Pete Davidson Reveals A Double Meaning Of Daughter Scottie's Name

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Right when Pete Davidson first saw his daughter, he knew what she had to be named. “The second she came out, we were like, ‘That’s Scottie,’” Davidson says. It’s a name he and his girlfriend Elsie Hewitt had been discussing for a while during her pregnancy — not only because it has a deep meaning for Davidson, but also for an unexpected second reason.

Hewitt says the couple “went through so many different names,” but Scottie was “an early favorite.” “We always knew that was the one we were going to come back to, because it was the most meaningful. It's also so cute,” Hewitt says.

The name is a tribute to Davidson’s father Scott Davidson, a New York City firefighter who died responding to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Davidson has shared how his dad’s closest friends would call him Scottie as a nickname.

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