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Before I start ranting, I do prefer Jaden (spelled Jaden) on a boy only -- a friend of mine named Paiton has a little brother named Jaden, and he's a wonderful person. I also prefer Is on the inside of names and Ys on the outside of names (so Tiffiny instead of Tiffiny and Paiton instead of Payton)

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-aden names are, as Julie mentioned, dreadfully overused, which is kind of sad because I adore the name Aidan for a little boy ('course, even if it weren't popular, I wouldn't use it because of The Ring). Even more disturbing trends spoil Jayden for me though . . . Boy names on girls, spelling out sounds, and extra Ys. It isn't that I'm against kr8tive spellings (not that I'm for them, though), it's just that I think spelling names out makes them look horribly . . . not elementary, but something to that affect with a lesser degree. There are names that it doesn't look horrible on, and there are names that are meant to be spelled that way that I don't think are attractive in the least. On another letter, this also falls under the trend of "extra Ys" which I feel is a cardinal sin. The most horrible thing in the world, and I've seen this happen before, is when a mother tacks a Y into a name and thinks that she invinted a new name (a teenage mother I know named her daughter Jessyca, and told me that it meant "strong and beautiful". I told her the correct meaning of Jessica, and she said "Oh, I know, but this isn't Jessica -- I made it up, so I get to make up the meaning, just like the people who made up all of the other names did"). I don't dislike the idea of giving a girl a boys name in and of itself; what I do hate is when a boys name can no longer be used on a boy due to the stigma of that name being so trendy on girls -- Ashley (which I love on a boy but hate on a girl), Courtney, and Whitney for a few (although I do prefer Whitney on a girl, but that isn't the point).