names, personal

Presents a compilation of names that are found primarily in North America, featuring alphabetical lists, with definitions, for boys and girls; and includes lists of the top forty given names for each decade from 1930 to 1990, and 1997, as well as top fifty name lists for a variety of ethnic groups.

Various members of Eleanor's family give her different nicknames, but she finally tells them that she has decided on one of her own.

Dictionary on the history of American first names.

A porcupine named Fluffy is happier with his name after he meets a similarly misnamed rhinoceros.

Offers tidbits from history, folklore, tradition, and other sources that help explain how people got their names and what they mean.

Previously published as: Everyman's dictionary of first names. 1983 Contains etymology for, variants of, and history and lore associated with over 10,000 first names.

When a classmate makes fun of her name, eight-year-old Stella picks a new one for herself, but discovers that the name she abandoned suits her just fine.

A family considers many possibilities before coming up with a name that is just right for the cat that has come to live with them.

A girl adopted from China describes how her three names--one from her birth mother, one from the orphanage, and one her American parents gave her--are each an important part of who she is.

Ten-year-old Abbie, bullied at school for being small, wants to get a big black dog, but two months of living with a little Yorkshire terrier changes his mind about a number of things.