Hilary Spence: 3 books

The fun of naming your baby. Before you commit your child to a name for life, browse through this book. Feat your imagination on a vat range of choices from the trendy to the traditional, and from the popular to the sophisticated. You never saw so many ways to christen your baby with style and suitability. Meaningful names, musical names, mystical names - they are all in this book.

There are 6000 names to choose from in this book. In deciding what your baby is to be called, you need to consider as many names as you can. You need to develop a personal list which contains the names that you somehow just feel right to you

Todays names need to be contemporary and are often selected with national origins in mind: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Our brief here was to push at the boundaries of fashionable inclusion, but to make sure that names were not included simply for fashionable reasons. Fashionable names die quickly,...