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Help[Opinions] Re: Jaiden
in reply to a message by Keira
Could you imagine going into your first day of school (being named Jayden), and there are 3 Jayden (of different spellings), 4 Cadens (of different spellings), 6 Aidens (of different spellings), and 1 or two Haydens (also of different spellings)?
I have a good imagination, so I can imagine this, but it is highly, highly unlikely to ever happen in reality -- even though people with the same taste in names do tend to live in the same neighborhood. The average elementary school class in the USA has 30 students or less. You have described a situation in which 14 out of 30 students have an "Aidan" rhyme name. That's 47% of the kids.
In 2005, there were a total of 71,256 boys born in the USA given one of the spellings of Aidan, Brayden, Jayden, Caden, or Hayden that made the top 1000 SSA list, and 6,221 girls on the list named Jayden, Kayden, or Hayden. That's a total of 77,467. If we add in an estimate of another ten thousand kids with spellings that didn't make the top 1000 list or have rare rhyming forms like Zaden, that would be 87,467. With about 4 million kids born in the USA in 2005, that is still only a bit over 2% of all kids getting an Aidan-rhyme name. And even if you assume that people who like these names are so concentrated in certain neighborhoods that there would be a lot of classes with five times the national average, that would still only be 3 kids out of a 30 kid class. In a country of 300 million people, maybe there will be one class somewhere in the country with 14 of them, but that will be an utterly amazing statistical fluke if it does happen.
I have a good imagination, so I can imagine this, but it is highly, highly unlikely to ever happen in reality -- even though people with the same taste in names do tend to live in the same neighborhood. The average elementary school class in the USA has 30 students or less. You have described a situation in which 14 out of 30 students have an "Aidan" rhyme name. That's 47% of the kids.
In 2005, there were a total of 71,256 boys born in the USA given one of the spellings of Aidan, Brayden, Jayden, Caden, or Hayden that made the top 1000 SSA list, and 6,221 girls on the list named Jayden, Kayden, or Hayden. That's a total of 77,467. If we add in an estimate of another ten thousand kids with spellings that didn't make the top 1000 list or have rare rhyming forms like Zaden, that would be 87,467. With about 4 million kids born in the USA in 2005, that is still only a bit over 2% of all kids getting an Aidan-rhyme name. And even if you assume that people who like these names are so concentrated in certain neighborhoods that there would be a lot of classes with five times the national average, that would still only be 3 kids out of a 30 kid class. In a country of 300 million people, maybe there will be one class somewhere in the country with 14 of them, but that will be an utterly amazing statistical fluke if it does happen.
This message was edited 1/19/2007, 12:59 PM
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Thank you for adding Brayden, I forgot that one. Anyway you are right, it is highly unlikely to have that many aiden rhyming kids in one class. I was exaggerating slightly.
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