American Given Names
Author: George R. Stewart
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA historical account of the origins and use of over 800 given names.
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your name. (light novel)
Author: Makoto Shinkai
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2017-05-23
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780316471862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMitsuha, a high school girl living in a small town in the mountains, has a dream that she's a boy living in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy in Tokyo, dreams he's a girl living in a quaint little mountain town. Sharing bodies, relationships, and lives, the two become inextricably interwoven--but are any connections truly inseverable in the grand tapestry of fate? Written by director MAKOTO SHINKAI during the production of the film by the same title, your name. is in turns funny, heartwarming, and heart-wrenching as it follows the struggles of two young people determined to hold on to one another.
The Baby Name Wizard
Author: Laura Wattenberg
Publisher: Broadway
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0767917529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn innovative guide to selecting the perfect name for one's child, using a buyer's guide approach that helps parents ask the right questions to choose a name specifically tailored to personal taste.
Baby Girl Names
Author: Jennie Flexser
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781603320528
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlexser compiles a reference that provides context and popularity of children's names from 1900 to present in each state.
The Botany of the Eastern Borders, with the Popular Names and Uses of the Plants, and of the Customs and Beliefs, which Have Been Associated with Them
Author: George Johnston (M.D., of Berwick.)
Publisher:
Published: 1853
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Baby Name Wizard, 2019 Revised 4th Edition
Author: Laura Wattenberg
Publisher: Harmony
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 077043648X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fully revised and updated version of the classic baby name guide, featuring updated trends, facts, ideas, and thousands of enchanting names! Your baby’s perfect name is out there. This book will help you find it. The right baby name will speak to your heart, give your child a great start in life—and maybe even satisfy your relatives. But there’s no shortage of names to choose from, and you can’t expect to just stumble upon a name like that in an A-to-Z dictionary. Enter the revised and updated fourth edition of The Baby Name Wizard. This ultimate baby-name guide uses groundbreaking research and computer-generated models to create a visual image for each name, examine its usage and popularity over the last one hundred years, and suggest other specific and promising name ideas. Each unique “name snapshot” includes a rundown of style categories the name belongs to, nickname options, variants, pronunciations, prominent examples, and names with a similar style and feeling. This new edition also contains expanded sections on popular names and style lists. A perfect, up-to-date guide to the modern world of names, The Baby Name Wizard will delight you from the first name you look up and keep you enchanted through your journey to finding the just-right name for your baby.
United States Code: Title 50, War and national defense, popular names, tables and index
Author: United States
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 1184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK100,000+ Baby Names
Author: Bruce Lansky
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Published: 2019-07-09
Total Pages: 1243
ISBN-13: 0306922983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most helpful, complete, and yearly up-to-date name book What's new about names? The new edition of 100,000+ Baby Names by Bruce Lansky features the most up-to-date lists of names, trends, advice, and fascinating facts about names, including: Hundreds of newly popular names and variations The latest list of top 100 names for boys and girls The latest naming trends: what's hot and what's not The most rapidly rising and falling top 1,000 names Updated lists of names to consider, including names of newly famous people and fictional characters The most popular gender-neutral names and their rates of use (more for boys, more for girls, or 50/50) New (and classic) celebrity baby names And our list of names from around the world keeps growing! Here you'll find more than 100,000 names--complete with origins, meanings, variations, and famous namesakes. You'll find names from major linguistic and ethnic groups of origin, including English (19,000 names), Latin (11,000 names), Greek (11,000 names), American (11,000 names), Hebrew (9,000 names), Hispanic (9,000 names), French (8,000 names), Irish (7,000 names), and German (6,000 names)--plus thousands of Scottish, Welsh, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Scandinavian, Polish, Native American, Hawaiian, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Australian/Aboriginal, African, and Hindi names. The list features unique spellings of popular names that are catching on, plus newly popular names and variations not listed in other books and websites.
Baby Names
Author: Lisa Shaw
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780715322246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn today's multicultural world there are so many more names to choose from and this selection includes names from Europe, America, Africa and Asia. Find out what they mean, the variations and diminutives and discover their historical significance. Entertaining side lines give information on the changing popularity of names, the names of the famous and the infamous and look at the cultural traditons behind naming a child.
A Dictionary of First Names
Author: Patrick Hanks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-07-27
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 0191578541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. The fascinating and informative Dictionary of First Names covers over 6,000 names in common use in English, including the very newest names as well as traditional names. From Alice to Zanna and Adam to Zola this book will answer all your questions: it will tell you the age, origin, and meaning of the name, as well as how it has fared in terms of popularity, and who the famous fictional or historical bearers for the name have been. It covers alternative spellings, short forms and pet forms, and masculine and feminine forms, as well as help with pronunciation. The book includes extensive appendices covering names from languages including Scottish, Irish, French, German, Italian, Arabic, and Chinese names. Tables of the most popular names by year and by region are also included. From the traditional to the rare and unconventional, this book will tell you everything you need to know about names.
