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[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]

Sorry, I don't think you're right. Aidan is largely responsible for the -den craze. Then, as Aiden took over, parents who previously would have chosen Aidan picked other names.

My evidence? http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2010/5/2009s-hottest-and-nottest-baby-names-part-2-the-fallen (and lots more posts by Laura Wattenberg)

Aidan was the fasted FALLING name of 2009. Here's what Wattenberg wrote: "Nope, this doesn't mean the "Age of Aidans" is over. The more common spelling Aiden actually rose in 2009. I suspect that the specific decline of this one, most traditional spelling means that the parents who thought of Aidan as an old Irish saint's name are giving up on it because of the flood of Aidyns, Aydens, Aedans et al."

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