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Zooey Deschanel reveals her daughter’s name

Zooey Deschanel’s daughter is called Elsie Otter.

The ‘New Girl’ star and her husband Jacob Pechenik welcomed a baby girl in July and have finally revealed their chosen name for the little tot.

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Speaking to PEOPLE at the ‘Rock the Kasbah’ premiere, Zooey and Jacob revealed the news together. They said: “It’s Elsie Otter. Like the animal. Sea otter.”

And the 35-year-old mother has big plans for her little girl, recently joking the three-month-old was going to run for president.

Taking to Twitter, she shared: “My infant daughter is going to run for president. She remains silent all of the key issues but she’s much cuter than Donald Trump.”

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And the baby is “extremely cute”, according to Zooey’s ‘New Girl’ co-star Lamorne Morris.

The 32-year-old actor said: “She’s an extremely cute baby. She looks like Zooey. Two good-looking parents will make a good-looking kid. Unless there’s that one where you’re like, ‘Oh, you’re going to make a terrible child.’ But that was not gonna happen with these two.

“She’s a great mom to us on set. She puts the hammer down on the craziness we do from time to time.”

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