The New Age Baby Name Book

by Sue Ellin Browder, Sue Browder

Overview

Completely revised, updated, and expanded, The New Age Baby Name Book is the quirky naming guide that has outlasted the trendiness of New Age. Now at 512 pages, with 10,000 new names for a total of 20,000, with over 125 new sidebars filled with naming rites, stories, trends, and reverse trends, cultural trivia, and quotes, it is the definitive resource for parents who wish to celebrate their child's life with a very special name, right from the outset.

Classic, popular, offbeat, and even gender-neutral, the entries are culled from dozens of cultures and traditions, and include pronunciation guides, meanings, and variations. Here are Native American names, Gaelic names, Swahili names, Arabic names, native Hawaiian names. There are Hebrew names and modern Israeli names, Old Welsh, Middle English, and contemporary Anglicized names. And for parents who wish to create an original name for their child, 12 delightful techniques—from anagrams (get out the Scrabble board) to telescoping from trends and respellings—for coming up with that perfect, one-of-a-kind name. In addition, readers discover naming practices from around the world, the psychology of names, which names sound the most educated and which the least, occupation names, power names for women, and more.

140,000 copies in print.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761102328
Publisher:	Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	01/28/1998
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	1,144,681
Product dimensions:	5.54(w) x 8.48(h) x 2.27(d)

About the Author

Sue Browder is an award-winning journalist with over 300 articles to her credit. Her articles on relationships, health issues, and parenting have appeared in Woman's Day, New Woman, Reader's Digest, and Cosmopolitan magazines and the Washington Post, Newsday, and the Miami Herald. Besides the books published by Workman, Sue is the author of Born Dancing: A Guide to Baby's Body Language (Harper & Rowe) and co-author of Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Sex (Dutton). Her appearances on national TV include Oprah, Geraldo, and the Today Show. Sue is the mother of two children and lives outside Los Angeles with her husband.

Read an Excerpt

AMONG THE MORE THAN 20,000 NAMES

For Girls

ASA-(Japanese) "Born in the morning"

CLAIRE-(Latin) "Brilliant or illustrious"

LILA-(Hindi) "The free, playful will of God"

QIANRU-(Chinese) "Pretty smile"

WAKANDA-(Sioux) "Inner magical power"

For Boys

ANDERS-(Scandinavian) "Strong and manly

DYLAN-(Old Welsh) "Son of the Wave"

ISIAH-(Hebrew) "Salvation of the Lord"

RASHID-(Swahili) "One of good council"

WILNY—-(Native American) "Eagle singing while flying"

Excerpted from The New Age Baby Name Book. Reprinted with permission by Workman Publishing.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

What's a "New Age" Baby Name Book?

CHAPTER 1

Choosing a Name for the Twenty-First Century

CHAPTER 2

The Psychology of Naming Your Baby

Name That Stereotype

CHAPTER 3

Twelve Fun, Easy Ways to Create a Special Name

CHAPTER 4

Choosing a Name from a Special Culture

CHAPTER 5

Choosing an Astrological, Magical, or Numerological Name

The Twelve Zodiac Signs

GIRLS' NAMES

Naming Customs: Familiar Names That Are Rarely Used

Important to Know: Does Higher Education Influence Baby Names?

Did You Know: Naming Babies After the Rich and Famous

The Legend of St. Barbara

Poetic Vietnamese Names

How Soon Will Your Baby Know Her Name?

Umbundu Proverb Names

Saintly Irish Names

Time-of-Birth Names

Magic Names

Did You Know: "Also Names"

Gift Names

Important to Know: Overly Unusual Spellings of Traditional Names

What if Your Baby Grows Up Hating Her Name?

Trait Names

African Order-of-Birth Names

Miwok Indian Seed Names

Naming Customs: Laplanders

Should Your Children's Names Complement Each Other?

Important to Know: How Much a Girl Likes Her Name

Newly Coined "La-" Names

Hawaiian Sky Names

Chinese Flower Names

Miwok Indian Chicken-Hawk Names

Important to Know: Trendy "Masculine" Girls' Names

"Sexy" Names: Drawbacks in the Corporate World?

Six Hidden Messages a Name Can Send

Miwok Farewell-to-Spring Names

Miwok Indian Bear Names

French-Sounding Girls' Names

How Classy is Cackle?

Naming Your Adopted Baby

Japanese Animal Names

Day-of-the-Week Names

Polynesian Nature Names

Japanese Virtue Names

Gender-Free Names

BOYS' NAMES

Did You Know: One-Third of Young People Wish for a Different Name

Israeli Holy Names

A New Naming Trend

Did You Know: What Your Signature Reveals

A Martyr Named Briant

Did You Know: Naming Your Child with Initials

Nigerian "Chi" Names

Naming Customs: Ultra-Trendy and Ultra-Original

Where Middle Names Began

Naming Customs: The Ultimate Act of Generosity

Did You Know: Crisis in China

Naming Customs: Formerly Masculine Names

Arabic Occupation and Title Names

The Longest Name in the United States

Did You Know: A Child's Name Is Central to His or Her Identity

New England "Trends"

Naming Customs: Spanish Nicknames

Did You Know: Surnames

Native American Nature Names

The Most Unpopular Names in This Country

Did You Know: Whom You're More Likely to Marry

Did You Know: Do Smooth-Sounding Names Influence Voters?

Miwok Indian Names

Nicknames: Insulting or Flattering

Nigerian Holy Names

To Each His Own

The Long and Short of Presidential Names

Hidden Meanings in Our Own Names

Naming Customs: Adult Nicknames

Naming Tip: How Flexible Should a Name Be?

Scandinavian Mythology Names

Miwok Indian Names

Lucky Chinese Names