The Big Book of 60,000 Baby Names

60,000 baby names!? That's a real stretch, we are expecting a boy and I went through the entire section of boy names, there was less than one name per several pages of what I would even consider an actual name (and possibly less than 20-30 actual boy names total), the rest were things that seemed made up or names of objects or places. I don't know if other baby name books are better but this one for sure was a waste of time and money I had better luck consulting websites for free. The only pro I can give it is it gave us a good laugh at some of the ridiculous things it tried to pass off as actual baby names. (eg. Canada - place name from Canada, Lemon - fruit tart, Mohawk - place name, river in New York, Farmer - he farms, Thaw - cool, Festive - word as a name, joyful) and then there are the ones you just can't even pronounce. I guess if you are looking for something truly original and aren't concerned about your child getting teased or bullied because of their weird name this book might be for you.

Purchased used but like new and it was just that- it arrived looking brand new. We didn’t use it a whole lot before deciding on a name we already had in mind, but my 8 year old step son LOVES this book and looks through it often making name suggestions because he doesn’t know we have one we’re pretty set on. He is supposed to read for 20 minutes a night for homework and his teacher says anything counts as long as he’s reading, so we sometimes use this as a fun thing to read because he enjoys it so much.Other than that, we did like though that it has a ton of categories and isn’t just hundred of pages with names only. It’s a good name book and I would recommend it.

Yea it has a lot of names, but I feel like half are a stretch. Also there are some inaccuracies. For example, a lot of the meanings are wrong if you compare them to other books or an online search. As for stretching, there are multiple that the authors just combined two names and hyphenated it, called it American, and gave it a meaning. Then there are a lot of "place" names (names of cities) or "word" names, and also names from fiction. If you want to name your baby Treebeard, do you. But I don't think it should be called a baby name, at least not in a book like this. Ultimately it is helpful, I guess, but other books would probably be better.

Um...well, I guess this book is ok. I’ve had better ones. Some of the names are so far fetched, but then again, look at the times we live in. Parents are turning to fruit and bedding to name their children so I suppose some of the names in this book aren’t that far off par.I thumbed through the book a few times, but actually found nothing in there that I liked. Two days after we got the book (I was 15 weeks) we picked the name. We knew because of genetic and gender testing that we were having a boy. The name came to me while looking at crib bedding. So I only used the book twice, maybe. But if I had to rely on this book alone to pick a name, I don’t think I would have been able to. Just something about the formatting or crazy names...I don’t know. It just wasn’t my favorite baby name book. But for $2 and some change, I can’t complain too much.

I am glad that I bought this book because it has been such a big help. I bought it for picking names for my writing. I noticed I used the same name over and over again so I knew I needed a new name book. I already have one but I had bought it years ago and wanted a more updated one.This one is perfect and is very handy.

I am an author of fiction, so I've gone through a lot of naming resources. I cannot put into words how much entertainment I got from reading this book. This beautiful trainwreck of a book, with names like "Bacon" and "Money" and "T rex", that listed "Berrio" as the Spanish word for Berries and listed the name "Thai" as Vietnamese instead of Thai. It's a riot and a half, I want to wipe my memory so that I can experience it for the first time again. But on a serious note, there are some lovely names hidden in the clutter. If you double check the listed meanings online I'm sure you can find a beautiful name for your child, you will just have to suffer through a lot of not so fantastic names as well. But when you have 60,000 names, that's bound to happen. I recommend it for authors more than I do for parents.

I’ve bought several name books this year and this book, by far, is my favorite. The amount of names and organization to the book is unsurpassed. Hundreds upon hundreds of pages of unique as well as classic names. I love it. I believe my search ends here!

I love doing name meaning plaques and have numerous name meaning books. This one doesn't include suggested character qualities, which is the object of my name plaques--to use a person's name to encourage and motivate them to develop and live up to positive qualities suggested by their name. I do like the ones with the suggested character qualities better, but this serves as a reference, and I can use it as a springboard in conjunction with other reference name books that I have to come up with positive motivational name meanings.

I read a lot of reviews before deciding to purchase this book, we had looked online for a name that has a special meaning and they're all the same and reference God which is lovely but wasn't for me. This book has some seriously unusual names that I hope children aren't called 'Seabert' being my personal favourite but its also got some very lovely names that are pretty and unusual without being too much. I also really liked the lists at the start of the book the one that made me giggle the most was titled 'you just don't like this kid huh?'

Got this for my sister and it hasnt aided her much is a choice for her and her husbands baby. Some bames are repeated and their are alot of strange names like numbers. Maybe better with just searching the internet for names.

Plenty of names, but some of the lists are really quite mean (though it is from 2009 so probably just dated), and I'm not really convinced on the meaning/history of some of the names.No issues at all with seller though!

A waste of my money. Had I wanted to choose an American name like Nob or Shag I could have dreamed it up myself!

The names in this book are mostly foreign so no good if your British