Rudbeckia hirta Black-Eyed Susan by gmayfield10 via Flickr
She was a Top Ten pick for more than two decades. Can she still sound fresh today?
Thanks to Kelly for suggesting Susan as our Baby Name of the Day.
Baby Name of the Day: Susan
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Baby Name of the Day: Shoshanna
If you saw box office smash Inglorious Basterds, you heard fictional Nazi bad guy Hans Landa call out this name in a grisly, memorable opening sequence.
If Stella is a star, why not Shoshanna? Thanks to Serenity for suggesting our Baby Name of the Day.
Name of the Day: Sanne
Would you name your daughter Sue – just Sue? In the Netherlands, plenty of parents are opting for a related nickname name.
Thanks to Kelleita for suggesting Sanne as Name of the Day.
Yea or Nay: Sosie
In French, sosie means double – as in on dit que tout le monde a un sosie. (They say everyone has a twin.)
But Sosie Ruth Bacon, daughter of Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, is all-but-one-of-a-kind. Born in 1992, Sosie’s starbaby status failed to launch the name into general use – Sosie has never appeared in the US Top 1000.
I’ve found a few references to a French Saint Sosie from the 300s, a victim of the Diocletian persecutions. She also sounds like a logical diminutive for Shoshannah, the Hebrew forerunner of Susannah.
With Sophie and Sadie so popular – and Sedgwick and Bacon so steadily in the public eye – I can’t help but wonder: Sosie, yea or nay?
