Lifestyle Duana Names: Sweet & Salty Names Hi Duana, I’m writing in on behalf of my best friend. She is due in a month and stuck on a middle name. Her daughter will be named Billie after her father and she’s looking for something feminine to balance it out. Originally they were going to do By Duana • Dec 12, 2018 05:16 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Go With The Golden Hi Duana, I am pregnant with my second child which I am hoping so badly is a girl, due in December. I have a 2 year old son William who we call Will or Wills for short. I have always loved the name Olivia for a girl but it is By Duana • Dec 10, 2018 03:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Updates of Elation Okay, so it’s true - I’m on vacation, and the bliss of the sun and the weather has become even more delightful since I realized I can use geotags to find the people who are posing as hard as they can in all-day photo shoots. But if I By Duana • Dec 07, 2018 04:33 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Faking Out Real Names Hi Duana, I love the magic you are able to pull off with baby names and am wondering if you might help me name the main characters in a novel I am writing. November is "national write a novel in a month" and I am hoping to finish By Duana • Nov 30, 2018 03:43 pm
Lin-Manuel Miranda Lin-Manuel Miranda, Unexplored in Vanity Fair If this site had a daily thesis, today’s is ‘the celebrity profile is not dead’. So obviously I dove greedily into Lin-Manuel Miranda’s cover profile in Vanity Fair. But I came away feeling flat and disappointed. Upset, even. Not what I expected at all. Am I the only By Duana • Nov 27, 2018 04:40 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Risk vs. Reward Hi Duana! Long time reader, fellow name nerd and big fan. I’m expecting my first child (gender unknown) and, being a naturally indecisive person, am having a hard time with names. I have been thinking about baby names since I was in elementary school but now that it’s By Duana • Nov 26, 2018 04:34 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: MUCH OF A MUCHNESS Hi Duana. Our last name is short and Czech and ends in an ‘a’ sound. I’m leaning towards very feminine Italian/Spanish for the first name. The names we are choosing between are Isabela, Amara, Alessandra and Valentina. I like the way the pretty syllables and ‘a’ endings roll By Duana • Nov 23, 2018 05:12 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: No Sacrifice! Hello! I’ll get right down to it: we have two children, Freya and Ned, and in late November, we’re expecting baby #3. We love that “pause factor” you’ve discussed in the past. If it were up to me entirely, we’d have 6 children, all with shabby By Duana • Nov 21, 2018 04:00 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: In Search of a Burnt-Toast Badass Hi Duana, I am hoping you can provide us with some direction. We are expecting baby boy number 2 and with less than two weeks to go (baby is coming on the 29th if he doesn’t arrive on his own before then) we are still no closer to finding By Duana • Nov 19, 2018 04:55 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade’s Baby Kaavia I mean, I’m not made of stone. I love this. How could I not? The reveal of Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade’s baby born via surrogate on November 7th was more than just a typical baby announcement for several reasons. First because she’s been very open about By Duana • Nov 16, 2018 01:41 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names presents FNI: Forensic Name Investigation Hello Duana, I am expecting my second daughter at the end of November. My first is named Gwendolyn and she goes by both Gwendolyn and Gwen (the shorter version is much easier at preschool). We chose this because it’s classic, feminine but substantive and has nickname options. My husband By Duana • Nov 14, 2018 04:03 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: When Does Meaning Mean Something? Hi Duana, I have loved reading your column for the past few years. I am writing so late in my pregnancy as my father recently passed away in September. I am not as prepared as I always imagined I would be for my first pregnancy but "that's By Duana • Nov 09, 2018 03:02 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: If Every Day Could Be Christmas… Hi Duana, I am pregnant with my first (and potentially only) child, a girl. I'm due Christmas Eve so will have a holiday-season baby. My husband is 100% set on the name Gloria. I also love it, and if my due date fell at any other time of By Duana • Nov 05, 2018 03:43 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Surprise Middle – so what comes first? Hi Duana, I am pregnant, due in November. I love names and had no trouble naming my son, Luca, after having the name in my head for a decade before he was born. Baby #2 is proving to be a lot more difficult. My family is Italian and my partner By Duana • Nov 02, 2018 04:54 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: We Can’t Call Him Skeletor Forever… Hi Duana, Our number 2 needs a name because if we keep calling him Skeletor (based on one of those what your baby looks like now images) it’s going to stick. The problem is we really like #1’s name, but she was a girl and upcoming is a By Duana • Oct 31, 2018 05:02 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Everyone Comes From The Same Family We are expecting our second baby girl via scheduled C section the week of Thanksgiving. So I have a concrete deadline to name this baby. We named our oldest Mary Margaret and call her Maggie, a family name honoring my late mother and her great grandmother, and also my husband& By Duana • Oct 26, 2018 05:18 pm
