The Alternative Guide to Baby Names

by Cara Frost-Sharratt

Guarantee your kid will stand out from the crowd with this vast selection of hip, and occasionally hilarious baby names. The Alternative Guide to Baby Names goes way beyond the pedestrian suggestions of your average baby name book with boys' names like Draven, Legion, Skylar and Snake and quirky girls' names including Harper, Nori, Eyre and Effie. If you don't want a little princess or pirate but would rather have a little gangsta, rocker or raver, then this is the book for you. With celebrity, character, music-industry and place names thrown into the mix, this collection of 1,000 fun and funky names will give your kid the edge.

The popular clothing brand Nippaz with Attitude is the brainchild of former graphic artist and A&R man Ian McLaren who nine years ago started a nobler life where baby and toddler stuff covered in bunnies and bears were consigned to Dante's Eighth Circle of Hell. Launched in 2001, his alternative range of kids' ad nay clothes quickly gained a celebrity following from Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow, the Gallagher brothers, Stella McCartney and Jack White.

256 pages, Paperback

First published August 6, 2013

Reviews

[Ashley · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like uncommon names with decent meaning.

I've added these to my guilty pleasure names
Governor
Beauty
Book

I found a lot more names too weird for me and not any I'd consider actually using and few guilty pleasure I'd saddle my pets with.