Beyond Jennifer & Jason, Madison & Montana: What to Name Your Baby Now
Quoted everywhere from Parenting to The Wall Street Journal, with more than a million copies of their books in print, bestselling authors Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran are the baby-name experts. In this fresh and expanded new edition of "the best baby-naming book ever written" (The...
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Quoted everywhere from Parenting to The Wall Street Journal, with more than a million copies of their books in print, bestselling authors Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran are the baby-name experts. In this fresh and expanded new edition of "the best baby-naming book ever written" (The News Journal), they offer irresistible lists of names you won't find anywhere else, along with their trademark wit and insight on the most important questions-and answers-for expectant parents:Style: What's hot and what's cool-including Honest Names, Spiritual Names, Kreeatif Names, The Two-Syllable Solution, Word Names, The Exotics, and a Girl Named BoyPopularity: The most popular names in America and around the world, and what celebrities are naming their babiesImage: What's really in a name, and why Briyana spells troubleSex: What's it like for a girl to grow up with a traditionally feminine name like Abigail or Blossom; a no-frills name like Alice or Jane; or a unisex name like Dylan or Dakota? And are there any decidedly masculine names left for boys?Tradition: A concise history of American baby naming, plus inspired ways to reflect your own cultural heritageFamily: Whose name is it, anyway? And other vital considerations
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312330880 (031233088X)
ASIN: 031233088X
Publish date: September 1st 2004
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
199419982001The only really useful baby name book I ever saw. Now I suppose you can find more and more pertinent info on the interwebs, but before I ever reproduced this book taught me how I think about names, and how to choose them.Library copy