Product Description: The bizarre meanings behind everyday names!Did you know that Jacobs tend to cheat in school, Marys have nasty attitudes, and Catherines like to cause pain? If our names are meant to represent our character, then these kids have quite a number of unsavory traits, according to their moniker's definition...read more

Product Description: Molvania is just north of Bulgaria and downwind from Chernobyl. The funniest book about baby names you will ever read: every name available from European republic Molvania, birthplace of the polka and whooping cough. This book is full of traditional baby names from Molvania and their meanings...read more

Product Description: There’s a baby born every minute and each one has to be named. In this book, you’ll find an insanity of nomenclature that beggars belief. Russell Ash has trawled birth, marriage, and death certificates, phone books, and censuses going back centuries to compile a compendium of breathtakingly unlikely-but-true names...read more

Product Description: What do Ludwig von Baldass, Theodore Rolly Ball, John Cawte Beaglehole, Guido van Deth, Fulvia de Cunto Fadigas, Dingle Foot, Rev. Daniel Parish Kidder, Thomas Strangeways Pigg-Strangeways, Franciscus Petrus Hubertus Prick van Wely, Walter Lytle Pyle, Hendrik Peter Godfried Quack, Lazar Shitnitzky, Elephant Smith, Preserved Smith, Increase Niles Tarbox, and over 2000 others have in common? They are all real names of real people...read more

Product Description: Throughout history, people have named their children truly terrible things, and this book has the proof. Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback combed through U.S. federal census records to find the absolute worst names parents have given their children...read more

A compilation of unusual true names, inspired by John Train's two 'Most Remarkable Names' publications, is a whimsically annotated volume containing such examples as 'Ida Slaptor,' 'Roger Gotobed,' and 'Honeysuckle Weeds.' 40,000 first printing.

We've all heard the bad ones - Moon Unit (Zappa), Apple (Martin), Zowie (Bowie) - now the book that tells you what NOT to name your baby.

Collects jokes about names, such as 'What do you call a girl who steals things?--Robin.'

Product Description: More baby name don'ts from the author of Don't Name Your Baby. Hilarious but thought provoking.

Presents a variety of jokes about people's names.

Presents a variety of jokes about people's names.

A spoof on baby name books lists names for redneck boys and girls, including double names, initials, place names, and real names

Offers tongue in cheek explanations of men's and women's names from Aaron and Adele to Zbigniew and Zena