Lifestyle Duana Names: Completing the Set Hi Duana, I am writing on behalf of my sister who is in desperate need of a girl name. It's her 4th baby so as you can imagine it just gets harder after each one to pick the next name. This will be the 3rd girl. The other By Duana • May 11, 2015 02:16 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can An Adult Change Names? Hi Duana, I love reading your Name Nerd column! I find it fascinating how names have certain connotations/perceptions and how this spills over to personality formation, career developments, etc... In my situation, my legal name first name is Tri, middle name is Duc, last name is Luong. My full By Duana • May 08, 2015 01:44 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Like…How Early In May? Duana, please help! I'm expecting my second in early May. We don't know if it will be a boy or girl. We have one daughter named Eliza, which is a pretty special name in my family. I thought it was unusual when we picked it almost By Duana • May 06, 2015 02:17 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Natural Woman Duana, Our first baby, a girl is due mid-May and we still don't have a name which is stressing me so much that I might go into labor early. I am French and studied French literature at university. I have a long time obsession with Victor Hugo and By Duana • May 01, 2015 03:00 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Legend of Jerry Gary Hi there, this one is for Duana- We recently made some life changes and moved back to a town to look for a home. Because I don't want to rent in the interim, we are living with my husband's parents (never thought I'd be By Duana • Apr 29, 2015 02:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: “Spring” Name Update The thing with the updates isn’t just that you tell me I was right or wrong, or that you write in (and between 6-12 months seems to be around when people are able to update, in case you’re waiting on tenterhooks to hear how it went for one By Duana • Apr 24, 2015 11:21 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Rome It Up I am due with our first baby in about 6 weeks and am in desperate need of some help with a boy name. We are keeping the sex a surprise, and have been decided on a girl name for months now. For some reason, we are getting no where with By Duana • Apr 22, 2015 02:45 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Labelling a Take Home Baby Duana, We have our first name picked out for our girl both middle name (three syllables and then one). Both are very pretty, classical but not overused - maybe both in the 250 range of most popular. The issue I am having is the last name-hyphenation issue. My boyfriend and By Duana • Apr 20, 2015 12:54 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What’s Wrong With July? Spring is ploughing ahead, which brought a random query into my head: so April, May, June, August... All very popular names. Why not July then? It's got a nice flow and ring to it, and in so many countries July is the best holiday month - hot and By Duana • Apr 17, 2015 01:58 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: If The Shoe Fits (SORRY) Hi there Duana, I'm due with a boy in about a month and for the last, pretty much 8 months, my husband and I were dead set on a name and, while I read your column religiously, I thought that I would never need your help. But of By Duana • Apr 15, 2015 03:17 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: A Spring Sister *with apologies to those in the south, where Spring has been alive and well for awhile Hi Duana, We are expecting our 2nd child late this Spring and were excited to find out it is a girl. We currently have a son and his name is Remy. We absolutely love By Duana • Apr 13, 2015 01:08 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Silas Randall Timberlake Once Upon A Time, a boy named Justin met a girl named Jessica, and they fell in love and got married. Of course they did. Because Jessica was the number one girls’ name for years and years – taking over from Jennifer. And Justin, while it was never as popular, is By Duana • Apr 13, 2015 11:42 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Prayer for the Weary Hi Duana, I write to you as a disillusioned name nerd. I've been looking forward to naming a baby for a long time, but now that my husband and I are expecting a little boy, it turns out to be a lot harder and less fun than I By Duana • Apr 10, 2015 02:13 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: All the ‘Good’ Names Hi Duana, Almost 10 years after the birth of our first daughter, Lily, my husband and I are expecting a second baby girl. This pregnancy was a very big surprise, since, as the result of a complications from a chronic disease, I was told I couldn't have any By Duana • Apr 08, 2015 03:38 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Half the Choices is Still Many Choices Hi Duana My due date is fast approaching on May 17. My husband and I are expecting a boy and having a hard time agreeing on a name. I initially didn't want to know the sex, but picking names turned out to be so difficult that I needed By Duana • Apr 06, 2015 11:39 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Fun with Syllables Dear Duana, I am having my fourth baby in July. I have boy/girl twins who are four named Annabelle Rae (b/c I have always loved Annabelle and Rae is my mom’s middle name) and Stephen Michael (after my dad). Our two year old girl is Beatrice Elizabeth By Duana • Apr 02, 2015 12:57 pm
