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So I love unique names but I can't decide

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mommytob · 29/12/2019 10:47

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?Blush

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SundayMorningSun · 29/12/2019 10:51

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

Zaidan is ok but Aidan is nicer.

MopsRUs · 29/12/2019 10:53

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

emilybrontescorsett · 29/12/2019 10:54

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

puds11 · 29/12/2019 10:58

Can you use Huckleberry, Huck for short.

Whatsyourflava · 29/12/2019 11:01

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

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

puds11 · 29/12/2019 11:09

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

misspiggy19 · 29/12/2019 11:10

Both are awful names.

JuniperNarni · 29/12/2019 11:11

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

DailyMailcanfuckthefuckoff · 29/12/2019 11:33

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...?

Howgreenwasmyvalley · 29/12/2019 11:36

Oh dear.

BaronessBomburst · 29/12/2019 11:40

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

tiredsleepysleep · 29/12/2019 11:56

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

user1493494961 · 29/12/2019 11:59

Both bloody awful.

confusedandemployed · 29/12/2019 12:01

Christ they are bloody awful. Your poor child.

PlantPotting · 29/12/2019 12:10

Not keen sorry. I like unusual names normalls

AfterSchoolWorry · 29/12/2019 12:20

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

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

MikeUniformMike · 29/12/2019 12:51

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

RollingOutOfBed · 29/12/2019 12:53

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

OhTheRoses · 29/12/2019 12:55

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.

nextdecade · 29/12/2019 13:05

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

How about Ezekiel (Zeke)

SundayMorningSun · 29/12/2019 13:08

"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.

Primrosepenny · 29/12/2019 13:10

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

OhTheRoses · 29/12/2019 13:17

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.

Primrosepenny · 29/12/2019 13:17

I like Slade

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