Lifestyle Duana Name: Small Screen, Big Names Hi Duana. I have two daughters. My eldest is Piper - I love the name as soon as I heard it on Charmed back in the day. Thankfully, my husband liked it as well. My second daughter was supposed to be named Ivy but someone stole the name 3 weeks By Duana • Sep 03, 2013 11:33 am
Name Nerd Guess How I Feel About Axl Jack I don’t understand why people insist on doing this to me. I try to be open-minded and see a world of possibilities for everyone, not merely limiting my opinions and statements to my preferences because in addition to being pretty dicky, that’s so boring. Woo, differences! They make By Duana • Aug 30, 2013 12:52 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: How Do You Know It’s The Perfect Name? Hi Duana, A friend of mine suggested I get your opinion on the name we picked for our daughter because now that it's becoming a reality, I am starting to feel uncertain. I'm not uncertain because I don't like the name, but rather because By Duana • Aug 29, 2013 01:31 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Stalemate over Sam Hi Duana My husband and I have come to a stalemate in choosing a name for our future little man and could use a neutral 3rd party to weigh in (i.e. not family or friends). We have short listed to 4 names over the past few months (I' By Duana • Aug 27, 2013 11:52 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Cue Stills, Nash, & Young… Hi Duana, I wondered your thoughts on the boy name Crosby? The other top contenders are Bennett or Cooper. There is a whole bunch of criteria and other factors going into our decision, but I don't want to bore you with those so will just ask the basic By Duana • Aug 22, 2013 01:03 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Name We Loved Forever Duana, I am in dire need of your advice. I am due at the end of November and my husband and I have chosen to be surprised with the sex. We fairly easily came to a conclusion on a boy's name - Declan, with Dex as a nickname. By Duana • Aug 20, 2013 11:08 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: The two-name thing Hi Duana, Question for you about baby names that I haven't spotted before. Am having a girl in the fall. My husband is desperately in love with the name Sarah (hi Sarah!), but wants to add a second name to it, much like Sarah Jessica Parker or Sarah By Duana • Aug 15, 2013 12:13 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Say Terpsichore Five Times Fast Hi Duana, I'm due in two weeks with a girl and we are struggling with names. I think you will be up for the challenge. My husband is British and has a very posh last name which got him beat up quite a bit as a kid (he By Duana • Aug 13, 2013 01:09 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: One was Johnnie Hi Duana, My mother's father's name was Johnnie (not a nickname, and spelled just like that). He died a long time ago and my mother always wanted to name a son after him but she ended up having all girls. I'm expecting a girl By Duana • Aug 08, 2013 12:14 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Is Sam an honour? Hi Duana, I'm a HUGE name nerd and am so happy to be newly pregnant. I have a question about naming strategies and obligations. Here's the deal: Jewish people tend to name children after deceased relatives, to honour them. For example, if it's a By Duana • Aug 06, 2013 11:58 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: What About Rocco? Dear Duana, I'm having a hard time with my family and the name that my husband and I picked out. I have always thought my Mom’s taste to be superior to mine so it can F#$% with my thinking because she hates it. My husband and I By Duana • Aug 01, 2013 12:03 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What counts as “Common”? My husband and I are having a terrible time naming baby #2, and I was hoping I could get a second opinion to help us out (and hopefully convince him I'm right!) If it's a boy, we are set, because we both like the name Braedon By Duana • Jul 30, 2013 01:16 pm
Lifestyle Duana: In Which We Get Personal about Jacek Hi, My husband and I are expecting our first baby next year and we really like the name Jacek for a boy. And no, it's not because that's Lainey's husband's name (although that's why I'm writing in), it& By Duana • Jul 25, 2013 12:22 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession He Who Must Be Named Okay, they’ve announced it. I actually thought it would take longer, but seeing as the Queen was out to visit them relatively early this AM, I suppose she approved in plenty of time. Even the royals have to move faster in a 24-hour news cycle. George Alexander Louis, to By Duana • Jul 24, 2013 04:05 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: International Understandings Our younger daughter is going to arrive very soon and I have just found a name that my husband approves: "Adelina Lelle". Adelina means noble, Lelle means soul in Hungarian (it's not prounounced like Elle, it's more like Halle or Lel-leh). We call her By Duana • Jul 23, 2013 12:58 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Going for G Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our first baby boy and are really struggling with finding a name. We really like "Guerin" (Ga-rin), especially with the french "gue" spelling as my husband's family is French. Are we cursing our child with a By Duana • Jul 18, 2013 01:56 pm
