The baby name wizard : a magical method for finding the perfect name for your baby
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An innovative guide to selecting the perfect name for one's child, using a buyer's guide approach that helps parents ask the right questions to choose a name specifically tailored to personal taste. Full description
Table of Contents:
- In search of the perfect name : a peek behind the wizard's curtain
- Rules of thumb for choosing a name
- Family matters : namesakes, traditions, and conflicts
- Tips and tricks for name-blocked parents
- Today's top 25
- The baby name map : trends across America
- Getting started : a quick to the book
- Name snapshots
- Girls
- Boys
- Name styles
- African
- African-American
- Androgynous
- Antique charm
- Spotlight : golden age Hollywood
- Bell tones
- Spotlight : do-it-yourself contemporary names
- Biblical
- Brisk and breezy
- Celtic
- Spotlight : really Irish names
- Charms and graces
- Classical
- Country and Western
- English
- The "
- ens"
- Exotic traditionals
- Spotlight : X's and O's
- Fanciful
- Fantastical
- French
- German and Dutch
- Greek
- Guys and dolls
- Italian
- Jewish
- Lacy and lissome
- Ladies and gentlemen
- Last names first
- Spotlight : Clark Kent names
- Latino / Latina
- Literary and artistic
- Long gone
- Macho swagger
- Mid-century America
- Modern meanings
- Spotlight : siblings for Nevaeh?
- Muslim
- Mythological
- Namesakes
- New classics
- Nickname-proof
- Nicknames
- Spotlight : college names
- Porch sitters
- Saints
- '70s & '80s
- Shakespearean
- Short and sweet
- Slavic
- Spotlight : names without borders
- Solid citizens
- Surfer
- Timeless
- Spotlight : likable names
- Turn of the 21st century
- Why not?