Sammie Hanham and Kelvin Keefe struggled to find a baby name they both liked but there was one that seemed to fit - Nikau.
The Whangarei couple weren't the only ones to name their new son Nikau. The name is at the top of the boys list of the Department of Internal Affairs' most popular Maori baby names of the past year.
But Ms Hanham liked the name because it was one she had not heard a lot.
"We didn't actually realise, until we saw the post [on the Advocate Facebook page about the names], how popular it was. I hadn't heard the name being used. Kelvin thought it was pretty cool.
"We couldn't find a boy name that we liked at all. We were Googling lots of names and we decided we liked that quite a lot.