First Names: The Essential Guide to Choosing Your Baby's Name

by Julia Cresswell

This dictionary is designed to help you choose a name for your baby. Even parents who know what they want to call their child may well want to look at some of the possible forms the name can take, and find out something about its history and meaning, so the book contains as many names and variants as possible.

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

This dictionary of names is based on the names that were popular around the early 2000's when I produced my boy, Fabian, which is listed first in the F section and Julia gives details of its origins (Roman Emperor Fabius, The Fabian Society) and it's popularity now as both a boy's and a girls, Fabienne, name. It's unusual but not too unusual, we've met plenty of Fabian's in the past 17 years and hope to meet more! The dictionary is very handy in giving lists of popular names which is invaluable when choosing a name, a more difficult task than I ever imagined. Altogether a great buy.