Names undergo a predictable 'socioeconomic cascade' from elites to working-class demographics.

In sociolinguistics, the lifecycle of trendy names follows a distinct downward cascade. Upper-income and highly educated parents often adopt or invent novel names to distinguish their children. As these names gain traction, they are popularized by media and subsequently adopted by middle- and working-class parents seeking upward mobility and modern associations for their children. Once a name achieves mass saturation among working-class demographics, it is abandoned by the upper classes, who view it as overused or 'common.' This dynamic heavily affected 'Darren' in the late 1980s and 1990s in the UK and Australia, where the name became heavily associated with working-class stereotypes, causing its popularity among new parents to plummet to near-zero by the 21st century.