Sookie
Name list
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Sookie, also written ‘Sukey’ or ‘Suki’, is a variant of the name Susan or Susannah,[citation needed] from Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (Shoshána) meaning "rose" or "lily."
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Most famously, the name occurs in the English nursery rhyme "Polly Put the Kettle On."[1]
Notable people with the name include:
- Suki Brownsdon British swimmer
- Suki Lahav Israeli musician and writer
- Suki Potier English model
- Sukey Richardson Escaped slave and church co-founder
- Suki Schorer, American ballerina and ballet master
- Sukie Smith British actress and musician
- Suki Sommer American music librarian and critic
- Suki Waterhouse, English actress, model and singer-songwriter
Fictional characters
- Sookie St. James, from the TV series Gilmore Girls
- Sookie Stackhouse, appearing in The Southern Vampire Mysteries novels and the True Blood TV adaptation
- Sookie Sapperstein, from the film Igby Goes Down
- The song Sookie Sookie by Steppenwolf on their eponymous album
- Sukey Tawdry in the Bertolt Brecht musical The Threepenny Opera and the song from it Mack the Knife
See also
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