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[cassandrakfreaq.livejournal.com]

can I get some of your opinions on the most reliable online name source as far as spellings and meanings go?

 I have heard behind the name but they are so incomplete and a lot of the names I like don't have a pronounciation key.

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[xnaivetex.livejournal.com]

I like behindthename.com

[apple-seed.livejournal.com]

behindthename.com is awesome, totally factual, and very concise & informative.

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

I prefer books. :)

[cassandrakfreaq.livejournal.com]

that where I have been looking but 75% of the time their names don't have pronounciations keys

[cassandrakfreaq.livejournal.com]

that where I have been looking but 75% of the time their names don't have pronounciations keys

[cassandrakfreaq.livejournal.com]

I have a couple of baby name books but the names just all seems the same to me. I am having more trouble with girl names then boys. I have one son already and we don't know what this pregnancy might bring.

I have went through and circled names I like in about 3 books now.

care to make some reccomendations?

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

behindthename is probably the best. what isn't listed in the database, you can ask about on the name facts message board.

i also use babynamer.com

[turabiannights.livejournal.com]

I second Elemmennope's suggestion about using the message boards at Behindthename. As far as books are concerned, they are often just as reliable as most internet sites (i.e. not at all). I recommend the Oxford Concise Dictionary of First Names (found online here (http://www.askoxford.com/dictionaries/name_dict/?view=uk)), and I hear The Baby Name Wizard is good, too.

[cassandrakfreaq.livejournal.com]

awesome thank you.

[neroli.livejournal.com]

Oh, great link - Hanks and Hodges are regarded as some of the most accurate name book authors. I had no idea any of their stuff was available online.

[x-lostinyou.livejournal.com]

I second the Baby Name Wizard.

[corielcries.livejournal.com]

The Baby Name Wizard book is FABULOUS. I love it. Here's that website.

http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

I also like the Oxygen site for names.

http://tools.oxygen.com/babynamer/