Cruise and Holmes' name blunder

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' decision to name their daughter "Suri" has linguists baffled, as there is no record of the name meaning "princess" in Hebrew.

According to Hollywood.com, Hebrew linguist claim that Suri has only two meanings--one is a person from Syria and the other "go away" when addressed to a female.

The name Suri may have descended from "Saray" ("Sure" in Yiddish) which was the original name of Abraham's wife, which went on to become Sarah. The name is also very close to permutations of "Suraya" which does in fact mean "Princess" in Farsi.

Hebrew expert Jonathan Went said: "I think it's fair to say they have made a mistake here. There are variations of the way the Hebrew name for princess is spelled but I have never seen it this way."

Suri also means "pointy nose" in some Indian dialects and "pickpocket" in Japanese.