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Have I saddled my baby with a chav name?

113 replies

KateBeckinsale · 26/03/2010 11:55

My DS is 2 and as soon as I found out I was pregnant, DH picked the name Kaeden for a boy. I really liked it and we stuck with it.

I chose to spell it this way for the following reasons:

  1. Kaiden would get Kai and he has a cousin called this. 2)Kayden would get Kay 3)I didn't like Kaden as thought it loooked like kad-en rather than Kayden and it is arabic and I have no arabic connections.
  2. Caden means round lump and is usually the girl version.
  3. Kaeden is sometimes shortened to Kaed and we just like it.

But since then lots of people have called their kids Kayden/Jayden/Hayden/Aiden/Brayden, etc and people have started calling it chavvy.

This really upsets me as neither DH or I are chavs, we're teachers with a nice house, etc and we DS going to be judged on his name for the rest of his life and is it really a horrible name or are people just being snobby and trying to label others?

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CantSleepWontSleep · 26/03/2010 12:28

What are you hoping to achieve with this thread btw?

CaptainPicardsPineapple · 26/03/2010 12:28

Erm...well...yes, soz.

However, so long as he not chavvy and neither are you it won't matter too much.

Keep him out of tracksuits unless he's playing sport, make sure he says aitch and not haitch and absolutely never, never let him wear a football t-shirt and he should do OK.

SoupDragon · 26/03/2010 12:28

Yes (because you asked) due to the creative spelling.

MarthaFarquhar · 26/03/2010 12:26

Ah, you can't with with names on here
they're perceived either as
chavvy
pretentious
or dull

you like it, that's what's matters.

CantSleepWontSleep · 26/03/2010 12:23

Yes you have saddled him with a chavvy name, since you ask. Even more so with that spelling, as whatever your reasons were, it will look like you are either illiterate or were trying too hard to be different.

Does he have a decent middle name to fall back on?

scottishmummy · 26/03/2010 12:04

anyhoo to the serious qusestion are you really KB.

thought you and lenny boy were getting divorced.

do you plan to make any more cheesy vampire movies

rubyslippers · 26/03/2010 12:02

my DS has a name which invariably called chavvy - it is also unisex and a surname - how's that for a triple whammy

as scottishmummy says it is done and dusted and you and your DH like the name

jeee · 26/03/2010 12:00

Actually, SixtyFootDoll, if people judge someone by their name, then that's the problem of the person being judged - particularly if its a child.

OP - once people know a person, they forget any preconceptions they might have about that person's name.

scottishmummy · 26/03/2010 12:00

the name is chosen.chins up.ignore any comments

SixtyFootDoll · 26/03/2010 11:59

You like the name and obv put a lot of effort into choosing it.

According to MN my DS has a 'chavvy' name too,, ( i obv dont agree)
If people judge someoene by their name then thats their problem.

Intergalactic · 26/03/2010 11:57

Well, seeing as you ask outright, it looks like a made-up chavvy name to me. But you like it and had good reasons for picking it, so you should ignore what other people think and be proud of your choice.

comewhinewithme · 26/03/2010 11:57

If you like it that is all that matters.

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KateBeckinsale · 26/03/2010 11:56

Sorry my laptop is rubbish. That was meant to say 'we chose it because we liked it. Is our DS going to be judged...'

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