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60,000+ Baby Names |
Author: Bruce Lansky
Published: 2006-11-28 |
List price: $6.95
Our price: $6.95
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As of: January 06th, 2009 12:21:55 AM
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Great but still can be better
We loved this book for what we used it for but there are more modern and fun books available too.
 depends on what you're looking for in a baby name book...
If you're like me, and what you're looking for in a baby name book is to flip through and see what strikes you among a list of names you know how to spell and pronounce and have heard before, this book is a bit of a wash. It just has *too* many names, and 50% of the ones on any given page are going to be very culture-specific to a culture not your own, making it very hard to skim through looking for ones you personally might use. It would have been enormously helpful to separate the listings by ethnic origin.
However, if you're looking for something exotic, or as one reviewer mentioned, naming characters, this may just be the ticket, because it's chock-full of cool sounding Japanese, Hindi, Arabic, etc names. And as a watcher of anime, I found it interesting to read the meanings of familiar names from shows I've seen.
The meanings are *very* brief (typically 1-5 words), but adequate, and the spelling variations are helpful. If you just want to look up specific names and see the bare bones of what they mean, this book will get the job done for a very reasonable price with an impressive breadth. I just didn't find it very helpful in actually attempting to pick a name that met my criteria. The Baby Name Wizard book was much better for that.
 Somewhat Disappointed
I chose this book because of the reviews. There are a lot of names but there were also many that I did not know how to pronounce so that just lets me know I would have no business even choosing the name in the first place. I was looking for something different and this book offers that but again a pronounciation key would have been a great help. Currently I have only found 4 names (now that I know I am having a girl) that we are considering but we have not settled on any of them definitely. Now I have to try and find another baby book that hopefully will offer a pronunciation key.
 An excellent choice!
This is an excellent choice if you need a baby name book--and what expectant parent doesn't? I bought another one which was way more expensive that wasn't up to scratch with this one. A high recommend, along with You Know You're Pregnant When. Reflections on the Longest Nine Months of My Life
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