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The Baby Name Wizard, 2019 Revised 4th Edition: A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby
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Product Description NEW 2019 EDITION • A 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. About the Author “Baby Name Wizard” Laura Wattenberg takes a unique research-driven, analytical approach to understanding names and style. Through her book and website, she has helped countless thousands of parents find the perfect names for their growing families. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Why Is This So Hard? It’s not your imagination. Choosing a baby name really is harder today than in your parents’ and grandparents’ times. Over the past generation, we’ve experienced a naming revolution. We’ve moved from an established pool of “normal” names to a wideopen, anything-goes name culture, with a premium on creativity and uniqueness. And that means pressure. To put it in numerical terms, back in the 1950s, about 80 names were enough to account for the majority of American boys and girls born. Names like Michael and David were super popular with every demographic group in every corner of the country. By 2017, it took 504 names to cover half of boys and girls. The typical American baby received a statistically uncommon name, often one specific to his or her community. In other words, there’s no longer such a thing as a “normal” name. That makes the process of choosing vastly more difficult. Having a wide-open choices sounds like freedom, but in practice it can be a trap. Imagine ordering a meal in a restaurant where the menu is 20 pages long. The more options you have, the less certain you feel, and the more your expectations rise. Surely, you should be able to find something that’s not just good, but perfect. Even after choosing, you may be left with doubt and tempted to second-guess your decision. Sound familiar, baby namers? In the realm of baby names, that wide-open choice is particularly significant. Choosing from a restaurant menu is just about pleasing yourself. A name is also a signal to others. Back in the heyday of Michael and David, or John and Mary, or even Jason and Jessica, you wouldn’t draw a lot of conclusions about most individuals from their names. They were just wearing the standard American baby name uniform. Now that we’ve done away with uniforms, name choices send stronger signals. Looking at a class list of Eleanor, Oakleigh, Santiago, Jazzmyn, Declan, and Messiah, we can’t help but form mental images. In this environment, even naming kids John and Mary makes a statement. What’s more, in the modern world where so many interactions are virtual, names are bearing a bigger burden of first impressions. From email to dating and ride-sharing apps, our names are becoming our entire calling cards. A bevy of studies have shown that people respond differently to digital mess
