"What WERE your parents THINKING?" Is this the first question your children will hear, all their lives, when they introduce themselves? Your name can be your fortune. Or not. And yet your personal name, the one you will carry before you all your life, the key to your personality, will be chosen by people who don't even know you. Your parents. Only Absolutely Ultimate Book of Names - or what not to call the baby can put this right.

First published as Favourite Names for Boys and Girls in 1983. It achieved such resounding and immediate success that a titled More Favourite Names for Boys and Girls, was published the following year. The world is now one of political correctness and `crazy names'. The time is right for Absolutely Ultimate Book of Names - or what not to call the baby.

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