What has happend to Darren, Mark and Lee?

[Eastie77Returns]

When I was at primary school (late 80s) half the boys in the school had names like Darren, Mark and Lee. They would now be men in their late 40s/early to mid 50s but I don't hear those names much anymore. I can't remember the last time I met a Darren!

I remember a Darren in primary school and that was in the 1970’s. He was English (am in NI) and I remember I had never heard the name before😆 It seemed to become more popular a few years later. I know two adult Darren’s in their mid forties. One painted the inside of our house and the other painted the outside! They knew each other and hadn’t a good word to say about each other. I know loads of Mark’s, young and old. We seem to like our biblical/traditional names here. We still get baby John’s and David’s and Michael’s. I’ve only ever known one male Lee who was in my class in primary school. I know a few women called Lee though. Late fifties/early sixties now.

Any footballers called Lee were invariably featured in 1990s/early 2000s tabloids where they exposed as love rats or just general wrong'uns.

Jamie Lee Curtis! John Lee Hooker!

an add-on name, in the states.

Did you always love the name @Markisagreatname ? Does he like his name?

Same as the Sarahs and Rebeccas!
Seriously, Darren and Lee do make me think of men in their 40s, but I know Marks both older and younger (none in my immediate friends/family groups, but work/friends of friends etc). I don't know if it's because that's a biblical name, and associated as an ok for Royalty name too, so more likely to be a classic?

I imagine they may have gone the same way as Clive, Nigel, Jeremy, Simon of my childhood in the 60s. Amanda, Deborah, Jane, Heather for girls. And of course the ubiquitous Mary-Jane, Emma-Jane and Sarah-Jane for girls: MJ, EJ and SJ.

My first love was a Mark. He became an investment banker.

Yes, he loves his name.

No, we didn’t always have it in mind. It wasn’t a name that I had always loved. I was fairly indifferent to it, tbh.

We just wanted a name that couldn’t be shortened to something we didn’t like and we don’t like made up, “unique” names.

It suits him very well.

My DS is a Mark. He’s extremely smart 💯🤣

So I married a 1980s born Wayne.
My sister a 70s born Simon
And we have plenty of Dave's.
All of our names in my immediate family are top ten list for the year we were born.
We've got a full house 😆

Oh and the bloke who broke my heart was a Mark.

I am always astonished that DS(17) has a friend called Ian. There’s nothing wrong with being called Ian, it’s just not a name I see very often, if at all, on the under 50s.

I remember four Marks from secondary school in 1970's, 3 of them in my A level chemistry class. There seem to be lots of Danny's in their 40's a plaster and plumber we use plus two of our neighbours.

I think Carol is a bit older.
She’d be married to Nigel.

Warren.
Brother to Darren, Karen and Sharon.

I know a 17 year old Darren…

I’m also married to a Darren but he’s probably worth 8 quid not 8 million! But he’s a nice enough bloke though 😆

I work with them all. Darren, Lee, Mark. Also, John, Dave, Mike, Andy, Simon, Paul, Matt, Dan, Nick.

I have commented that we could do with more name diversity when we're next recruiting, though I'm not sure I could get that past HR as essential criteria.

I know a 19 year old Jason!

I work with 6 men and 3 of them are Mark! In their 40s, I think.
DS born in 1992 had a year group full of Oliver, James, and Alex, with a smattering of Sam, Ben and Thomas.
Im in my 60s and lots of men I know of my age are Mike, Dave, Chris and Andy.

Ha ha! I knew a Nigel, he was married to a Linda!

What about Gary?

I know a few Darrens, several Marks and a Lee. So I presume they must all be in Devon with me 😂

I know a Gary and Linda. They run a garage.

I have an Aunty Linda she will be sbout 80 now .