Name Nerd Duana Names: Acing The Next Name Hi Duana, Long time reader of Lainey’s website ( as well as Show Your Work) So excited to finally have a reason to write in! One of my coworkers is having her second baby (a boy due in October) and she is stuck on a name. They have a girl By Duana • Sep 30, 2019 03:20 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Wishing And Hoping and Thinking and Singing Hi Duana! Huge fan of your column and a total name nerd myself; for no good reason other than names are just fun. Anyway, as I vacuumed today I caught myself singing “Gloria” pretty loudly and wondered - what happened to this name? It’s not a “dead name” is By Duana • Sep 27, 2019 04:10 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: His Majesty’s Moniker Hi Duana, LOVE your advice and hoping you can help us here... My husband and I are expecting our first child, a boy, due this fall, and landed on a name we both adored from about Week 6 of pregnancy-- ARCHIE. Not Archer or Archibald, but Archie. Fast forward to By Duana • Sep 25, 2019 04:32 pm
Natasha Lyonne: Emmys Best Dressed (Duana) It was a weird Emmys, no question – but, since there were more unexpected winners than eye-rolling ‘of course’ returns, it almost seemed like there was a little bit of room for things to shift – not for a new class, exactly, since the vast majority of ‘new’ faces we saw last By Duana • Sep 23, 2019 02:08 pm
Assy Style Emilia Clarke: Emmys Worst Outfit (Duana) To me, the question is always “what was it supposed to look like?” What was the style inspiration? Usually we don’t know for a few days until an exhausted stylist gives an interview (if the look went well) or not – but Emilia Clarke had a definite look in mind, By Duana • Sep 23, 2019 12:31 pm
Emmy Awards 2019 Phoebe Waller-Bridge: Emmys in the Fleabag Leave me alone about the title, I’m on no sleep. But also, the only other title that would be appropriate here is one you saw all over social media or your group chats last night: “PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE!!EEEEEEE!!!!” Her sweep last night took us all so by surprise that By Duana • Sep 23, 2019 11:51 am
Emmy Awards 2019 Schitt’s Creek on the Emmys Carpet You didn’t imagine it. Whenever ‘Schitt’s Creek’ was said aloud inside the Emmys theatre, the polite roll of applause would swell, in kind of a warm, but slightly raucous way that felt familiar, somehow… Sometimes, when Mike and I are watching TV, I’ll get too excited and By Duana • Sep 23, 2019 10:50 am
Emmy Awards 2019 Bill Hader vs. Barry I’m willing to bet that, of all the suddenly-must-see shows that came onto your radar around Emmy nomination time if they weren’t there already, Barry is the one that you’ve seen. It seems deceptively easy to get into – Bill Hader, Henry Winkler, it’s only a half-hour, By Duana • Sep 23, 2019 08:02 am
Emmy Awards 2019 Ava Duvernay Carpet Chills With Exonerated Five at the Emmys Here is what I do not understand about Ava Duvernay. She shows up to every awards show, because she always has something excellent and nomination-worthy going on, not just because she wants to party. That in itself is something to be amazed by. Then, of course, there’s the fact By Duana • Sep 23, 2019 06:53 am
Emmy Awards 2019 Laverne Cox: Emmy Icon Let’s review. What have I said is my number-one requirement for people attending awards shows? You have to act like you’re having fun! I know it’s a pain to get ready. I know it’s tense to find out whether you’re going to win in your By Duana • Sep 23, 2019 05:54 am
Emmy Awards 2019 Mandy Moore and The Hot Pink Ladies at the Emmys It’s impossible to deny that Mandy Moore is having a comeback within her comeback, right? The success and attention of This Is Us seems to have launched a whole new aspect of her personality. Am I wrong? I look at shots like this: And I think, this isn’t By Duana • Sep 23, 2019 05:22 am
Emmy Awards 2019 Julia Louis-Dreyfus Is Her Own Torch The Emmys are getting more and more fractured, in a way I can only see as (mostly) good. It’s almost never the case that the winner of any given award is everyone’s favourite, or that so-and-so was ‘robbed’, because everything is definitively excellent. But it doesn’t stop By Duana • Sep 23, 2019 04:44 am
Emmy Awards 2019 ‘Good’ and Hot at the Emmys Apparently it was super-sweaty in LA yesterday, so everyone who looked amazing on the red carpet deserves double the acclaim for doing so in the sweltering heat. This goes double for the men, because the one way I will say women have a not-insignificant advantage is wearing a gown that’ By Duana • Sep 23, 2019 03:31 am
Name Nerd Duana Names: When Names Hurt Hi Duana, I apologize in advance if something like this has already been asked... I have a two-year-old boy. One of my best friends who lives in another country far, far away has a three year old daughter. He just welcomed a second child and named him the same name By Duana • Sep 20, 2019 04:28 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Around The World? Hi Duana, We are having a girl. Although, I don’t have any concrete proof (we opted out of finding the gender). I just know that it’s a girl. As a result of my strong intuition, I haven’t even considered any boys…yet. A little bit about us. By Duana • Sep 18, 2019 03:55 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Names (First And Last) (With Qualifiers) We are having a baby boy, due September 25 and there are two naming issues I’ve been thinking about, first names and portmanteau’d last names. First names: we are struggling to find name options that we love/fit in with our names. My name is Kate (Katherine, but By Duana • Sep 16, 2019 04:24 pm
