Books : The Very Best Baby Name Book
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by: Bruce Lansky
Amazon.com's Price: $8.95 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 929.44
EAN: 9780684047034
ISBN: 0684047039
Label: Meadowbrook
Manufacturer: Meadowbrook
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 540
Publication Date: December 15, 2006
Publisher: Meadowbrook
Sales Rank: 154500
Studio: Meadowbrook
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Product Description:
The Very Best Baby Name Book is now bigger and better. It includes 60,000+ names and 300+ helpful lists of names to consider. It also includes new features such as: name games (that can be played at home or at parties), how to throw a baby-name- themed shower, the latest outrageous names selected by celebrities for their babies, new fascinating facts about names, and answers to frequently asked baby naming questions from Bruce Lansky.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great comprehensive baby name book
This book is pretty fantastic. Not only does it list all names you could (and couldn't) possibly think of in alphabetical order, but the beginning of the book lists names by category: i.e. Top 100 names, Top names by country, Names by personality type, etc. So, you can look at the "intelligent" names list if you'd like your child to have a name that tends to be attributed to intelligent people. Also, each name in the alphabetical list has either a description of it's origin or meaning, or it will ... Read More
Rating:  - What's In A Name?
The market for baby name books must indeed be cut-throat. I mean, they're either THE VERY BEST BABY NAME BOOK (as claimed here) or THE ONLY BABY NAME BOOK YOU'll EVER NEED, or THE LAST WORD ON FIRST NAMES! Yikes! How daunting for those prospective parents who feel the need for such a guide. (I don't know how my own parents named EIGHT kids without ever purchasing such a book, but back then, I guess, people trusted their own instincts and sense of good taste).
Of course, back in the ... Read More
Rating:  - Ridiculous names
Most of the names are made up, those that are common have inaccurate meanings listed, and to get to their 55,000 name count they list girls names under boys, and vice versa. Has anyone ever heard of a boy named Rachel? Please! This was a quick return for me.
Rating: - Nope, it's the original
I have to admit to being upset by the claim that this book is a knockoff of 50,001 Best Baby Names (and the piddly single star rating as a result), given that the first edition of Lansky's book was published in 1979, and the first edition of 50,001 in 2005. My 1984 edition does include multiple lists of the type to which MOM is referring.
I was astonished when I saw the updated copy of this book -- my skinny 1984 ed. has only 13,001 names! When I flipped through the newest edition in search ... Read More
Rating: - Knockoff of 50,001
This book "copied" the idea of the fun lists in the book 50,001 Best Baby Names. Not good!
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