Name Game

I have read dozens of name books... This is the most amazing one ever written, by far! If you are hidebound or unimaginative, or if you don't like deep psychological analyses, you won't like this book. However the presentation is super-easy to access, making it very fun to refer to again and again over the years. No longer will you underestimate the power that names have to mold and warp perceptions of self and others throughout your life.

we were looking for a baby name book that was a little deeper than what a name meant in French, Irish or whatever. this book is interesting in that it gives you some background as to how various names are perceived -- i.e., a woman named Katherine is likely to be perceived as being more successful than a person named Lois. It is an interesting book and the author has impressive credentials. The book is, however, also full of typographical errors -- enough that it makes me wonder how quickly the whole thing was thrown together & whether the research is really solid. Seems like a very minor thing, but I think it draws questions to the validity of the entire publication. Definitely worth a couple of bucks, though.

The best baby name book I have read. The author is a professor at UCLA and has done an ingenious job in writing this book.