Have I saddled my baby with a chav name?

[KateBeckinsale]

My DS is 2 and as soon as I found out I was pregnant, DH picked the name Kaeden for a boy. I really liked it and we stuck with it.

I chose to spell it this way for the following reasons:

1. Kaiden would get Kai and he has a cousin called this. 2)Kayden would get Kay 3)I didn't like Kaden as thought it loooked like kad-en rather than Kayden and it is arabic and I have no arabic connections.
2. Caden means round lump and is usually the girl version.
3. Kaeden is sometimes shortened to Kaed and we just like it.

But since then lots of people have called their kids Kayden/Jayden/Hayden/Aiden/Brayden, etc and people have started calling it chavvy.

This really upsets me as neither DH or I are chavs, we're teachers with a nice house, etc and we DS going to be judged on his name for the rest of his life and is it really a horrible name or are people just being snobby and trying to label others?

Despite having been a Brownie once.

my ds2 is called kenzie [waits for sarky comms]

my ds2 is called kenzie [waits for sarky comms]

oops dont know why its done that

Yes, Lord Baden-Powell was a Robert. Tut at you for not remembering that from your Brownie Handbook, Maggie!

Steffi Graff and Andre Agassi's eldest child is Jayden.

Jayden is a very popular name here in Australia - different associations here, no indication of "chavviness" in the people I know who have sons of that name so far.

This from Babynamewizard.com: 'Cross Jacob with Aidan and voila; the sound of the times. The name's popularity shot up starting in 1998 when celebrity parents Will Smith and Jada Pinkett chose this male twist on mom's name' The sibling names reported for all the Jayden variations show a lot of names with (ahem) original spellings, lots of Ys where you'd expect to see Is, EE where you'd expect to see Y, etc.

You're judging other people for choosing similar names... I don't understand why you think you should be exempt.

I think it's because she's got a 'nice house', shockers.

Aidan/Aiden is a traditional saint's name, don't know why that always gets lumped in with the 'made up' -ayden names.

As for your name, you like it and that's all that matters. I hope as a teacher you never judge students by their names.

Again, we teach adults so it's not an issue.

I'm not judging others for having the name. Apart from Britney because she is a skank

Sorry to have lumped your traditional names with my god-awful 'made up' name

Well said skihorse! KB youve chosen a name that you like so dont worry what others think! :-)