Name Nerd Duana Names: Now All Bets Are Off We are due with our fifth baby! Soon! (gender unknown) And it is definitely tougher to pick this time around. We have twins: Jack and James, and singleton daughters, MacKenna and Grace. The middle names for the kids are (all but one) family names (Richard, Patrick, Rosemary, Caroline) and we By Duana • Sep 13, 2019 05:24 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: What Comes After Perfect? Hi Duana, I never thought I would need to write to you asking for your help, but here I am: 8 months pregnant with my second boy and totally at a loss. Our first, Magnus, is truly the perfect name - for us as a family and for him as By Duana • Sep 11, 2019 05:25 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: He’s The Next In Line*, But… Hi Duana, I am a huge fan of your column and of The Name Therapist (link to book). As a Jennifer who grew up in the 80s, I especially enjoyed your interviews with the "Jennifers." I am expecting my second boy (our first is Alec James) on September By Duana • Sep 09, 2019 05:02 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: What Would They Choose? Hi Duana! I always thought I would be writing you about naming my baby but that sort of worked itself out. She was born in April and we named her Georgiana (pronounced Georgie- ahna) Kay. My FIL is George and Kay was my mom's middle name. My husband’ By Duana • Sep 06, 2019 05:15 pm
Equality Issues Adele Lim Won’t Be ‘Soy Sauce’ in Crazy Rich Asians Sequels Writer Adele Lim has left the Crazy Rich Asians sequels, after being offered a fraction of co-writer Peter Chiarelli’s salary. What’s crazy is that if you dissect this story – a THR exclusive by writer Rebecca Sun - every single part of it makes theoretical sense within Hollywood business By Duana • Sep 05, 2019 04:36 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Can He Break The Rules? Hi, Duana. My husband and I are expecting Baby Boy #2, and we are struggling with the name. I set a few preferences for our first that hold over to our second -- at least two syllables, to balance our short last name, and hard consonants in the middle or By Duana • Sep 04, 2019 03:43 pm
Name Nerd Name Nerd: Gut Check, (Your) Son Dear Duana, We are days away from meeting our second child and despite a very focused effort on choosing a name over the last 8.5 months, nothing is sticking for us. And we [read “I”] am desperate not to settle on a name. A little bit about us: our By Duana • Aug 30, 2019 04:04 pm
TV Updates Lauren Graham’s Post-Millennial Musical Twitter gets a bad rap, and approximately 87% of the time it’s deserved. But I cannot quit an application that occasionally gives me massive, unexpected joy bombs. Here is last night’s: when characters in musicals transition from speaking to singing pic.twitter.com/YwZwsIZOBN— chopped liva (@realchoppedliva) August By Duana • Aug 28, 2019 03:12 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: In Honour Of Hogwarts Hi Duana, We are expecting our third child in a few weeks. Our older children are named Lucie and James, who we always call Jamie. We had lots of name ideas for our daughter but when we were naming our first son James/Jamie was the ONLY name that I By Duana • Aug 26, 2019 04:21 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: New Chapter, New Baby, New Name! Hi Duana, I have unexpectedly been asked to adopt my cousin's 2 week old baby, currently named Lillie. Lillian is also the name of a beloved grandmother, and as such, there are a number of Lily, Lillian and Lillies in the family. I was wondering if there were By Duana • Aug 23, 2019 04:21 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: What’s This? August Updates?! You guys know I usually wait and do a giant roundup of name updates. And I will freely confess that I have earlier updates than these still waiting for their day in the sun. But, but, but ... Remember I said that August people were in a class of their own? By Duana • Aug 21, 2019 04:08 pm
TV Updates The Morning Show Trailer Woke Me Up I mean, there’s long-awaited, and then there’s so long-awaited that you almost think you dreamed it up as a concept. I assume the latter is how the ten people still waiting on George RR Martin to finish the Game Of Thrones book series feel. I was getting close By Duana • Aug 19, 2019 02:50 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Joke’s On Us Duana, There are two things I’m certain about: (1) the universe has a great sense of humor, because it decided I would have a third son; and (2) naming this little bugger is impossible. My husband and I didn’t even have to debate over our first two boys. By Duana • Aug 16, 2019 03:56 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: The Mathematical Equivalent Of The Perfect Name Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our first baby in late August. We have a boy's name nailed down - it will be Samson after my husband's late grandfather - but we are struggling to agree on a girl's name. We typically By Duana • Aug 15, 2019 04:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Little Women Grows Up With Us Wowwwww. Clearly Lainey and I have made a mistake on Show Your Work, because we have yet to talk about the importance of having A Muse, and clearly it is working out for Greta Gerwig. Have you seen this trailer? Little Women has been highly anticipated and highly debated, because By Duana • Aug 14, 2019 11:50 am
Name Nerd Duana Names: …And It Says Its Own Name Hi Duana, I'm losing my mind trying to find a name for my 3rd child (gender unknown). I need something that "goes" with the first two children but isn't too matchy-matchy. I love strong meanings but the name also has to be "pretty& By Duana • Aug 12, 2019 04:03 pm
