Lifestyle Duana Names: To Pin Down The Twang Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our first baby in early November and are hitting a bit of a wall on names. We were in agreement about baby girl names for the most part (Dorothy/Dotty as a front runner) and only found out the gender because we By Duana • Nov 02, 2016 04:49 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: A New Name Dear Duana, My name is Laura and I am writing to you about a bit of a downer - still with joy and excitement in my heart, and a little off topic. Maybe a lot off topic. I don't need help naming a baby - I need help By Duana • Oct 31, 2016 05:12 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Necessity of Name Hacks Dear Duana, I wrote you a while back in a panic because after what felt like an exhaustive search over the course of a few months, we had zero names for our daughter arriving in November. I'm pleased to report, we finally have a list of names, albeit By Duana • Oct 28, 2016 04:49 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Simple Is Not So Simple Hi Duana, We are expecting our second child around Halloween and to everyone's surprise, it will be a boy! I love the combination of a simple first name with a unique middle name. Our daughter is Laura Solveig D----n (a nod to my husband's Norwegian background) By Duana • Oct 24, 2016 04:58 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Help Us Not F*ck This Up Baby number 4 is coming in a few short months... Totally unexpected. My husband and I had our first at the tender ages of 18 & 19, we named her Vaira. We love the name, she loves the name, and nothing anyone says will change that. But fast forward 10 By Duana • Oct 21, 2016 03:50 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Olivia, “Olivia”, and great baby names? You know those bots on Twitter that are basically jokes? Like @ProbsAFeminist retweets people who say “I’m not a feminist, but…”? I wonder if there’s one for platitudes? Because I hate platitudes, BUT, I always find myself thinking about that one about dishware: “If you don’t like By Duana • Oct 19, 2016 04:19 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Twice Right; And A Certain Avoidance Hi Duana, I’m expecting baby boy #2 at the end of October, and my husband and I are having trouble coming up with a name that we love as much as the one we gave our first son – Calvin James. James is a family name on my side, and By Duana • Oct 17, 2016 03:46 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Getting-Into-October Updates I know – not so long since the last one and I’m delighted too. I don’t know if summer people just have more daylight hours, so the updates come in sooner – no judgment, but we love getting them! Here’s the update for A Four-Letter Word: Hi there, Thank By Duana • Oct 14, 2016 04:12 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What Even IS Our Style? Hi Duana, We are in desperate need of name help. We are (unexpectedly) expecting our third child this winter and are completely stumped on a name. We don't know the gender and have two sons already named Kadence (the K...I know, I know but I was young By Duana • Oct 12, 2016 04:43 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Where Am I In The Mix? Hi Duana! I LOVE your column and your name nerd advice (and your name, to be honest). I also loved your book – how we feel about our names is such a study in human hope and behaviour, I can hardly believe that we went this long without the name nerd By Duana • Oct 07, 2016 04:39 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: I Like It, But Don’t Love It Hi Duana, I am due in December with my first, a girl. We were pretty set with boys names, our father's names in the middle, with Remi as the first name. (I am French Canadian, so I favour French names. Hubby is Polish Canadian and has no real By Duana • Oct 05, 2016 03:28 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Ain’t Looking For an Ava Hi Duana, I am expecting my second child in early October, gender to be discovered at birth. I think it is a boy (because the needle and thread said so) but am preparing for either. My first son's name is Tighe (pronounced like Tadgh - Tiger without the By Duana • Oct 03, 2016 04:01 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: “Biracial Baby Blunt-Krasinski” Hi Duana, I hope you're well! Sorry for the strange title, but I hope this email explains it all. My husband is white and I'm black and we're trying for our first baby. There's nothing immediate, but we've been talking By Duana • Sep 30, 2016 03:01 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: When you just…can’t Hi Duana, We're expecting our second child in October and have started thinking of names. Our first child is Ethan Patrick, which we chose based off of family names. I realize with Ethan coming in on several Top 10 baby lists that it's also probably considered By Duana • Sep 28, 2016 03:29 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Only Five for Number Four Hi Duana! I'm writing on behalf of my best friend (with her knowledge. No shadiness involved!). She and her husband are having kid #4, a boy, and she is PISSED about it. She had incredible plans for this year involving exercise, self-improvement and further study, and her husband& By Duana • Sep 26, 2016 04:55 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Guess Again Hi Duana, I’m due with my second daughter at the end of September. When it came time to naming our first daughter, we came to a decision pretty quickly. Her name is Milana but goes by Mila – a name we both loved and still love – and her middle name By Duana • Sep 23, 2016 03:39 pm
