The Complete Idiot's Guide to 40,000 Baby Names, 2nd Edition

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Penguin, 3 mar 2009 - 448 pagine

From Atticus to Zuzu

With 10,000 additional names and 50 additional lists (200 total), this latest edition is the most comprehensive guide to naming newborns on the market, and the most fun! With specialized lists, from world leaders to favorite characters from children's literature, biblical figures to Wiccan/ Gothic/Vampire names, Olympic medalists to Nobel Prize winners, plus alphabetized lists for each gender, this guide makes the name game easy, pleasurable, and enlightening.

- Approximately 4 million babies born every year in the U.S, and they all need names!

- Contains 40,000 names, 10,000 more than The Everything Baby Names Book and 35,000 more than Baby Names for Dummies

- Includes 200 specialized lists - even the names that have the best and worst nicknames - which add to the fun of selecting the perfect name

 

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Ideas and Inspiration The Lists
1
Noteworthy Names
35
Winners Winners and More Winners
45
Money Monikers
75
Political Names
81
Scientific Suggestions
95
Pure and Natural Possibilities
101
Artistic Appellations
111
Naming Nationwide
135
Cultural Cachet
149
Hunting Through History
181
Names from Religion
195
Giant Alphabetical List of Names Origins and Meanings
215
Boy Names
325
Appendix
427
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Marcia Layton Turner is a contributing editor at ePregnancy magazine, where she has written about a wide range of pregnancy-related challenges. She is also the bestselling author of more than 12 books, and her work has appeared on such websites as iVillage.com, and in such magazines as Woman's Day and Business 2.0, among others.

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