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

by Linda Rosenkrantz, Pamela Redmond Satran

Overview

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 Boy

Popularity: The most popular names in America and around the world, and what celebrities are naming their babies

Image: What's really in a name, and why Briyana spells trouble

Sex: 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 heritage

Family: Whose name is it, anyway? And other vital considerations

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312330880
Publisher:	St. Martin's Press
Publication date:	09/01/2004
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.96(d)

About the Author

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

Editorial Reviews

The classic baby name guide.” —The New York Times Magazine

“The arbiter of hip baby names.” —The Wall Street Journal

“The Spy magazine of name-the-baby books: smart, sassy, well-informed, and not afraid to name names.” —Scripps Howard News Service

“Unlike garden-variety baby-name guides, [Beyond Jennifer & Jason] lays it on the line.” —Entertainment Weekly

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