Best Exotic Baby Names: New, Historical, Ancient, Mystical. This item is unavailable.Best Exotic Baby Names: New, Historical, Ancient, Mystical

Experience the magic of languages and cool cultural concepts as these 4,000 names from myth, legend, nature, and spiritual culture offer boundless possibilities. Author Allison Jones has collected exotic names for your baby from around the world, those with the best meanings, pronunciations, and spellings. Her goal of presenting the planet's most inspired and profound names has been realized here...discover gems like Uni Taika [oo-nee tigh-ee-kah], a Finnish name which combines Uni: Dream and Taika: Magic to mean a dream-spell. This reference book is fascinating because each name has been translated, and when needed, broken down to its component parts. The appendices breaks down familiar names, like Cassidy from Cass: curls and Digh: mound, and lists of exotic names in the English language, plus hundreds of Early American girl and boy names, from pilgrims to pioneers. Give your baby a special name with Best Exotic Baby Names as your personal guide!

Author Allison Jones has been researching names since 1993, studying with scholars and natives in more than 50 languages for her unique reference book Best Exotic Baby Names. She has traveled across Europe, the Indian Peninsula, lived in Central America, and North America. She is fluent in Spanish (taught high school in Costa Rica in 1977), worked for the Internet Language Company in Seattle, and started Neoteric Publications in 1997. The mother of 5 exotically-named children, she currently lives in the Pacific Northwest.