100,000 + Baby Names: The Most Complete Baby Name Book: Including 300+ Fascinating Lists, The Latest Naming Trends, Key to Gender-Neutral Names

"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."
~ Written on 2008-07-02

"This book is a waste of time. The author collected all names from around the world but did not bother to check their meaning, origin, etc. Many names are associated with ridiculous non-facts or false facts. Many others do not have their origin as stated. We know that for sure about polish names - we come from Poland; but we noticed the same thing with many other names as well. Very weak book. Do not buy it! "
~ Written on 2008-05-10

" Well my wife and I found out we were having a little boy at our ultrasound the other day. After I got through embarrassing her by screaming out the car window, "I put the stem on the apple!!!" We were very much relieved to finally eliminate half the baby names. Here in lies the problem with this book: You can't find a 100,000 good baby names!!!! I suppose you could name your child one of the over 97,000 hideous names in this book, but the little man or women might hate you for it when they enter our brain washing institutes better known as public education system. I suppose you could name your boy Sue if you wanted to toughen him up, and I'm equally sure you'll find that name in the boys and girls section in this book. No sir EEEE bob, you just can't fill a book with baby names without wasting half the book.

Now I can't say this book has no value. It does give you a list of the most popular baby names throughout the decades (I believe from the 1900's until present). You also get all the STARS names. After all who wouldn't want to name their child "Moon Unit" to honor the Zappa family? Want to name your child after a Harry Potter character? Well there's a list in there for you too. I thumbed through the whole book and found probably a 1,000 viable names (most of which I would still never use, but I'm giving the book the benefit of the doubt). I honestly ended up searching on the internet and found some very useful sites there that in my opinion were far more helpful (and free). I even picked up a hundred page book that had just about every name I liked in it (plus it eliminated most of the absurd names). In the end I can justifiably give this book 3 stars. There are some pretty unique baby names out there, and this book has just about every name you wouldn`t want to name your child. On the other hand, one of my coworkers used to work in pediatric and neonatal ICU, and this book can`t compare to some of the names he ran across. I could give you a list of names that would have you dying on the floor for hours. Ah, if it wasn't for that patient confidentiality thing. Lets just say I hope none of you name you child after a venereal disease because it was on the side of a bus, and "the word looked pretty." Hearing stories like that make you realize that if there was a child named ******* than there's probably a child named Gonorrhea out there as well. So maybe having a boy named Sue isn't so bad?

Bottom Line: thorough book, but you will probably hate most the names in it.

Postscript: I looked up the name Jackson in this book and it's definition was, "The son of Jack." Well, what if the father's name isn't Jack? Was there a milk man involved? Given this new knowledge of how names are formed I thought of the name Stan. After all it's only one letter shy of sAtan. This must have been some parent who was exhausted from chasing a 2 year old around and decided they were in fact "a little devil." Oh, if only that child knew.
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~ Written on 2008-04-20

"We found our first son's name in this book. I like that the books gives the top 25 most popular names for every decade for the past 200 years or so, and the most popular names from countries around the world. There are also a lot of fun lists titled, "Names Inspired by People, Places and Things," which include characters from various books, TV shows, movies, & stories, sports figures, singers, nature inspired names, and names to match personalities.

The main part of the book lists names in alphabetical order (one section for girls & one for boys). There are over 600 pages of names, over 100,000 names. It gives the name in bold print, the origin, the meaning, and alternative spellings. People LOVE our son's name, as do we.

I would definately recommend this book to parents looking for names for their unborn baby. We were looking for Irish names and found many we loved, even though we had to look through all the names to find just the Irish names. I'm just a Mom, obssessed with finding the PERFECT name, and this book was very helpful to me!! This book is FUN, too."
~ Written on 2008-02-03

"I guess it includes all the names. The problem is, if you are actually looking for an american name - good luck finding one, you have to go first through pages and pages of foreign names. It would have been better if they divided the names by countries or religion.
Overall the selection is there, you just need the time to go through it."
~ Written on 2007-11-28