I’m seeing this so many times… Like Aiden, Caiden, Braiden, Jaiden, Paiden…

    • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Jesus Christ… Sometimes I think that maybe having restrictions on what you can name your child is actually a good idea.

  • Travelator@thelemmy.club
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    2 months ago

    I work with two guys named “Brayden”. One of them is a ginger. Both of them are nasty assholes and pissed off all the time. I guess I would be too if I were cursed with that name.

    But lots of people have gotten past unfortunate given names. “Rich” for example.

  • JordanZ@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    After I moved to Utah I just stopped asking questions and got used to the fact that you will misspell people’s names. They were making fun of it a decade ago….

  • Jackie's Fridge@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s been around for a while. Over a decade ago Target ran a cheeky back to school advert featuring a slow pan across school cubbies with lunch pails all labelled with variant spellings of “Braiden”. I thought it was hilarious.

  • EABOD25@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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”

    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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’.

      • lath@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        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]

    • BJHanssen@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      So I’m guessing it’s a combination of dun/den/tun etc being a common suffix in a lot of hustorical 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?

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    There’s a well-studied phenomenon called “social diffusion”. People of higher socioeconomic status seek out novel, unique, or fashionable baby names and start using them. These names gradually get picked up by families of lower socioeconomic status. Eventually the names become mainstream, and then finally decline in popularity.

    • Dr. Bob@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Social diffusion is an explanation of how information spreads, not just names.

      My understanding is that unique names and neologism have long been a feature of African-American culture where North American Caucasians followed a family naming tradition. I think what has happened is some celebrities have moved towards a unique name scheme. But it feels like a mainstreaming of AA culture more than anything.

      The impetus has been there in Europe. Many nations have/had very restrictive rules about names. They’d only have rules against it if people were trying to do it. I had Swiss friends who were very excited that their daughter was born in Canada so they could name her “Sora” which wasn’t in the approved name list in Switzerland.

  • Plopp@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Paiden? That’s a weird one. Payme on the other hand, now that’s a good name.

  • Surp@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.