Dylan or Marcus?

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Which do you prefer and why?

Thanks!

Marcus, for sure.

Dylan always reminds me of The Magic Roundabout.

Dylan.

Can't say why. Just much prefer it.

Dylan definitely (but am biased :)) only had goof experiences from it. Marcus sounds like an obnoxious estate agent to me.

when I called my son Dylan lots of people older than me did the Magic Roundabout thing. In my experience, nobody has ever mentioned it to him in 20 years and nobody my age or younger has ever heard of the Magic Roundabout (and anyway it was spelt Dillon)

it does get shortened by his mates (like all names) to Dyl, Dyls, Dips (?) and I call him Dilly. Love it as a name and he is the only one in his school with it (southeast)

10 and good stupid phone!

he is not a 20 year old school boy

Definitely Dylan on TMR, not Dillon.

Marcus It's classic.

I like Dylan, but I actually prefer it as a girls name.

Both are nice but I prefer Dylan

Marcus
Regardless of the stoned rabbit connection, Dylan sounds dopy.

Marcus.

Dylan definitely, not hugely keen on Marcus.

Dylan by a country mile.

When I was 11 I thought Dylan was the coolest boys name ever. I'm still quite fond of it.

Dylan, also biased as I have one and he got it after the magic roundabout!

He gets called deeby Dylan or deebystar or deebster etc.

I worked with children and sadly Dylan is not a name I like. But only by association not because its not nice.

Marcus has better associations for me, I only know one!

depends what you are going for. To me Dylan is a bit common, in every sense of the word. Don't shoot me, it's just my perception and may well be influenced by the people I've met with that name. I don't want to offend anyone that has already called their child Dylan. My own DDs name is often called 'chavvy' on here but I like it. Marcus is a polar extreme and is quite posh in my head.

Neither. I really don't like either of those names.

I have a Dylan but it is getting very popular. when ds started school only one other Dylan in school. 2 years later 3 Dylan's in reception

DYLAN - for sure!

Dylan (not Dillon) is so lovely!

I have a Dylan and there is a Marcus in our family - Have not come across another Marcus in real life, so maybe a rarer name, if that is what you are after? my ds has another Dylan in his class but they spell it Dillon. Apart from that we don't come across too many.

Marcus. Classic name.
Dylan sounds a bit red-neck to me.

Oh, Dylan of course! I really, really don't like Marcus. It makes me think of sweaty, balding, ageing men.

Marcus reminds me of Markus Rogan the swimmer ...

I really like both of them

Dylan. But I know a lovely Dylan and a lively Marcus too