Baby Names for the New Century
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List Price: $6.99 $6.99 HarperTorch Pamela Samuelson
Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 929.403EAN: 9780061007538ISBN: 0061007536Label: HarperTorchManufacturer: HarperTorchNumber Of Items: 1Number Of Pages: 512Publication Date: 1994-06-01Publisher: HarperTorchRelease Date: 1994-05-11Studio: HarperTorch
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Editorial Reviews: You want a name that gives your baby a foundation for forging a unique identity, a name that expresses your hopes for the future.Here is the 90's approach to finding a name for your baby that perfectly reflects your lifestyle.your interests,and your heritage.In tune with today's changing world,the extraordinary Baby Name Data Bank provides modern parents with classical, multi–cultural,and ethnic listings.
This up–to–the–minute guide gives you the widest possible variety of names for boys and girls. Its unique format offers flexibility and creativity so that you can select the ideal name that will carry your child through the 21st century.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Second to last in this category... don't waste your $$Comment: Before becoming a dad (well, I will be one in October), if you paid to me I would have never guessed I'd be reading a book on this topic today, but you see: here I am, browsing through a handful of books off of the shelves looking for ideas. Here's our case: my wife and I wanted to name our baby with a beautiful name (how original, huh?) that is not repeated anywhere near (family and close friends) and that plays well both ways, in English AND Spanish without anyone needing to twist their mouths to pronounce it.I had a chance to check out this title and didn't find it useful enough for what I had in mind. In fact, it almost made it to the "bottom" of the list of books I reviewed today. Essentially, what it provided was an alphabetized list of names for girls, and another one for boys, without much regard for any particulars (geography, language, etc.) Definitely fell short. I'd recommend "A World of Baby Names" or "From Aaron to Zoe".
Customer Rating: Summary: Not helpful at allComment: I was hoping to find unique names from other countries and their meanings, but I found this book pretty boring and I don't care for it.Customer Rating: Summary: Below averageI wish I hadn't bought itComment: I was disappointed with what I found between the covers of this book which looks, from the outside, very helpful and informative. I found the selection of names left something to be desired, and there was nothing very exciting with the names that were here. The format isn't the best, and I would not count on this book to look up accurate meanings. I do like the fact that the 500 most popular names have their popularity number after them in the meanings index, but this small fact can hardly compensate for the number of faults this book has.As an author as well as a baby-name enthusiast, I found it lacking the necessary elements for a good resource in character naming. Though it might look helpful, it wasn't in the end.
My advice, if you're thinking about getting it: don't. You'll wish you didn't. Spend your money on something by Rosenkrantz and Satran, or Lansky.
Customer Rating: Summary: The worst name book I've ever bought.Comment: I love languages and names in particular, and I am used to purchasing name books. Buying this one, however, has really let me down. Some of its drawbacks I can think of, off the top of my head, are: it does not include a number of current and even trendy names, the pronunciations are often not written clearly (with an occasional "just flat wrong" pronunciation given), and some of the definitions and origins are inaccurate, if not completely inaccurate. Sure, any name book can have a lot of interesting names, but my suggestion is to buy just about any baby name book /but/ this one.Customer Rating: Summary: Found "Multicultural" section lackingComment: While this book has many fine choices for names, I bought it as I have a mixed heritage and would like to reflect that in the choices for my children's names. However, the multicultural aspect was at times nonexistent, and in some cases, quoted names that were not of the origin specified. There have been discussions on Internet Boards about this book, all readers have questioned the research as I have. Would recommend as a general baby name book, but if you want more than a less than one sentence meaning or accurate ethnic names, steer clear.
