Customer Reviews

African-American Baby Name Book

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I bought this book with high hopes of finding names of an African cultural and/or religious background and instead I got a book with a hodge podge of names - some African, some Spanish, some Celtic (and so on) and some made-up ghetto fabulous names that I certainly was not expecting to be held up by this author as names to pass on to the next generation of African American babies. Unless you are looking for names outside of our culture or have been wondering how to spell Shaniqua, I'd pick another book.

It's great, my husband and I found our baby girl's name in here

This book is pretty good, although far from comprehensive. I was able to back up my suggestion that my friends name their son JaMarc or Socrates, but not my suggestion that they name their daughter Refrigera.

I think that this is a very good book! I read the reviews from others saying there's not African names in there or there's European names, etc... but this is an African-AMERICAN baby name book. I think it's very good and thorough. You can't expect every name ever thought of to be in it because that changes everyday. I love the layout, the meanings, origins, etc. I'd highly recommend it to others looking for names for their child. It's a great place to get good ideas. We have 3 African-American girls and although their names aren't in this book it still was interesting to read and it gave us a nice starting point in the decision making process. I think Teresa did a fantastic job writing this!

This book was very disappointing, there were too many names that were of other origins beside Africa and I wanted african names for my child. The african names it had, the very few there were, should have had the way to pronounciate them, which would have been a help. Anyhow, I have used the many websites for african names to find a name for my child. I would have done better with another book.

This Book is excellent I was able to find names I had never seen before, including something close to my own, "ORIENTA", which I have never been able to do. I only wish there was a website listed in the book for those of us who are still searching for our names and would like to reach Ms. Norman.

Orienta (???...)

Being an African myself, I was really excited to read a compilation of African names...but I was bamboozled. Majority of these names are not even African. I do not understand how Arabic names are considered African. I would borrow this from the library because it is not really helpful. It is truly disappointing.

but it depends on what you're looking for. i didn't realize that an african-american baby name book would include so many names from europe, etc. but our country is very diverse, so i guess that's where the "american" part comes in. it's a good book with plenty of names to choose from.