What has happend to Darren, Mark and Lee?

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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!

See also Lee from 'The Office' 😅 So glad he lost Dawn to Tim ❤️ All the trouble makers on our local FB page are Lee's 🤨

The company I work for has employed three Darrens, they've all been fired.

Darren 1 had a coke habit
Darren 2 threatened to stab someone
Darren 3 was stealing from the company

Also had a Wayne who was friends with Darren 1; he got wasted at the work's Christmas do and knocked his own front teeth out when he fell over. The next day he came in (toothless) and accused two of his colleagues of roofy-ing him and pulling his teeth out with pliers 😱 Fortunately CCTV footage emerged of him face-planting the pavement the previous night. Wayne's teeth were never found 😬

Someone earlier mentioned the Rebeccas. I went to school with a Rebecca, two Beckys, a Becki a Becks and a Bex. I also know a Becky married to a Darren. 😂

Yes I’m friends with 3 Rebeccas: Rebecca, Becky and Beck.

3 Sophies, 2 Emmas, 2 Kates, 1 Katie, 1 Catherine, 1 Kathy, 2 Hannahs

That’s why I’m in favour of more original names - so you don’t end up as Ella C.

It’s exactly that. You mix in different circles now.

I sound the same age as you and Darren and Lees were absolute scallywags when I was at school. I don’t put Mark in to the same category as them.

My 5 year old child's classmates include Allan, Doug, Colin and Katie - names that wouldn't have been out of place in my 1980s primary class!

Ah yes the Rebeccas
I knew a few in my 80s childhood.

Lol i shared a house when i.was a student nurse with a Sharron whose brother Darren.

On our house renovation there have been 3 Darren’s, 2 Mark’s and a Lee!

Love it.
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Tamsin Grieg is one of my absolute favourites!
Well done you! 😁

I was teaching then . Many Darren's and Lees but you missed Craig and Garry. For years I always had them on the class list.

And Shane, Darryl, Richard Stephen and John. John, for centuries was the most common British name, peaking in 1914, last year there were under 600 born in the UK. You dont see many baby Franks, Stewarts, Colins or Ians in England.
I like solid names, like John and Mark and Luke. But we ended up with 3 slightly pretentious ones.
I forgot Tim. I was going to be Timothy if a boy. Another reason to be glad im a woman. Think in my 60s/70s suburban Australian school id have had the shit kicked out of me regularly.

I have a 65 year old cousin Danny. What was cute in a chunky 3 year old is slightly incongruous in a 6'4" ex copper. I think Danny is more family though, everyone else call him Dan.

I thought Alan had died out.

Alan has died out I think. What about Terry?! That name seems to have gone too. I thought Terry was friends with Kevin and Mark but where is he now? Did he emigrate to Menorca?

Terry and Alan are the uncles who never married and were always at your nan's house.

Ha, brilliant. I hope they were wearing home knitted cardigans.

Nah, they are at church. Had a meeting with 10 people the other week, 2 were called Simon, at least 20 years apart.

So is Simon the opposite of Lee.. interesting!

The one Darren I know is actually a plumber 😂

That's what I thought. But turns out Allan is preparing for his next venture (Year 1) 😂

I wouldn't write Nigel off. He seems to have regenerated in Ireland. Years ago an English friend called Nigel was working in a Dublin factory and bought a ticket for a Christmas raffle. Guy asked his name - 'Nigel' - and walks away. ' Ere , don't ya want me surname?' Yer man : nah don't worry there's no other Nigels in Cabra , pal.

I wouldn't bank on it now pal . There was even a Nigel running for the council as a Sinn Féin candidate.

It seems quintessentially English, but in fact Nigel is derived from the Irish name Niall.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel

Gary is near extinction too. One day the children of today will ask, “Mama, what is a Gary?”

Today, there has been lots of Chrises- I don't know if they're Christophers or Christians.