Stephen Alexander, at his always interesting and insanely prolific blog Torpedo the Ark, brightens my day, at this ever more darkening time, with a post about three Simons of roughly the same age and with certain affinities: Armitage, Critchley, Reynolds.
As I note in his comments section, it was a ridiculously common name for boys born from the late '50s to early '70s, such that you could throw a stone in my school playground and it would likely bounce off two or three "Simons".
Apparently this is no longer the case, as Stephen reveals: Simon has dropped out of the Top 500 names in the UK for newborns.
But once upon a time it was a defining Britboy's name. And made even more so by its incredible rarity as a first name in America. So when Mike Myers wanted to show off his command of English idiom and accent with a Saturday Night Live sketch about a little British boy, there was really only one name that the character could have *.
"Draw-rings" - immaculate pronunciation!
* Actually, there's a probably a few other contender names: Toby. Gary...