Lifestyle Duana Names: The Deal on Daley Hi Duana, We are expecting our second son this June. We had a girl name picked out (Daphne), but no boy names. Our first son is named Eugene James after his grandfathers and goes by E.J. I'm sure you can see our last name on my email. By Duana • Feb 25, 2015 01:39 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: MacGyver names Hi Duana, I am desperate for your help. We are expecting our second child mid-March, a girl, and we are at a complete loss for a name. Our first child, Leo (now 4 years old), was named very quickly and easily. We knew he was a boy, and it was By Duana • Feb 18, 2015 12:31 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Final Four Greetings Duana! My husband and I are expecting #2 (a girl) and are looking for some unbiased insight on some of our ideas. We both are drawn to more traditional names over limited edition/new age ones. Also I am cautious about anything too popular (although I like many of By Duana • Feb 17, 2015 03:07 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession James Lively Reynolds This is ridiculous. This? This is what we were waiting for, all cutesy-poo ‘we can’t tell you’ secret baby names and nurses under-gag-order styles? James? James Reynolds. Or Lively Reynolds. Or whatnot. I mean, it’s still only from E! via ‘a source’, but I think that source is By Duana • Feb 12, 2015 02:05 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: On Her Behalf Hi Duana I am writing on behalf of a friend of mine who is expecting a baby girl in early March. She would love your name suggestions but delegated the e-mail writing to me :) She and her husband are Italian-Canadian and already have a little guy named Nathaniel (Nate). Their By Duana • Feb 11, 2015 02:04 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The perfect-fit solution We are expecting a boy and are at a loss with names. We want to avoid anything too popular (i.e., a lot of the 2 syllable names ending in “n”) but then again, my husband won’t go for anything too unusual either. We already have a 2.5 By Duana • Feb 09, 2015 02:09 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Why Do You Hate Evelyn? Hi Duana, Quick question - why do I keep clocking Evelyn hate in your column? We have a sister for Lily on the way and love little Evelyn/Evie for her but I have detected some snark about it and it's concerning me. We live in Australia and By Duana • Feb 06, 2015 12:34 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Something Other Than Sophie Hi Duana, Like seemingly 90% of the expectant parents that write in for help I am all set with a name for one gender but not the other. I'm in need of inspiration for a classic girl's name to go with older sister Lucy Eleanor and By Duana • Feb 04, 2015 11:36 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: End with a Y? Hi Duana, We recently found out we are pregnant with our third, due in the spring, and husband and I are pretty far apart on names this time around so we're going to need some help! We already have one of each, Evey Naomi, 7, and Johnny Struan, By Duana • Feb 02, 2015 02:08 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Art O’Porter Chris O’Dowd and Dawn O’Porter named their baby son Art O’Porter, and here is the picture they tweeted of him: Come on! Usually I don’t comment on last names, because the acquisition of those is less a choice by the parents than an inheritance from generations By Duana • Feb 02, 2015 12:12 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Joyful Joyful Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our first child, a girl, in early February. If we were having a boy, I would be emailing you for help with first names because that was quite the debate but thankfully, we settled on Colette as our daughter's name By Duana • Jan 30, 2015 03:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: It Works If You Work It My husband and I are having our first child this winter and I am stressing about names. My husband's last name is very Italian, filled with lots of M's and r's and syllables. Many of my longtime favorite names for girls (Zara, Cecelia) are By Duana • Jan 28, 2015 12:06 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What if It’s Not Him? Hi Duana, We are expecting Baby #3 in early 2015! Our son's name is Timothy, and our daughter's name is Anna. The boy's name is decided - it was set the last go-round (Henry Xavier) - but we are having some trouble with a By Duana • Jan 26, 2015 02:55 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Is Lainey Old? Hi Duana, My husband and I don't know the sex of the baby yet, we are still too early along. But I'm the kind of planner that as soon as we know- I want to be armed and ready to assign our baby with the perfect By Duana • Jan 23, 2015 11:16 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Are We Missing Out? Ooooh Duana, I wouldn’t consider myself in a name conflict with my husband, but I’m worried the short list has already been created and we’re missing out on other great names because we’ve basically stopped looking. Background, I’m 6 months pregnant with our first, last By Duana • Jan 21, 2015 02:02 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Middle Names Are Like Summer Camp Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our second child - another boy - this spring. Our front runner for baby # 2 is Nolan - likely to be the eventual winner but I don't like officially naming a baby until it's here. I'm By Duana • Jan 19, 2015 02:47 pm
