35,000 + Baby Names

By Bruce Lansky

Book Overview

YOU'VE GOT THE WHOLE WORLD OF BABY NAMES IN YOUR HANDS! This book will help you go beyond Tom, Dick, and Harriet in your search for just the right name for your baby. It has more than 37,500 names... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671519751
• ISBN13: 9780671519759
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Top of The Top 15

A wonderful name book Creative and great Lamsky is King and I still love all the crazy spellings.

Good Source for Naming Characters in Stories

I enjoy writing stories and since most of them are set in either fantasy worlds and worlds that are like ours, no magic, but still made up, I need a book of names that lists names besides the normal everyday names and this book provides that. The spellings may be creative but they have given me plenty of ideas for having characters with names that are similar to the normal names of today but still different enough to sound otherwordly.I have no idea as to the accuracy of the meanings of the names since all my baby name books contradict each other for the more unusual ones anyway.This may not be the best book for parents wanting to name their child, though I have found several names I would love to use for my children when I have them. Normal sounding but unusual enough not to have twenty other children running around with the same name in the park.All in all I loved this book. It may have its flaws but whenever I need a name for a character I turn to it more often than any of my other ten name books since it is the one of the ones with the unusual names and different spellings.

OUR BABY NAMES

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Great, but there are holes

This book was interesting in its diversity of names. However, upon cross-checking some of the meanings, I found that many of them are inaccurate. This book is great if you just want a large list of names. However, I would suggest double-checking the meaning of the names you chose, especially if they are not "common" names.

The Best Book To Purchase If Looking For A Ton of Names

35,000 Baby Names is a very nice collection of names, their meanings, and origins. I have found however that Mr. Lansky's book is lacking when it comes to names from the Far East and traditional names (Jewish, Eskimo, ....) and the African names are not abundant. For an American or Western European I would highly recommend this book. To one who is from a specific ethnic background I would have to point them somewhere else.