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75,000+ Baby Names for the 21st Century

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This is an Aladdin's Cave of names from all over the planet! So many languages & cultures are covered in this book. From Aaliya to Zewtlana for the girls , Aaron to Zymon for the boys & every name imaginable inbetween!!!!!!!!!! I was left with a huge choice of names for my baby girl. Even pet names feature in this book! There's names for every taste, every religion, every belief, every culture in this book! BUY IT & BE AMAZED! Buy it for an expecting friend, someone who needs a pet name or just peruse it for your own interest. A fascinating book.

This book is amazing, fascinating and imaginative! The amount of information is astounding, a lot of effort & research has gone into this book to give the parent to be as many variaties as possible with as much information as possible ie: origin, meanings & differing spellings! It has names from 220 languages, so there's something for everyone! I highly recommend it to anyone, whether they are expecting or just interested. A fascinating book.

After being bored by the unimaginative name books on the shelves, I found:

75,000+ Baby Names for the 21st Century by Lori Cooper.

As a result, I found a gorgeous, unique name for my baby girl! Lori's book gives parents a great opportunity to give a unique personality to the spelling and the name we give our children.

This modern book is full of traditional and exotic names. Expectant Mothers and Fathers around the world should have no difficulty finding the perfect name for their unborn child - with a full, comprehensive and detailed explanation of what the chosen name represents and means. The author, Lori Cooper, has obviously researched this topic in depth and has come up with this fantastic product for the benefit of all who peruse its pages. Definately a five star book.

Names have been gathered from 220 different languages from the Americas, Australasia, Europe, Asia, Africa and small island comunites such as Western Samoa and Fiji. As well as Native American, African American names. Modern, traditional and global names are represented to give parents a culturally diverse and imaginative range of baby names. Each name has an easy to understand meaning and includes the widest array of spelling variations ever! The book includes the top Australian, American & English names, unisex names, biblical & angel names, mythological names, color names & name predictions for 2002. Gives by far the best example of multiculturalism names ever presented.

Granted, there are many names but the information on them is brief.

Buy this if you are looking for a definitive list but don't care too much about meanings, etc.

After buying several baby name books, this one takes the cake. It has every name you could - or couldn't - possibly think of (except maybe Pointdexter - but I think that's a welcome ommission).

My wife and I are expecting our seventh child. Do you realise how hard it gets to name a kid after you've just had seven of the little rascals??? Its the stuff nightmares are made of - but not anymore. Thanks to Ms Cooper's treasure trove of names, the job is made easy!

Thanks Ms C, your a life saver!!!

There are so many problems with this book... I'm just going to list them:

1. Most of the meanings of the names are NOT correct and do NOT have the correct language/culture of origin.

2. Other Factual Errors: Under the named Wales it says that Wales is a country within England... um, NO. It's a country within the United Kingdom and which is next to England. That's just one of the MANY factual errors.

3. It's not really a book of many different names but a book of dozens of spelling variations for the same name - many of which are completely unusable. For example it provides Semenffa as a variation of Samantha - SEMENffa! It's a completely different (and horrible) name. Another - Syk for Psyche. Psyche is pronounced "syk-ee" not "syk," "sike" is what you say when you trick someone, while Psyche means "the soul."

There are so many more errors within this book that I am absolutely convinced no editor read through it at all. It's a shame such a thing is even allowed to be published...

If youre looking for an arabic or otherwise unique name DON'T bother buying this book!
Firstly the prounciation of the names is not shown, secondly the meanings for many are not accurate, thirdly the book is laid out as a list - which I thought would be good however with all these names I'd rather have a more organised way of sorting through them other than alphbetically.
Finally there are plenty of baby names it calls "names" which are simply words translated. For example one name, arabic "Kilab" translation DOG. Who in there right mind would call there kid dog?! I'm only suprised it doesnt say english name "Dog" translation dog, what a great name?!
Also the word Kafir is there and is being called a name, in the arabic tradition (and I suspect in all religious traditions) no one would ever call the child by this name as it means "unbeliever" ie someone who does not believe in God - and it is not a name nor has it ever in the history of the arabic language been used as a name.
I would also like to add the book often repeats names as new but they are simply spelt dyfffarantlly and have strange pronounciations. I feel bad for those people who take this books word for meaning and prounciation for any other traditions except english! Those looking for a unique name treat this book with extreme caution!

You'd think that the more choices the better but somehow quantity is not the only thing one needs in order to pick a name for one's baby. I actually found another baby name book recently that was really helpful but didn't buy it. It's called, "The Baby Name Wizard: A Magical Method ..." by Laura Wattenberg.