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I have an impossible to prove theory that the rise of boys named Aiden coincides with thst being the name of Carrie Bradshaw's nice guy boyfriend on sex in the city. Girls that watched in their teens and early 20s liked him and when they had sons of their own the name was on the short list.

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That's very possible to prove in non-english-speaking countries, where surges of foreign names (along with some very creative misspellings) usually coincided with the first run of a foreign TV drama that had a character named like that, shifted by a few years.

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