Lifestyle Duana Names: Names for Adults Hi Duana, Where to begin? We already have gorgeous Felix (almost 3) in our lives and with him we were somehow able to agree on the name no problem. Now we don't know the gender of baby number two who arrives in 4 weeks and we are having By Duana • Mar 11, 2016 04:01 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: On Earworms, Eventual Boys, and Kids TV Duana, We are expecting baby #4 in March.... and we learned that it is a boy! This is brand new territory for us, as we have 3 girls at home. With all our previous pregnancies, we did not find out the gender & always walked into the hospital for delivery By Duana • Mar 09, 2016 04:17 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: March of the All-Girl Updates I don’t know about you, but these updates fill me with a real sense of satisfaction. Not just for the obvious self-satisfied reasons, but because these kids have names! They change from being ideas to being people! I also get begged for updates all the time, so please, keep By Duana • Mar 07, 2016 04:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: 911 Name Emergency Hi Duana, I am a name-lover who is addicted to the Name Nerd column, but this time I am writing for a friend, and it is a super name emergency as baby is already here! And she's been here for a week. NO NAME YET. My good friend By Duana • Mar 04, 2016 03:35 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Fatherlode Hi Duana, You may want to get a beverage, this one’s complicated. I have been imagining this email for months now hoping/praying that after a number of losses this Hail Mary pass of a pregnancy would last. Now with 8 weeks to go we’re looking good for By Duana • Mar 02, 2016 04:02 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: When The Name Comes First Hi Duana, Like most others who write in, I'm a life-long name nerd. I couldn't wait to have a human or two of my own to name when the time came. But, as it turns out I'm picky and independent, and so have not By Duana • Feb 24, 2016 04:15 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Making Your Own Call Hi Duana: I'm due with a boy, our second, in March of 2015. His older sister is named Brynn Ellis Jean Boucher and she'll be 20 months when this guy joins us in March. As you can see, our last name is very French and neither By Duana • Feb 22, 2016 04:16 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Friday Name Game Dear Duana, Hoping you can help us! Expecting baby no 2 another girl in March. First daughter Maia named after mother in law Maria. Would like to follow tradition and name second daughter after my mother who's Greek name is Konstandina goes by Dina. Husband has very long By Duana • Feb 19, 2016 03:35 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Ahead of the Curve Hi Duana, We're struggling with a name for our little guy due in March. When we started out, we were pretty set on Arlo or Wyatt, but we've had some difficulties and it's taken longer than we thought... and now those names seem super By Duana • Feb 17, 2016 04:53 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: More than Just Math Hey Duana, I have been debating whether or not to write in, or whether to just go with the flow and hope that a name fights its way to the top of our list on delivery-day. I've been tempted to ask family/friends their opinions, however I thought By Duana • Feb 15, 2016 01:48 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Stand Up And Be Counted The emails about what to name your child are great. The emails telling me what you did name your child are even better, and yes, I promise there’s a thick update of those coming sometime soon. But the stuff in the middle, the stuff I couldn’t predict, is By Duana • Feb 12, 2016 03:45 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: About The List Hi Duana. I imagine that there is probably a significant backlog of emails from people who need help naming imminent babies, and I'm/we're not expecting, but I could use your advice. Long story short, we are reproductively 'challenged'. Both of us are individually By Duana • Feb 10, 2016 04:34 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What am I Missing? I'm due with our first, a girl, mid-February. And we've kind of chosen a name? and been referring to the baby by it for months now, only I'm realizing that while my fella loves it I don't know that I do: Augustine. By Duana • Feb 08, 2016 03:52 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Gender-Neutral Doesn’t Exist Hey Duana, I have a son who's coming up on 10 years old who we named Rafferty, after an old-timey Australian actor called Chips Rafferty (we are Australian). Someone said to me recently that Rafferty would soon follow names like Riley and Rowan which were once boy names By Duana • Feb 05, 2016 04:33 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can baby make Three? Hi Duana! As a long-time lurker, I never expected to be writing in. We have twins, a boy and a girl, and have spent the years since they were born swearing that we were DONE. (With much snark and vigor, I'm afraid.) And now - we are, somehow, By Duana • Feb 03, 2016 04:25 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: In Which I Expose My (former) Self Hi Duana, We’re expecting our second baby early February and are searching for a name. Gender is a surprise, and we’ve gone through the list of names we had for our first and don’t really like them anymore, so we’re back at square one. Our first By Duana • Jan 29, 2016 02:56 pm