Reviewed by Anne Boling for Readers' Favorite

Names are important. They give you an identity. A name can make life difficult.

Picking a name isn’t easy. My husband and I searched for just the right names for our three children. The first pregnancy we easily picked a girl’s name, but could not settle on a boy’s name. We had a girl and she was named after each of us. The second pregnancy found us expecting twins. That meant picking 2 girl names and 2 boys and a girl and boy name. The boy name came easily. We never could settle on girl names. They were both boys. Their middle names are after their grandfathers. I picked a first name from the Bible and my husband picked a first name because of a TV show.

What you name your baby is very important. It labels that child and he/she is stuck with it the rest of his or her life. We’ve all heard the horrors of being named Rose Bush, Shiteetia (yes that is really a woman’s first name). Look at the initials carefully when choosing and name such as: Pam Ianna Gibbon (P.I.G.).

Celebrities have started a trend of unusual names. Many are "old" names, some are from classic literature and some…well I’m not sure where they came up with them. For example, Apple, Rumor and Sailor are unusual names.

A Is for Atticus has suggestion for your baby’s name. They have searched some of the classics for names that we rarely hear. The names are defined and the origin is given. This is not your everyday book of names. This would make a great baby gift.