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[mooie-ziel.livejournal.com]

This community has a love/hate relationship with -den names [probably more hating going on I think...myself included].
So I thought I'd throw out a shitload of -den names [and their variations] and see if any -den haters find any they don't hate.
Though I'm sure it'll show more -den lovers more names to add to their list.
It's all about perspective.


* = I don't mind [in reference only to the -den versions]

http://www.thinkbabynames.com/search.php?g=1&t=3&s=den

Aden, ending with -den. [Adan, Adin, Adon]

Aidan, ending with -den. [Aedan, Aidano, Aiden, Aidyn, Aydan, Ayden, Aydin, Edan, Eden, Eidan, Eiden]

Alden, ending with -den. [Al, Aldan, Aldin, Aldwin, Aldwyn, Aldwynn, Alwine, Elden, Eldin, Eldwin, Eldwyn, Eldwynn]

*Arden, ending with -den. [Ard, Arda, Ardie, Ardin, Ardon, Ardy, Arrden]

Auden, ending with -den.

Barden, ending with -den. [Bardon, Borden, Bordon]

Belden, ending with -den. [Beldene, Beldon, Bellden, Belldene, Belldon]

Blagden, ending with -den.

Boden, ending with -den. [Beaudean, Bodie, Bodin, Bodine, Bowden, Bowdin]

Borden, ending with -den. [Bordin]

*Braden, ending with -den. [Bradan, Braddon, Bradin, Bradon, Braeden, Braedon, Braiden, Braidin, Brayden, Braydon]

Brandon, ending with -den. [Brand, Brandan, Branden, Brandin, Brandyn, Brannon, Branton]

Brendan, ending with -den. [Brendano, Brenden, Brendin, Brendon, Brendyn, Brennan, Brennen, Brennon]

Brodie, ending with -den. [Broden, Brody]

Cade, ending with -den. [Caide, Caden, Kade, Kaden, Kayde]

Cadell, ending with -den. [Cadel, Caddell, Cade, Caden, Cadoc, Cayden]

*Camden, ending with -den. [Camdin, Camdon]

Carden, ending with -den. [Card, Cardin, Cardon]

Cobden, ending with -den. [Cobdenn]

Colden, ending with -den. [Collden, Coldin, Colldin]

Corydon, ending with -den. [Coridon, Coryden, Coryell]

Dennis, ending with -den. [Den, Denies, Denis, Dennes, Dennet, Denney, Dennie, Dennison, Denny, Dennys, Denys, Deon, Dion, Dionisio, Dionysius, Dionysus, Diot]

Dennison, ending with -den. [Den, Denison, Dennyson, Tennyson] oy I can see these getting trendy, if theyre not already?

Dryden, ending with -den.

Eden, ending with -den. [Eaden, Eadin, Edin, Ednan, Edyn]

Elden, ending with -den. [Eldin, Eldon, Eldwin, Eldwyn, Elton]

Ford, ending with -den. [Forde, Forden, Fordon]

Glendon, ending with -den. [Glenden, Glendin, Glenton]

Godwin, ending with -den. [Godden, Godding, Godewyn, Godin, Godwinn, Godwyn, Goodwin, Goodwyn, Goodwynn, Goodwynne]

Golding, ending with -den. [Golden[haha], Goldman]

Kellen, ending with -den. [Kaelan, Keelan, Keilan, Keillan, Kelan, Kelden, Kellan, Kelle, Kellin]

Landon, ending with -den. [Landan, Landen, Landin, Lando, Landyn]

Langdon, ending with -den. [Landon, Langden]

Langston, ending with -den. [Langsden, Langsdon, Langton]

Linden, ending with -den. [Lindo, Lindon, Lynden, Lyndon]

Lyndon, ending with -den. [Lin, Linden, Lindon, Lindy, Lyn, Lyndale, Lyndall, Lyndell, Lynden]

Malden, ending with -den. [Maldon]

Marden, ending with -den. [Mardel, Mardon, Mardyn]

Marsden, ending with -den. [Marsdin, Marsdon]

Meldon, ending with -den. [Melden]

Ogden, ending with -den. [Ogdan, Ogdon]

Peyton, ending with -den. [Paden, Payton]

Raiden, ending with -den.

Ramsden, ending with -den.

Riordan, ending with -den. [Rearden, Reardon]

Royden, ending with -den. [Roydan, Roydon]

Ryder, ending with -den. [Rydell, Ryden]

Seldon, ending with -den. [Selden, Sellden, Shelden]

Sheldon, ending with -den. [Shelden, Sheldin]

Slade, ending with -den. [Slaide, Slayde, Slayden]

Snowden, ending with -den. [Snowdon]

*Tilden, ending with -den. [Tillden, Tildon]

Vardon, ending with -den. [Varden, Verdon, Verdun]

Walden, ending with -den. [Waldenn, Waldi, Waldon]

Ward, ending with -den. [Warde, Warden, Worden]

Weldon, ending with -den. [Welden, Welldon]

Comments

[screaming--pink.livejournal.com]

Brandon never struck me as a -den name.
Maybe because it has been around longer and isn't part of the Aiden-Jayden frenzy.

