Lifestyle Duana Names: EVERYONE LOVES CHIPS Help! I’m within a couple weeks of my due date with baby 3 and I’m starting to sweat not having a name! My boy is Axel and that was an easy pick for us. We wavered between Levi and Axel and the one no one was using was By Duana • Feb 02, 2018 04:31 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: British But Not Hi Duana, I’m a huge fan of your naming column and I am so pleased I finally get to write to you! I’m writing on behalf of a friend/co-worker who is expecting her second child, a girl, at the beginning of February. She and her husband still By Duana • Jan 31, 2018 03:49 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Wheretofore A Clairvoyant’s Prediction Proves Intractable Dear Duana, A psychic told my mother I would have two daughters. So obviously my first born is to be a boy babe. My partner and I are both big on what I will call ‘dual naming’: a first name with gravitas and cool nickname to accompany it. We live By Duana • Jan 29, 2018 03:51 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Number Five Is A Whole New Ballgame Hi Duana, My friend is having her fifth child and it's her first boy. They are all completely shocked -- they thought for sure it would be girl #5. They have no idea what they are looking for in a boy's name. To give you some By Duana • Jan 26, 2018 03:28 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Know The Truth, Do It Anyway Dear Duana, My husband and I are expecting our first child, a baby boy in mid-January. Picking his name feels like a very big deal, and I would love to hear your feedback and perhaps some alternatives. In choosing the name, we are aiming to hit the sweet spot between By Duana • Jan 24, 2018 05:19 pm
Name Nerd CHICAGO WEST Noooooope this is not the way any of us thought this was going to go. Not one of us. Don’t you lie. Nobody saw this coming. About a month ago Lainey really latched onto my suggestion of ‘Truth’ -- and I mean, based on ‘North’ and ‘Saint’, I felt By Duana • Jan 19, 2018 04:20 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can You Mourn The Loss Of A Name? I’m out of breath typing this because we are OUT. OF. TIME. and maybe it makes no sense to be winded when I’m not doing anything but typing, but we’ve reached full-scale freak out. Writing this for my friend who is having her baby boy by next By Duana • Jan 17, 2018 04:19 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Happy New Name Updates! What, you’ve never made a bad pun when you’re titling something? Look, sometimes it’s just how it is, OK? But we get to revisit a few titles as I have a great backlog of updates. First up, an update on the family dilemma presented in SOCCERSTAR! Hi By Duana • Jan 12, 2018 04:58 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: We Got It – But What IS It? Hi Duana, I'm so excited to be writing to you! When I first stumbled across your column I was pretty stunned - I had no idea other "name nerds" existed. I still have a beaten-up bright pink baby name book (straight from the 80s) that has By Duana • Jan 11, 2018 04:13 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Because Of Course You Did* Hi Duana, When we got pregnant with our first boy, and then our second, the naming process was quite easy on both occasions and went a little something like this: (i) I suggested my top boy name to my husband; (ii) he really liked it; (iii) over the next several By Duana • Jan 05, 2018 03:19 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Jack (Jackie? Jacqueline?) Of All Names… Hi Duana, I absolutely love your column and baby name advice - if I ever have any baby name questions your column will be the first place I go! This, however, is not about any future children. This is about my, and my fiancé's, married names. Here is By Duana • Jan 03, 2018 04:37 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Gift Came Early! Though it’s not an exact science, as I’ve mentioned, I try to answer name questions before the due dates of the arrivals, if that’s practical. But sometimes things get more complicated than that. Here’s an email I got in August: Hi Duana, We are expecting our By Duana • Dec 22, 2017 01:30 pm
Name Nerd Mindy Kaling’s Daughter Katherine You know how there’s a word for all kinds of things in German that English doesn’t have a reference for? What’s the word for ‘I kind of got played and I think I like it’? Please advise. Okay, ‘played’ is too strong a word, probably. But the By Duana • Dec 20, 2017 12:13 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: In Which I Have To Hold Back The Title Hi Duana, I am expecting our second child and while I had every intention to get feedback with the first, he made his debut a month early and I was still fully in denial I was to become a mother. He went nameless for 2 days in the hospital however By Duana • Dec 18, 2017 04:09 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Will We Ever Find Love Again? Hi Duana, We are in desperate need of name advice for our second baby girl, due in December! I'm Indian, and my husband is American, and while I'd like a name that works in both contexts, I think it's more important that we just By Duana • Dec 15, 2017 03:36 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Kitchen Sink Names Duana, I have forever been infatuated with names, I love how much they say with so little. I have kept a list of names for years - not necessarily for potential children, but simply because I appreciate them. Now, faced with naming an actual human I'm coming up By Duana • Dec 12, 2017 03:59 pm
