Name Nerd Duana Names: Statistical Analysis, Superbly Annotated Dear Duana, I have eagerly devoured every one of your columns for years now, despite steadfastly professing (to anyone who dared ask) that I would never have children! But after stubbornly holding out for over a decade, fate stepped in and dealt us a sweet hand; two big fat X By Duana • Mar 09, 2020 04:18 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: My Sister Insists Hi Duana, I've written before, as I'm on my third. I have an older daughter Hazel and a boy, Jack. I'm working on a strong name for my third, a girl. The ONLY name my husband and I can agree on so far is By Duana • Mar 06, 2020 04:04 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Sign on the Dotted-Line Deadline Hi Duana - I’m in a bit of a name situation with my baby girl (third girl in a family of four) who is fast approaching her name registration deadline - 1 week to go. We have leant towards Astrid Flora as her name, but I have doubts now By Duana • Mar 04, 2020 04:10 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Can It Be This Simple? Hi Duana! We are expecting a baby girl in March and while we have some ideas, we haven't settled on one yet. My husband is Indian and his last name starts with an M and ends with an A. I am generic white person (mix of European stuff) By Duana • Mar 02, 2020 04:02 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: The Name That Begins At The End Dear Duana, Guess how many people in this world have the surname Lee? Over 100 million people, and my partner for life is one of these Lees. We are expecting twin girls at the beginning of March, but are at risk of delivering sooner due to a high risk pregnancy, By Duana • Feb 21, 2020 03:49 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Embrace The Clonk Dear Duana, Before finding out we were having a girl, we had two very solid boy names selected which, although I am very excited to be having a girl, am a little bummed I will not be using these names I love so much. The first is Jack Wallace (Jack By Duana • Feb 19, 2020 04:17 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Latest (ish) and Greatest Updates Okay, this has been such a pleasurable run of updates! You know I have feelings about including siblings in the choosing of their new little family member’s names, but I support the writer of Why Is This So Hard for choosing to look for other options besides ‘Donna The By Duana • Feb 14, 2020 04:32 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: The Almost-Updates, And Updates-Plus! Welcome back to another round of name updates – I love how excited you guys have been to read these, and I especially want to thank people who have sent their own updates after seeing some of last week’s columns! One glorious thing that happens in the writing of this By Duana • Feb 12, 2020 04:14 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Friday Feeling The Updates You know, I’m considering just running updates, because frankly, the letters make us all feel so good. I mean, this is the beauty of what we do, the search for the perfect name becomes the person, who then becomes the embodiment of everything we love about the name… it’ By Duana • Feb 07, 2020 03:32 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: The Update Parade Continues… Update week continues, and part of the fun is getting to see that the fun tone in letters continues in the updates, like this one from the writer of Astounded/Euphoric/Blunt/True: DUANA! Sincerely thank you for your incredible response. If you are ever in Nebraska, or Ann Arbor By Duana • Feb 05, 2020 03:58 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: The Week You’ve Been Waiting For! It’s finally here – the week of the Oscars is upon us, and the excitement is matched by the number of things to do that demand attention (even if none of those is, you know, wondering what actually might win what). So, welcome to Update Week! Lots of you ask By Duana • Feb 03, 2020 03:42 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Timely Arrival, Name Delayed We are having a really hard time naming our now 5-day-old daughter! Pressure from relatives and friends is on! When we had our elder daughter, we spent a lot of time compiling respective lists of names we liked, virtually none of which were to be found on both lists. We By Duana • Jan 31, 2020 03:55 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Shopping for… Quirky-Lite? Hi Duana, I’m desperate for your help. Having our fourth boy in a couple of weeks (that was our last chance of having a daughter ;)) and am stumped for a name! I’ve set my mind on a unique, original name to make him extra special as the fourth By Duana • Jan 27, 2020 03:46 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Names You Would Hear On ‘Call The Midwife’ Hi Duana, I have followed your column since the very beginning. We are less than three weeks away from meeting our baby boy and we have made zero progress in naming him. Our daughter, Mathilda, took a few days to name after she arrived, but at least we had a By Duana • Jan 24, 2020 03:50 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Newly In Name Need Dearest Duana, I’m writing to you in a panic as we thought we had a name for our second daughter and now we’re not so sure. Okay, totally not sure. Our first born is Margaret “Maggie” Claire (now 21 months). Margaret is in honor of my husband’s By Duana • Jan 20, 2020 04:44 pm
Name Nerd For the Nth time… Hi Duana, I have two daughters, Neve and Neko, expecting my third daughter in a few weeks. Having two girls whose names begin with 'N' was not intentional, and it seems I am landing on 'N' names again. I will feel like a Duggar or cheeseball By Duana • Jan 17, 2020 04:06 pm
