LEN McClusky, Len Goodman, Len Ganley. Afew years ago, you couldn’t move for Lens. In fact it used to be said that wherever you were in Britain, you were never more than 20 yards from someone called Len.
But that fact may no longer be true, because the popularity of the name has been dropping in recent years, and 2019 saw the once popular moniker fall out of the top 250 boys names for the first time ever.
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In the 1920s and 30s, Len was a household name, rarely out of the top ten chart. But since the war, the name declined in popularity, and 2019 saw just 3 baby boys christened Len in the UK.
“Len, is a contraction of the name Leonard, meaning lion,” said Somerset House…