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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Upper class, white and wealthy/celebrity/famous family's names have always trickled their way down the food chain. 
[b]Aiden[/b] [b]is white and yuppy today[/b], but give it a couple of years and all of those names will be popular at the lower income / minority level. [/quote]

ACTUALLY, Aiden trickled up, not down.

Aiden is part of that Aiden/Bradyn/Cayden/Hayden/Jaden/Zaiden phenomenon that gripped the middle and lower class starting around 10-12 years ago.  Even-GASP-minority children were named these types of names.

If it is just now hitting the upper middle/upper class, then Aiden is definitely a trickle up kind of name.[/quote]

This is not true at all.  (And I don't have an Aidan, just commenting.)  But if you think it's traveled up, you are sadly mistaken.[/quote]

Aiden is part of the whole ---den craze.  Those names have certainly been in lower-middle and working class areas with younger parents for quite some time, and popular with them just as long if not longer than they have been for yuppies.  I am sorry, but you are wrong.[/quote]

Where is the craze for 'den names?  [b]Oh yeah, 5 or more years ago[/b].  [/quote]

10 years ago all the ---den kids I ever met were bi-racial, African American, or Hispanic.  Not wealthy whites.[/quote]

Where are you posting from?[/quote]

DC metro.

These kids are all 10-12 years old, and are from the Midwest, south and southwest.

Why are you getting so worked up at the idea that the poors, flyover folks and brown people might have been naming their kids something either at the same time and to the same extent as the rich white yuppies?

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