Lifestyle Duana Names: Let’s Talk Best Practices for Stealth Middle Names Hi Duana, I would appreciate your thoughts on a new name ‘challenge’ that I haven’t seen addressed here before. Baby boy is arriving at the end of the Summer. It is tradition on my hubby’s side to name the son after his father. This is a tradition that By Duana • Jun 26, 2017 03:42 pm
Style This week in Zendaya Zendaya and Celine Dion have the same stylist, Law Roach. So, right now, he’s responsible for dressing the two people giving us the most style porn. That’s his work on show. While Celine’s touring Europe, Zendaya is press touring Spiderman: Homecoming. We’ll get to her clothes By Lainey • Jun 21, 2017 12:17 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Emergent Arrival! Dear Duana Sadly The Name Therapist is not published here in Australia so I needed to be way more organised than I was when it came to ordering a copy! Perhaps my current dilemma - a nameless 10-day-old daughter - is karma for not having done so! Our new baby By Duana • Jun 19, 2017 03:25 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Dignified, Chunky & Tiny Hi Duana My partner and I are adopting a puppy - he is a black Labrador Retriever, and expected to be a chunky guy, given his lineage. To tell you a little about ourselves - we live in England, met in Cambridge, and we have 14 year old a dog By Duana • Jun 14, 2017 03:01 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Trouble With Good Names Hi Duana, My 3rd baby (a boy) is due in a couple of weeks towards the end of June and I didn't want to miss my chance to write in. #1 (Graham) and #2 (Harriet) are napping and I thought aha! Now I will sit and write to By Duana • Jun 12, 2017 05:02 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Arguably The Best Baby Name Update Ever… You guys, I love all of the updates. I want to know about them five minutes or five years after you name the baby, regardless of where you come down on things I recommended or shouted about or whatever. But to date, this may be the most… is it exciting? By Duana • Jun 09, 2017 03:45 pm
Jock Smut Ryan Lochte’s raising a hockey player For this post, I will be playing the part of Duana, The Name Therapist. Ryan Lochte and Kayla Rae Reid announced the birth of their son, confirming on Instagram that he was born this morning. Caiden Zane Lochte. I'm a daddy #miracle #babyboy #myson A post shared by By Lainey • Jun 08, 2017 12:58 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Clooney Twins Ella & Alexander One thing is certain. Whatever I thought the Clooney twins might be called, and whatever names might have caused a stir in my social media and yours (remember yesterday morning, when Reality Winner was the biggest name in the headlines?), I never, never expected this much digital ink to be By Duana • Jun 07, 2017 12:58 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Close Enough To Call Hey Duana, I'm pregnant with our second child, a rainbow after a really bad loss last year, and am due at the end of June. We have a 3-yr-old named Elijah (Eli) and came about his name accidentally as a suggestion from a friend. My husband loved it By Duana • Jun 05, 2017 04:47 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Having It Easy Makes It Hard Dear Duana, When I was pregnant with our first child, we locked in on Teddy (Theodore) for a name almost instantly. That made life easy, but it made me a little sad since I wasn't able to write in and ask for your advice. The universe worked its By Duana • May 31, 2017 04:41 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Tackling The Laundry List Dear Duana, We are happily expecting our second girl in May, after a long journey to get here. Now we need to name her. I have a three year old named Leoni Elli (middle name after her grandmothers), who gave herself the nickname "Neenee" when she was 12 By Duana • May 29, 2017 04:12 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: You Would Cry Too If It Happened To You My husband and I have a 3 month old baby. We kept the baby's name a secret until he was born, and we named him William James (first and middle name). We loved both names and went back and forth on which would be the first and second, By Duana • May 26, 2017 03:23 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Get Your Mind Out Of The TV! Dear Duana, I need help, please and thanks! After being adamant that we weren’t going to have children – for years and years - at the age of 38, we realized that soon the decision wouldn’t be ours anymore so we decided to stop trying not to have a By Duana • May 24, 2017 04:30 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: “BABY GIRL” Must Not Stand! Dear Duana, Now to the matter at hand, we are in desperate need for a name! Our third child was born on May 14th, the names on our shortlist do not fit her and now we're sleep deprived and have no clue how to even to start a By Duana • May 19, 2017 04:36 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: OMG. No, wait – well, maybe. OMG? Hi Duana, I am in a real conundrum. We thought we were having a boy originally and had a name picked out no problem. My name pick for a girl was Margot Mabel with the last name L----c. Unfortunately.... my partner’s name is Marko which was pointed out to By Duana • May 17, 2017 05:59 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: A Dub By Any Other Name Hi Duana, My boyfriend showed me this article this morning and I immediately thought of you. It’s a hilarious name-nerd writeup disguised as sports writing, about the WHL draft and the names of the players, born in the early 2000's for the most part. And his commentary By Duana • May 15, 2017 04:16 pm
