Celtic Baby Names: Traditional Names from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall & the Isle of Man
Product Description
Authoritative, useful, and fun to browse, Celtic Baby Names offers 1200 traditional first names from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, and the Isle of Mane. These names are drawn from the six Celtic languages, along with pronunciations, etymologies, and information about famous people of history and legend who have borne them. This is the only book of its kind, and the only American publication offering a wide selection of names in Scottish Gaelic, Welsh… More >>
I really liked this book. As someone who’s been been pregnant five times I’ve read most baby name books and this one has some great options. (The pronunciations are so helpful). But I had one enormous problem with this book. It’s not arranged according to gender. All names are just lumped together in each section. (This bothered me so much I wrote to the author.) I finally went through with a pink highliter and underlined all the girls names (since that’s what I was pregant with at the time). It may not be a big deal to you, since many of these names are unheard of anyway; but I hated it.
Rating: 4 / 5
I’m a name lover. Always have been; always will be. Heck, I even spend most of my free time posting on a message board full of other name lovers. But more specifically, I love Celtic names. I look at every Celtic name book I see. And this is by far one of the worst, in my opinion. So many of their pronunciations are wrong, which means that when I find a name I haven’t seen before, I don’t know whether or not I can trust the pronunciation that they have listed. If you want a really good Celtic name book, check out Loreto Todd’s “Celtic Names for Children”. If I had to pick my all time favorite name book, that’d be it.
Rating: 1 / 5
Excellent resource! Has the orginal spellings and pronunciations. We used it for both our kids.
Rating: 5 / 5
Now between yourself and myself I was looking for real Irish names and it was refreshing to read this book . So many books are full of nonsense about Irish names . This one isn’t ! Many books get off the point and include any name ever registered in Ireland as an Irish one . My children are Barra , Aoife and Eadaoin and my wife is Deirdre . Keep this under your hat and don’t breathe it to another soul but my name is Colm which means that we are the ABCDE family . Now the wife is with child at present which means that she’ll be dropping another one soon . Now now , this is a true story . We need an F name . This book is helping . Our baby is due around July 20th 2000 . What name shall we choose ? We know she is a girl . This is a great book but we cannot reveal the name until later so if you really want to know , email us ! Buy this book .
Rating: 5 / 5
My husband and I have really enjoyed leafing through this excellent resource. We are searching for baby names that reflect our heritage, but are not ridiculous to spell or pronounce (like my Scottish name is). I haven’t ordered any other baby name books…who wants to wade through a sea of 1500 names, when we know we will probably select a British name for our child?
Rating: 4 / 5