Maybe I'm just defensive cause it's the name I picked for my fetus. :P

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Yeah I think of Aidan, Brandon and Brendan as "real names" and names like Jayden, Caden, Hayden etc. as trendy invented names even though they're mostly not really made up.

[mooie-ziel.livejournal.com]

it's all technicalities. it ends in a -den, therefor it's a -den name. Again, technically speaking, yours is a -don name, so no need to fret.

[screaming--pink.livejournal.com]

I think I'd fret if I suddenly started seeing it butchered like.. Braandyn or Brahnden or some other cracked out spelling people are creating these days, haha.

[mooie-ziel.livejournal.com]

Or if you met a girl names Braedynlynne, oh I crack myself up sometimes.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Haha stop giving people ideas :P

I don't mind some of them but I don't really like any. I especially don't like it when it's just a few "nice sounding" letters with -den tacked after it, e.g. Brayden. There are some there that I would be more likely to class as "surname/place name" sort of names, less so than fitting in with the -den trend.

But I do like Aidan, just not as much now that it's popular. I just always thought of it as a solid Irish name. Don't like it spelled Aiden though. I have never liked it enough to use it, but I think it's still a decent name with a history, unlike all these newly invented -den names.

[itsyourlove19.livejournal.com]

I love Brayden! We are considering it for this baby if its a boy.

[oh-so-sweet2me.livejournal.com]

I still really love the name Hayden, I picked it out before even knowing that it was a fad. =[ I wish it wasnt..otherwise I'd use it..but I'd really rather not have my son go to school with a million kids with names that ryhme with his...

Also, I have a little cousin named Brayden, hes 4 years old.

[lavandersparkle.livejournal.com]

I ♥LOVE♥ most of the -aden names. My favs are Aiden, Jayden, Cayden, Shayden, and Hayden. I never liked Brayden cause I've known so many jerks named Brayden.

I am adding Arden to my list :)

I don't care about popularity as much as most of the people in this group do, to me it's if you love a name you might as well use it.


The other ones I hate!

[quiteoutofplace.livejournal.com]

I don't care about popularity as much as most of the people in this group do, to me it's if you love a name you might as well use it.

While I'm not a fan of most of the names you named, I agree with this. No name should be completely disowned because it's popular. It wouldn't be popular unless a lot of people agreed it was a good name!

[k-t-bug.livejournal.com]

It's not the -den ending I mind, it's -ayden. Jaden, Brayden, Shayden, Ramalamaayden. Whatever.

[so-there.livejournal.com]

ditto this.

as for the other names on the list, some are ok, and some more are terrible. but lots of classic names end in that sound.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Auden
Brenden
Brandon
Caden
Holden
Ryder (lol no den)
i would never use any of them though.

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

Holden is the only "den" name I ca stand.

[trissyd.livejournal.com]

I like some of these actually... [I'm just aganist the 'made up -den names']

Aiden
Peyton (i love it for a girl)
Brendan
Eden

I know of a baby named "Raiden"... it's just plain awful!

[quiteoutofplace.livejournal.com]

Haha, I hope he becomes an exterminator.

[turabiannights.livejournal.com]

I'm not a -den hater so much as a "rhymes-with-Aidan" hater. Those are the real abominations, IMO. The rest are mostly just surnames, which are kind of blah, but okay. I have a soft spot for Ogden and Auden because of the poets, but would never inflict them on a living being. I do like Aidan as a name, but its popularity - and all the bastard-names it has produced - turn my stomach.

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

I should have read the comments before writing mine - I could have just ditto'd yours!

[scouty.livejournal.com]

I (http://photobucket.com/) hayden and I really like aiden (http://photobucket.com/)

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

Seeing Shayden/Shaydon/whatever in the comments seriously made me LOL. That is one hideous name. And Brayden, WTFFFFF... I will never see the appeal in that. How is BRAY a nice sounding prefix to -den? It's so so so awful.

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

I'm BRAYDEN mah hairs!

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

I think it's only the -aden names that I hate. I like a lot of -den and -don names. I like Elden, and Auden. But it's the Aidens, the jaydens, the braedynns and kaiydynnes etc that piss me off.
The only -ayden name that I don't hate as much as the others is Hayden, but I still can't use it because it's too dang trendy and popular and my husband doesn't like it.

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

Actually I just remembered: I can't use ANY -den names because my last name is a -den name!