Proud Dereks: Readers lumbered with unfashionable names

15 August 2012 Last updated at 20:40 ET



Readers sent in hundreds of emails in response to our piece on the decline of Derek and other unfashionable names.
Dereks got in touch with divided opinions on their names. People also shared their experience of other "unfashionable" names.
The Dereks
I was born in 1972 and christened Derek Edwin Grubb (despite never having appeared in a Dickens novel). I hated my name. From quite an early age, I cringed every time it was called. Even as a child I felt there was something not quite right with "Derek". Being from Liverpool, I was nicknamed Degsy.

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