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The Everything Baby Names Book, Completely Updated With 5,000 More Names!: Pick the Perfect Name for Your Baby (Everything (Parenting))

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This was just what I was looking for, a simple list of names with their meanings in alphabetical order by gender. It even has lists of interesting names (Most popular in 1990, most popular names for twins, ...) throughout. Excellent book.

My husband and I are hoping to start our family soon, so we bought this to get started narrowing the baby name field down. It's great! It has tons of names and their meanings, lots of suggestions for traditional and alternative names, it's easy to read and really a must-have!

What I like best about this baby name book is the extra lists it contains of things like "Favorite names from Hollywood movies," "Names from hit songs," and "Favorite names listed by decade."

Like most baby name books, this book contains thousands of interesing name choices, with their meanings and linguistic origins. The names are divided into Boys and Girls names. It also has some sound advice at the beginning of the book about spellings and other considerations which prospective parents should consider.

My three children are long-since past the naming stage (and I chose so wisely...), but I love a book like this on my shelf for when I acquire a new pet or am writing a short story. It's a good reference source for everyone's library.

This review is for the Kindle version of the book, which downloaded well onto my Kindle and was easy to use.

I looked for many books and this book is just a list literally of names, from A to Z with a small definition of each... if you want to just review names to see what sparks your interest it's good, but i have to say i was all about it and by about C i was done.... look for other books that offer more to make it more fun, i would say skip this one...

I am looking for unusual names. Not like Jezebel (although I do love that name, I can't do that to my kid), but from other parts of the world, other cultures etc. There are a lot of names in this book but I bet you can find all of them by buying just about any baby name book. When I saw the title and reviews I was excited at reading a book that had names I had never even heard of. (Keep in mind, I am a woman named Gaylord and love my name - I want really, really unusual names.) The book is fine, but it doesn't branch out much. I'm not interested in what the most popular names were in any time period - chances are I won't like them anyway. There's a lot of comparing popular names in this book and since that's not what I'm looking for, it wasn't useful.

We found the name for our baby in only a few hours of looking through this book! Highly recommended!

This book is great for first names. I was looking for something with last names too and it did not contain that (my fault for not examining the book description closer before ordering)But I can still use it for finding names for characters in my novels when the character doesnt name him/herself upon being created as they usually do. Some characters are stubborn about revealing their true name until I tack a name that they have to either reject or adopt or finally fess up about what their name really is.