Jaydon/Haydon/Cayden

Yes they do sound very american and highly chavvy IMO. When I say chavvy I mean, er, common.

They sound directly imported from the USA. Let them stay there!

Aidan and Hayden are ok
but do not like the others mentioned

I have a friend with a Jaden,another with a Jaiden and another with a Brayden!!!

argh!

Good lord I had no idea people could be so rude and judgemental about someone elses name, a childs name no less. Its fine to not like a name, if you dont like it dont chose it for your own off-spring, but the stereotyping and class judgements being made here are downright ugly.

There are PLENTY of upper / middle class children with unique and/or classic names that are badly behaved with no manners. Its not their name that leads to this its poor parenting, which is not class dependent.

The only Hayden I knew was a young work colleague with a degree in Physics and was a really nice guy.

Seems like Jayden is very popular with uneducated teenage mothers which kinda puts me off. Snobby but there is my honest answer.

No no of course not.

But there are schools here where nearly every class has all these names in it and schools where there's hardly anyone with any of these names.

It's really strange.

I'm not trying to say everyone who likes those names is a certain type of person. But there is that moment when you introduce your child and say its name and some people just look at you, or say 'well he can use his middle name can't he' or just laugh.

You know then that they are not going to become your best mate.

And vice versa though I would not laugh of course, or any of the above. I would say 'Oh lovely'.

Flight..do you tell your children to only make friends with children with nice names

I don't like the names, or the sounds of them (or Aiden for that matter) - but here in Australia I already know 3 Jaidens and 2 Aidens. No Caidens yet and the only Hayden I know is the brother of a friend of mine who is in no way "chavvy".
All the Jaidens/Aidens I know are under 5, btw. They're very popular boys' names around here (not chavvy either)

I make friends with all sorts of people...I couldn't care less what they call their kids ...Why would you make friends with someone based on their choice of names? seems wrong to me

After all, when someone says 'Oh here is my new baby and I have called him Barry' you want to be able to smile and say 'Oh that's gorgeous!' and if you are doing your fake smile and thinking 'that is grotesque' you are not going to be friends for long. Unless you have a long history.

So you gravitate towards other mums of Michaels and Arthurs and Lucys etc.

and all the mums of Jaydons and Caydens and Lee-jameses can big up each other's name choices.

No, not really, it's more that they are really ugly names imo. And the people who use them seem to like them...which sets us apart. I doubt I would be friends with someone who was willing to name their baby Keith, either.

Just hideous names.

Maybe that's how it works. If you disagree on names and the beauty or otherwise thereof, maybe you carve out your own niche where others around you have the same tastes.

Because you might catch chav

They just sound made up in a really uninspired way. Like someone just took a sound rather than a name and thought Oh that's a bit different.

let's stick a 'den' on the end of it and it's a name!

Haydn has been around for ages and is from the surname I think. But nobody's surname is Jaydon.

It's 'Jay' with 'don' on the end. Maybe to make it more masculine? It has no meaning at all either. I like a name with a meaning.

Also there seems to be a cultural thing about all these names, as many names also have a cultural element ie you are unlikely to find certain names among certain cultures, and more likely to find others.

It's hard to explain exactly why but the children I have known with these names almost always have had mothers I don't get on with or have much in common with, at least on the surface. So I don't want to choose the name for my child because it would affiliate me with them, and I don't feel that would make sense. It seems to have a resonance or an appeal I just don't get.

I would feel I was intruding.

my sons name is SHAYDEN TAI as i simply loved the name SHAY but felt it was to short for my liking-Everyone has their own opinion though-but in NZ it is not a very popular name as of yet so i like having a name that is unique(for this moment in time in my town)bahahaha

It did indeed!

This one, Candy: "think totallywipedout made an unfortunate comment regarding voting labour which under any other situation would have been taken as a joke. Kizzi and totallywipedout were just having fun with each other, and I don't think either of them were taking it seriously, or actually offended one another (I hope not) I didnt realise my thread would start so much debate, lol."

BTW, I encountered a toddler Jaydon/Jayden/Jaden today (I know it was his name, as his mother kept shouting it). He was alternately screaming, sucking a dummy and eating Haribo.

Isn't Hayden a perfectly acceptable Welsh name. I know an adult one who is fine.

Candyfloss, thank you. Your interpretation is spot on.

I quickly learnt that Mumsnet is not an even cross section of society. It is one of the more literate parenting websites (is it OK to say that?!) and attracts possibly a more educated (and by that I don't mean 'has a degree', I just mean a bit more with it, and witty) type of person, or certainly one who can hold their own intelligently in a debate. That's what I love about it.

I digress slightly but the point I'm trying to make is that people here tend to generally like more traditional names, or unusual but upper-class names.

So don't read too much into it - there's a huge swath of the population who are Jayden/Cayden/Hayden fans, but they don't really reside her, so don't be downhearted if the majority of folk don't really like those names, and if your friend likes them, she should go for them. They are very very popular at the moment.

Fwiw, Hayden - I think you'd get away with. The other two would date very quickly, you'd have to bear that in mind.

I'm not keen on that particular collection of names because of the people I've encountered with those names... I'm also not keen on the names Molly, Megan, Joe, Tanya or Joshua because of the people I associate them with.