100,000 + BABY NAMES:The Most Complete Baby Name Book

This book is an amazing resource. I used to be a writer and now I work in video games (which still involves writing stories and developing characters) and I generally turn to this book when searching for a good name. I find that if I don't use a rich resource like this one to look through and get some new name ideas I'll likely just keep reverting back to my own personal favorites... which leaves you with a lot of similarly named characters throughout projects. I have two "go to" books that I turn to for naming - this one is for those times when I just want a sea of names to choose from and sort through, basically whenever I have no real idea or starting point for a character's name. I personally loved that the book also includes a lot of older names as well. Again, when writing you often need names that sound unique or even mythical, without actually being the names of mythological characters. Old names are great for that - they look and sound familiar enough to seem natural, but they're strange enough to sound magical. Plus you never know what kind of name someone is looking for, everyone has a different idea of what sounds pleasant to the ear, and a lot of people go for older names. Also, names tend to rotate, something that was your great grandmother's name could easily now be the cutest, trendiest name of the year. I don't really have any negative points to bring up about the book. There are times when it is a little difficult to navigate, but that's just one of the perils of having such a vast wealth of material to go through. There are also some filler entries where one name will be listed more than once with different spellings (even though there is an "alternate spellings" section under the names) but if I had to guess I would say that in those few cases it looks like it may have been done because the two spellings were equally popular. I can see where it would make it more convenient for those using the book to have the most popular spellings listed separately so as to make entries easier to find since everything is alphabetical.

My 8-month pregnant friend and I spent an entire vacation combing this book for a name for her little one. There were some liberties taken with root names (Elizabeth, Liz, Lizzie, Liza) and the like to increase the count, but generally a good resource - the most comprehensive we found. Plus we loved the lists at the beginning of the book, where you could see popular names by decade, names of stars, their kids, shakespearean names, etc., etc. Good buy.

While I am sure that most people who buy this book do it because they want a name for their baby, a fair number of people get them to use for character names in writing and gaming. I used my last edition until it literally fell apart. This is the replacement I love how it has dozens of spellings for names, some information on what it means, handy for that humanizing detail for your characters, and oh so many lists. If you are buying this book to name a baby, probably better books out there. If you are looking for a baby name book so you stop naming your sims naughty names, or you keep naming your rpg characters the same name, then you have found the book you need. Open it to a random spot and you have a ton of names to choose from. Be creative on what you call your characters so they are something other than lazypeon5

This book is intense. I went through almost this entire book and probably only considered about 1/20th of the names listed. They include EVERYTHING which means a lot of names that you've never heard of and can't pronounce. My husband and I eventually found smaller lists that didn't overwhelm us as much. I do like that they have stars next to the top 100 names and that the meanings of the names are given. Maybe a good place to start, but expect to get annoyed about 1/4 of the way through with the ridiculous names.

So I'm obsessed with browsing through baby names and since the book I had was beat up and falling apart, I got a new one for Christmas months ago (now decided to write a review). I'm delighted to have such an improvement! The odd letters like Z have an abundant amount of names. It doesn't have every name I've looked for, but it has enough to satisfy me. What makes it especially fascinating is that it lists the names in interesting groups (celebrity names, popular foreign names, nature names, etc) and provides entertaining trivia at the beginning of the book. And there's a little activity determining how good a name is (it says unique is a bad thing--it's such a good thing). After that, it compiles the names in alphabetical order and separates the names into two sections: boy and girl names. It informs you of the language it originates from, if it's in the top 100, alternate spellings, both gender names, what famous thing the name is associated with (example for Kennedy it says "History: John F. Kennedy was the thirty first US president") and of course the name meanings! But I must deduct a star because it makes you do a tedious scavenger hunt. It inconveniently says "a form of" if it is and doesn't give you the meaning directly (for instance, Shawn is a form of Sean and Sean is a form of John). It's absolutely annoying! My old baby name book didn't do that so much. Really just all the different forms listed as different meanings are excessive. You'd think the author would try to make it convenient to find the meaning. One more complaint is it talks about Nevaeh (heaven spelled backwards) yet lacks it in the list. But of course it's definitely worth having! I constantly use it. There are so many names. I recommend this baby name book.

After months of trying to decide a baby name, we decided to order this book for help with ideas for baby names. There are sooooo many names on this book and meanings. I saw on other reviews that people have complained that there are names that repeat, just different spellings.... well there’s only so many names that exist! Come up with your own if you don’t like one in this book! This book is more like a guideline or ideas for names, you don’t have to use one in this book. This book is just meant to help search through the thousands of names out there! The book is divided in half by girl names in one half and boy names in the other half of the book. Then it’s in alphabetical order for name ideas. It also has top names in various years, states and even countries! We did find this book helpful and even funny sometimes. We actually ended up picking our daughters name using this book!

We chose this book after physically perusing through 12+ other name books in the bookstore. This one caught our eye since it was just recently updated in 2016 and also contained multiple lists that other books did not. In addition to separately listing names by gender in alphabetical order, Lansky included various, other lists too. Namely, lists of favorite names - from previous years, foreign countries/states, popular pop/media/historical names, atheletes, presidents, celebrity children, and many other methods. The name selection has been truly unique and different (some of them I don't even know how to pronounce) but traditional names were also included. I appreciate how the names also were defined and the origin (hebrew, english, french, etc) was also noted. It truly is a comprehensive book that has been helpful with figuring out a name for our child. We appreciate that this book is no nonsense but full of options and organized in a very easy to follow manner. Highly recommend this book over the baby wizard and other books out there.

I don't usually write reviews, but this book is pretty useless. About 25% of the names are just repeats with different spellings. Why not combine the possible spellings into one entry? There must have been 40 entries for Christen. Some of the entries contain actual meanings, and some simply refer you to another spelling of the name, so you have to go find the meaning of the name and then come back. We're having two girls, and while I know that sometimes boy names are really cute for girls, having entries like David, Jonathan, and Matthew in the girls section is kind of ridiculous. If I want to look for boy names for my girls, I'll look in the boy section. Plus, I don't know if this is the Hipster naming book, but a lot of these names are pretty weird. I would like to know what percentage of people purchasing this book would actually consider naming their child Fifi. Also, another 25% or so of the name are names that are popular in other countries, but wouldn't make sense in English. Mucamutara, an Egyptian name meaning born during the war. The book is full of names like this. Save your money and your time and buy a different book.

So viel Auswahl! Ich bin absolut zufrieden, aber ich liebe es auch in Namensbüchern zu Blättern. Toll ist es auch, dass so viele englisch/ amerikanische Namen drin sind. Genau was ich wollte.

I love it

Die Auswahl an Namen ist wirklich riesig und auch nochmal in Kategorien vorne aufgelistet. z.B. Namen aus Serien, und nach Hitlisten...etc. Wer dieses Buch hat brauch kein anderes mehr!

Love it

Das Buch ist schnell und sicher angekommen. Es gibt viele Interesante Namen in diesem Buch. Habe für mein Zukunftiges Kind auch schon ein passenden Namen gefunden.