I’m seeing this so many times… Like Aiden, Caiden, Braiden, Jaiden, Paiden…
Aiden is tradition Gaelic and it means “fire”. Caiden is also Gaelic meaning “battle” Braiden is Gaelic meaning “salmon” Jayden is Hebrew for “God will judge” Hayden is old English meaning “hedged valley”
I’d like to see your source for those. I don’t know Gaelic so I can’t fact check those ones, but I do know a bit of Hebrew, and names that mean ‘God X’ usually end in el, not en. Also, Hebrew doesn’t have an English J sound, it has the IPA J sound though, or English Y sound. The Hebrew word for judge is ‘shofet’.
Probably taken from this.
The name is probably a modern invention, formed by blending the “Jay” sound from the 1970s-popular name Jason with the “den” sound from names like Braden, Hayden, Jordan and Zayden.[1] The biblical name Jadon (or Yadon), Hebrew for “he will judge”, appears in the Bible in Nehemiah 3:7,[2] but it is unlikely to be the source of the modern name.[1]
So I’m guessing it’s a combination of dun/den/tun etc being a common suffix in a lot of historical languages, and ‘ei’ being an extremely common diphthong worldwide just… leading to a lot of similar-sounding names that also converge in spelling in modern English?
Meanwhile, in Utah, a pair of new parents are becoming really charmed by the idea of ‘Brexit’ as a name for their next child.
This has all happened before and it will all happen again.
I feel all wrong now because you decided not to list the first three in alphabetic order.
just a naming trend. it will phase out given some time.
As usual…who cares what someone names their kid even if it sounds dumb to you don’t worry about it go live your life not worrying about this shit.
It’s okay to be curious about the world - wanting to understand is not the same thing as wanting to judge or prevent.
Honestly just curious about this current naming tend
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Maiden, Raiden
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Hayden
Jesus Christ… Sometimes I think that maybe having restrictions on what you can name your child is actually a good idea.
You forgot the best one, Okayden.
Paiden? That’s a weird one. Payme on the other hand, now that’s a good name.
Payme Não
I knew someone with that name. Or at least I assume that was her name because she kept repeating it, like a Pokémon. Incidentally, she was a sex worker.
she was just trying to tell you, that she didn’t want to get paid
Ah, a lesser known Daft Punk song.
The Karen haircut makes that picture
That’s a Super Saiyan Karen!
she’s got over 9000 posts on Facebook!
Wow, and the kids are in Thin Blue Line shirts. What a weird family.
The names, the Karen haircut, the shirts…
Chef’s kiss, all that was left were some MAGA hats, maybe a confederate flag.
This looks like a parody. It’s just too perfect.
In a few years, they’ll all be posing with AK-47s or similar
Jesus Christ on a motorbike, that picture just SCREAMS “upper middle class 2008 suburban white family”.
I bet they have a large wooden deck out back, an above-ground pool, and a trampoline with one of those safety net cages.
She’s a chicken! Run!
I would feel bad for Zayden, except that in an alternate timeline where his father was named Brad, Zayden would have been
bannednamed Hunter. So it could be worse. I would rather be Zayden than Hunter.I work with two guys named Hunter and they’re very cool
Most Hunters I’ve met are pretty cool. Can’t say the same about Drew’s, Brock’s, or Clayton’s, but I feel like those are becoming more uncommon as I get older.
The only Clayton I know is Clayton Bigsby.
I understand the pushback against names like this, and concern for kids receiving these names, but I think it is misdirected. Ya, sure, maybe sometimes the name is literally made up, or in other cases has multiple variations on a theme, but anyone with immigration in their ancestry can tell you that naming conventions do not always move well to other countries. In the USA, we have multiple spellings for names like Muhammed and Dermitt because of this. I don’t see why this is a big deal and think it potentially enriches culture.
Those are the names given to the children of all the teenagers I knew who got pregnant in my high school, so they always just remind me of teen pregnancy.
Unique names and spellings became popular in the US during the 70s as part of the Black Power movement. The politically conscious black parents didn’t want to name their children European names, for some reason. The problem is that these black parents had no cultural link to Africa because that had been stolen from them.
Fist came Arab names. I presume this has to do with the NOI and the black celebrities who converted to it. Some of these names are still popular like Omar and Jamal. Of course Black Americans have no more connection to Islam than they do to Christianity, So black parents just started making new names for their children.
American popular culture tends to incubate in the black community and slowly drift into white culture. So it has gone with the unique baby names.
very good answer. white people have tried to take everything from the black community, and now the names…
