Name Nerd Duana Names: Does It Have My Heart? Hi Duana, My husband and I are expect our first baby and we want to pay tribute to family. If it’s a boy, we are both agreed on William Gordon. Family names from both his side and mine. Now the real challenge is the girl’s name. I want By Duana • Jul 15, 2019 04:38 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: He’s Here! His Name Isn’t Hi Duana, I'm a big fan of your column and it was super helpful in choosing the name of our daughter. Our son was born a few weeks ago and we're being super indecisive about his name! We've gone 2 weeks with no name By Duana • Jul 12, 2019 04:11 pm
TV Updates Mindy Kaling Beats Everyone, Again I mean, at this point it shouldn’t really be news. Mindy Kaling has made an entire career out of subverting expectations, doing what couldn’t be done, and arching an eyebrow at you when she’s asked “how she did it”, before coldly asking “why would you think I By Duana • Jul 10, 2019 03:41 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: The H Factor Hi Duana, Love your name column. Hoping you can offer some advice and feedback. We’re expecting a baby and we’re not sure of the gender. We’ve got two girls already, Jiya ( pronounced Gee-ah), Ela (pronounced Eh-lah)... and we’re not sure what name to use for the By Duana • Jul 08, 2019 04:34 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: The Name Brought Us To Our Knees Hi Duana, The husband and I have very different taste in names. We are expecting a baby at the end of Summer – gender unknown – and we are having trouble coming to any sort of agreement on a girls name. Our plan is to have 2 names each per gender and By Duana • Jul 05, 2019 01:34 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: The Chipmunk Factor Dear Duana, I'm a huge fan and have read your book and followed your column for years. Having said that, I never thought I'd be in such an indecisive position to actually require your assistance. But here I am, merely weeks away from welcoming our newest By Duana • Jul 03, 2019 03:35 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Fame, In A Name Hi Duana, I've been such a fan of yours for a long time, and have been reading your column since long before I ever thought about getting pregnant! I really hope that you're able to help us out with our naming dilemma. My husband and I By Duana • Jun 28, 2019 03:01 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Keanu & Rihanna Don’t (Seem to) Care. That’s the Key We are back for our final episode of this season, and our slight break made the episode even better. A few weeks ago Lainey decided to gang up on me, implying that I’d say there’s nothing to talk about where Keanu Reeves is concerned, because he’s such By Duana • Jun 26, 2019 02:10 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Who Else Am I Mad About? Hi Duana, I wonder if you'd consider helping me name my new beagle? Lainey's kick-assedness aside (which I 100% admire and wish I was more like), I think I've always been partial to her because of the beagles. I think beagle owners really get By Duana • Jun 25, 2019 02:52 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Reality Names Hi Duana, We are expecting our second daughter at the beginning of July. We need some name help. With our first, we very quickly fell in love with the name Nora. We still love it and when I say her name it almost comes out of my mouth in a By Duana • Jun 21, 2019 03:17 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Good News – You’re Behind! Hi Duana, I am due with a second child in June. It is a girl, and we already have our Rose who will be two when the second is born. Rose was easy for us to name, and we chose Mae Lynn as her middle name(s), one of which By Duana • Jun 19, 2019 03:51 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Perfection Plus One Duana: Our unicorn babe Penelope is getting a sibling in late June and we need name help. If it's a boy, we will name him either Nicholas or Sebastian, middle name Howard (family name). The girl names are proving to be a bit more problematic. I was trying By Duana • Jun 17, 2019 04:02 pm
Theatre Nerd The TONYs Are Better TV Than The Oscars. I Said It. Confession: I missed the beginning of the show live, including host James Corden’s over 10-minute opening number, and saw it after I’d watched the rest of the show. I didn’t think that would shift the fabric of my whole viewing experience, but I saw more than a By Duana • Jun 10, 2019 11:26 am
Name Nerd Duana Names: When He’s Stuck In A Junior-High Haze… Hi Duana, We are expecting our second child at the end of June and just can’t find a name that clicks for us. Our first is Benjamin. This time around we are having a girl. I gravitate towards grandma and/or Irish names, my husband adores anything from the By Duana • Jun 05, 2019 04:25 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Lost That Loving Feeling Hi Duana, My daughter's name is Adelaide Vance which I love. We had Adelaide picked out as a girl's name for years (Addie for short) and Vance is a middle name in my family given to first born girls. Now I'm pregnant with a By Duana • Jun 03, 2019 04:28 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Is It Evil? And…Is that Bad? Hi Duana! We’re expecting our third kid in June. We already have a boy and girl and I swear we have already vetoed every dang name there is! We don’t want something super popular because my husband has a very common 80’s boy name and hated using By Duana • May 31, 2019 04:10 pm
