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I've been doing family research, and have found an Aden and an Adin back in the 1700s. The name Aden shows up on the SSA popularity charts starting in 1880. Now days, it's one of the 50 million spellings of Aiden/Aidan/Aydynnnn etc. but does anyone know its usage back in the Old Days? Most of the siblings of the Adens and Adins in my family tree have the "normal" Biblical type names (Sarah, Hannah, Samuel etc.) plus a few of the weirder Biblical ones (Asahel, Nehemiah, Rhoda) & other Puritan gems (Freelove, Wait).