What would you do...

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I was chatting to a friend, who is still some way off from having kids, about baby names. She was saying it was probably a good thing because she and her current partner have totally different ideas on a good name and she wasn't sure they'd ever be able to compromise.

At first, I thought 'there must be one name in the whole world that you agree on' but talking to her, she and he clearly have totally different naming styles. Everything she likes he hates and vice verca. She likes what she calls 'classic' names and he calls 'old fashioned' names. He likes what he calls 'unusual' names and what she calls 'weird for the sake of weird'.

So, what would you do? Do you try and find a compromise name that neither of you really like, do you accept that one of you will just hate your childs name, do you let one pick the first name and one the middle?

If it helps put this in to context, her first choice names were Elizabeth Katherine and Michael Dylan, and his were Shaunice McKenzie and Caine. I can see why this mightbe difficult to navigate...