The Baby Name Wizard: A Magical Guide to Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby by Laura Wattenberg
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(Paperback - Reissue)
- Pub. Date: February 2005
- 416pp
- Sales Rank: 4,240
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: February 2005
- Publisher: Broadway Books
- Format: Paperback, 416pp
- Sales Rank: 4,240
- ISBN-13: 9780767917520
- ISBN: 0767917529
- Edition Description: Reissue
Synopsis
Yes, your baby’s perfect name is out there.
The trick is finding it.
The perfect baby name will speak to your heart, give your child a great start in life—and maybe even satisfy your relatives. But you can't expect to just stumble on a name like that in an A to Z dictionary or on a trendy list.
That’s why you need The Baby Name Wizard. Created by a name-searching mom, it uses groundbreaking research and computer generated models to pinpoint each name’s image, examine its usage and popularity over the last 100 years, and suggest other promising ideas. A perfect guide to the modern world of names, The Baby Name Wizard will engage you from the first name you look up and keep you enchanted through your journey to the just-right name for your baby.
Biography
LAURA WATTENBERG is a writer, researcher, and software designer who developed the name analysis software after becoming frustrated in her search for names for her two daughters. She lives outside of Boston.
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Different Than the Others!by Anonymous
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March 30, 2009: We instantly found a name for our first child, but struggled with our second - we couldn't agree. With this book we were able to look up our first child's name, then see a couple of different groups of names which were stylistically similar, not just like the random celebrity name lists and popularity lists in other naming books. We were amazed how accurate the groups were - all of our other favorites were in the same one. We narrowed it down, looked those names up, and found a great name that complemented the first one. True, this book has fewer names than the 100,000 ones, but who's really considering "Brunhilda" or "Xerxes"? If you want a really thoughtful and interesting guide, I highly recommends this one.
Best baby name book out there!by MyklSkeleton
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March 23, 2009: After finding out my wife was pregnant 5 months ago we headed on down to our local B&N to pick out some baby books. We looked at a LOT of baby name books but none of them really grabbed us. Most just look like huge lists of names and not much else. However, when I flipped through this one I knew it was different. Next to each name is a little graph that charts the name's popularity over the years. It's not super detailed or anything but it's a very nice touch (and since I have a degree in math I especially liked it). Next to each name is a "rating" such as Popular, Biblical, Antique that tells you the style of the name. It gives a brief description of meaning and usage including famous people with the name. It gives suggestions for middle names and names of siblings which my wife really likes. All in all it's a great book if you need this sort of information.
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