The Nuremberg Zoo’s highly popular baby polar bear got herself a name. Finally. After receiving almost 50,000 name suggestions from different animal lovers and children, the Nuremberg Zoo’s officials eventually decided to call their 6.5-pound (3-kilogram) baby polar bear Flocke, which means (snow)flake in English. No surprise at all, taking into account that the baby bear’s zookeepers were already calling her Flocke and that the cub surely resembles a snowflake. Her fur is white as snow and fluffy.

"The most important thing leading to this decision was the name that the zookeepers, based on their first impressions, gave her," Urich Maly, the Mayor of Nuremberg said in a news conference. The Mayor also confirmed that many of all those 50,000 name suggestions that came in from all over the world via email showed strong support for keeping the name Flocke.

The 5-week-old German baby polar bear became a true celebrity after its zookeepers decided to take her from her mother, Vera, on January 8, because of their concerns that Vera might harm or even kill her baby. Flocke is the second German zoo polar bear that reaches fame at an early age, after fellow Knut, which lives in Berlin.

The Nuremberg Zoo thanked everyone who participated in finding a name for its baby polar bear.