Jaico Book of Baby Names

A NAME IS A LABEL for a specific person, place or thing. They serve several purposes. Most important they help distinguish us from one another. Imagine how difficult it would be to refer to people if we did not use names.

The study of names is called onomastics and all names almost have an etymological meaning, implying they were originally words.

The Indian name usually consists of a surname or a family name followed by the given name.

Jaico Book of Baby Names is unique in many respects. Invaluable to every home where the eternal problem of naming a new arrival arises, this book contains over five thousand names arranged alphabetically and phonetically. Thus ‘Aanand’ is spelled with a double ‘a’ instead of Anand to make the spelling congruent with the sound. Similarly biographical details are provided of historical personages be it Krishna or Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.