The Last Word on First Names: The Definitive A-Z Guide to the Best and Worst in Baby Names by America's Leading Experts

by Linda Rosenkrantz, Pamela Redmond Satran

A guide to baby names and their meanings draws on research from a variety of sources

Genres: Reference

322 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Linda Rosenkrantz is an American writer, known for her innovations in the realm of “nonfiction fiction,” most prominently in her novel Talk, a New York Review Books classic.

Reviews

[Kaitlyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like how it's split into pink pages for girls and blue pages for boys. Each name has a little blurb and it's fun to just open to a random page and see the names.

[Meredith Hooten · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a writer this is my go-to book for names. It gives such good information and such a wide variety of really good names