What does the name David actually mean? When did Kylie become a popular girl's name? Which famous literary and historical figures have shared the name Diana? Is Rick a shortened form of Richard, Derek, Frederick - or perhaps all three? This fascinating dictionary answers all these and many other questions, explaining the meaning of more than 2000 names and showing where they come from, whether they are currently in fashion, and how their popularity has risen and fallen over the years. It also provides intriguing information about people, both fictional and real-life, who have shared particular names, and whose fame has sometimes helped to popularise them. Wide in scope, it covers not only traditional names (Mary, John, Peter) but also such unusual names as Almira, Festus and Lalange.
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Adrian Room is the author of more than 50 popular reference books, mainly on the origins of words, and in particular, names. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the English Place-Name Society and American Name Society. He was a senior lecturer in Russian with the Ministry of Defence until 1984, when he took up full-time writing.
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Charles Dickens, Old German, Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, South African, Old English, William Makepeace Thackeray, Agatha Christie, George Eliot, New Zealand, James Fenimore Cooper, Anthony Trollope, George Bernard Shaw, Sinclair Lewis, Northern Ireland, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Richardson, Oscar Wilde, Theodore Dreiser, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Wilkie Collins, Late Latin, Roman Catholics, George Meredith, Our Mutual Friend New!
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usual diminutive, literary bearer, various early saints, regular diminutive, main diminutive, famous biblical name, modest favour, historic bearer, frequent diminutive, original first names, sporadic adoption, modest vogue, female adoption, extent popularized, pendent use, occasional favour, modest adoption, most common diminutive, select adoption, familiar biblical name, lish speakers, recent times the name, moderate favour, straight adoption, popularity peak Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Charles Dickens, Old German, Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, South African, Old English, William Makepeace Thackeray, Agatha Christie, George Eliot, New Zealand, James Fenimore Cooper, Anthony Trollope, George Bernard Shaw, Sinclair Lewis, Northern Ireland, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Richardson, Oscar Wilde, Theodore Dreiser, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Wilkie Collins, Late Latin, Roman Catholics, George Meredith, Our Mutual Friend New!
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