Name Nerd Cardi B’s Baby Kulture Kiari I love it. It wasn’t instant. I had to sit with it for a second, think about it, and then decide. But I love it. I’ll get to the obvious Offset connections in a second, but first … You know that thing where certain names are so singular they By Duana • Jul 12, 2018 08:47 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: DAY-OF DILEMMAS Dear Duana, Our second child is due TODAY [N.B. Actually, the letter writer sent this yesterday!] and is still nameless! Our problems are these: 1) We absolutely knocked it out of the park when naming our daughter, Astrid, and we haven't come close to feeling the same By Duana • Jul 11, 2018 04:37 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Husband Of Infinity Forever Hi Duana, First of all, you must sprinkle some kind of visual crack into your articles cuz I swear my wife is addicted. What started off as occasional and passing “Duana says...” statements have now ballooned into full blown links and screen shots that are clogging up my phone memory. By Duana • Jul 09, 2018 05:15 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Working out the Kinks Dear Duana, Help! The clock is ticking and I need your expertise! I am currently 32 weeks pregnant with my FOURTH boy (all of my babies have come before 36 weeks so I’m entering the home stretch). My husband and I are really struggling with a name this time- By Duana • Jul 06, 2018 04:29 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Hello From The Other Side Hi Duana! Or, 'Hello again'? I'm writing to you for baby #2, after writing you a very convoluted letter for baby #1 in 2016. I just reread it for the first time since receiving your response...boy were we confused. But alas, our little Joshua Montgomery By Duana • Jul 04, 2018 04:39 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What Comes After Mae…? Hi (again) Duana, My daughter Mae turns 5 in July and we're expecting a second girl. We named her after my grandmothers, Mamie Jean and Dorine Margaret but if I'm honest, I just liked the name. It's simple and classic, familiar but not popular By Duana • Jun 29, 2018 03:05 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: I Think We Want It To Be Lit Hi Duana, I wrote you once before thinking I was having a boy, but we had a surprise girl! Now I'm (almost certainly) definitely having a boy (due in July), and our name choices are all over the map! My daughter is named Djuna which I love and By Duana • Jun 27, 2018 05:00 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Start-of-Summer Updates I am delighted that it is finally summer and that I can become uncomfortably sweaty by working outside… and also quite cognizant that I am already fighting off freefall despair about the fact that the days actually start getting shorter (in the Northern Hemisphere) from here. So to counteract that By Duana • Jun 25, 2018 05:11 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Is It Even Really There? Duana, First off, I LOVE your name posts and happily devour them when I see a new one up. And, I read and loved The Name Therapist when I was pregnant with my first daughter. You’ve been a guiding light in our search for names! Thank you! So....I By Duana • Jun 22, 2018 03:34 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Final Installment Oh wise Duana! I am hoping you may be able to steer me in the right direction as you did once before… We have a Hazel Louise (4), decided with your help on a Delilah May (2) and now are expecting our final installment, a boy in approximately 5 weeks. By Duana • Jun 21, 2018 04:06 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: It Isn’t Rhyme Time Hi Duana, Help! We’re expecting baby boy #2 on June 24th, so we have about 4 weeks left to choose a name and I’m starting to panic! Our first son, Owen Russell, just turned three and has been affectionately calling his brother Bug and/or Bowen (a name By Duana • Jun 18, 2018 03:05 pm
Equality Issues Pitching Into The Abyss It started with one badass. Well. Many badasses. When Variety published their panelists for “A Night In The Writers Room”, there were 12 showrunners named – including 11 men. Names you know, like Judd Apatow and Michael Schur and David Shore. This was obviously bullsh-t, and was called out as such By Duana • Jun 15, 2018 01:10 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Too Much Spice? Hi Duana! My name is Sarah and there were always at least 1 other Sara(h) in my class growing up. I currently work with 8 other Sara(h)s. Because of this, I have always wanted an unconventional yet easy to pronounce and spell name. I recently heard the By Duana • Jun 14, 2018 04:26 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Best (Petty Sh-t) Is Yet To Come Hi Duana! I’ve been reading your column for years and we love the name of our first child, Lillian Stuckey. Lillian is getting a sibling! Little Person #2’s sex is unknown. I had names chosen for the eventual #2. They were the middle names of my husband’s By Duana • Jun 11, 2018 04:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews In The Heights heads to the Big Screen in 2020 You don’t need me to tell you about how today feels, and you don’t need me to tell you that Twitter is frequently a terrible, dumpster of a place to be. But what you might not know, and what might help a little today, is the revelation that By Duana • Jun 08, 2018 04:53 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Dare Us To Do This? Hi Duana, After struggling for 5 years with infertility, and getting science involved, we had our daughter Marigold Delphine last year. For us, there was a lot to like and reasons of ‘right fit’ for choosing Marigold (one being a tradition in my family to do a derivative of Maria/ By Duana • Jun 08, 2018 04:36 pm
