The Very Best Baby Name Book In The Whole Wide World

Over 13,001 girls' and boys' names. Complete with meanings, origins and nicknames. Fascinating facts about names. The 200 most popular names.

America's bestselling baby name book is now expanded to include more than 30,000 names and more new background information on each name. An expanded section on name stereotypes is featured, plus a larger collection of fun facts, celebrity name changes, and updated information on what to consider before deciding upon a name.

Identifies first names for boys and girls and reveals their origins and meanings, in addition to featuring popularity rankings for names from around the world, stereotypes of commonly used names, and thematic lists.

List over 50,000 names for girls and boys and includes origins, variations, meanings, sterotypes, and famous namesakes.

Gives 30,001 baby names complete with meanings, origins and nicknames.

Very Best Baby Name Book, the #1 best-selling baby name book in the world, is now bigger and better. The most important changes are: more names (50,000 names vs. 30,000 names previously) and more lists to help readers choose (100 lists vs. 25 lists previously). You will find the lists not only fun to read but illuminating and extremely helpful for parents who want to pick names with strong positive associations and avoid names with strong negative associations. The new lists of names have been selected to highlight names with strong positive associations, such as: o?= names that suggest intelligence and competence for girls and boyso?= names that suggest success for girls and boyso?= names that suggest athletic prowess and strength for girls and boyso?= names that suggest attractiveness for girls and boyso?= names that suggest a good sense of humor for girls and boys The new lists also highlight names with strong negative (or questionable) associations, such as: o?= names that suggest stupidity and incompetence for girls and boyso?= names that suggest low odds of success for girls and boyso?= names that suggest an absence of athletic prowess and strength for girls and boyso?=names that give off sexual vibes for girls and boys' In addition, Lansky provides lists of names strongly associated with famous people in the arts, professions, science, and business, as well as names associated with popular names from the New and Old Testament and from literature and history. In short, Lansky has come up with the most useful -- as well as fun -- collection of lists available. In addition, this book contains a variety of helpful, informative and fun features, including: -advice on how to pick a name-baby name legal guide - the 100 most popular girls names in 2003 -fascinating facts about names - the 100 most popular boys' names in 2003 -stereotypes of name - celebrity name changes -popular names in foreign countries - celebrities' babies names No wonder The Very Best Baby Name Book is also North America's best-selling baby name book and likely to stay that way for a long, long time.

The most helpful, complete, and yearly up-to-date name book What's new about names? The new edition of 100,000+ Baby Names by Bruce Lansky features the most up-to-date lists of names, trends, advice, and fascinating facts about names, including: Hundreds of newly popular names and variations The latest list of top 100 names for boys and girls The latest naming trends: what's hot and what's not The most rapidly rising and falling top 1,000 names Updated lists of names to consider, including names of newly famous people and fictional characters The most popular gender-neutral names and their rates of use (more for boys, more for girls, or 50/50) New (and classic) celebrity baby names And our list of names from around the world keeps growing! Here you'll find more than 100,000 names--complete with origins, meanings, variations, and famous namesakes. You'll find names from major linguistic and ethnic groups of origin, including English (19,000 names), Latin (11,000 names), Greek (11,000 names), American (11,000 names), Hebrew (9,000 names), Hispanic (9,000 names), French (8,000 names), Irish (7,000 names), and German (6,000 names)--plus thousands of Scottish, Welsh, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Scandinavian, Polish, Native American, Hawaiian, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Australian/Aboriginal, African, and Hindi names. The list features unique spellings of popular names that are catching on, plus newly popular names and variations not listed in other books and websites.

Over 13,001 boys' and girls' names, nicknames and variations, orginis, meanings and famous name-sakes. 15 steps to selecting the right name for your baby. Psychological stereotypes of popular names. Current baby naming trends. Fascinating facts.

This book contains more names from around this world than any other leading book -- over 50,000 names in all. Bruce Lansky, the #1 author of baby name books in North America, has now created Baby Names around the World. Here are over 50,000 baby name choices for prospective parents, presented in an easy-to-use format with informative and interesting features, including An index listing names by country or language; Popular names from the 1880s through the of origin; A list of things to consider when choosing a name; The 100 most popular names for the 1990s; Advice on how to create a unique name; Lists of gender-neutral names.