Lifestyle Duana Names: On Spelling Hi Duana! I'm a product of the Whole Language movement, which means I cannot spell! Syntax, diction, even diagramming sentences is my jam, but I can't tell you the number of times I have screamed in frustration at a crossword puzzle, only to have my husband By Duana • May 25, 2018 03:25 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Are We Out-Naming Ourselves? Hi Duana! I am pregnant with baby #2, due late spring. We are not finding out the sex. We are again stuck on a boy name after having no trouble picking our girl name. I wrote into you for guidance with this same problem the first go around. You helped By Duana • May 23, 2018 04:29 pm
Name Nerd The Joys of Dragging Miles Theodore Stephens’ Dad The problem with adoring a celebrity couple is not that you might go too easy on them. The problem is that you collect up all kinds of information, in kind of the same way you did about an eighth-grade crush, and can’t keep yourself from spitting it out at By Duana • May 21, 2018 01:17 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Does Long Have To Mean ‘Difficult’? Hi Duana, How much should we take our last name into account when choosing names? My wife is due mid-June and we are trying to figure out how to best pair the baby's first name with our last name. When we married we decided to both hyphenate our By Duana • May 18, 2018 01:56 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Nothing Compares To Him Hi Duana, I love your column and have been scanning it for months hoping for some inspiration. We are expecting our second baby on May 17th. The gender will be a surprise until the big day. Our first was a boy and we named him Ivan. I absolutely love it By Duana • May 16, 2018 02:57 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Kirsten Dunst and Landry name their baby! I know. I know it’s not fair not to not name Jesse Plemons in the headline, especially since a lot of outlets are referring to it as “Kirsten Dunst’s baby” and leaving Plemons out of it altogether. But I have to chalk it up to the power of By Duana • May 14, 2018 03:40 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What Does This Say About Us? Hey Duana, We're having our third (and final) kid this spring. Her brothers are Tristan and Cash. We've been dead set on Evangeline for a girl since I was pregnant with Cash (Princess and the Frog song, "Ma Belle Evangeline" - yes, I' By Duana • May 11, 2018 05:12 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Short Yet Delightful Name Updates A flying update today as we get ready for all things Met Gala – but no less satisfying, as we get answers to a couple of December questions. First there was this update to Letter Writing Win, Name Jury Out: Hi Duana, Sorry it took so long for the update. She By Duana • May 07, 2018 04:27 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Get Him To The Greek Hi Duana, We're expecting our first baby next spring, and while both my husband and I always thought we'd have a girl, the last scan showed enough to convince the Dr to 'lean' towards it being a boy! I don't care either By Duana • May 04, 2018 04:37 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: When the thing is a Thing Duana, In desperate need of your help! I am currently pregnant with my second child and, as of yet, we are yet to find out the baby's sex. While not quite as knowledgeable about all things name as you are, I like to consider myself a bit of By Duana • May 02, 2018 04:16 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Inspired By Oscar Hi Duana, Having so much fun reading your column! I have a fun last name question for you. My boyfriend and I are getting married soon, and we live in Chile. (I’m American, he’s Chilean.) Women here don’t change their last names if they get married, and By Duana • Apr 30, 2018 03:48 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Louis Arthur Charles, AKA “?? of Cambridge” First of all, Will was trolling us. Or at least, he thought he was having some fun at everyone’s expense. Well, ‘fun’. A few weeks ago, after a match of some kind involving a star athlete named Jack, he mused that Jack was a good name, and then the By Duana • Apr 27, 2018 09:52 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Allllmost a Three-Peat I love a letter from a repeat caller. When I got this note I diligently filed it in the queue: Hi Duana! 5 years after my first post to you... baby #3 is on the way! Naming this baby has been challenging since we have decided to keep the gender By Duana • Apr 25, 2018 04:07 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means Help me, Duana... HELP, HELP! Our family is eagerly awaiting our second addition, a boy. However, my husband and I are not syncing in the name department. He is more of the traditional type who likes names such as Jack, Charlie and William. Being an elementary teacher, these names are By Duana • Apr 23, 2018 03:40 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Cannot Compute Hi Duana, Writing to you for a friend (whom I got hooked on your column but so far has been UNMOVED by any of your great, great names and is due in, like, 4 days). The facts: mom and dad have very 80s first names (Julie & Trevor), last name By Duana • Apr 20, 2018 04:10 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Making It All About Me Hi Duana! I've been dreaming of the day I could message you to talk baby names. I've struggled with infertility for years due to stage 4 endometriosis but thanks to IVF I'm currently 6 months pregnant with a baby boy! Now, here's By Duana • Apr 18, 2018 04:06 pm
