Lala Kent Makes a Big Clarification About Her Baby's Name: "Her Name Is Sosa Because..."
The Vanderpump Rules cast member opened up about the meaning of her second daughter's unique name.
Just three weeks after giving birth to her daughter Sosa Kent, Lala Kent has finally revealed the meaning behind her daughter's unique name. The Vanderpump Rules cast member took to her podcast, Give Them Lala, on September 23, where she opened up about how she came up with the perfect name for her second daughter.
"OK, I have always loved the name, Sosa," Lala stated. "I loved it ever since I saw the movie Hardball with Keanu Reeves and he takes all of the kids to the baseball game and they see Sammy Sosa and I was just like, 'Oh my god, I'm obsessed with that name.'"
This was a name that Lala had on her running list of future baby names, which she started working on at a "very young age." "And the name has never left," she explained.
What does Sosa mean?
The name Sosa doesn't have any specific meaning to Lala other than that it's a name that she has loved for a long time. Lala even revealed that she wasn't aware that Sosa meant "saltwater" in Portuguese. "But by the way, now that I know that, let's rock with that," she said. "Because that is absolutely beautiful."
Lala Kent Says Sosa Kent is "Not Named After Anyone"
Lala took to her Instagram Story after releasing the podcast episode, where she set the record straight on her comments. Although Lala knew of the baseball player, she clarified that her baby is not named after him.
"To make this very clear, for the final tiiiiiime," Lala wrote on her story. "SOSA IS NOT NAMED AFTER ANYONE. HER NAME IS SOSA BECAUSE I LOVED IT."
"PERRRIIIIOOOOOOOD," she concluded.
"I just love the name and I am happy I got to use it," she noted on the podcast.
How Lala Kent Came Up With Daughter Ocean Kent Emmett's Name
Although Lala picked Sosa's name from her long-running list of favorite names, her discovery of her first child Ocean Kent Emmett's name was a bit different. She had actually been on a vacation with Ocean's father when she came across her first daughter's name in the wild.
"I don't even know why this name didn't come up sooner but we were in the Bahamas three years ago, I walked past this yacht and it was called the Ocean Alexander, and I was like, 'Oh my God, the name Ocean, it has to be my baby's name,'" she told Entertainment Tonight in May 2021.
"We knew that we were going to name our first baby — whether it was a boy or a girl — Ocean," she concluded.
