What's in a Name? (GPC185)

What's in a Name? will tell you the facts behind the names of persons, places and things; about how names are chosen for business and for success; how they are used for everything from tracing settlement patterns to telling fortunes; how forenames have their fashions; where surnames had their origins; all about names in the U.S. and around the globe.

Now in a newly revised and expanded edition comes everything you wanted to know regarding name originination and meaning.