Lifestyle Duana Names: Names for people who already have names Hi Duana, I'm not due until around Christmas, and my partner and I are still early in the baby name game (i.e. we're still pretty far apart on our choices). However, we have started thinking a lot about what the baby is going to call By Duana • Jul 31, 2015 02:16 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: How about a Z-sounding S? Hi Duana! Please help! My sister's first child (a boy) is due in early August and she wanted me to write to you because they are not even close to finding a name! We are Persian and both my sister and I and my two daughters have flower By Duana • Jul 29, 2015 04:14 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: A Totally New Question Hi Duana We are pregnant, and while I would love to find out the gender ASAP hubby would love it to be a surprise until birth, so I will do that for him. I figure between conceding that PLUS giving birth he will owe me big time! We are lucky By Duana • Jul 27, 2015 02:28 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: I finally titled a column Mamma Mia Hi! Husband and I are due late August with our first babe, we are waiting to find out the sex. We are set on a girls name, his grandma that he was very close to was named Maria, and everyone called her Mika. So we are set on Mika for By Duana • Jul 24, 2015 03:19 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: A ‘Choose Your Own’ Adventure Hi Duana, I'm a trans woman in the process of transitioning. I'm trying to work out a name that starts with E or L (though not opposed to others!). I also have an interesting surname (Winter) that makes things difficult. I also want to shy away By Duana • Jul 22, 2015 03:34 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Catherine Keeners Hi Duana This may be an unusual request in that we've already picked both of our names. My boyfriend and I ended on a stellar boy name after some dicey negotiating that included a serious bid from him for Hedwig (for a boy...). The girl name was much By Duana • Jul 20, 2015 03:44 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: It’s Probably Not Donncha (* with love to Noel and Aine) Hi, My husband and I are hoping that we will be the beneficiaries of your name-nerd advice. We are expecting our second little one on August 8, 2015. We’re Asian and we somehow stumbled into a very lucky due-date! We don’t know if Baby #2 is going to By Duana • Jul 17, 2015 02:19 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Too Good Too Soon? Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our first baby after some health issues and are very excited/nervous/anxious to welcome our first daughter in early August. We have one name that we have been playing with but wanted to see if you would mind sharing some of By Duana • Jul 15, 2015 12:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Harder than it looks Hi Duana - The time has come when I need your naming skills! My husband and I are expecting baby #2, a girl, beginning of July and we're struggling to find a name we both like. We love our first daughter's name - Summer Olivia - By Duana • Jul 10, 2015 03:01 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: TODAY IS THE DAY Hi Duana, I'm due July 8 with my second girl. My first daughter's name is Quinn and we decided on that name fairly early with little discussion of other names. I'm having a heck of a time coming up with a name for baby By Duana • Jul 08, 2015 02:28 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Inspiring Women, in Two Parts Dear Duana, I am expecting girl #3 and having trouble settling on a name. Our older daughter is Chora, and our younger is Edith ("Edie"). We want to name our daughter after a female figure she can admire. For us that means someone courageous and whose courage is By Duana • Jul 06, 2015 01:36 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Causing Undue Name Pain? Hi Duana, I would really appreciate your advice! Our first boy is due this summer and while my husband and I have agreed on a name, which I suggested and love, I'm having some worries about it. We live in a very ethnically un-diverse community. Most everyone in By Duana • Jul 03, 2015 03:26 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Stopping, Laying Off, and Leaving Names Alone One of the many, many things I love about this column and all of you who contribute is that it is so unabashedly a sociology exercise. We discuss names, and sooner or later those names apply to someone – and you can’t not react. I knew that there would be By Duana • Jun 29, 2015 02:05 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Nicking the Name Hi Duana - Our family is expecting the addition of a baby boy the beginning of July. He is eagerly awaited by a big brother Rocco and big sister Tessa. We have a single syllable Chinese last name. You can see that we lie somewhere in the middle of quirky By Duana • Jun 26, 2015 03:19 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Jennifer Love Hewitt has an Atticus Jennifer Love Hewitt named her son Atticus. Did you know that one of the reasons she has the ‘Love’ in her name, or that she used it professionally, was to distinguish herself from all the other Jennifers? True story. It kind of worked, in that she’s the only Jennifer By Duana • Jun 25, 2015 12:48 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Naming the Motherlode Hi Duana, So here’s the dilemma, I'm having quadruplets! I’m having two girls and two boys.So far we have three out of the four names settled but are having trouble cracking the last name for our boy. For the girls we have Remy and Lore, By Duana • Jun 24, 2015 01:21 pm
