Polizzi dankt haar bijnaam aan het personage "Snooki" uit Save the Last Dance, want ze was de eerste van haar middelbareschoolvrienden die een jongen kuste.
Snooki received her nickname, Snooki, in middle school, when her friends named her after "Snookie", a male character in Save the Last Dance, because she was the first of her friends to kiss a boy.WikiMatrix WikiMatrix