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
Lifestyle Duana Names: Is It Written In The Stars (Or, Like, A Book)? Hi Duana, It’s funny you mentioning the name Avalon recently, (and Lainey talking about it the day after). I have two children, a girl named Avalon and a boy named Orion. I will soon be welcoming a third child, and I am wondering which names you might suggest for By Duana • Oct 22, 2018 04:39 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: If It Ain’t Broke… Hello, I am writing to get ideas for names to complete our family in a few weeks! My daughter, Samantha, was named after my big sister whose nickname was Sammy growing up even though it had nothing to do with her name (Tanya). While she will share the name with By Duana • Oct 19, 2018 03:55 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Lake Not Taken Hi Duana! I'm an avid follower of Laineygossip and your column, thank you for potentially reading this! :) We just had our son 11 months ago now and we decided to name him River. I basically had the name from the get go, but had a crisis around 7 By Duana • Oct 17, 2018 03:59 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Meghan, Harry, and The Royal Name-To-Be So the new royal baby is coming in ‘Spring 2019’, and as Lainey pointed out earlier, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s child won’t necessarily be a prince or princess – unless the Queen decides they will be. Protocol, you know. Protocol also says they also won’t be announcing By Duana • Oct 15, 2018 02:30 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: That Is A Name That Exists Hey Duana, Husband and I are expecting our first and probably only kid this November, a girl. Very excited! We are both tree/plant people. He's a tree scientist and I'm a landscape designer, so we definitely want a plant/nature name, but I'm By Duana • Oct 12, 2018 03:13 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Ready Player 3 Evening Duana! (Not yet, sweet Letter Writer, but soon…) My dearest friend put me on to you one night when I was complaining on the phone to her about naming baby #3. Our little boy, who will have brother Griffin and sister Adair, is due in just a couple months. By Duana • Oct 10, 2018 04:41 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: There’s No One As Irish As Barack Obama Duana, My husband and I will soon welcome our second child, and if this baby turns out to be a boy, he is currently nameless! Our older child is Lorenzo and his name is a nod to my husband's Italian heritage, and my maiden name, which begins with By Duana • Oct 05, 2018 04:27 pm
Lifestyle Duana Name: Siblings - No Place For Rhyme Time Duana, My friends are having their second daughter in October and are stuck on a name. Their first daughter is Hayden Olivia, which they settled on quickly and early. The two front runners right now are Caroline and Paige, but neither makes them as excited as Hayden did. Other names By Duana • Oct 03, 2018 03:31 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: We Already Got It Right... Hey Duana, So I’m pregnant with my first child and I don’t know the sex. I’m basically set on a girl’s name, but my partner and I are having a hard time choosing a boy’s name. Help! He loves the name Wallace, and I love By Duana • Oct 01, 2018 03:42 pm
Emmy Awards 2018 Tatiana Maslany w/ Special Guest Star Tiffany Haddish: Emmy Best Dressed (Duana) I liked quite a few outfits last night. Kristen Bell might have had a personal best, I loved what was happening on Sandra Oh, I enjoyed Regina King and the aforementioned Samira Wiley – but when I mentioned a fifth name on top of all those, Lainey told me to f-ck By Duana • Sep 18, 2018 12:37 pm
