I take heart from the fact that Suri Cruise’s photos will be appearing shortly in Vanity Fair. The announcement of the upcoming photo spread, following in the celebrity tradition set by Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, indicates more to me than simply that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have decided to prove Suri’s existence. It implies, I think, that they have gotten over the furor created by the oddness of her name.

Hearing about Suri’s photos made me go back and look at my post about the name Suri. So much has happened in the intervening months, I had almost forgotten the assortment of meanings that different people gave to the name Suri. Rose (the Cruise’s nomination); sun; pickpocket; alpaca wool; a Pashtun tribe, an ethnic group in Ethiopia, to name a few. And, of course, the meaning that I dwelled on the most (because I think it may be the one that causes little Suri the most embarrassment in years to come) — “pointy-nosed,” the meaning of Suri in the language of the Toda people of southern India.

But now, with the long-awaited appearance of the photos of Her Little Self just around the corner, I think it seems likely that Tom and Katie have moved on from their disappointment over the reaction to her name. And good for them. They have kept Suri under wraps for too long. The world is waiting to see little Suri no matter what her name means. So bring on the pics, and remember, ”a rose by any other name…”

Photo by Photorazzi

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