Pick a Pretty Indian Name for Your Baby [Paperback]

Meenal Atul Pandya; Rashmee Pandya-Bhanot (Author), Ashish Mehta (Illustrator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0963553909 | ISBN-13: 978-0963553904 | Publication Date: December 1, 1991 | Edition: 1

Over six thousand Indian baby names with its authentic meanings in beautiful pink and blue pages.

Product Details

• Paperback: 260 pages
• Publisher: MeeRa Publications; 1 edition (December 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963553909
• ISBN-13: 978-0963553904
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,750,271 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cute book, nice features, but is very incomplete, November 24, 2004

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New mom (Cambridge, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pick a Pretty Indian Name for Your Baby (Paperback)

I was very excited to find this book because, as an American married to an Indian, I had no idea where to begin in choosing a name for our baby. It is nicely laid out, enjoyable to read, and has helpful features such as recommended names and names to avoid in the U.S. However, even I was starting to find that many common names of Indians I knew were not in this book! That's when I started to do Internet searches, and found a number of websites that were much more complete. I highly recommend that the authors publish a new expanded edition, given that this one was published 13 years ago and is sorely in need of an update.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is rather disappointing, September 15, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Pick a Pretty Indian Name for Your Baby (Paperback)

This is the first time that I have returned a book since I started shopping with Amazon.com over 1 year ago. The content is really bad - there are free internet databases that give you a more satisfactory and more contemporary list of names. Try Maneka Gandhi's book of names from Penguin.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource, December 17, 2004

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Aredee (Marlton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pick a Pretty Indian Name for Your Baby (Paperback)

What an excellent resource! I used this book for my 2nd daughter. For the first one, I relied on a Hindi dictionary for ideas! I've since passed it along to family and friends.

The names listed are given in its Hindi spelling, its English spelling along with the meaning. The first half of the book focuses on girls names while the second half on boys names. The authors have marked their favorite names as well as those that are "iffy"; those names that sound fine when pronounced in Hindi but take on a different meaning in English. Definitely worth the money.