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My son is 13, and the word hipster wasn’t even around then. I’m def not a hipster, so the name wasn’t picked based on trying to be something. I read “Catcher in the Rye” in high school, and fell in love with the name. I don’t associate it with the characters troubles. I just loved the name and the fact that it is very rare. No one has ever called him “holding” or “hold em.”
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The actual use of Holden has more to do with the character Holden Snyder on the soap opera "As The World Turns" than it does with "Catcher in the Rye", though the writers of ATWT were probably thinking of the literary character when they chose the name.
Holden certainly fits in with the "two syllables ending in -n" sound pattern which is so popular among boys' names in the USA now, so it is a good choice in terms of being something not overly common which will nevertheless fit in with other names of his generation.
Holden certainly fits in with the "two syllables ending in -n" sound pattern which is so popular among boys' names in the USA now, so it is a good choice in terms of being something not overly common which will nevertheless fit in with other names of his generation.
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Oh, please. Hipsters existed in the 00s - that was basically the Hipster Golden Age!
I don't read Holden as being hipster (it seems trendy-surname-conservative to me), but the only reason it would be is because of the literary reference.
I don't read Holden as being hipster (it seems trendy-surname-conservative to me), but the only reason it would be is because of the literary reference.
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.I don’t see Holden as a hipster name, it seems kind of trendy.
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.I don’t see Holden as a hipster name, it seems kind of trendy.
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The word "hipster" has been around since the 1930's and your son was born in the 2000's.
I don't really have an opinion on Holden, I don't think it's hipster though. It seems vaguely trendy. I'd expect to see Holden with names like Colton, Hunter, Jackson, etc.
I don't really have an opinion on Holden, I don't think it's hipster though. It seems vaguely trendy. I'd expect to see Holden with names like Colton, Hunter, Jackson, etc.
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