Baby Name: qiana

Happy Birthday to Nancy’s Baby Names

8 Comments | 6 March 2010
The blog is four years old today! I kicked things off on March 6, 2006. My first posts were name-of-the-day posts — horrible, poorly written name-of-the-day posts. Thankfully, most are gone now. Happily deleted. (The earliest I’ve kept is a July ‘06 entry on Qiana.) Because it’s a special day, I’d like to take a moment to [...]
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Name of the Day – Qiana

18 Comments | 24 July 2006
Qiana is the brand name of a silky nylon fabric that was created by DuPont in 1968. How did DuPont come up with the name? According to Enter Qiana (a 1968 article from TIME), the “exotic sounding Qiana” was simply “a computerized combination of random letters.” During the 1970s, Qiana was often used to make men’s [...]
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