the English nursery rhyme "Polly Put the Kettle On."^[2]

Sookie may refer to the following fictional characters:

Sookie St. James, from the TV series Gilmore Girls
Sookie Stackhouse, appearing in the The Southern Vampire Mysteries novels and the True Blood TV adaptation

References

↑ Teresa Norman (2003) A World of Baby Names, Perigee Trade; Revised edition ISBN 0399528946
↑ I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd ed., 1997), pp. 353–54.

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