Choosing your baby's name is one of the most important decisions a parent has to make. Here, Stuart Wilson, author of the Pan Book of Babies Names, covers traditional names more thoroughly, and new names more adventurously, than anything else currently on the market.

Unique features include: An 18 page section on Gender-Neutral names

A description of performance since 1900 for each major name

Hundreds of attractive new names

More complete coverage of foreign language variants than any other book,

Full section on the newly popular Celtic, Native American names, etc. Each name is given a full explanation, and possible variations on the spelling of the name are suggested. There's also advice on avoiding mistakes.