Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Trendy Names

Many of our friends and their friends are having babies now. Maybe there's something in the water. Anyways, a disturbing pattern that is emerging is most of these babies were given a "trendy" name such as:

  • Ethan
  • Aiden
  • Caiden, Kaiden
  • Jaden, Jaiden, Jayden
  • Rylan
  • Raiden

The formula is simple...pick some random letters and then add "an" or "en" at the end. Voila, you have a name.

It's one thing to try to give your child a somewhat unique name. It's another when every parent has the same idea with using the same trendy names.

I can picture Daniel at school in a few years and when the teacher checks the attendance, there will be 4 Caidens, 2 Rylans, 3 Ethans, and only 1 Daniel.

4 comments:

  1. Soooo true. Although I went one weird, one traditional...

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  2. I happen to like both of your daughters' names. Yes, one is traditional but it's biblical and you know how partial I am to those types of names. And the other name is a pretty name so I don't think it's weird at all.

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  3. would it be weird if i had a kid and named him hadoken, hadokin, hadocan?

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  4. Haha, yes it's weird. Though it certainly would be more unique than the trendy names I already pointed out.

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