Aidan, Caden or Hayden

[Laurajonesy]

Which do you prefer??

My great nephew is Aiden

I like Cayden best.

Whoops thats the other one Reuben !!

Cayden is !!!!

Aidan (with 2 As) is a perfectly normal name here in Ireland and the other 2 are horrible (no offense not my taste etc)

Aidan is by far the nicest

Aidan is an historic Scottish name. The others are contemporary.

You forgot Jayden.

Aidan.

Haydn.

Aidan lovely Northumbrian saint name. Others are.... less nice

Aidan. Hayden reminds me of Hades ....

None of them, sorry

Caden.

Aidan/Aiden/Ayden are all very popular at my school. So popular that I struggle remembering which spelling they all go by.

I don't like any of them though-it's in the Aidan/Ayden/Jayden/Jaiden/Haiden/Hayden box for me. Sorry.

Well personally i love Aiden

I like Hayden, in Wales it is actually a very traditional name (although spelt Haydn) but some mumsnet snobs have it down as a new fangled "common" name.
Unless OP is fully aware of this fact and is just looking for some light entertainment on a Saturday night .

Love Aidan.

Aiden

Aidan is the least bad.

I like Haydn, but sadly it has been lumped together with the awful Caden, Jaden type names.

Oo lovely names OP, I'm sure you must be finding it really hard to decide. Have you considered Jayden? Or even Wayden? Or you could always hyphenate , Aiden-Cayden?

Aidan

Like the early Christian saint

Aidan, the others are chavvy.

Caden, although I prefer the Kayden spelling. None of the 3 are really my style though.

Given the choice I would go with Aidan as, to me, it's a proper name but then again I live in Ireland where it's a solid, no nonsense name like I imagine John or James would be in the UK.

Threads like this make me smile. I read one where posters were having convulsions in horror at "Kevin" being the worst of all names. If you look at where the name is actually from it's completely unremarkable, albeit an English spelling of an Irish word, just like Aidan.

The absolute by far and away nicest boy in my son's lovely bunch of friends is a Haydn so I am a bit biased towards that name. It depends who you know, what associations each name has for you. I don't think asking a bunch of strangers is the right way to choose a name.