Product Description
From the traditional to the unusual, this dictionary explains the meaning of over 2000 names, showing where they came from and how their popularity has risen and fallen in time. In addition it provides information on fictional and real-life people whose fame has popularized their names.
About the Author
Adrian Room is an established writer of reference books, mainly on the origins of words and 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 Senior Lecturer in Russian with the Ministry of Defence until 1984, when he took up full-time writing.
