The Brilliant Book of Baby Names: What’s best, what’s hot and what’s not
By the authors of Cool Names for Babies, and with over 50,000 hugely imaginative entries from around the world, this is the ultimate book of baby names.Way more than just a standard list of names and their meanings, Baby Names offers witty and insightful opinions. Here are unisex names, names that are good for middle names (but not first names), names that should be avoided at all costs, celebrity baby names, names that are trendier than you’d think and much more.With creatively-titled lists such as Music Names, Names for Blond Babies, and Names That Are Classic But Not Boring, parents will have plenty of fun as they make the choice of what name is right for their baby.
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The Brilliant Book of Baby Names
What’s Best, What’s Hot & What’s Not
Pamela Redmond Satran & Linda Rosenkrantz
For our wonderful husbands:
Dick Satran,
my partner in real-life baby naming, and
Christopher Finch,
who, as always, helped with everything
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Choosing the right name can seem daunting these days, with so many choices to sift through, so much new information about the importance of names, such creative baby naming in Hollywood and on the Web. How can you tell if a name is too popular or not mainstream enough, wonderfully creative or just plain weird? How can you find the name that is perfect for you and your baby?
We can help. In fact, we’ve been helping parents find the perfect name for their babies for two decades. We helped launch this wide – and wild – new world of names with our book Beyond Jennifer & Jason, first published in the pre–Baby Gap, pre-starbaby 1980s, back when everybody just named their babies after themselves or picked one of the trendy names of the day. Please, we urged parents: Look beyond the obvious choices. Consider using your mother’s maiden name as your daughter’s first, or dust off Grandpa’s name for your son. Look to your cultural heritage for a name or pluck one from a map.
Now that Jennifer and Jason are all grown up and naming babies of their own, it’s time for a new kind of book. The baby-naming shelves have become engorged with dozens of name dictionaries on steroids, most of them stuffed with ridiculous names and misleading, often made-up definitions and copycat lists. One, for example, lists Seth under ‘Names Teachers Can’t Pronounce,’ while another informs us that the definition of Goddess is ‘gorgeous’. You and your baby deserve a lot better than that.
And that’s why we wrote The Brilliant Book of Baby Names. As the United States’ foremost experts on style and names – we also wrote the bestselling Cool Names for Babies and have been interviewed about baby naming by everyone from The New York Times to Us Weekly to The Today Show and Oprah – we found ourselves in a position to create a unique baby-naming resource as authoritative, stylish and original as our other books, to provide the name information needed to make the all-important choice both you and your child will be happy with forever.
The crowning achievement of our twenty years’ experience researching and writing about names in eight other books that have sold millions of copies, The Brilliant Book of Baby Names:
Offers more than 50,000 terrific names from around the world, including a multitude of creative choices found nowhere else. References to the Top 100 names are UK government statistics for England and Wales.
Includes real and accurate information on where the names come from and what they mean in their original language, as well as how they’re perceived in the modern world.
Guides you through the maze of style and image considerations by giving you expert enlightened and enlightening commentary on every name in the book.
Helps you make the perfect name decision via the kind of specialised lists that we invented and still do best. Here are more than two hundred lists of beautiful names and strong names, names stars are giving their kids and names that would shock your grandma, lists of French names and African names and names you should consider if you like Emily but want to move beyond it.
Keeps you entertained while you’re making your momentous choice, with writing that’s as sharp as it is illuminating.
Traditionally, name books start with tips for parents on choosing a name – make sure the first name goes with your last and that you don’t give your kid the initials P.I.G. – things you wouldn’t have much trouble figuring out for yourself. Instead, as you embark on the great baby-naming adventure in this enlightened age, we offer a new level of advice on choosing a name:
TODAY’S ESSENTIAL TOP-10 OF BABY NAMING
1. Aim to fall in love with a name. Remember falling in love with your partner? Swooning the first time you heard your baby’s heartbeat? That’s the kind of emotional reaction you should go for with a name, too. Look for one that you love so much it makes your heart pound, that you can’t stop thinking about, that you keep loving no matter what anybody says.
2. Don’t pay too much attention to what other people think. It’s lots of fun talking about names with your spouse, your friends, your family. Everyone will ask which names you’re considering – and then they’ll do their best to convince you that those names are stupid, ugly, ridiculous choices, and that you should pick the names
