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Beyond Jennifer and Jason: An enlightened guide to naming your baby
by Linda Rosenkrantz, Pamela Redmond Satran
Product Group: Book
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (1990)
ISBN: 0312053843
EAN: 9780312053840
Paperback: 305 pages
Edition: Rev. and updated ed
SKU: 121712
Condition: Very Good
Comments: 0312053843 Several names underlined near front. Cover shows light wear. Interior & spine evidence gentle use. Overall, a very serviceable copy. Your book will be carefully protected for transit in sturdy, weather-resistant packaging. We are prompt, efficient, communicative.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The book that revolutionized baby-naming is updated, expanded, and better than ever. Beyond Jennifer & Jason helps parents tell the good names from the bad, the classic from the out-of-date, and the intriguingly unusual from the downright weird.
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Customer Reviews
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Baby name books are stupid
Rating  (1)
Date: 2006-06-18
1 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
When my wife got pregnant, we had no shortage of ideas for baby names. I don't need some psycho-babble to tell me whether the name we pick out will be good or not.
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A Fun Read
Rating  (4)
Date: 2004-06-16
Beyond Jennifer and Jason and Enlightened Guide to Naming Your Baby is a good name book and has interesting catagories and ideas but some of the names they say are outdated and too old fashioned actually seem to be making comebacks. Other then that it's a fun book to read.Only other complaint I really have is that they give some very interesting names but don't give the pronunciations but I did like this book and I recommend it, but just be aware that it's not your typical name book where the boy and girl names are seperate and listed alpabetically and is really rather random.
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Go beyond naming your kids!
Rating (4)
Date: 2003-11-02
5 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
I'll be honest with you. I have two children already, and I used this book to help select names for both of them. I even wrote margin notes, and devised complicated mathematical formulas to help determine the best fit for the baby. First, the initials could not spell any horrendous words like: BAD, or SAP. Secondly, the name had to be simple and easy to spell. It's no good challenging a kindergarten student to write her name out as Rebeckka, when the teacher would be over her shoulder in an instant telling her to write it correctly. How about just Becky. Not Bekki, or Becci, or Bahki. Keep it simple. This book will show you how. If you?re wondering why I still keep this book dog-eared on my desk I will tell you now. If you?re not interested, just skip to the end, and vote. This little book is a treasure trove of names for the scores of characters that appear in my short fiction and poems who all need unique names. The Internet has plenty of baby name sites, but this book is a lot easier than scrolling through page after page on a cranky web site that flashes annoying ads the whole time. Get this book if you're thinking of having kids, or perhaps need some help picking a nice name for that delightful mother-in-law character in your first novel. The book also comes in handy for naming pets. We have a cat named Ben, and a dog named Jack. If we ever get a fish tank, I?ll flip to the index, and start naming away.
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Overrated Book and Lacked Substance!
Rating (1)
Date: 2003-10-23
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book lacks substance--no origin, unorganized and poorly researched. If you want to see the origin of the names, an excellent researched book of baby names, I strongly recommend the "Dictionary of First Names" by Adrian Room.
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lots of food for thought
Rating (4)
Date: 2000-06-10
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
I think of this as kind of a "companion" book for people researching names - I don't know that it would really fill the bill to be the one and only source a couple uses to make their final decision, but it really motivates you to put some effort into coming up with the most permanent gift you will ever give your child. Whether or not one agrees with the highly subjective evaluations the authors give names on many levels, the book provides food for thought on aspects I certainly wouldn't have thought about.Plus: it reads amazingly easily - as opposed to 99% of other books I ploughed through, which became a chore. One weakness: names from other cultural backgrounds. While these are included - and not just as politically correct oddities, but as valid and even "hip" choices - I question where they were drawn from or how chosen for inclusion. As a native German speaker, I was very interested to see the German list. Given that it was, as can be expected, small (for more extensive lists I would logically look elsewhere than this type of book)I was surprised at how many names were inlcluded that I had never heard of before - much less known anyone of that name. If the German list was so skewed, I would assume that other language groups were as well.
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