Beyond Jennifer & Jason, Madison & Montana What to Name Your Baby Now

by Rosenkrantz, Linda; Satran, Pamela Redmond

• ISBN13: 9780312330880
• ISBN10: 031233088X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Griffin

Summary

Quoted everywhere from Parenting to The Wall Street Journal, with more than a million copies of their books in print, bestselling authors Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran are the baby-name experts. In this fresh and expanded new edition of "the best baby-naming book ever written" (The News Journal), they offer irresistible lists of names you won't find anywhere else, along with their trademark wit and insight on the most important questions---and answers---for expectant parents:Style: What's hot and what's cool---including Honest Names, Spiritual Names, Kreeatif Names, The Two-Syllable Solution, Word Names, The Exotics, and a Girl Named BoyPopularity: The most popular names in America and around the world, and whatcelebrities are naming their babiesImage: What's really in a name, and why Briyana spells troubleSex: What's it like for a girl to grow up with a traditionally feminine name like Abigail or Blossom; a no-frills name like Alice or Jane; or a unisex name like Dylan or Dakota? And are there any decidedly masculine names left for boys?Tradition: A concise history of American baby naming, plus inspired ways to reflect your own cultural heritageFamily: Whose name is it, anyway? And other vital considerations

Author Biography

Linda Rosenkrantz is the author of Telegram! Modern History as Told Through More than 400 Witty, Poignant and Revealing Telegrams and the memoir, My Life as a List: 207 Things About My (Bronx) Childhood. In addition to writing articles to numerous magazines, she writes a nationally syndicated column on collectibles.

Pamela Redmond Satran is the author of two novels about motherhood, Babes in Captivity and The Man I Should Have Married. She is a contributing editor to Parenting magazine, a columnist for Baby Talk, and a frequent contributor to such publications as Glamour and Bon Appetit.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	1	(4)
Style	5	(60)
What's Hot	8	(28)
Honest Names	9	(2)
Spiritual Names	11	(1)
Biblical Boys	12	(1)
Red Tent Names	13	(1)
Kreeatif Names	14	(3)
The Two-Syllable Solution	17	(3)
The Brits & the Celts	20	(3)
Place Names	23	(3)
Nature Names	26	(1)
Riddle of the Middle	27	(2)
Hero Middle Names	29	(2)
One-Syllable Middle Names	31	(2)
A Garden of Roses	33	(1)
Starbaby Middle Names	33	(3)
What's Cool	36	(23)
Word Names	37	(1)
Wilder Nature Names	38	(1)
Day Names	39	(1)
Postvirtue Names	40	(1)
Profession Names	41	(1)
Word Names	42	(2)
Endangered Species	44	(3)
Mythological Names	47	(4)
A Girl Named Boy	51	(3)
The Exotics	54	(3)
Exotic Surname Names	57	(2)
Fashion Limbo	59	(4)
So Far Out They'll Probably Always Be Out	63	(2)
Popularity	65	(86)
The 100 Most Popular Names for 2003	68	(14)
But I've Always Loved Emily	75	(3)
Regional Flavor	78	(1)
Southern Belles & Beaus	78	(2)
Western Cowboys	80	(1)
New England Names	80	(2)
What the Rest of the World Is Doing	82	(15)
Canada	83	(2)
England & Wales	85	(1)
Scotland	86	(1)
Ireland	87	(1)
Australia	88	(1)
New Zealand	89	(1)
Germany	89	(1)
France	90	(1)
The Netherlands	90	(1)
Belgium	91	(1)
Italy	91	(1)
Spain	92	(1)
Norway	93	(1)
Sweden	93	(1)
Finland	94	(1)
Croatia	94	(1)
Russia	94	(1)
Good-bye, Dick; Good-bye, Jane	95	(2)
Starbabies	97	(24)
Hotties	99	(3)
Honest Names	102	(1)
Biblical	103	(2)
Kreeatif & Unusual	105	(3)
The Two-Syllable Solution	108	(1)
The One-Syllable Solution	109	(1)
The Brits & the Celts	110	(1)
The Italianates & Other Imports	111	(2)
Place Names	113	(1)
Nature Names	114	(1)
Boys' Names for Girls	115	(1)
Last Names First	116	(1)
Nickname Names	117	(1)
Traditionals	118	(3)
TV Reception	121	(16)
Reality TV Names	130	(2)
It Takes One to Play One	132	(1)
Disney World	133	(4)
There's Only One Uma	137	(4)
Much Ado About Naming	141	(5)
Brit Lit	146	(5)
Image	151	(64)
What's Really in a Name?	154	(5)
The Classics	159	(22)
Unusual Names	181	(8)
Why Briyana Spells Trouble	186	(3)
Creative Names	189	(4)
No-Nonsense Names	193	(3)
The Nickname Game	196	(5)
Short & Sweet	198	(3)
No-Nickname Names	201	(3)
Fitting In/Standing Out	204	(3)
Class	207	(8)
Yuppie Names	210	(2)
Royal Names	212	(3)
Sex	215	(32)
Naming a Daughter	218	(12)
Feminissima Names	220	(2)
Feminine Names	222	(5)
No-Frills Names	227	(3)
Naming a Son	230	(8)
All-Boy Names	234	(2)
Tough Guys, Not-So-Tough Names	236	(2)
Unisex Names	238	(9)
The True Unisex Names	241	(1)
Boys to Girls	242	(2)
Androgynous Starbabies	244	(3)
Tradition	247	(86)
A Concise History or American Baby-Naming	250	(14)
Colonial Period & Eighteenth Century	250	(4)
Nineteenth Century	254	(2)
Twentieth Century	256	(8)
African-American Names	264	(17)
Popular African-American Names	272	(4)
Muslim/Arabic Names	276	(2)
African Names	278	(3)
Names from Across the Ocean	281	(37)
Celtic Names	281	(1)
Scottish Names	282	(2)
Irish Names	284	(2)
Welsh Names	286	(1)
Dutch Names	287	(2)
French Names	289	(5)
German Names	294	(3)
Greek Names	297	(2)
Italian Names	299	(1)
Scandinavian Names	300	(4)
Slavic Names	304	(4)
Spanish Names	308	(5)
Variazioni on a Theme	313	(5)
Jewish Names	318	(8)
The Kosher Curve	320	(1)
Hebrew & Israeli Names	321	(5)
Conan, Patron Saint of Late-Night TV	326	(7)
Some Celtic Saints	330	(3)
Family	333	(34)
You Say Maria, I Say Mariah	336	(5)
Family Names	341	(3)
Putting the Name Before the Baby	344	(2)
Bad Advice?	346	(2)
Baby Jr.	348	(5)
Some Juniors Who Made Names for Themselves	350	(3)
Sibling Names	353	(6)
Double Trouble	356	(1)
Twin Starbabies	357	(2)
Whose Name Is It, Anyway?	359	(3)
The Name Becomes the Child	362	(5)
Index	367