Lifestyle Duana Names: Solutions for the 2am Search Hi Duana, I know you generally answer letters when delivery dates are close by and I'm not even pregnant yet but this name interrogation is keeping me up at night (my husband thinks I'm crazy and he might be right...) We're going for baby By Duana • May 12, 2017 03:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Secret Agent Baby-O Hi Duana, I'm due at the end of May but I have no idea what to name our baby if baby turns out to be a boy. This baby will be number 3 and likely our last. I already have a boy, age 3.5 (Theo, Theodore on By Duana • May 10, 2017 04:51 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: When You Can Go Anywhere…Go Where? Hi Duana, After a long period of losing hope, it was a big surprise to know that we are finally expecting our first baby in May 2017. I am lao/vietnamese background and my husband is german/ukrainian/hungarian/lebanese background. It will be one really mixed kid! We believe By Duana • May 05, 2017 03:23 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Strength, Style, in that order Hi Duana, I love your column and your writing. Hoping for the grace of your wisdom here.. My second child, a baby girl, is arriving in May. We have a taste for what we see as stylish, euro, slightly mid-east-influenced names. Naming our son was super easy - but I& By Duana • May 01, 2017 05:59 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Should It Be This Difficult? Hi Duana! We're expecting our second in May and we won't be finding out the gender. Though somehow we're in the same boat as when we were expecting our first- a full list of potential girls names and zero for boys. Last time we By Duana • Apr 28, 2017 02:13 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Why Lainey Cares* About Leslie Odom Jr. We’ve debated and gone back and forth, but I think the verdict is we are going to delay the taping of our #ShowYourWork podcast until after the weekend. Because the Met Gala is coming, and because Lainey and I are going to be in New York this weekend, and By Duana • Apr 27, 2017 02:34 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Rethinking, Second thoughts, and ‘Second’ thoughts Hello Duana, My daughter was born last year and we were one of those couples that didn't want know the gender. We had the boy's name set but we waffled on girls names. Adelaine? Sorcha (he vetoed)? Aurelia? Ariel? We finally settled on one...Claudia. But By Duana • Apr 26, 2017 05:28 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Name Defies Description… Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our first child in May, and I am convinced that we will never agree on a name. We are planning to be surprised by the gender, so we actually need to have both a boy’s name and a girl’s name By Duana • Apr 21, 2017 04:41 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: START. YOUR. ENGINES… DUANA we need help. My husband and I have been married for almost 5 years and currently have zero kids. My 30th birthday is in August 2017 (he will be 29) and we are looking towards that as a soft opening date for the baby-making-factory (TMI?). At this point, we By Duana • Apr 19, 2017 05:19 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: One Plus Two Equals New Ball Game So we have just found out we are having twin boys but we are having trouble coming up with name options! I have rules already from our first son: our surname is Brown so no one syllable names and no names starting with B, but now I need to find By Duana • Apr 12, 2017 02:56 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Bradley Cooper & Irina Shayk have a baby name I like saying “Irina Shayk”. You do too, right? I assume so, and that’s part of why she’s famous? I mean, I know, she’s a model and she’s been with him for almost two years and all, but let’s be honest, this is a fun By Duana • Apr 11, 2017 02:13 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Oprah, Uma, Ari, Eli Hi Duana, We just found out that we are having a second boy and we have no idea what to name him! Our first son's name is Ariel Nikolas P----r. We pronounce Ariel the way Sebastian from the Little Mermaid does and we call him Ari for short. By Duana • Apr 10, 2017 03:51 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Bye Bye Birdie?* I am a longtime fan of your name column. I actually have a naming question about my two year old daughter's name, or, rather, her nickname. Should we at some point transition her to her real name? If so, when? As background: we have three wonderful daughters, Charlotte, By Duana • Apr 03, 2017 03:22 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: 5 year old ideas, 10 year old realizations Hi Duana, I'm excited to be writing to you! My husband and I are expecting our first, a girl due in early April. We've had boys names picked out for a while. His top pick was Lincoln, to be called Link and mine was Archer. We By Duana • Mar 31, 2017 04:13 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: You Only Know If You Know Hi Duana, We're English and I am currently pregnant with my second daughter and we can't find anything we LOVE. My first daughter is Lara (middle name Emilia) and we adore it. I still get a little thrill every time I tell people her name. It& By Duana • Mar 29, 2017 04:48 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Benedict Cumberbatch’s Swaggy Second Son Looking back on my post about Benedict Cumberbatch’s first son, maybe the passage of time has mellowed me or maybe tastes have changed, but while Christopher Carlton Cumberbatch may be a little vanilla, it’s nothing to laugh at, it’s a fine name. Similarly, I didn’t understand By Duana • Mar 27, 2017 03:32 pm
