The Nameberry Guide to Off-the-Grid Baby Names: 1000s of Names NEVER in the Top 1000

by Pamela Redmond Satran, Linda Rosenkrantz

A guide to the best unusual baby names by the creators of Nameberry.

274 pages, Paperback

First published April 11, 2013

About the author

Pamela Redmond Satran is the author of 20 books, both fiction and non-fiction. Her most recent novel, The Possibility of You, is written as Pamela Redmond and published by Simon & Schuster's Gallery Books. A New York Times bestselling humor writer, she has a new humor book, Rabid: Are You Crazy About Your Dog or Just Crazy?, due out from Bloomsbury in September 2012. She is the creator with Linda Rosenkrantz of the million-visitor website Nameberry, based on the 10 books on baby names they coauthored. Satran also writes The Glamour List column and contributes to The Huffington Post and The Daily Beast.

Reviews

[Melina · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have over 140 name books so I feel like I have a good ability to compare them. This book, I would consider and average option in general. The accuracy of meanings leave something to be desired (I analyzed them and arrived at a 78% accuracy. It does have a variety of other sources of background info aside from meaning and it definitely has a great selection of underused and little-known names for someone looking for a name that should set their child apart from the masses. I've seen other name books with similar intentions fall flat because they list names that stray into the unusably unusual but this strikes the right note of uncommon but totally usable. No one wants to saddle their child with a name that's going to cause them trouble in life so that's imporant to consider. So if you want a name book that is extremely accurate or has more common or traditional names, this is not for you. But if you want a name book that is passably accurate and has a hearty assortment of unusual names, look no further.

[Liv · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun, although perhaps a bit too much snark for some entries. And a few origins, pronunciations seemed a bit off the mark.