I've remarked often over the years how many __adens there are in/around my daughter's age group. I've joked that every sporting event, awards ceremony, etc sounds like an attempt to see how many letter combinations will fit in front of __aden. Aiden, Brayden, Trayden, Jayden, Rayden and Hayden are probably the most common but there are others; so many others, and some of them are incredible. My daughter goes to school with people named such things as Slayden, Shaden, Spayden, Kayden, Tayden, Grayden, Layden, Blayden, Zayden, and Stayden. That's not all, there's more but I can't think of them all and I'm sure you get the picture.
Last week at my daughter's 15th birthday party, the magnitude of it really hit me as her boyfriend Aiden was standing next to a kid who had just introduced himself as Hayden, who says to another boy "hey Kaden, is Jayden's phone still broke? He still isn't answering. I think he's with Hayden (different kid, same name as himself) but he won't answer either." That was eerie but it got worse, as it dawned on me that out of the 6 boys who were at my house, 5 of them were __adens, and they were trying to rally more __adens to come. The jokes just wouldn't come anymore. They no longer seemed funny.
We live in a small town and it feels like an __aden twilight zone to me now and I can't shake it. I'm thinking this must be an isolated thing; it can't be across the nation. A localized feedback loop that resulted in an explosion of __adens, just here. I'm sure there are just as many __aden names on the outside but there's no way they come up as frequently as this. Am I wrong? Is this thing everywhere? I'm talking about no less than 1/3 of the boys having __aden names, possibly closer to 1/2, no exaggeration.
Is your locality the same?
Last week at my daughter's 15th birthday party, the magnitude of it really hit me as her boyfriend Aiden was standing next to a kid who had just introduced himself as Hayden, who says to another boy "hey Kaden, is Jayden's phone still broke? He still isn't answering. I think he's with Hayden (different kid, same name as himself) but he won't answer either." That was eerie but it got worse, as it dawned on me that out of the 6 boys who were at my house, 5 of them were __adens, and they were trying to rally more __adens to come. The jokes just wouldn't come anymore. They no longer seemed funny.
We live in a small town and it feels like an __aden twilight zone to me now and I can't shake it. I'm thinking this must be an isolated thing; it can't be across the nation. A localized feedback loop that resulted in an explosion of __adens, just here. I'm sure there are just as many __aden names on the outside but there's no way they come up as frequently as this. Am I wrong? Is this thing everywhere? I'm talking about no less than 1/3 of the boys having __aden names, possibly closer to 1/2, no exaggeration.
Is your locality the same?