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.
Scarlett & Sosie
Today’s story comes to us from Megan of Momlarky. If ever there was a good sport award in the world of baby naming, Megan wins!
Before we ever got pregnant, hubby and I had decided on names. Xander Nikolas if we had a boy, and Zoe Evanescence (stop laughing!) if we had a girl.
As I looked at the stats from last week’s Yea or Nay: Loretta post, I wondered – how have the featured names performed? Did any receive a resounding yea? Do the comments match up with the votes?
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?
