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JULY 15, 2010

15 Baby Naming Tips Article

A couple weeks ago, Melissa Chapman asked me to weigh in on an article she was writing for SheKnows.com about unique ways to find cool and interesting baby names. I put together a list of 15 ideas and Melissa’s article was posted today.

Here are two of my tips from the article:

Tip #2: Make a game of it

Make it a goal to meet three new people every day and get their names—the checker in the grocery store, the person sitting next to you on the bus, the barista blending your drink—you’re bound to hear something interesting. If mom and dad both do this, it will be something fun you can do together and you’ll double the number of names you add to your list.

Tip #10: Go back in time to popular names from 100 years ago

The Social Security website will tell you today’s most popular names, but it will also tell you what names were popular in the past. Some of the names parents liked for boys back in 1910 were Archie, Everett, Oscar, Otis and Henry.

Read the rest of my tips:

http://www.sheknows.com/articles/816274/15-ways-to-find-a-cool-baby-name-1

Happy naming,

♥ Amanda

JUNE 6, 2010

Autographed Books: San Francisco Birth & Baby Fair

San Francisco Bay Area Readers – Come meet me at the San Francisco Birth & Baby Fair!

Anyone who wants an autographed copy of BABY NAMES MADE EASY should stop by my table at the San Francisco Birth & Baby Fair– Sunday, June 6^th. Click here for more info about the fair—looks there will be lots of great stuff to do and see there. It’s going on between 10:00 – 5:00 at Fort Mason.

People who visit my booth can also enter to win a hand-crocheted baby blanket that I made myself! It’s very cute. J

Happy naming,

♥ Amanda

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Family/252094/

JUNE 11, 2009

BOOK REVIEW

Here is the first review for Baby Names Made Easy. It is by Rhonda Owen and appeared in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette on February 11, 2009.

There are many books about baby names on the market, with most providing alphabetized lists of good names, stupid names, solid names, trendy names, happy names and so on. Here comes one more, but not more of the same because this one provides lists based on meaning.

Amanda Elizabeth Barden, a lawyer and baby-name enthusiast in San Francisco, has listed more than 40,000 potential baby names in a “reverse dictionary” manner by definition. Within each category, boys’ and girls’ names are separated.

Parents with an interest in astronomy could consider, among many others, names such as Hestia (girl), a Persian word for star, or Jericho (boy), which is Hebrew for moon. If you want names denoting peace and freedom, you’ll find selections such as Galen (boy), Greek for peace, and Lana (girl), Irish for pretty (or Latin for woolly, the book says).

Other categories include: animals and insects; colors, bright and shining; greatness, purity and innocence; magic; nature; military and patriotism; dreams and hopes; royalty, rulers and regal things; and love and affection.

There’s even a list of names that mean sadness and trouble. On it, find Chandi and Chanda (girl), which are Hindi words meaning angry, and Iniko (boy), a Nigerian word meaning “troubled time.”