I found this book at Barnes and Noble the other night and I believe we have another name for one of our girls. Pretty fun book with a really varied selection inside- fairly small compared to the other gigantuous name books you'll find.

This is the second book I've read (skimmed) on baby names. Instead of getting shorter the name list has been getting longer and longer, but not because there are so many names that we're in love with. In fact, there haven't been any that we've been totally in love with yet but today we forced ourselves to eliminate some names off the list and categorize those that remain. Anyone who knows me isn't surprised to hear about lists. Anyway, now we've got an A list and a B list and so on all the way until E! Our A list has 4 names we like, our B list has 17, our C list 14, our D 9, and our E 10.

Here are the names on our A list:

Ash (Cash is also a favorite. Dash too.)
Max
Miles
Jack

The B list has a couple that I really like. Blaise, for example. I don't know what I like it about it, but I just do. Meg doesn't, thus, it's on the B list. And it's got a temporary position on that list at best. Other cool names on that list are Kale, Cody, Dash, Roux, Tucker, Walker, and Grady. The C list has the name Eli, which we've both liked at one point or another. The E list doesn't really have any that are worth mentioning.

I'm trying to think of middle names, and also convince Adam that he DOESN'T want "Brigham" if it's a boy.

I like naming trends and am interested in how names become what they are, but this book stands apart from others because it not only shows you some cool names but some strategies on how to look for/create your own and what to do to consider whether you should actually bestow those names on children or what. I like baby name books not only because they're interesting in and of themselves, but also because I can sometimes use them as resources in naming characters in my novels.

In light of the animal print bib on the cover, I was pleasantly surprised by this book. "Cool Names for Babies" was published in 2003, so even the "coolest" names don't seem especially edgy or new at this point. But it's just as well. I like the categories this book sets up; it's intriguing to think about why certain names have become popular, and the authors certainly identify many of the continuing trends (grandparents' names, "old lady cool," literary names, British names, etc.) My own list of favorite potential names grew steadily over the course of the book, which is why I would recommend it. How nice to find a name book that is actually helpful in the search for a name.

Lots of categorized name lists. Likely, I won't pick any name from this book, but the intros to each chapter/category were pretty amusing.

This is also another really awesome baby name book (again, I don't need any!)

It had some very unique names, some way weird...all in all. it was okay. nothing super special.

waste of time...for me at least.

Apparently I'm cooler than I thought - in my quest for baby names, many of the ones I came up with are listed in this book!

fun book we looked at. Better than A-Z books. Breaks it down into "plants" or "musical names" or "cool old fashion names"... stuff like that

i'm obsessed with baby names, even though no babies. this is the best of the many books i've had.