One of my best friends has a
Lee middle name, and she was born in the late 80s. It does feel very retro now, like something from the 50s!
Nicole,
Lynn and
Marie were the go-to middle names for my peers for sure. I always remember feeling a bit puzzled by
Nicole's popularity, it felt different from the one syllable fillers, and it was also popular as a first name. But why that one? Nobody ever had
Jennifer,
Jessica, or
Ashley as a middle name. It was a real mystery to me.
One of us had
Kathleen as a middle and it felt positively exotic.