100,000 + Baby Names by Bruce Lansky

100,000 + Baby Names by Bruce Lansky

The most helpful, complete, and yearly up-to-date name book

What's new about names? The new edition of 100,000+ Baby Names by Bruce Lansky features the most up-to-date lists of names, trends, advice, and fascinating facts about names, including:

• Hundreds of newly popular names and variations
• The latest list of top 100 names for boys and girls
• The latest naming trends: what's hot and what's not
• The most rapidly rising and falling top 1,000 names
• Updated lists of names to consider, including names of newly famous people and fictional characters
• The most popular gender-neutral names and their rates of use (more for boys, more for girls, or 50/50)
• New (and classic) celebrity baby names

And our list of names from around the world keeps growing Here you'll find more than 100,000 names--complete with origins, meanings, variations, and famous namesakes. You'll find names from major linguistic and ethnic groups of origin, including English (19,000 names), Latin (11,000 names), Greek (11,000 names), American (11,000 names), Hebrew (9,000 names), Hispanic (9,000 names), French (8,000 names), Irish (7,000 names), and German (6,000 names)--plus thousands of Scottish, Welsh, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Scandinavian, Polish, Native American, Hawaiian, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Australian/Aboriginal, African, and Hindi names. The list features unique spellings of popular names that are catching on, plus newly popular names and variations not listed in other books and websites.

Lansky, Bruce: - Bruce Lansky has edited a number of poetry anthologies (including Rolling in the Aisles, Kids Pick the Funniest Poems, If Kids Ruled the School, A Bad Case of the Giggles, Miles of Smiles, and No More Homework! No More Tests!), and 3 silly songbook anthologies. Lansky created the popular GigglePoetry.com website for children and the PoetryTeachers.com website for teachers. He also created the Girls to the Rescue series, the New Fangled Fairy Tales series, and the Can You Solve the Mysteries series.

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ISBN 13	9780684039992
ISBN 10	0684039990
Title	100,000 + Baby Names
Author	Bruce Lansky
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2006-03-01
Number of pages	576
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