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Jayden

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LBNM19 · 31/05/2014 21:52

Finding it really hard to pick a boys name, I've got a little boy called Louie and thinking of Jayden for this one could be shortend to J or middle name will be Joseph as that's my dads name so Jayden Joseph could also be JJ. Honest opinions please :)

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bellediva · 31/05/2014 23:00

Will smith's son spells it Jaden, which I think is lovely. Jackson is also pretty cool.

EatShitDerek · 31/05/2014 23:00

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elQuintoConyo · 31/05/2014 23:00

I had a very fashionable cardigan called Derek in the late 90s. He was from a shop in France, so obv very posh Grin

EatShitDerek · 31/05/2014 23:00

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Maryz · 31/05/2014 22:59

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elQuintoConyo · 31/05/2014 22:58

Well no, actually. You'd be MC if your nn was EatShitDerekForLuncheon

Spero · 31/05/2014 22:57

I dare not share my full reactions to the name Derek.

But I do immediately think of Derek and Clive.

RiverTam · 31/05/2014 22:56

don't like Jayden (and I think it will date very quickly, and I say that as someone with a very dated name) and I really hate Jay as a nickname for any name. Joseph is nice but again I can't bear Joe. Picky picky picky.

EatShitDerek · 31/05/2014 22:55

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manicinsomniac · 31/05/2014 22:55

I quite like both Jayden and Joseph but not together. I agree that, to many, Jayden has negative associations but the sound of the name itself is, I think, really nice.

The 'problem' with Jayden is that it will immediately mark him out as 'not middle class'.

That might be true in general but not always. I taught a Jayden in a private school (posh private school too). Interestingly his brother was Joleyon which has just come up as a name with the reverse 'connotation'. Maybe that family just liked to mess with people's stereotyping!

Spero · 31/05/2014 22:55

I said chav scum - in the context of I would not think that someone called Jayden was chav scum

I was using the words to illustrate the reactions of some.

Not saying I signed up to it.

sorry if that wasn't clear.

elQuintoConyo · 31/05/2014 22:54

Nowt wrong with Paul but Derek, on the other hand

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Spero · 31/05/2014 22:54

And if the rivers flowed chocolate and George Clooney proposed to me everything would be great.

Trouble is, I see no signs at all of us all evolving into one lovely amorphous ball of classless society.

All I see is that when my daughter went to one school in one area all her school friends had certain names. And now she goes to a posh school in a posh area, they don't.

elQuintoConyo · 31/05/2014 22:52

I think the name Joseph eats balls.

The more I hear the name Jaden, the more I like it.

Whoever upthread ^^ said chav scum could you just fuck off with the c-word although saying it rather marks you out as one, so thanks for the heads up

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fledermaus · 31/05/2014 22:50

Jayden is very trendy at the moment. I like Jay though.

How about Joey?

FidelineandFumblin · 31/05/2014 22:48

The point is Derek none of us know everything so none of us can be aware of all connotations and names do matter.

ashtrayheart · 31/05/2014 22:47

My unused boys names were Daniel Jude (glad I didn't end up with a boy on that occasion!) and Aiden.

Spero · 31/05/2014 22:47

Well done Derek.

But this op HAS asked for faceless strangers on the internet to give their honest opinions, so I am giving mine.

It is horrible that people judge. But names have power. And I think some parents do need to think a bit harder about the names they choose. I particularly dislike excessively cutsie names for little girls for example. I don't think that is fair to the child. I wouldn't want to be a 40 years old Polly Wolly Doodle or whatever these celebrities are calling their children now.

FidelineandFumblin · 31/05/2014 22:47

Oh I think I misread.

Still a bit stunned by the revelation that Jonty is posh - the two I know are quite alternative.

EatShitDerek · 31/05/2014 22:44

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Viviennemary · 31/05/2014 22:44

I'm not keen either I'm afraid. But their are worse names on MN.

FidelineandFumblin · 31/05/2014 22:44

I have long thought usual that one of the reasons theat Jack George Henry Oliver etc became so popular is that they were classless (or at least worked fairly well across classes) which fitted with the new egalitarianism anti-child-poverty agenda at that time. Now it seems, people either want to go to extremes or sit firmly in the middle. It is hard to find a boys name that hasn't been done to death that ISN'T either WC or upper middle.

indie123 · 31/05/2014 22:43

Don't like jayden...i used to but it's become way too common. I would go for a name like James. My cousin is called James and his dad calls him Jim as a nickname..i think it would flow well with Joseph.

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LBNM19 · 31/05/2014 22:43

I love Josh & Jacob but can't use them as my cousins childrens names, some of the other names suggested I actually think are terrible, but to be honest everyone has there personal opinions.

I wouldn't use Joseph for a first name as its my dads and brothers name , if my brother ever has a son he would probably like to use it, but defiantly want it as a middle name as my son Louie has my grandads name as he's middle name, my dad was quite upset I didn't use he's for Louie.

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