Angels, in Christianity at least, are ALWAYS referred to as male. Angels are never referred to in any other gender (feminine, or neuter). Furthermore, the only named angels in the bible are also males: Michael, Gabriel, and Lucifer. Hey - maybe some day Lucifer will catch on! "Just call me Lucy!"
I just started by picking names of the boys I've had in daycare the last two years and then names of boys from my daughters classes and their friends. All these kids were born between 08 and 14. Just from that I got 40 my first time out. not to bad. :)
Apparently it's been around for a while now, though it's rise to popularity was very recent. It certainly sounds like it should be a surname to me, but whatever, it's a free country. That said, my tolerance is stretched to breaking point by Jayden and its variants. That one is definitely a nonsense modern invention.
Why is it being a modern invention a bad thing? language changes, so do the names we use. I'm not a fan of naming your kid apple like Chris Martin or Moonunit like Frank Zappa, but I don't see any issue with naming your kid Jayden just because it doesn't have a long history.
It's probably from the surname, which in turn is from the occupation - or perhaps the Illuminati - but even as a given name it's been around quite a while. A few examples that come to mind are Mason Williams ("Classical Gas"), Mason Adams (character actor and voice over artist), and Mason Reese (child actor) - all from 50 or more years ago.
it has been around as a given name, from atleast the 1800s.
And I find surnames used as given names often sound very silly aswell.. though I never looked at mason as coming from a surname. Now that I think about it, it obviously does, and comes from a profession.
Funny story: My Economics teacher once had a student whose name was spelled "La-a", and he was like "uh, is there someone named Laa in this class or is it a mistake?" so everyone in the class was like "there's no one named Laa in here", but finally this one girl said that she wasn't called on, and my teacher said "okay, what's your name?" and she said "LaDasha". You were supposed to pronounce the dash. I don't know if he was telling the truth, but I still found it funny.
Like with many US based quizzes, I did badly here (I'm British). Here I think biblical names are popular as well, but also royal names. So we have lots of Edwards, Charles and Harrys.
Fun facts:
There are now more children called Jaxon spelled with an x than like the surname Jackson
The parents who called their daughter Unique would be sad to learn that there are three others
I believe there is some research supporting the theory that naming your child something unique affects their career prospects.
I personally can't imagine a political or business leader named Jayden or Swayde
With the popularity of idiotic cartoon movies (laughable CGI) from comic books, I'm expecting a bunch of fan boys insisting on naming their night of drunken sex after those characters. Groot sounds like he won't get tormented in school, does he?
Some people have officialy tried to name their kids thing like sex fruit... in several cases the court got involved and the were forbidden to use the name, but many (some countries are way more strict than others ) very weird ones got through, (like paycheck...)
Hardly anything changes> First jayden goes out en matthew in, then aiden out oliver in (ow and logan out and lucas in). Matthew out again and logan in again. And the last year no name changes.
=>Jayden <=Matthew
=>Aiden, Logan <=Oliver, Lucas
=>Matthew <=Logan
personally I have never heard of jaxon. It looks alright I think.