The Complete Book of Baby Names [Paperback]

Lesley Bolton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2006 | Series: Complete Book of

By far, the most complete, up-to-date and BEST book on baby-naming!

Welcoming a new baby into the family is one of the biggest blessings in life. The Complete Book of Baby Names helps make this transition fun-and easy-by giving you the most complete and up-to-date book of baby names available.

Whether you're looking to carry on family tradition, stay true to your religion or ethnic background or want to try something new and different, The Complete Book of Baby Names is packed full of more than 100,001 baby names with origins and definitions that make choosing baby's names (almost) painless.

Perfect as a self-purchase or a gift, The Complete Book of Baby Names will delight expectant parents everywhere.

The Complete Book of Baby Names includes:

-- The most up-to-date list of popular names-including twin names
-- 276 fun lists to help you choose, including: names that command respect, celebrity names, names from children's literature and names with great expectations
-- Modern baby-naming trends
-- What not to name your baby
-- Attributes of a perfect name
-- Adding a middle name-or two
-- And lots more!

Everything you need to choose the perfect name! (20070125)

Editorial Reviews

Review

If you've got an occasion to bestow a name, and you're looking for the widest possible range of choices, you can't go wrong by bringing home a copy of The Complete Book of Baby Names. (phantomscribbler.blogspot.com )

The Complete Book of Baby Names is a great resource if you are naming a baby, and, it's also an interesting read. Busy Girl has been using it to inform all her friends what their names mean.

Most importantly, though, it covers what NOT to name your baby. I'll let you check that one out yourself. (BusyMom.net )

Since this is my third child, I've been through my share of baby name books, about 2 a pregnancy. This one I found as my favorite, not just the first few chapters but the list of names are wonderful and broken not just into boy and girl categories but lists of popular names by country, twin names and hordes of other lists. You'll be amazed, as I was. (snowboundintheyukon.blogspot.com )

About the Author

Lesley Bolton is the author of The Complete Book of Baby Names and 25,001 Best Baby Names and is a freelance writer and publishing professional. She lives in Terre Haute, Indiana.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 696 pages
• Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.; 1 edition (October 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402207646
• ISBN-13: 978-1402207648
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #762,882 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lesley Bolton is a freelance writer and publishing professional with over six years of publishing experience. She is also the author of The Complete Book of Baby Names, The Everything Guide to Writing Children's Books, and The Everything Psychology Book. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too much nonsense with some glaring omissons, February 26, 2008

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J. Arambarri (Boise, ID USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Book of Baby Names (Paperback)

We picked the book up as an impulse item while starting our baby registry at one of the big box stores.

The up front information on things to think about is valuable. But the bulk of the book seems to be a data dump of any possible word that could be used as a name. As another person observed - too much filler. Some of the top ten lists were pretty weak - top gangster names, top zodiac names etc.... There are little side notes (symbols) next to many names, but we couldn't find the key to let us know what the symbols meant.

Kind of a fun book for conversations, but far too many nonsensical offerings to sift through. And somehow in the 100,001 names such as Hemp or Turbo she missed Lars? Odd.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you need to choose the best name for your baby, September 15, 2007

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dmrbooks - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Book of Baby Names (Paperback)

This is an amazing resource book with lots of lists, the meanings of all the names and really good introductory materials (that were very helpful). 100,001 names is a lot of names, so having some ways to think about them is very helpful. So were the lists of most popular names in categories such as country, ethnicity and religion. And I really liked the attributes of a perfect name (considerations such as sound, family names, nicknames, meaning, stereotypes, putting together first and last names, etc.). A tremendously useful book for naming babies (and even pets or characters in novels.) And fantastic shower gift.

16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars More doesn't mean better, August 5, 2007

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K. Nicholas "knicholas" (Preston, ID USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Book of Baby Names (Paperback)

Ever thought of naming your baby Oder? What about Pekar? If so, then this book is for you. If not, you will have to wade through tens of thousands of unusable names that are there just as filler.