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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!
Best Exotic Baby Names: New, Historical, Ancient, Mystical
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This book delivers on its promises. I especially appreciated the addition of literal and connotative name meanings and the all important pronunciation guides.
I found several wonderful “new to me” names for girls. However, I didn’t find as many boy name contenders and the book does feel a bit short. I would give this title 5 stars if it contained a higher volume of names.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is a fabulous book of names from all over the world that are absolutely, refreshingly different. If you feel stumped by the abundance of “unoriginal” names, but don’t want to name your child something stupidly original like Teapot or San Francisco, this book is perfect for you. All the names have a history and the variety is astounding.
My only criticism is that the book is organized a little weirdly. You have to keep referencing the table of contents to check what section of names you’re reading from. Overall, I have few complaints. We found the book in a little baby store in Phoenix, AZ and the shopkeeper was the author’s cousin. Apparently she’s labored for years over the book, so take advantage of her hard work and check it out! It’s a total find!
Rating: 4 / 5
Well, if you’re looking for truly exotic names, this may be for you. We were dissapointed with the book- either the names were too strange/exotic or they sounded way too ethnic for Americans.
Rating: 3 / 5
While pregnant with our daughter, my wife and I had looked in all the “usual” baby books for a first name with no luck. Then we came across “Best Exotic Baby Names”. We were not looking for something that would be so exotic where people had to ask a second time what her name was. What we found was a large list of names that were uncommon in there usage, but beautiful and unique in their meaning. We regularly get compliments on our daughter’s name.
Rating: 5 / 5
Although, this name book does not have a plethora of names, it does however, have a wealth of different names from various cultures. If your looking for the trendy, traditional and typical sounding names, then this is not the book for you, however, if you are interested in giving your child a name that is different and from a particular culture, then I say go for this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
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