Colonial Roots

Covers facts behind the names of persons, places and things; how names are chosen for business and success; how they are used for everything from tracing settlement patterns to telling fortunes, name trends and fashions, name crazes, names in magic and the occult, middle names and nicknames, trick names and married names, place names, street names, good names and bad names, the psychology of names, naming practices around the world, tips for giving a child a good name, what names tell us about ourselves. You name it, it's here. (Revised 1996), 2000.