Jayden Lee or Mason ??

[charr18]

Hi this is my first baby and I've been unsure on names since day 1!!

These two have stuck with me for a while all though I do keep going on and off both! I don't have a middle name for Mason yet, as I can't think of any, so ideas are welcome!

But I do like it and Jayden Lee isn't a double barrelled name or anything he'll just be called Jayden, but I just like the sound of lee with it :)

What do you think, I wasn't too sure if these were 'chavvy' or 'common' names !

For a laugh one day I decided to advance search my children's names in the baby names topic to see what the MN opinion was - DD's name had a battering including an 8 page thread full of angry, angry women talking about how ghastly & common it was. Honestly, 8 pages! (You can probably guess what her name is if you hang around here often enough )

But....if I search it for just the year she was born, it's not mentioned even once and the year after it's in about 6 threads & all of them recommending it.

It's all fashion innit - they come and go. If you like the names, go for it - don't worry about other people's opinion. Children tend to fit their name anyway.

Thing is...as long as you like it why does it matter what others think?
I dont get the angst tbh.
There is only one correct response when someone tells you their babies name...smile and say "how lovely"

Weile: I've just tried that with one of my DC's names (which I've seen getting sneery comments of late). In the year before the birth, barely a mention and those that there are, are thoroughly positive.

meditrina - it's funny, isn't it?

MrsDeVere - I don't read the Daily Mail :D and I actually can't stand that 'paper', but it is my personal opinion that names do and can become dated after 20 years.
I would consider names like Courtney, Jade, Shannon, Chelsea, Jodie, Kayleigh, Jordan (for a girl) and Kirsty to be dated to the mid-to-late 90s, since these were all top 100 names back then, and for many of them their popularity has decreased quite significantly - for example Kirsty and Jordan aren't even in the top 500 anymore.
Those above aren't the popular names of today. The reason people don't often pick them for their children's names anymore is because they are dated. It will eventually be the same in the future with all these hyphenated names with May/Mae/Mai and Grace stuck on the end, as well as all the -ayden and -ason names for boys. Just my opinion.

Go for Pharrell.

From the names pinned on the wall at the local nursery's baby room it seems to be in at the moment...

whats all this, some old folk hanging about baby names? I thought everyone decent had buggered off yonks ago

To be honest I think they are both awful but you have to choose what you want not what random people on the internet like.

Sorry, both are terrible and very common at the moment.

The thing you need to think of is, will he be taken seriously as a high court judge with that name?

As everyone knows high court judges are only taken seriously because of their names and not because of the face that they are judges of the high court.

Apparently...

How about Alaric?

Jayden. I prefer the original Jadon spelling but that's an asthetic thing.

Mason is just Jason with an M to me. The same but different.

Has anyone actually googled the names of high court judges before making such sweeping statements??? There is a real mish mash of names, certainly not all on the MN approved list!

You have just made me google the names of UK high court judges. Other than one stray Brian, they all look pretty solidly MN approved to me...

must admit, I do like a good baby names thread. I vote for Macademia. I'm sure there is a Judge Macademia. Sounds a bit like Academia, which is another solid name

I really wanted Kate and William to call their baby Colin Voldemort. Was most disappointed when they plumped for George.

Hayden or Callum or Jago are all nicer and less rough

Rough?

I think some of the names people fall all over on mn are bloody awful but I would never go on to a thread and say that.