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Rant: I hate the Y in Cayden. To me, the name is spelled CADEN, and every other spelling is kree8yv and miss-the-mark. Spelling it Cayden is, to me, like spelling Noah "Nowah" or Jacob "Jaycob" ... the extra letter is superfluous and seems to say, "I am too dumb to pronounce this name without brute force cues, and of course, you are too."

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I feel the same about Aidan, which is a name that does not have any E in it, never has and never will. What the hell is "Aiden" - it looks like an error to me.

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Spelling it with a K makes it worse because c to k changes always look like gimmicks to me. Krispy Kreme, Keystone Kops, Kangaroo Kourt, Kamper Korner, Kool Kars, Kwik Kopy, Chicken in a Biskit .... Kayden.

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I think Caden is a decent modern name. It's no more trendy than Jayden or Mason or Chase or even Liam, IMO. I think it suffers less from the air of mediocrity that trendy names have, than Jayden or Chase does. Or even Madison. It's about as trendy as Hayley.

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I have run across one Caden at some point, but I can't remember who he was, and I know a Keiden who is age 6 (whose mother's native language is Japanese, so I'm more inclined to be okay with his spelling of it).

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