Name Nerd Duana Names: Poker; or, Confessions of A Name Hoarder Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting twins this month and I'm so tired this pregnancy that I cannot find the brain power to choose names I like. Or rather, to choose names both my husband and I agree on, or to convince him of the best By Duana • Nov 01, 2019 03:31 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Is Selena Gomez The Michael Jordan Of Her Era? On this week’s Show Your Work, it may not surprise you to know that the showrunners of Game Of Thrones made a mess… again. And worse, they’re… kind of not that sorry, or at least, they weren’t before this week started. Now, however… Last Friday, at the By Duana • Oct 30, 2019 03:28 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: My Name is GOTCHA! Hi there, Long time reader of the blog, but first time emailer here. My husband and I received the shock of our lives when we found out at the beginning of my second trimester that instead of the one baby we thought we were having (and, frankly, were told we By Duana • Oct 28, 2019 04:03 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Retrofitting Name Joy Dear Duana, I am in a real pickle. We named our newborn son Francis... and I hate it. So much so that whenever I think about it I get a pit in my stomach. I know this makes me sound like a terrible person and that I could/should have By Duana • Oct 23, 2019 04:11 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Game Of Jones, Mother Of Zeldas Hi Duana, Despite being an avid reader, I didn’t think I would need your advice when it came to naming my daughter (due middle of October). My partner and I are both big F. Scott Fitzgerald fans and early on fell in love with the name Zelda. It’s By Duana • Oct 21, 2019 04:07 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: To Know Him Is To Love Him… Who Is He? Hi Duana, We need your help. I am being induced October 21st at 7:15 AM and my husband and I cannot agree on a name that we love. This is my third boy. Owen and Nolan are his siblings’ names. We would love for his name to go well By Duana • Oct 18, 2019 03:38 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Their Dead Chicken Stole My Baby Name Hi Duana, I love your naming articles and I hope you can share your wisdom. My email subject says it all really. After three years of multiple losses and general sh-ttiness, I am the proud owner of a first time 29 week bump and a baby who loves to boogie By Duana • Oct 16, 2019 04:42 pm
Top Reads Mindy Kaling Teaches Bullsh-t Detection Yes, I intentionally styled that title to look like a new offering from MasterClass. I would take this class. We all should. Yesterday, while everyone was focused on a certain other celebrity profile, Elle dropped their cover story with Mindy Kaling. It focuses, like many of her interviews tend to By Duana • Oct 10, 2019 04:22 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Do Not Go Gentle! Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our second child in December, and are struggling mightily with his name. Our daughter, Quinn, will be three next month and although we struggled with names right up until her birth (and for a few days after), I love her name now. By Duana • Oct 09, 2019 04:45 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: -Ith/Then/Else Hi Duana, We are expecting baby girl #2 in October. Our first is Edith Maud (Edie, colloquially), and my husband is trying desperately hammer home Judith (Judy). Her middle name will be Yvonne, so on its own, I quite like Judith Yvonne - but I'm struggling with EdiTH By Duana • Oct 07, 2019 03:52 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: No, Seriously – Now or Never Hi Duana, I am a week past my due date with baby #2, sex unknown. My husband has taken a sudden interest in names and their meanings (better late than never I guess, but really dude, now??) and thrown a new favorite into the ring. For a boy we are By Duana • Oct 02, 2019 03:40 pm
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
Bad 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
