All Those Wonderful Names: A Potpourri of People, Places, and Things - J. N. Hook - Paperback

THE NAMES PEOPLE GIVE THEIR DEFENSELESS CHILDREN. Choosing Names for Girls. Choosing Names for Boys. Fads and Fancies in Bestowing (or Inflicting) Names. Choosing a Name for Your Baby. THE NAMES WE INHERIT. The Names That Most of Us Answer to. Changing Surnames. Professionals Who Changed Their Names. A Chapter for the Smiths, Johnsons, and Changs. Surnames and Genealogy. Some Jewish Family Names. Names of African-Americans. Names from the British Isles. The National Origins of Some of Our Surnames. Some Other Sources of Surnames. Wonderful People with Strange-Sounding Names. WE NAME ALMOST EVERY PLACE WE KNOW. The Continents and the States. How Places Get Their Names. Whimsy and Humor. Naming in the Wilds. Improper (?) Names. On the Big Apple and Smaller Apples. This Is a Lovely Little Town, Wasn2t It? Changing Times, Changing Names. STILL MORE OF THESE AND A FEW OF THOSE. Still More of These. ....and a Few of Those. Bibliography. Index.Hook, J. N. is the author of 'All Those Wonderful Names: A Potpourri of People, Places, and Things - J. N. Hook - Paperback' with ISBN 9780471530114 and ISBN 0471530115.