Coffee and baby names. A natural union?

When a couple based in New Haven, Connecticut, could not decide on a name for their baby, they turned to the customers of their local Starbucks coffee outlet to help them make a decision.

Mark Dixon, 24, and Jennifer James, 25, were tired of trying to decide on a moniker for their unborn son, and decided to open up the decision to a public vote.

The young couple made a sign saying that their baby would be called either Jackson Logan or Logan Jackson, and put it in the New Haven Green branch of Starbucks.

Customers then wrote their vote onto a piece of ballot paper and dropped it into a coffee cup underneath the sign when they went in to pick up their coffee fix.

The couple said that they picked up the inspiration for the voting system from a Starbucks’ employee of the month system, where customers cast votes for their top employee. “We saw that and thought we might as well see how it works,” Dixon told the New Haven Register.

Almost 2,000 customers voted on the name, and, despite some odd suggestions for alternative names which include Barack Obama, Hulk Hogan and even ‘Latte’, the votes helped the couple decide on a name – Logan Jackson Dixon.