Names and Their Varieties

Kelsie Harder, one of the most devoted and talented name researchers in America, has gathered some of the many nuggets of gold that have appeared in Names over the last thirty years....will please, instruct, and entertain. -- Philip C. Kolin, University of Southern Mississippi
Ever since Adam was told to name the animals, people have been interested in the backgrounds and meanings of names. Here is a volume that excellently covers every facet and category: names of persons, cities, countries, streets, beer bars, literary characters, stars, planets, features on the moon, even places under the oceans! This selection represents the greatest crowd-pleasers from the journal Names...What is presented here will make hours of pleasant reading... -- Thomas L. Clark, President, American Dialect Society
Ever since Adam was told to name the animals, people have been interested in the backgrounds and meanings of names. Here is a volume that excellently covers every facet and category: names of persons, cities, countries, streets, beer bars, literary characters, stars, planets, features on the moon, even places under the oceans! This selection represents the greatest crowd-pleasers from the journal Names...What is presented here will make hours of pleasant reading... -- Thomas L. Clark, President, American Dialect Society
Kelsie Harder, one of the most devoted and talented name researchers in America, has gathered some of the many nuggets of gold that have appeared in Names over the last thirty years....will please, instruct, and entertain. -- Philip C. Kolin, University of Southern Mississippi