Benjamin and Margaret Myers spent the past nine months trying to agree on a baby name.
And the decision was twice as hard, considering the York Township couple decided they didn't want to know the baby's gender until birth, said Margaret Myers.
The couple gave birth to their third son, Joshua, on Friday at York Hospital.
Although Benjamin suggested the baby's name be Max, Margaret said she wanted to a continue using boys' names that had family or religious meanings. The pair's other sons are Brian, 10, and Samuel, 1.
"We had a little bit of a debate with names. ... I wanted David or Luke; he wanted Max. There's no Max in the Bible. We finally agreed on Joshua," said Margaret Myers, jokingly.
Most popular: Last year, the most popular baby name for boys across Pennsylvania was Michael, according to the Social Security Administration.
Rounding out the state's top five popular names were Jacob, Mason, Logan and Ryan.
If baby Joshua had been a girl, he would have been named Rebecca Isabella, after Margaret's mother, who passed away six months ago, she said.
Originally, the couple decided on Isabella Rebecca, she said.
"It's funny because my husband heard that Isabella was one of the most popular baby names last year and that made us change our minds on the girl's name," she said.
Topping that list: Isabella was the top baby name for girls in Pennsylvania last year. Other popular girls'
names included Sophia, Emma, Olivia and Ava, according to the Social Security Administration.
"We like the idea that our children have unique names," she said.
The most popular baby names across the county were Jacob and Isabella, which are both characters in the "Twilight" novels, according to the administration.
Jacob has been on the top 10 list for the past 12 years; Isabella scored a top name for the second year in a row.
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