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40, 001 Best Baby Names [Illustrated] (Paperback)

by Diane Stafford (Author)
1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc; illustrated edition edition (1 Sep 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1402201036
  • ISBN-13: 978-1402201035
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 17.3 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,427,827 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The essential one-stop baby-naming bible --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

With daughter Jennifer Shoquist, MD, Diane Stafford co-authored Potty Training for Dummies, No More Panic Attacks and Migraines for Dummies. Stafford has been Editor-in-Chief for a variety of health and fitness magazines and co-owned Health & Fitness and Texas Woman. She writes and edits books and does volunteer work for Houston's Emegency Aid Coalition Clothing Center. She has written hundreds of magazine articles. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars What a waste of money!, 30 Jan 2006
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This review is from: 40,001 Best Baby Names (Paperback)
I am not often moved to write a review on something I bought but I was very disappointed. You would be better off with a decent book containing a tenth of the names. Most of them are so ridiculous- would you call your child Ponce, Napoleon, Spunk, Wind, (boys) Scally, Fog, Fructuose, Po, (girls) to name but a few. Apologies if anyone likes or has these names but I found every page had at least 75% unusable names even for broad minded parents. At first we found it funny until we realised the author is charging us for taking the mickey. Surely its meant to be a joke!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Badly-researched, unhelpful and ridiculous!, 24 Feb 2008
Don't buy this. Seriously. A large proportion of the names this woman has come up with are insane (Delete? Loocho? Joebob?), her meanings are usually inaccurate and often just made up by her and the origins she gives for them are dubious.
I really regret wasting my money on this. For anyone who is looking for a 'fun' baby name book with useful suggestions, I recommend instead 'The Baby Name Wizard' by Laura Wattenberg. And if you're looking for a book which really knows its onions viz. meanings etc, try 'The Oxford Dictionary of First Names.'
This book is really, really BAD. I don't write many reviews on here, but this one moved me to do so if only in the hope of depriving this silly woman of more undeserved royalties.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Just too much, 3 May 2005
By D. D. Wilson "spawnee" (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 40,001 Best Baby Names (Paperback)
This book has a huge expanse of names, and if you are just looking for a name and not the meaning, then this could be the book for you. However, be prepared for being overwhelmed by the amount - 40,001 might make it even harder for you to choose, and if you were looking for something to help you with then may be browse some of the other books out there.
The other point that needs to be made (but has already been done so by some of the other reviewers) is that the name meanings are not very detailed, and also contradict some of the meanings of the same name in other books, so it might be worth double checking which book has the right definition!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

1.0 out of 5 stars Shockingly bad.
As others have said, this book is truly awful.

Stafford boasts that this is 'the very best baby-naming book ever' - a bold statement indeed from someone who claims... Read more
Published 13 months ago by C. James

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolute rubbish!
Please do not buy this book! One of the tag lines say's "Every name you can imagine" so I imagined my little boys name Ronan. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mr. Jonathan Walsh

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy it!
I have not felt 'inspired' to write a review before, but wanted to warn people before wasting their money on this book. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Reader

1.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculous book
Unfortunately this is a very Americanised book with zillions of names in it that in my opinion are non-names, if you see what I mean. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Leicestershire Reader

1.0 out of 5 stars put together without any love or intelligence
this is how the book gets to 40,001 names: it lists all variations of a name as separate entries... yaaawn

also, much worse nearly all "meanings" behind the name are... Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2007 by C. Account

3.0 out of 5 stars Too many random spellings!
The book lists many names under spellings that are not the traditional ones....sometimes listing these as alternatives and sometimes missing them out of the book completely! Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2006 by G. Armstrong

5.0 out of 5 stars 40,001 best baby names
i thought the book was very good. it was in top condition, as if i bought it brand new. i received it within a couple of days. will by from them again.
Published on 19 Aug 2005 by Aimee

3.0 out of 5 stars Lots of names but short on details.
This book does contain a lot of names, and although I did find it useful I would probably buy a more concise version next time. Read more
Published on 8 Dec 2004

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