Why are these names so popular?

Question

Where did these names come from?

If you like these names, what is it about them that you like?

Skye?

Rain/Raine/Raynne/...??

Isla?

Nevaeh?

Brooke(lynn)?

Aiden and Jaiden and Caiden and Haiden ????

Alivia

Name variations like Christopher, Kristofer, Krystuphur, Crystyfyr, etc

I honestly want to know.

Answer 1

I like Jayden and Cayden. I really dont know why i lke those names i just do

Answer 2

I have absolutely no idea!  I hate Nevaeh...It's the rage in all the trailer parks.  the -ayden trend just gets on my nerves!  Urrrgh!

Answer 3

haha i agree with you 100% (excapt maybe Aiden)

these names are gross and don't deserve to be popular

Answer 4

Nevaeh is heaven spelled backward, that's why people like that name. Lots of people who love nature are picking names like Skye or Rain.  

Answer 5

These sorts of names are trendy and tend to become outdated very quickly. Beware of any unusual spelling of names as children with these names will be spending the rest of their lives having to correct the spelling when filling out forms or registering for things.

If you are thinking of naming your child, please avoid trendy pooty names and weird spellings.

Answer 6

Any names ending in 'den' are awful and too popular

Nevaeh is used by people cos they think it is 'different' when in fact it is the opposite.

Krystuphur and Crystyfyr remind me of a names from another planet

People just think these are unique when they clearly aren't as so many people are using them.

Answer 7

can you help me understand your question for answer you

Answer 8

Simply put:  Because it's 2008.  Popular now means many people like them and consider them fresh and fun.  

In 1970 you'd be asking why are THESE names so popular:  Michael, John, Peter, David, Jennifer, Jessica, Michelle, Christine...  

It's just the way society is!  But I agree with you on most of those names.  I really don't understand Alivia or Olivia. I wouldn't want to name my daughter after an olive.  

Answer 9

Because people want to go with what's popular and trendy and they dont want to have minds of their own. I liked Caiden 5 years ago, but now there are so many -aidens, caiden, braiden, haiden, jaiden, zaiden(yes i have seen it).

REDICULOUS!!!

and Nevaeh is a good thought but poor choice. If you want to name your kid after Heaven just call her Heaven.

I have been wondering the same thing.

Poor kindergarten teachers. Caiden 1, Caiden 2, Caiden 14.... when is it going to end?

Answer 10

Check this website if you want to: http://babylist.info/, http://parentspackage.org/

Answer 11

there just all pretty names <3

i dont like christpher though

Answer 12

Really, I only like Aedan and Olivia. I don't like to variate names unless I am making it more feminine (even then I don't go over the top). E.g. Carson-Karsyn.

Answer 13

its called trends its basically a bunch of copy cats following some one with a really bad idea in the first place ,thinking they are being unique when just the opposite is true.

traditional names classically spelled are always in style!!! made up,misspelled,gender inappropriate names are not unique ,they are low class,tacky and usually are popular in trailer parks or low income housing.these used to be called the projects where i come from.nothing to brag about.

a child's name is important,spelling counts and unique does not mean totally phony,misspelled trash!!

no common sense or morals what a combo!

Answer 14

I only like Caden and Isla, the rest are horrid (especially Nevaeh, ugh). Isla isn't common at all; it's never even been in the top 1000 most popular names in the US (albeit, that could change)

But I've no clue why the rest are so popular.

~♫εϊз♫

Answer 15

coz der unique and dey sound good and its a way to freshen up the names. p.s i like the names jaiden, aiden, and kristofer

Answer 16

i think skye sounds nice :) its sounds sweet for a girl.

and i think people spell names different cos they cant think of a unique name but they want their names to be different in a way. lol

Answer 17

Skye first came about in the 1980s.  Personally, I like the sound of it, and many parents probably choose it for the connection to nature or the visual image.  It's also one of those gender neutral names that are popular right now.  It may also be a shortened form of Skyler, which also appeared in the 1980s, a few years before Skye.

http://wiki.name.com/en/Skye

http://wiki.name.com/en/Skyler

The Rain names are not actually that popular in the United States, but they're popular in Australia.  Probably a similar nature bent as Skye.  Rain could also be a shortened form of Lorraine.

Isla is not very popular in the United States, but it is wildly popular in the UK.  There are some famous actresses with this name, which could possibly have increased its popularity.  Isla comes from the name of a Scottish island.

http://wiki.name.com/en/Isla

You can directly blame Sonny Sandoval of the band POD for the name Nevaeh.  He probably didn't make it up, but he named his daughter that, and then announced it on MTV, and the baby naming world latched onto it like leeches.  I personally don't like this name, and the buzz on the forums says the same for many people, yet the popularity keeps increasing.

http://wiki.name.com/en/Nevaeh

Brook is another nature name, and Brooklyn is just a variation of that.  It's also sort of a city name, and others like Paris, Savannah, etc are also a popular trend right now.  Brook first appeared in the 1970s, Brooklyn appeared in the 1990s.

http://wiki.name.com/en/Brooklyn

My personal opinion is that Aiden is here to stay.  People have gotten sick of the standard boys' names, the Michaels and Christophers and James' and Josephs, and wanted to mix it up a little.  The top girls' names change frequently, but parents are less adventurous with boys' names.  The first "Aden" sounding name to appear on the charts was Hayden in the 1980s, and all the other variations followed.  I think Aiden itself is here to stay, but I think the Jaydens, Caydens, Braydens and Haydens will go the way of the Brittneys, Courtneys and Whitneys of the past.  Which is to say, the trend will eventually die down.

http://wiki.name.com/en/The_Rise_of_%22-...

The name Alivia surely arose as a variation of Olivia, which has been in the top girls names for a while now.  Olivia might have gained popularity due to its sort of old-fashioned sound (a popular trend) or due to Biblical implications (the olive branch or Saint Olivia).  The name Olivia was originally created by Shakespeare.  Alivia is probably chosen by parents who like Olivia, but who don't want to be part of the trend.  Just like many other parents who don't want to part of a trend, though, they're playing directly into that.  Alivia is a top 300 name right now.

http://wiki.name.com/en/Olivia

As for odd spellings, well, parents want their children to be unique.  Also, its the 21st century.  I think we feel a cultural push to be more "futuristic," and in baby naming, this sometimes translates to using more z's and y's and k's.  You can probably thank the science fiction writers of the 20th century for ingraining that in our collective unconscious.