personal names

Presents photographs of 26 children each with a name beginning with a different letter of the alphabet. The children tell about themselves and what their names mean.

Jo's grandfather helps her feel better about herself when he tells her the story about why she is named for the heavyweight boxing champion, Joe Louis.

After Grandma explains that she named Josephina after her talented, daring older sister, Josephina starts to appreciate her unusual name.

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.

Dictionary on the history of American first names.

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.

Cody and his classmates in the third grade are having fun reporting on the origin of their names, until Cody finds out that his parents named him after a dog.

Orville Rudmeyer Pygenski, Jr.'s, decision to form an "I Hate My Name Club" has some surprising results.