The Mother of All Baby Name Books : Over 94,000 Baby Names [Paperback]

Bruce Lansky (Author, Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Meadowbrook (May 20, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684018705
• ISBN-13: 978-0684018706
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #567,554 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bruce Lansky is the #1 author of baby-name books in North America. His other name books include: What's Your Baby's Name, Baby Names Around the World, The Best Baby Name Book in the Whole Wide World, The Very Best Baby Name Book in the Whole Wide World, 55000+ Baby Names, 25,000+ Baby Names, The Baby Name Survey Book, and the Mother of All Baby Names. He is also editor of a successful series of humor books, children's poetry books, and children's fiction.

Customer Reviews

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67 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bruce Lansky does it again, May 30, 2003

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This review is from: The Mother of All Baby Name Books : Over 94,000 Baby Names (Paperback)

...and that's not a big compliment. Yes,there are over 93,000 names in here,but in usual Lanksy fashion,the book is cluttered with "kreativ spelygns" and created names (the K chapter is one of the worst-Krystalee,Krystalyn,Kyler,Kylynn,Kymber,Kymberlin,etc). People who are interested in these type of names generally don't need help in creating names. How much more interesting the dictionary would have been if Lansky had focused more on names from other countries (they are included,but the ones I saw were found in other-and better-name books).

I knew I was taking a chance when I ordered this book,but I was hoping for something other than Lansky's usual tricks.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too much [stuff] in it to be helpful, June 28, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Mother of All Baby Name Books : Over 94,000 Baby Names (Paperback)

To fill up this bloated book, the author seems to have crammed in any set of letters that could pass for a name. It's about as much help as picking random Scrabble tiles. You can't read it like a book, you can't browse productively...it's no help at all for generating ideas. Sigh.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The worst baby name book ever, April 7, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Mother of All Baby Name Books : Over 94,000 Baby Names (Paperback)

This was given to me as a gift--I would never have purchased for myself. One quick flip through reveals its limitations. As another reviewer accurately stated, it is a dictionary at best. But most annoying was the author's habit of not listing the meaning for names, instead saying "a variation of..." causing one to have to flip endlessly to another section just to find a simple two word "meaning." My favorite was for "Nicole" where one had to go all the way to "Nicholas" in the boy section a hundred pages away. One of the most unhelpful resources of any genre.