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 before 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 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. My 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, 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 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 By Duana • Jul 18, 2013 01:56 pm
