[ SECRET POST #2952 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2952 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Tales of Zestiria]


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03.
[Strange Magic]


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04.
[Sleepy Hollow]


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05.
[Star Trek: TNG]


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06.
[Person of Interest]


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07.
(Dangan Ronpa)


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08.
(Splash, Daryl Hannah)


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09.
[Once Upon a Time]


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10.
[VH1's Hindsight]













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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That fucking movie led to a decade and a half AT LEAST of fucking every girl being fucking named madison. Shit. I still get flashbacks. I think I quit teaching because of all the fucking madisons born in the late 90s when all those little kids grew up and had babies and fucking named them madison and I had 35 of them in one class.

No, I'm not capitalizing it. It doesn't deserve my respect.

[(Anonymous)]

And Madison paved the way for Addison (thanks Gray's Anatomy, for making that one a thing).

And all the boys are Aidan, Brayden, Caden, Hayden, Jaden, Kayden, Payton, Slayden, etc. Not much better.

[(Anonymous)]

Hayden is actually a pretty old name. I knew someone in his seventies whose name was Hayden.

[(Anonymous)]

Aidan derives from the 7th century Irish "Aedan".

Brayden also comes from old Irish "Bradan".

Hayden's origins go back to either old English or old German.

Some suggestion that Caden/Kayden goes back to old Gaelic surnames also, just with an Anglicized spelling to match the popular -aden sound.

Not saying that the overuse of the names/the use of surnames as first names isn't obnoxious (or that some, like Jaden, aren't recent inventions) but most of them are in no way new.

[(Anonymous)]

I think in name fandom (yes it's a thing) "new" tends to mean "newly popular" whether the name itself is new or not. If it was "Say that again?"-obscure before a recent date and is suddenly on keychains, it's new.

[(Anonymous)]

I know Aidan is an Irish name. It wouldn't annoy me on its own.

The others still bug me, though. They're surnames, and they're only so popular because they fit the rhymes-with-aden trend. Yeah, you can find a few Bradens or Haydens who weren't born in the last decade or so, because people have always used surnames as first names on occasion, but they only became super-popular recently.

[(Anonymous)]

In other words "they're popular, now they suck"?

[(Anonymous)]

I hate the -aden names because in an Australian accent (I live in Australia) they all sound nasal and awful. BRIIIIIIIIIDN!

[(Anonymous)]

I have to admit, I dislike that name a lot. I dislike most of the generic unisex names that are popular nowadays. They sound so WASPy. But it's my niece's name, which makes me sad. :(

[(Anonymous)]

Yes OMFG. Madison as a first name for ANYONE was unknown before this came out--hence the reaction to it in the movie--and now you can't swing a dead cat on a playground without hearing it at least a half dozen times. Or see it spelled "Maadysshohnnhhhh" somewhere.

[(Anonymous)]

It existed as a first name for boys, a very rare one. I knew someone (on a name message board) whose brother was unfortunately named Madison a decade or so before Splash.

[(Anonymous)]

I like to assume all the Madisons are named after the capitol of Wisconsin for some reason.

[(Anonymous)]

I love it.

[(Anonymous)]

For a while it was supposedly trendy to name your kid after where s/he was conceived. Maybe the 90s were just a really fun time in America's Dairyland.

[were_lemur]

Ew. That's kind of icky-TMI territory to me.

(Also I am very glad my parents did not follow that trend, because "Montreal"? NOPE.)

[(Anonymous)]

I'd be named Japan.

[ginainthekingsroad]

I'm pretty sure that's an urban legend, or at least not nearly as common/"trendy" as is believed.

Splash really did have a big direct impact (or splash, ha ha) on the baby names list; unknown as a feminine before its release in 1984, it was in the top 650 the very next year and has been in the top 10 every year since 1997.