Feel Free to Get Offended...

You have my permission to get offended or take this post personally. I rarely get on my soapbox, but this had to happen. Daniel (my husband) recently told me what his co-worker named her new born baby boy...Vaden. This is one of the many times I have heard of someone taking a name I really like, Aiden, adding a letter to the front and pretending the result is a human name. Name your dogs what you want, but these are people, people! Tonight, I saw a story about the top baby names of the decade. Normally, my husband's name is a winner. Reliably top 25. This year, he dropped to 28. Aiden is #1. I then saw #11, Caden. I said to my husband, "Let's play a game and see how many fake-Aidens beat you." The result, three. In addition to Caden, we have Jaden (#14) and Brayden (#22). On the positive side, only one name in the girl's top fifty had gratuitous use of the letter "e" in the name.