The Library
The books behind the guides.
Every guide is built from these books and cites them per claim. Here they are on their own — what each argues, the ideas it contributes, and the guides it grounds. 17 books.
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The Library
Every guide is built from these books and cites them per claim. Here they are on their own — what each argues, the ideas it contributes, and the guides it grounds. 17 books.
17 of 17 books
A comprehensive guide offering 50,000 baby names with their origins and meanings, along with practical advice to help expectant parents navigate the naming process and find the perfect name for their child.
Bruce Lansky
A comprehensive guide for expecting parents to choose the perfect baby name by providing over 100,000 options, detailed information, and a practical step-by-step decision-making process.
Lorilee Craker
A curated, opinionated guide that mines great books and literary figures for 470 meaningful, stylish baby names, profiling each for popularity, image, and cultural resonance.
Lorilee Craker
A curated, opinionated guide that mines great books and literary figures for 470 meaningful, stylish baby names, profiling each for popularity, image, and cultural resonance.
Eric Groves
A comprehensive resource guide for parents seeking harmonious and thematically linked names for siblings, organized by phonetic, alliterative, and cultural criteria.
A comprehensive resource guide for parents seeking harmonious and thematically linked names for siblings, organized by phonetic, alliterative, and cultural criteria.
Lisa Shaw, Andrea Norville
A comprehensive baby-naming reference that organizes thousands of boys' and girls' names by risk level so parents can choose a name their child can actually live with happily.
Bruce Lansky
An annual almanac-style guide that decodes current baby-naming trends, popularity rankings, and pop-culture influences while offering more than 20,000 names with meanings and origins for expectant parents.
An annual almanac-style guide that decodes current baby-naming trends, popularity rankings, and pop-culture influences while offering more than 20,000 names with meanings and origins for expectant parents.
An almanac-style guide that reads the cultural tea leaves of pop culture, celebrity, royalty, and media to forecast which baby names are rising, falling, and worth choosing, paired with a dictionary of more than 20,000 names.
An introductory guide to "Nameology," a system based on Pythagorean numerology that decodes the personality traits hidden within a first name to help readers choose the perfect baby name or better understand themselves and others.
Norma J. Watts
An introductory guide to "Nameology," a system based on Pythagorean numerology that decodes the personality traits hidden within a first name to help readers choose the perfect baby name or better understand themselves and others.
Laura Wattenberg
A data-driven field guide that helps expectant parents navigate the stressful, modern world of baby naming by decoding name styles and trends to find a choice they will love for a lifetime.
A data-driven field guide that helps expectant parents navigate the stressful, modern world of baby naming by decoding name styles and trends to find a choice they will love for a lifetime.
Becky Alexander
A practical, comprehensive guide to planning and conducting a personal, non-religious (or partly religious) baby naming ceremony tailored to your family in the UK.
A practical, comprehensive guide to planning and conducting a personal, non-religious (or partly religious) baby naming ceremony tailored to your family in the UK.
June Rifkin
A comprehensive guide offering 50,000 baby names with their origins and meanings, along with practical advice to help expectant parents navigate the naming process and find the perfect name for their child.