The -aden craze

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The -aden craze
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Mon, 03-03-2008 - 11:32am
How many children do you know whose names are variations of Aidan, Braeden, Cayden, Jaden, etc., and how is it spelled?
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Mon, 03-03-2008 - 12:19pm
I've taught so many kids with some form of the "aden" and now that I have a little girl and she plays with other kids a lot, we come across SO many of them - Brayden, Braden, Braeden, Jaden, Jayden, Aiden, Cayden, Hayden,...the list goes on!
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Mon, 03-03-2008 - 12:32pm

I know...


Hayden - three - ages 8 to 14
Brayden (and other spellings) - 2 - ages 6 and 19
Aiden - 1 - age 7
Caden - 2 - age 2 or so
Jayden - 1 - girl - age 4


I see the names Jayden, Caden and Brayden all the time in the birth announcements, so I know the trend is continuing here (Arkansas).

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Mon, 03-03-2008 - 12:35pm

it depends on exactly what you mean by "know" - personally, or come across in day-to-day activity


there are tons of them around whre I am - Aiden, Aidan, Aden, Braden, Brayden, Braedan, Caden, Hayden,

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Mon, 03-03-2008 - 1:22pm

Oh, gosh, I'm not sure if I can keep up with them all. A coworker from Minnesota has a granddaughter named Kayden--about four now, I think. A coworker here in Michigan has a daughter named Aidan--she's about four, too. My MIL's friends have a Braden who's five. Friends from college have the confusing family of Jaylen, Caden and Jaden (I can't keep them straight, let alone their ages.) I taught a seven-year-old Braden back in the fall. There's a small Hayden at church (I've heard him called, I'm not sure how old he is.) There are scads of Aidans around here; Jaden seems to be the runner-up in the category.

I was bored one night a while back and did the math on the Social Security site. If I'm right, one of five children born in 2006 had an -aden sound name. Yikes!


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Mon, 03-03-2008 - 1:25pm

My DH just heard an interview with a local college girl on the radio, and suggested her name to me for our little girl due in July...Ayden!!!

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Mon, 03-03-2008 - 8:29pm
I have a friend with a daughter named Braiden... its crossed. Other than that, I know one Caden (boy), and one Aiden (boy), and that's it. Not really too many of them that I have come across here.
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Mon, 03-03-2008 - 8:44pm

I work at a pediatrics office so therefore I can not even begin to count the number of Aiden's, Aaden's, Aden's, Caiden's, Caden's, Kaden's, Kaiden's, Brayden's, Braden's, Jaidyn's, Jadon's, Hayden's, Haidyn's.....etc.