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Forgive me for not reading this entire thread, and I apologize if these have already been mentioned...

But ANY name that rhymes with "Aiden" is a no-no for me. And my best friend Kate has decided on Braden if she has a boy (she's due in December), which is the most prevalent of all the Aiden-rhymes!

During my six-month stint as a daycare teacher, I met children named:

Braden/Braiden/Brayden/Braedyn (that one was a girl, whose parents have Welsh ancestry, so I can forgive the "unique" spelling)
Aiden
Hayden
Caden
Jayden
Evan
Ethan
Graycen
Braylen (REALLY?!)
Logan
Jackson
Jaxon
Tiernan

There were many others that ended with "an" or "en" or "in." Seriously, what is it with WASPs and those names?

Then again, my daughter is named Meredith. Although she was the only Meredith at the school she went to/I worked at, which I found comforting, I do have my suspicions that it might become an "it" name in the coming years.