Genealogy Books - Baby Names for the New 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 all
Comment: 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 it
Comment: 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 lacking
Comment: 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.

Back to Baby Names for the New Century

Showing page 1 of 1
1 |