Beyond Jennifer & Jason, Madison & Montana: What to Name Your Baby Now - Softcover

Rosenkrantz, Linda; Satran, Pamela Redmond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312974620 ISBN 13: 9780312974626

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2000

Synopsis

For years, expectant parents have relied on Beyond Jennifer & Jason as the baby-naming Bible. Now this classic bestseller has been updated for the new millennium, with 95% new material, including new chapters, new trends, new naming pitfalls, and more boy and girl names than ever-from traditional to trendy, and everything in-between, plus a comprehensive name index. Going beyond stale baby-naming books that simply list names and their meanings, Beyond Jennifer & Jason, Madison & Montana uniquely identifies the trends, styles, and connotations in today's baby-naming game. Look inside for...

-Classic names (Emily, Sarah, Daniel, William)
-Surname names (Brady, Chandler, Donovan)
-Place names (India, Nevada, Paris)
-Unisex names (Cameron, Jordon, Terry)
-Good girl names (Hope, Chastity)
-Biblical boy names (Aaron, Noah)
-So-far-out-they're-in-names (Cloud, August, True, Farmer)
-So-far-in-they're-out-names (Brittany, Chelsea, Justin, Ryan)
-Plus: African-American names, Regional names, Star-baby names, Sixty Traditional Names that Transcend Time, and much, much more!

About this title

Review:

For expectant parents, it's part of the tradition to pore endlessly over baby-name books searching for the perfect moniker. Names carry stereotypes, vary in perceived attractiveness (a blond bombshell named Gertrude?), and help influence how we see ourselves. As Sigmund Freud once said, "A human being's name is a principal component in her person, perhaps a piece of his soul." In Beyond Jennifer and Jason, Madison and Montana, name experts Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran present a baby-name book that goes far beyond the usual name lists and definitions. Satran and Rosenkrantz provide a thorough history of American naming traditions, discuss the psychological and sociological impact of names, and, yes, include list after list after list of possibilities organized into categories: popular names, old-fashioned names, comfy names, yuppie names, African-American names, androgynous names, Shakespearean names, unpopular names, creative names, mythological names, effective and ineffective middle names, classical names... and so on. Annotated with humorous notes, descriptions, quotes, and name-derivation definitions, the book is a fun and fascinating read even for those not debating between Gravity and Jane or Mason and Hendrick. --Ericka Lutz

From the Author:

"In the decade since we've begun writing about names, the world of baby-naming has mushroomed from a sleepy little enterprise, with parents naming their children Jennifer and Jason and wondering whether there might be anything more exciting out there, to an adventurous and intelligent and style-conscious activity in which parents investigate everything from their family trees to names from their ancestors' native lands to atlases and even dictionaries for names that are ever-more inventive, individual, and enlightened."

--Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0312974620
• ISBN 13: 9780312974626
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 400