U.S. couple get Starbucks patrons to vote on baby name

Logan Jackson Dixon is most likely the first baby named by crowd-sourcing a bunch of Starbucks drinkers.

A Connecticut couple named their son by polling customers at the local Starbucks they frequent. After using a coffee cup that acted as a ballot box, the couple got customers to vote for either Logan or Jackson. In the end they received more than 1,800 votes, reports New Haven Register.

The name Logan came out on top, although both names ultimately won because Jackson became the middle name.

Some customers were even cheeky enough to write "Neither" for their vote and give suggestions for a different name.

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Jennifer James, 25, and Mark Dixon, 24, met at a party when they were 18. They have been together for the last three years.

They have saved nearly every single ballot vote and plan to glue them together into a collage for a baby scrapbook. The slips of paper along with newspaper clippings leading up to Logan's birth will be saved for him to see when he is older.

“He’s going to love it. We’ll tell him we read the paper every day. Everything that we see we cut out for him,” his father says.

The idea of crowd-sourcing a baby name is not as uncommon as one might think.

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In 2011, a Vancouver couple used the site PickyDomains.com, which typically names business, to name their baby boy.

And in 2008, a Google engineer from California crowd-sourced his baby's name by creating an online poll on his blog.

There is also a website called BellyBallot that is exclusively devoted to naming ones baby by crowd-sourcing family and friends.