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I'm trying a slightly new kind of NTNB. All the couples have disagreements about how to name their kids, and have to compromise. Kind of like real life, lol… I hope you guys enjoy it!

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DH: Kerry Michael Shrock (25)
DW: Tanya Justine McEwan (27)

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DS:

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Kerry and Tanya are recently married childhood sweethearts who still live in the same small town in Oregon they grew up in. Tanya has loved names all her life and chose her first son's name when she was in the 7th grade. Kerry doesn't have many favorite names, but has vetoed most of Tanya's list.

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Tanya wants their baby boy be called Andrew Emerson--she's just so, so in love with the name. But Kerry can't stand it. He strongly prefers Colton, and Tanya has admitted that she likes the name. Help them settle on a mutually agreeable combo.

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DW: Alice Rosalina Ochsner (28)
DH: Steven Paul DiMaria (30)

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DD or DS:

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Steven and Alice are a young couple living in Brooklyn: he is a New York-born Sicilian-American, while she is a California transplant of mixed French, Spanish, and German ancestry. Steven wants to name their first child after his beloved grandfather, Gianfranco. Alice wants to name it after her great-grandmother, Fernande Germaine Lucie.

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They don't know whether they are having a boy or a girl, so they'd like to prepare a name for either gender. Either way, the FN should honor one ancestor and the MN should honor the other. They're okay with translating any of the above names into Italian, French, English, or Spanish; with switching the gender of a name; or with using a variant of it.

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DW: Kathryn Elizabeth Rexrode (32)
DH: Zhenhua Feng (33)

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DS:

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Kathryn and Zhenhua are a professional couple living just outside Chicago. She was raised in suburban Indiana, and he was raised in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. They are expecting a boy, and want to honor both their cultures in his name.

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Kathryn likes popular, trendy, but generally non-kreative names, and would like to use one for the FN. Zhenhua would like his son to have a Chinese MN. You can use the Chinese name page here on BtN, but remember that Chinese FNs (like Zhenhua's) are often a combination of two smaller names.

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DH: James Richard Granberry (29)
DW: Camilla Rebecca "Milly" Vanderbilt (24)

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DD:

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James and Milly are a hippie couple living in rural Vermont. She likes her unusual, upper-crust name, but he can't stand how common his name is. They are expecting a daughter, and are not sure how they will compromise on a name for her.

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James would like her to have a name that belongs only to her. He likes one-off word names, and is inspired whenever anyone mentions the "weird" name a celebrity has given their child--he thought Apple was a great idea! Milly likes distinctive names, but would prefer something a bit more understated. She wants something that isn't a word, and has some history as a first name, though it should not been popular recently--except, perhaps, in aristocratic English birth announcements--say, in the Times of London.