I’m seeing this so many times… Like Aiden, Caiden, Braiden, Jaiden, Paiden…
what is with child names like Aiden, Braiden etc?
Submitted 3 months ago by buzz86us@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 3 months ago
rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com 3 months ago
Wow, and the kids are in Thin Blue Line shirts. What a weird family.
frunch@lemmy.world 3 months ago
In a few years, they’ll all be posing with AK-47s or similar
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
The names, the Karen haircut, the shirts…
_Chef’s kiss, all that was left were some MAGA hats.
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 3 months ago
This looks like a parody. It’s just too perfect.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 months ago
I would feel bad for Zayden, except that in an alternate timeline where his father was named Brad, Zayden would have been banned Hunter. So it could be worse. I would rather be Zayden than Hunter.
azulavoir@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I work with two guys named Hunter and they’re very cool
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Jesus Christ on a motorbike, that picture just SCREAMS “upper middle class 2008 suburban white family” for some reason.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 months ago
She’s a chicken! Run!
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Here are my two sons Aiden and Abettin.
EABOD25@lemm.ee 3 months ago
If I remember correctly, Aiden is tradition Gaelic and it means fire. All the other names are probably white hipster offshoots from Aiden
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 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 3 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 3 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?
yesman@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 months ago
very good answer.
spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ashleigh, Raileigh, Kaileigh
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 3 months ago
When i read that i imagined that scene i. Fear and loathing in las vegas when they sniffed ether.
hperrin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You forgot the best one, Okayden.
Plopp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Paiden? That’s a weird one. Payme on the other hand, now that’s a good name.
kambusha@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Payme Não
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
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.
xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
What’s with your name, buzz?
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 3 months ago
Ah, a lesser known Daft Punk song.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
It’s the male version of adding -lin to the end of a name.
christophski@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Never heard of this, what are some examples? Maybe caitlin?
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I don’t think there’s any history, it was just popular in the midwest in the 2000s
Caitlyn, Kaylin, Ashlin, Jaylin, Roselin, Jaquelin, Shaelin. Same with adding “leigh”
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
You take a common name and add “lin” or any variation of that sound at the end.
The only example I have at the top of my head is Jessica-Lyn because I knew one person with that name in the past, but you get the gist.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
Those are the names given to the children of all the teenagers I knew who got pregnant in high school.
angrystego@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I feel all wrong now because you decided not to list the first three in alphabetic order.
Travelator@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
[deleted]flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Some of these parents need their head examined
JackiesFridge@lemmy.world 3 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.
recapitated@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Like all the other sounds that come out of your face, what could be up with it?
meyotch@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
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.
Surp@lemmy.world 3 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.
KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s okay to be curious about the world - wanting to understand is not the same thing as wanting to judge or prevent.
buzz86us@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Honestly just curious about this current naming tend
rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com 3 months ago
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.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Everyone who played Mass Effect is sad about what happened to Kaiden Alenko and wants to bring him back.
leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 3 months ago
just a naming trend. it will phase out given some time.
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Jesus Christ… Sometimes I think that maybe having restrictions on what you can name your child is actually a good idea.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 3 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.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Okayden
ulkesh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This deserves way more upvotes.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 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.
Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
“Approved name list”? What the actual fuck?