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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 18
Average rating: 3.5 of 5
Is it just me, or is there really only about 1,000 good baby names. 3 out of 5 stars.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful.
Well my wife and I found out we were having a little boy at our ultrasound the other day. After I got through embarrassing her by screaming out the car window, "I put the stem on the apple!!!" We were very much relieved to finally eliminate half the baby names. Here in lies the problem with this book: You can't find a 100,000 good baby names!!!! I suppose you could name your child one of the over 97,000 hideous names in this book, but the little man or women might hate you for it when they enter our brain washing institutes better known as public education system. I suppose you could name your boy Sue if you wanted to toughen him up, and I'm equally sure you'll find that name in the boys and girls section in this book. No sir EEEE bob, you just can't fill a book with baby names without wasting half the book.
Now I can't say this book has no value. It does give you a list of the most popular baby names throughout the decades (I believe from the 1900's until present). You also get all the STARS names. After all who wouldn't want to name their child "Moon Unit" to honor the Zappa family? Want to name your child after a Harry Potter character? Well there's a list in there for you too. I thumbed through the whole book and found probably a 1,000 viable names (most of which I would still never use, but I'm giving the book the benefit of the doubt). I honestly ended up searching on the internet and found some very useful sites there that in my opinion were far more helpful (and free). I even picked up a hundred page book that had just about every name I liked in it (plus it eliminated most of the absurd names). In the end I can justifiably give this book 3 stars. There are some pretty unique baby names out there, and this book has just about every name you wouldn`t want to name your child. On the other hand, one of my coworkers used to work in pediatric and neonatal ICU, and this book can`t compare to some of the names he ran across. I could give you a list of names that would have you dying on the floor for hours. Ah, if it wasn't for that patient confidentiality thing. Lets just say I hope none of you name you child after a venereal disease because it was on the side of a bus, and "the word looked pretty." Hearing stories like that make you realize that if there was a child named ******* than there's probably a child named Gonorrhea out there as well. So maybe having a boy named Sue isn't so bad?
Bottom Line: thorough book, but you will probably hate most the names in it.
Postscript: I looked up the name Jackson in this book and it's definition was, "The son of Jack." Well, what if the father's name isn't Jack? Was there a milk man involved? Given this new knowledge of how names are formed I thought of the name Stan. After all it's only one letter shy of sAtan. This must have been some parent who was exhausted from chasing a 2 year old around and decided they were in fact "a little devil." Oh, if only that child knew.
Editorial Review:
This complete baby naming resource includes more names and more helpful features than any other book on the market:- Over 100,000 baby names and their meanings, derivations and famous namesakes
- 5,000 Hispanic names.
- Icons to identify names used for both genders, and to indicate whether they're used evenly, more for boys, or more for girls.
- Updated lists ranking the 100 most popular names for boys and girls in 2004
- Top-hundred ranked names are starred in the main text of the book.
- A new introductory chapter by Bruce Lansky: "How to Pick A Name for Your Baby"
- 300 helpful lists of names to consider, including famous authors, actors, athletes, artists, scientists as well as lists of names that convey an image: attractive, smart, competent, friendly, wimpy, etc.
