My promised project!

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Ayden 3551
Aidyn (206)
Aiden 11430
Aydan 424
Aydin 288
Aedan 272
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"Aiden" total = 16,171

True ranking = 15 of 1000



Brayden 6096
Braeden 958
Braiden 397
Bradyn 330
Braedon 281
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"Braydon" total = 8062

True Ranking = 59 of 1000

Jadan 4863
Jayden 9469
Jaiden 1711
Jadon 744
jaydon 680
Jaeden 336
Jaydin (187)
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"jaden" total = 17,990

True Ranking = a frightening number 12 of 1000.



Cayden 1738
Kaden 4681
Caden 4708
Kayden 1546
Kadin 361
Kaeden 280
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"kaden" total = 13,314
(I found it weird only two with a C made it on the list of top 1000!)
True Ranking = 26 of 1000

Jaylan 317
Jaylon 538
Jaylin 611
Jalen 1564
Jaylen 2052
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"Jaylen" = 5082

true ranking = 87


Haiden (223)
Hayden 6391
Haden 229
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"Hayden" = 6643

True ranking = 66 of 1000

Honorable Mention -ayden name: Zayden, with a total of 224. Heh.



And because I just have a personal pet peeve against this trendy name (sorry dear Nephew)
Tristen 921
Tristin 443
Triston 530
Trystan (190)
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"Tristin" total = 2064

True ranking = 191 of 1000




Ugh. Jaden is name number TWELVE in America? That is just outright SAD.

Source = 2006 SSA name list, and too much time on my hands while my sons eat lunch and my daughter sleeps. :D

Comments

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

How did you figure out the true ranking? Just averaging them together or something else?

Ugh, all those -ayden names. They need to DIAF.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Well, its not exactly *true* ranking. All I did was ADD the amount of each variation of each name, and find where that number would fall on the top 1000 names. But I didn't actually *take out* the names I put in. Its just a total. :-p

[sweet-light.livejournal.com]

When considering "true ranking" did you take into account different spellings of other popular names? Jonathon/Jonathan, Thomas/Tomas and so on? Just curious =P

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Nah, just the evil names. :-p

Yes, I know. Lousy work and all, but I can only get the boys to eat but so much pizza. The entire list would take MUCH longer. :)

[sweet-light.livejournal.com]

WHATEVER. IF those kids haven't had enough pizza to render them immobile (allowing you to complete your research!) you haven't done enough. GOSH.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Bwa ha hahahaha. there are always the sleepless nights with my 5 month old. Never fear. I will complete the list.

Probably just in time for the 2007 list to come out. :/

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Did you accidentally forget the actual real spelling - Aidan?

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

I didn't notice it on the list. I guess I must have missed it? Or it wasn't one of the top 1000 names? I dunno.

But thanks for the rude sounding comment. Appreciate it.

[sweet-light.livejournal.com]

I looked, it's #44 - 9,888. Which (how you did it) brings the name to #1! That's actually what it said on another site (I think for 2007 though)
WOW

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

WOW. I need more sleep then. heh.

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

And the real spelling of Tristan?

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

I went with what I saw on the list. How about YOU add it all then?

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Nobody forced you to do this. :P

[xpaniic.livejournal.com]

Wow. Now I feel sorry for all of the kids with these names.
I hated my name growing up because I always had one other Jennifer in my class so we had to go by our last initial. Not to mention we were best friends. I don't mind it anymore, though.

[sweet-light.livejournal.com]

Same with me, Michelle. Except we were both Michelle Lynn L. So even though she hated it, she went by Mickey. LOL

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my name was highly popular too. Elizabeth

[dustkitty.livejournal.com]

Y'know, there were never more than three of us in my grade, and I only got in a class with another Elizabeth a couple times. On the other hand, all of us went by Beth; there were no Liz/Lizzie/etc. to differentiate.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, you forgot Aydynn. (said just like "Aidan") My future SIL has two friends that named their babies "Aydynn" and "Aydan". God, it hurts my brain just to type that. Gross.

[monalyssasmile.livejournal.com]

Ugh! Jayden is by far the worst of them in my opinion.

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

Zayden Wtf?

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I was like...Ok, i have GOT to put it in here, LOL

[dustkitty.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I can't believe you got this bored, but...awesome.

Now, we add together all the -aden names and pass out when we compare the number to the next highest name on the list.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

oh god, please don't. I think I would cry. :(

[justinem1.livejournal.com]

There's another version of Jaiden. It's Jadyn.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

I missed another one?

Wait, I only added from the male side, not the female.

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

No one spelled Aidan correctly. NO ONE. That scares me, sort of.

Jaelin has been around for a while, so I'm not sweating the popularity of that one. I'm nearly 15, and I've met plenty of people my age with that name, spelled however the parent wished. Jailin, Jailynn, Jalin, Jeilyn, Jahlin...

As for the other Aidan names... why can't people be more creative? Like, it's utterly ridiculous how popular this name is (it's like the Jennifers and Tiffanys of the last two decades, I think). I understand that Aedyn/Jaidyn/Jaylinn/Zeidin/Haiden/Kehdan/Brahden is a cute name, but it's a generic cute name with virtually no originality outside of the way you spell it. *sigh*

It's really too bad, because actually I love the name Aidan, but I won't even use it except as a middle name because of how much I see it.

[butterflyishida.livejournal.com]

It's really too bad, because actually I love the name Aidan, but I won't even use it except as a middle name because of how much I see it.

I'm in the exact same boat. It kills me because I love the name so much. Damn trendy parents.

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

And by the time I'm old enough to reproduce, the name will be out of style, dated, and associated with a group of kids that my own children will never be a part of.

*sigh*

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

I wonder if you added all the -aden names up as one group if they would come out as #1.

It is interesting to see how people are realizing that Aidan and Jayden are really popular, but they still want to name there kid something similar so you get Rayden, Xadyen, Bayden, etc.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

It would be number one BY FAR, yes.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

I also didn't add TristIAN, though. heh.

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

actually, i think you may have done this incorrectly. if you look at how many children were actually named the name, and add them all together, aidan is actually #1. i did this a few months ago and it beat jacob, even with jakob added in.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, itturns out I missed one ofthe spellings of Aiden, so it skewed the results. Forgive me. :-p

[pale-september.livejournal.com]

ZAYDEN? That's terrible!

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Have you ever checked out the SSA name list?Zayden is GREAT compared to some of the crap people name their kids!

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

what about Braden?

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

It turns out I missed several. :-p