I’m seeing this so many times… Like Aiden, Caiden, Braiden, Jaiden, Paiden…

  • BJHanssen@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    So I’m guessing it’s a combination of dun/den/tun etc being a common suffix in a lot of historical 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?