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I've tentatively decided on having 10 rounds. Thanks to everyone who played round 1! It was hard to choose between all the great names.

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P.S. I added one more family to the game.

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The Harper/Laurence Family (Montana, USA)

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Gf: Amanda Nicole Laurence [29]
Bf: Patrick Jason Harper [28]

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D: Susannah Marigold Laurence-Harper "Sunny" [3] (glassmidnight)
D or S: [exp]

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Amanda and Patrick are expecting again three years after the birth of the daughter Sunny. As before, they've decided not to find out the sex so they'll need a boys' name and a girls' name. The baby's first name does not rank in the US 2014 top 1000, but it's not totally unheard of or too difficult to spell/pronounce. A cute nickname like Sunny would be nice too. If it's a boy, the middle name should be related to water and if it's a girl, the middle name should be floral. The baby's last name is Laurence-Harper.

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The Garrett Family (Vermont, USA)

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W: Jamie Elizabeth [Barlow] Garrett [31]
H: Jordan Matthew Garrett [31]

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D: Josephine Claire Garrett "Joey" [2] (SugarPlumFairy)
S:

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Jamie and Jordan are expecting a baby boy. They're both pleased with the compromise they arrived at for Joey's name. Their son should have a clearly masculine first name with a unisex nickname, and they would prefer that it not start with J.

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The Mitchell Family (California, USA)

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Mom: Laura Anne Mitchell [35]

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AS: Lucas Modesto Charles Mitchell [5] (Guatemala) (SugarPlumFairy)
AS: [3] (Guatemala)

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Shortly after bringing Lucas home, Laura got a call from her adoption agency saying that Lucas' birth parents had recently placed their new baby for adoption and was she interested? Of course she said yes, so she and Lucas traveled back to Guatemala to meet his younger sibling. The baby, a boy, is now three years old. His birth name is Santiago and Laura was undecided if she wanted to keep it up front or, like she did with Lucas, move it to the middle and choose a different Spanish name as the new first name. You decide what she ended up doing.

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If she kept Santiago as the first name, his first middle name is Spanish. If she chose a new first name, Santiago is his first middle name. Either way, his second middle name should honor either Laura's mother, Linda Mary, or one of her siblings, Joseph Michael and Beatrice Jane.

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The Chen Family (Ontario, Canada)

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H: Huang Chen [35]
W: Jessica Lynn Bailey [34]

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D/S: Hua-Ning Chen "Lily" / Bao-Zhi Chen "Robert" [4] (findthesea)
D: [nb]

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Jessica gave birth to a daughter shortly after Lily and Robert turned four. She and Huang are happy that their children have an English name for school and Jessica's family to use and a Chinese name for Huang's family to use, so they'd like to continue that with their newborn daughter. She should have either an English first name and two hyphenated Chinese middle names OR a hyphenated Chinese name with an English nickname. The two Chinese names should make a pleasant phrase together like Hua-Ning and Bao-Zhi.

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The English name should not start H, J, L, or R. The Chinese names can start with any letter.

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The Anderson/Katz Family (Haifa, Israel)

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H: Henry Noel Anderson [27]
W: Rina Ayelet Katz [27]

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D: [nb]

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Henry and Rina recently welcomed a newborn daughter. Rina was born and raised in Israel and Henry is American. They met and fell in love while Rina was studying abroad at Henry's university, and after graduation Henry moved to Israel with Rina.

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Henry is a lapsed Christian and Rina, like many Israelis, is culturally but not religiously Jewish. They would like their daughter's first and middle name to fit in well with the secular Israeli community, which means avoiding most of the traditionally Jewish names that are popular in America (Miriam, Esther, etc). You can find some modern Israeli names here:
http://tekeli.li/onomastikon/Middle-East/Jewish/Modern.html
http://nameberry.com/blog/israeli-baby-names
http://www.amotherinisrael.com/top-20-israeli-baby-names-for-girls-2010/ (they do not want a name with an H denoting Haredi next to it)

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The baby's last name will be Katz, as Anderson does not work very well in Hebrew.