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
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
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
Lifestyle Duana Names: Here’s What It’s Not Hi Duana, You so very kindly responded to my last letter when we were having my son in December 2015 (so long ago – sorry!). We were deciding between Miles and Cameron on d-day and he came out with a head full of bright red hair and for some reason that By Duana • Jun 06, 2018 04:38 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can a Good Name be Bad? Hi Duana, Just wanted to say your kitten column really made me smile (on a crappy day!). Such cute photos, and Otto and Mabel were the names of my great-grandparents (mother's maternal grandparents) so to me they've always gone together. I love that someone else randomly By Duana • Jun 04, 2018 04:45 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Rose By Any Other Name Hi Duana, I’m due in mid-June, and I’m having a baby boy. My daughter is named Delphine Rose. My husband and I are both born and raised Canadians. He’s of French and Italian heritage and I am 100% Peruvian. Our last name is B*****o. For a By Duana • Jun 01, 2018 04:20 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: I Have Deduced Your Clever Plan Hi Duana, I love your column and have been following it since the beginning. Thank you for all of your name inspiration! I’m struggling with naming baby #2 and am hoping you can guide me. I have one boy, Maurice, who is almost 2. We pronounce it the North By Duana • May 30, 2018 05:24 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: STOP NICKNAME TYRANNY! So as pointed out elsewhere on the site, it’s Memorial Day in the U.S. Little known fact – though Canadians had our holiday Monday, Victoria Day, a week earlier, Memorial Day can effectively mean a sort-of half-holiday here as well, because on some level people who are waiting for By Duana • May 28, 2018 03:31 pm
