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The Baby Name Wizard: A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby

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Yes, your baby’s perfect name is out there.
The trick is finding it.

The perfect baby name will speak to your heart, give your child a great start in life—and maybe even satisfy your relatives.  But you can't expect to just stumble on a name like that in an A to Z dictionary or on a trendy list.

That’s why you need The Baby Name Wizard . Created by a name-searching mom, it uses groundbreaking research and computer generated models to pinpoint each name’s image, examine its usage and popularity over the last 100 years, and suggest other promising ideas. A perfect guide to the modern world of names, The Baby Name Wizard will engage you from the first name you look up and keep you enchanted through your journey to the just-right name for your baby.

416 pages, Paperback

First published February 8,2005

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416 pages, Paperback
Published
February 8, 2005 by Three Rivers Press
ISBN
9780767917520
ASIN
0767917529
Language
English

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April 16,2025
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This was a fun read... Not the most complete list of names, but it has plenty of additional names beyond the basic entry list, sorted into categories such as "Porch-Sitters" and "Shakespearean". In the alphabetical list of entries, I especially like the suggestions for appropriately coordinating brother/sister names.
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CapNin
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April 16,2025
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Another good resource. Yes, this is the third baby naming book I've read. Got a long list and still no clear winner. Maybe he'll just have to be No Name Jenson. Do they have a hospital in No Name, Colorado? You've seen the stop along the freeway on the way to Utah. That should be where they banish would-be parents who can't think of names for their children.
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YunaHitarashi
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April 16,2025
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I'm not really in the market for a baby right now, but this book is just fun to flip around in. Beside each name there is a graph that shows its popularity over the course of the twentieth century. Also cool is name classification according to style ('Antique Charm', 'Biblical', 'New Classics', 'Surfer Sixties', etc.)
Maybe my favorite name ever? Tarquin. I am hoping this will be the 'Leonardo' of this century, because I just bet a lot of money on it.
Anyways, the website is pretty rad too.
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Azuab17
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April 16,2025
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Oh, boy, are we in trouble. Choosing a baby name is not easy! But I do really like this book. I think it will be helpful as we get closer. I especially like the brother and sister names suggestions that gives you ideas of similar names. And I like the groupings in the second half of the book.
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April 16,2025
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Really well laid out, lots of name ideas. We did get our baby's name from this book, lol.
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April 16,2025
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By far the most useful baby name book - it's too bad we got it so late. It would have saved us some frustration in looking at those other books (50,000 baby names, 60,000 baby names, etc), which just have lists of names with very brief and often inane explanations of meaning. This book, based on the website of the same name, offers very useful lists of names that are similar in style, and also offers much better descriptions of names. Also, it sticks to actual names, rather than just including words that some idiot may have once used as a name...like Seven from one of the other books - really? Seven?

If you're stuck, look for this. It helped us finally settle on Max last week, if we have a boy.
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Catch33
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April 16,2025
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This was my favorite baby name book. I examined it from cover to cover while I was pregnant with each of my girls. It focuses on the "feel" of a name rather than the meaning. The meaning of a name is easily found on one of several baby name websites, but this book is unique in the way that it tracks different naming trends and the pop-culture meaning of names.
I just loaned it to my mom to help her choose a dog name for the puppy that she is getting next month.
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TheElizaManelli
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April 16,2025
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A fresh take on baby names with some interesting lists of names and good things to consider. I found this helpful for coming up with names I like when I was struggling to find any using other resources.
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