The Best Baby Name Book: Over 3,000 Names and Your New Baby’s Star Sign

by Louise Nicholson

New design and format for this excellent bumper size baby name guide. The new edition is updated to include popular new names such as Britney, Lourdes, Harley. Trying to find a name for your new baby? If so, The Best Baby Name Book will give you plenty of ideas for newborn boys and girls. As well as the names themselves, the book provides the origins and history of each name so the reader can discover the background and meaning and choose the perfect name. Names in the book include all of the well-known and popular names as well
• Names from different cultures – including Celtic, Ancient Greek and Roman, Hebrew, Arabic, Norse, Native American and Gypsy.
• Historical names – Kings and Queens, Saints.
• Literary names.
• Names in different languages – Middle and Old English, German.
• Names made famous by stars of music, film and TV. Also included are baby horoscopes so parents to be can read about their baby’s star sign and predicted personality traits. Ideal names to suit each star sign are suggested. This edition is updated with the new names which have become popular since publication of the previous edition – Britney, Brooklyn, Kylie – to name a few.

Genres: Reference, Parenting

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 25, 1990

About the author

Journalist, author, conservationist and lecturer – Louise has been leading tours to India for almost 30 years. An art historian by training, she has catalogued Indian art at Christie’s and worked on a TV series about the Mughal emperors. Her dozen books on India include the National Geographic guidebook. Her antecedents include Lord Cornwallis, Governor-General of India 1786-93, while her wide India interests stretch from textiles and gardens to cuisines and literature.

Reviews

[Janelle Leigh · Rating 1 out of 5]

cool cover. that's where i should have stopped.