Dictionary of First Names

from quantum.alex

Forget about those baby names books--buy this definitive and billion times more accurate dictionary of first names and give the best name to your son or daughter! It's also indispensable for giving appropriate and meaningful names to your fiction characters.

from languagehat

A wonderful book that not only gives thorough etymologies but explains the history of the popularity of names; under Elmer: "This has been used as a given name in America since the 19th century, in honour of the brothers Ebenezer and Jonathan Elmer, leading supporters of the American Revolution."...

from quantum.alex

Forget about those baby names books--buy this definitive and billion times more accurate dictionary of first names and give the best name to your son or daughter! It's also indispensable for giving appropriate and meaningful names to your fiction characters.

from languagehat

A wonderful book that not only gives thorough etymologies but explains the history of the popularity of names; under Elmer: "This has been used as a given name in America since the 19th century, in honour of the brothers Ebenezer and Jonathan Elmer, leading supporters of the American Revolution."...