Name Nerd Duana Names: When He’s Stuck In A Junior-High Haze… Hi Duana, We are expecting our second child at the end of June and just can’t find a name that clicks for us. Our first is Benjamin. This time around we are having a girl. I gravitate towards grandma and/or Irish names, my husband adores anything from the By Duana • Jun 05, 2019 04:25 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Lost That Loving Feeling Hi Duana, My daughter's name is Adelaide Vance which I love. We had Adelaide picked out as a girl's name for years (Addie for short) and Vance is a middle name in my family given to first born girls. Now I'm pregnant with a By Duana • Jun 03, 2019 04:28 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Is It Evil? And…Is that Bad? Hi Duana! We’re expecting our third kid in June. We already have a boy and girl and I swear we have already vetoed every dang name there is! We don’t want something super popular because my husband has a very common 80’s boy name and hated using By Duana • May 31, 2019 04:10 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Secrets Of His Success Hi Duana, My friend Hafida is having a baby boy at the end of May, and is a bit stuck for names. The baby's big sister is Sophia. His father is Samir, and the family's background is Moroccan origin, but they live in the Netherlands. My By Duana • May 29, 2019 04:58 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Astounded / Euphoric / Blunt / True Dear Duana - LONG time reader, first time writer. Potential meltdown haver. Love your taste, and your advice would be a HUGE help. I live in the middle of conservative America, but I am part of a liberal-yuppie-hint-of-hipster-crew. I hate that I just wrote that, but I’m self aware. By Duana • May 27, 2019 03:42 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: I Push Because I Love Hi Duana, We are expecting our second daughter in a few weeks and haven’t yet settled on a name. For our first daughter, her name came super easily. We both had really liked the name Serena and it was the natural choice - we hadn’t really thought of By Duana • May 24, 2019 04:21 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What About Love? Hey Duana! We are expecting late spring this year, and don’t know what gender the baby will be. The longer I sit on names, the less they seem to appeal to me... we do want names that would be easily said in English or French. Ages ago, we came By Duana • May 17, 2019 04:33 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Name Update Fire Sale! I’ve amassed quite a few name updates and I don’t want to always wait for a busy day or relevant reason to deploy them, so let’s just assume today is all of those things, and get right to them! Here’s the update to ‘Permission Slip – Check By Duana • May 15, 2019 04:20 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Chew On This Dear Duana, A very good friend of mine is due to give birth to baby #3 next week. She massively struggles with names (this is the text she sent me earlier today: "Why is naming a human soooo difficult???"), but she and her partner did an exceptional job By Duana • May 13, 2019 04:20 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Best Of All Worlds Hi Duana! I had written to you months ago about baby #3 due in May (not knowing what the baby’s gender would be) and stressing about what to name the babe if it was a boy. We loved the name Isaiah but it is way to similar to our By Duana • May 06, 2019 04:00 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Walk The Line Hi, We are expecting our first child any day now and we don’t know the baby’s gender. We have a boy name picked out already. My husband seems to like very feminine names [for girls] that end in “a” (his favorite is Shoshana), and I tend to like By Duana • May 03, 2019 04:16 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can My Son Have A Girls’ Name? Dear Duana, Help! We're expecting our second boy in a week [Duana: less than that now, since I got this letter a few days ago] and we've finally found a name that we like. The problem is that it is much more common as a girl& By Duana • Apr 29, 2019 04:31 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: One Name Fits None? Plus Unisex Updates! Hi Duana! I am due to have our 2nd child in late April, and I really think I need your help! Our daughter is called Alexandra. She’s 3 and I love her name, and a lot of the reason we chose it was the flexibility it affords. On its By Duana • Apr 26, 2019 04:55 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Name Habits of Secret Book Nerds Hi Duana! We're getting close to the due date and I can no longer tell if something I thought was too gimmicky actually isn't, or if it's just the pressure of not having a name that's making me fuzzy. I need some By Duana • Apr 24, 2019 04:31 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Does This Name Make Me Narcissa? Hi Duana, I am pregnant with my first. We’re not going to be finding out the baby's sex. While my partner and I agree on our boys’ names, I'm struggling with the idea that some of my top picks for girls will be too matchy-matchy By Duana • Apr 15, 2019 04:10 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Is Anything/Everything Unisex? Dear Duana, Thanks for existing. I’m having my second child, a baby girl, in three weeks’ time (my due date got brought forward by a month! sorry about the short lead time). We’re struggling for names. Our first daughter is 6 years old and called Quinn. I love By Duana • Apr 12, 2019 05:18 pm
