Comment on what is with child names like Aiden, Braiden etc?

EABOD25@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d like to see your source for those. I don’t know Gaelic so I can’t fact check those ones, but I do know a bit of Hebrew, and names that mean ‘God X’ usually end in el, not en. Also, Hebrew doesn’t have an English J sound, it has the IPA J sound though, or English Y sound. The Hebrew word for judge is ‘shofet’.

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  • lath@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably taken from this.

    The name is probably a modern invention, formed by blending the “Jay” sound from the 1970s-popular name Jason with the “den” sound from names like Braden, Hayden, Jordan and Zayden.[1] The biblical name Jadon (or Yadon), Hebrew for “he will judge”, appears in the Bible in Nehemiah 3:7,[2] but it is unlikely to be the source of the modern name.[1]

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• BJHanssen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So I’m guessing it’s a combination of dun/den/tun etc being a common suffix in a lot of hustorical languages, and ‘ei’ being an extremely common diphthong worldwide just… leading to a lot of similar-sounding names that also converge in spelling in modern English?

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