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
Lifestyle Duana Names: Help, Question Mark? Hello Duana, Help? My partner and I are expecting twins (a boy and a girl) and cannot agree on a name. He is Israeli and has conventional taste. I am South African and want a name that will stand out from a crowd. We plan to raise our children in By Duana • Sep 14, 2018 05:33 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Natural Acts of Names, And a Dire Warning Hi Duana, My daughter was born in 2009. Her name is the same as a popular exclusive dating app. When I picked her name, it was a relatively unknown but not too exotic name. Now I'm afraid people will know her name from the dating app first. Should By Duana • Sep 12, 2018 06:18 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Is Too Weird A Thing? Dear Duana, (just so you know, my auto correct turned your name to Diana) I just finished reading your book and loved every bit of it. As a name geek and fellow owner of a confusing Irish name, so much of it resonated with me. As a side note, I By Duana • Sep 07, 2018 04:22 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Perfect… Plus Hi Duana, I’m a huge Name Nerd and I couldn’t wait until I had a reason to email you for advice. My daughter is due in early September and I’ve found her first name but no middle. What to do when her dad and I can’t By Duana • Sep 05, 2018 04:32 pm
