So I love unique names but I can't decide

[mommytob]

A lot of the names I love don't go down well will people at frost glance but I'm stuck between Zaidan, And Slade. What do yall think?

Not Slade - too much like slayed (or the silly band).

Zaidan is ok but Aidan is nicer.

Not Slade. Zaidan is better. Zadok or Zebedee better still.

Unless they have specific meaning to you, then I don't like them.

Can you use Huckleberry, Huck for short.

@puds11 I actually quite like Huckleberry! I’d use Berry for short x

Sorry I have slade. Sounds like “laid” as in sh*g

@Whatsyourflava I’ve become really fond of it but won’t be having any more babies so can’t use it Berry would be really cute and very unusual.

Both are awful names.

At my sons school in one class there are a Hayden, Aiden, two Jaydens and a Kaiden. I definitely would not choose Zaiden.

On threads like this I can't help but wonder if the OP actively wants to make life difficult for their child(ren).

Sorry to be so blunt, OP. Just try to imagine your child at different life stages and if that name would still fit an adult - 8 years old, 25 years old, 47 years old, 60 years old...?

Oh dear.

Zaidan is better than Slade.
But it does get a blue line under it, Slade doesn't.

It's like some people just want their kids to be bullied. Seriously OP? They're not 'unique', they're awful.

Both bloody awful.

Christ they are bloody awful. Your poor child.

Not keen sorry. I like unusual names normalls

Zaiden sounds made up, goes on the same category as Jayden and Caiden.

Slade is just a word. Noddy Holder. Slayed. Etc

Zaiden sounds a bit feminine, and seems made up.
Slade was the name of the prison in Porridge.

Neither. You're supposed to be naming a human being, not a bloody Muppet.

Can't you do old English unique:
Merlin, Gawain, Tristan, Osric, etc.

If you have to call a boy Slade or Zaidan perhaps get a dog instead.

Absurd. Poor child.

Slade is in the DC universe- alter ego Deathstroke, a one eyed killing machine Zaiden is truly awful.

How about Ezekiel (Zeke)

"At my sons school in one class there are a Hayden, Aiden, two Jaydens and a Kaiden"

Yes, that's the problem, these names read as really run-of-the-mill now - probably not what the OP is looking for.

I actually quite like Huckleberry! I’d use Berry for short
Really?! Imagine a grown man introducing himself as Huckleberry!! Good lord

Aubrey
Fabian
Xavier
Magnus
Conrad
Gaius
Apollo
Dionysious
Perseus

All unusual without being weird.
Jaydon, Kaiden, zaiden are all akin to Darren, Warren, etc, a couple of decades later.

I like Slade