Sookie

{{wiktionary|Sookie}} '''Sookie''', also written ‘Sukey’ or ‘Suki’, is a variant of the name Susan or Susannah,{{cn|date=November 2025}} from Hebrew {{wikt-lang|he|שׁוֹשַׁנָּה}} ({{lang|he-Latn|Shoshána}}) meaning "rose" or "lily."

Most famously, the name occurs in the English nursery rhyme "Polly Put the Kettle On."<ref name=Opie1997>I. Opie and P. Opie, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes'' (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd ed., 1997), pp. 353–54.</ref>

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 == * Suki (disambiguation) * Sukie (disambiguation)

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