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Gideon or Jadon?

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user1491070688 · 01/04/2017 19:24

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anon050 · 02/04/2017 12:54

Gideon.

greeeen · 02/04/2017 10:11

Seems like I'm in the minority but I like Gideon.

Orangebird69 · 02/04/2017 02:26

Love Gideon. Jadon, right or wrong, looks like an 'indervijewel' spelling of Jayden. Which is horrendous.

reuset · 02/04/2017 02:18

I think Jadon is probably preferable here.

I hate all this thing on MN about putting names down and calling them 'chavy' or ''poncy'. I used to think the same many years ago but a combination and expierence has taught me to be open minded.

Yes! Lazy language too.

reuset · 02/04/2017 02:15

Giddy is not good.

Jadon isn't usually well liked on here, OP, because of similarity to Jayden and variants. So we have a frying pan or fire situation. Grin

TwentyCups · 02/04/2017 02:07

Gideon really is a bad name IMO.

I really like Jadon. Also like Isaiah if you want something biblical that has a modern feel.

MommaGee · 02/04/2017 01:55

I love Gideon

ColouringMandalas · 02/04/2017 00:56

My dad was called Gideon. He always used his middle name instead. He got so much stick for it at school, then the hotel bible thing finished it off.

Name swap didn't stop him from being a cheater, wife beater, child abandoner, gambling addict, bankrupt and all round lying cunt weasel though

fandabbydozier · 02/04/2017 00:52

Neither. Not keen on either OP sorry!

Pigwitch · 02/04/2017 00:49

Both horrid

hoddtastic · 02/04/2017 00:47

both are really bad for different reasons.

Sophronia · 02/04/2017 00:45

Jadon. I don't like the "giddy" sound in Gideon.

Ohyesiam · 01/04/2017 23:30

Neither

Ojoj1974 · 01/04/2017 23:25

Gideon. Jadon is positively horrendous! In a baby book I once had Jadon was a 'bell tone' name

ClaryBeanHorshAndMe · 01/04/2017 23:24

I think Fabian would be lovely. Or John.

SuperBeagle · 01/04/2017 23:24

Jadon.

But people will associate it with Jayden, rightly or wrongly.

Whathaveilost · 01/04/2017 23:23

Go with your heart!

I hate all this thing on MN about putting names down and calling them 'chavy' or ''poncy'. I used to think the same many years ago but a combination and expierence has taught me to be open minded.

HoratioNightboy · 01/04/2017 23:23

See, I like Jadon. I don't see that it's any worse than Jacob or Jamie, and not in the Kayden/Brayden league at all.

Gideon, though... yup, Osborne.

Have you consudered Judas? Grin

MummyTo42017 · 01/04/2017 23:23

relaxo - posters normally say 'Aidan' isn't but Aiden is.

MistressMolecules · 01/04/2017 23:22

Gideon, although does make me think of Gideon from Criminal Minds (the criminal psychologist) not George Osbourne. I really am not keen at all on Jadon.

TitaniasCloset · 01/04/2017 23:21

Jadon. Nice name.

They are just disliking it in here because Gideon us more typically middle class. Don't be swayed by that.

relaxo · 01/04/2017 23:18

Aiden is no way in the same category as Jaiden/Kayden,l/Brayden.

relaxo · 01/04/2017 23:16

Are Jadon and Jaiden/Jayden pronounced the same?

Gideon is George Osborne's real name.

Joeybee · 01/04/2017 23:16

Gideon. Jadon is too much like the over-popular Jayden, Caiden, Aiden names.

ScarletSienna · 01/04/2017 23:14

I don't really like them but Jadon is marginally better I think. Gid/Giddy would be awful nns!

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