Lifestyle Duana Names: Protecting the brilliance of A certain name Hi Duana, I love your columns and feel that you have so much power over other name nerds that I yelled at you a year ago for overhyping our daughter's name, Anthea, because I wanted to keep it to ourselves. I must have made an impression because you By Duana • Apr 15, 2016 04:55 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Kelly Clarkson’s baby son Remington Alexander Kelly Clarkson’s son has arrived, and has been named Remington Alexander, younger sibling to River Rose, and to Brandon Blackstock’s older children, Savannah and Seth. Clearly there’s some alliteration love going on here, since Remington goes with River as Savannah goes with Seth. I’m not mad By Duana • Apr 14, 2016 04:09 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Tango Maureen Hi Duana, I need help finding a name for my baby girl, due mid-April. She is my first, and most likely only, biological child, but I help raise my boyfriend's two children (a girl and a boy) from a previous relationship. Baby's last name will be By Duana • Apr 13, 2016 04:33 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can’t Have One Without The Other Hi Duana, I love your name advice posts and am hoping you might be able to give us some advice as my pregnant brain is fried! My husband and I are expecting twin girls in April. We have a two year old son, Christian John, and my name is Leith By Duana • Apr 11, 2016 04:20 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: An Update AND Followup. An Updateup! It’s a first on Duana Names, an update email that has its own follow-up question! Not the same thing as people who wrote in about one kid and are asking advice about another one—love those names too, keep them coming! But this is a different story—a name By Duana • Apr 08, 2016 03:53 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Anne Hathaway names baby boy Jonathan Rosebanks Shulman I don’t think we even knew Anne Hathaway was having a boy, so that was a fun surprise. Then I read the name – like a lot of people, I was quite surprised. Anne was born in 1982, so chances are she went to school with a lot of Jonathans By Duana • Apr 08, 2016 11:27 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: 4 names, 4 weeks, no clues Hi Duana, My husband and I are in a bit of a bind. We have 4 weeks until our due date and are still circling around 4 very different baby names - we would LOVE some help on narrowing this down or any insights or thoughts you might have. Some By Duana • Apr 06, 2016 04:16 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Stonewalled by Taylor? Hey Duana, Having my first child, a daughter, in July. My wife is set on naming our daughter Taylor. She picked the name when she was very young and while she says she's open to other names, in practice, every name I suggest gets shot down. Even when By Duana • Apr 04, 2016 03:07 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Are we secretly Brange superfans? We are expecting a girl (our second daughter, she also has a big brother) at the end of April. Just for background information, her brother's name is Jude Greyson, so Biblical and a family name. Her sister's name is Naomi Griffin, so she, also, has a By Duana • Apr 01, 2016 03:51 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: I LOVE IT…now what? Duana, Okay, you know how people say to keep a perhaps… controversial name choice a secret until the baby is born? That no one can really talk shit about it, because it's attached to an actual adorable little human being? Yeah, I maybe tried to do the opposite By Duana • Mar 30, 2016 02:47 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Journey to the End of the Alphabet Hi Duana, I have a good friend who's due with her 3rd boy, and she knows what an obsessive name nerd that I am, so she and her husband asked me to write you and help her figure out a name! I asked her all the questions I By Duana • Mar 28, 2016 03:39 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Get out of the locker! Hi Duana! I have been reading your articles for such a long time now, I can't even remember when I started. It was definitely before I had my first kid - a fabulous boy named Luke (not Lucas). Now I'm expecting my second, due on March By Duana • Mar 23, 2016 05:51 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: We Must… Hi Duana, My husband and I are due with our second baby girl in April, and we are having a hard time coming up with a name for her. Our firstborn is named Emilia, which we loved and still love, except now we've run into the pesky issue By Duana • Mar 21, 2016 04:54 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can a Nickname Just Be A Name? Hi Duana, I’ve had this name question for awhile now, but didn’t want to write in until we had reason to, being superstitious and all (no jinx!). My husband and I are now expecting a little boy and the timing is right for my question! We are heavily By Duana • Mar 18, 2016 03:31 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Am I Naive? We are expecting our first girl in early summer. To date, we have put a few names on a short list but have yet to decide on one. We both have names that were of average popularity in the late 70’s and early 80’s, and our surname is By Duana • Mar 16, 2016 05:03 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What would Proust say? Madeleine has made its way into consideration, but debate over pronunciation and spelling is cloudy the decision. I understand Madeleine is the classic, French spelling, and Madeline the English spelling? My question is: are these all the same name, or are they different? I would have pronounced all of the By Duana • Mar 14, 2016 04:25 pm
