Choose Your Baby's Name

Choosing your baby's name is a pleasurable and important decisionMany of the first names which are familiar today are bound up with history, legend and literature. Others are more recent additions which have come into being during this century.Choose Your Baby's Name gives the origins and derivations of some 3,500 first names and shows how they arrived at their current fonm. Where possible, the earliest bearer of each name is given and, when a name owes its popularity to a particular historical or legendary figure, its development is traced through the centuries. Each entry also includes the variants and diminutives and, where appropriate, the masculine or feminine form of the name.Complete with a pronunciation guide for more unusual names and a calendar of Saints' Days, this entertaining and informative book is the first place to look when choosing your baby's name.