75,000+ Baby Names for the 21st Century

by Lori Cooper

Names have been gathered from 220 different languages, from the Americas, Europe, Australasia, Asia, Africa, and from small island cultures around the world.

Modern, traditional and global names are represented to give new parents a culturally diverse and imaginative range of baby names. Each name has an easy-to-understand meaning and includes the widest array of spelling variations.

Genres: Reference

640 pages, Paperback

First published September 25, 2004

Reviews

[Joy]

A great and diverse selection of names! Recommended for writers. 🙂

[Jarydh91]

5 star 🌟

[candelina]

la verdad no guardé tantos, siento q hay muchos nombres random que nadie usaría (si, realmente nadie)

[Adrienne]

I found more names in this book that I thought "Oh, gosh, please tell me someone wouldn't name their kid that" than names that I would actually use. I find it hard to take a book that lists "Cinderella" and "Tinkerbell" as name suggestions seriously. And I don't know where Cooper got her names from, but in many cases she listed a name as being "Native American"...except there's not just one American Indian language or tribe, so that's poor quality work. Sometimes she did designate a particular tribal group or language, but it seemed that more often she took the easy, and incorrect, route of just saying "Native American." Finally, this book would have been better if it had included pronunciations, as many of the names were ones that people wouldn't be familiar with.

[Laura]

Wow, lots of names from many cultures.

[Denise Martin]

Sorted! Baby can come anytime now!