Surname names?

[TheMagicKeyCanFuckOff]

Firstly, I'm not pregnant! I just want to know opinions of people about surname names.

So names like Mason, Hunter, Flynn, Quinn, Campbell, Adler, Taylor, Parker, Reilly/Riley, Harrison, Bryce, Sawyer, Dawson, Tierney etc;?

I like a few but have met some people who really hate them, and wondered what people on here thought? Do you see surname names as male names or are there female ones? I know two girls called Mckenzie and another called Mckynlee, some boys called Riley and two girls called spelling variants of Riley, and a Tierney.

I dont have a problem with them, my nephew is called Fletcher. Ive known Riley's all boys. Ive lived in the states and know of girls with the names Somerville, Alston and Piper. Names are really just words that identify you to someone else, and surnames are names. And its not a new thing, my great grandfather was called Collins because that was his mothers maiden name.

A lot of them seem quite American, these type of names are much more popular over there.

Some are nice, some are bloody awful! You can't tar a whole genre of names with the same brush!

Anyway, I know people with the surnames James, Thomas, John, Jacobs....so any name can be a surname name iyswim!

I really like some surname-y names, though wouldn't be brave enough to use them!
Some are terrible though!

For example, I like Jackson, Flynn and Harrison but dislike Taylor, Sawyer and Riley.

And I really don't like female surname-y names, they just seem too masculine to me (and that's from someone who doesnt like girly / frilly names).

I dislike lots of them but do realise that lots of 'conventional' names can be surnames, Paul, James etc.
I know two families each with a daughter & son (about same age and all under 5) named McKenzie and Cooper though, and think they are awful faddy names and clearly very popular!

I'm not keen. Generally they sound more American than I like. DD has one as her middle name though - her dad's surname can be a unisex first name and I wasn't budging on giving her my surname, so she got his as a middle name.

It's a Scots tradition. My DF is called by a surname name. He was named after his GF but GFs first name was Archibald so he got the surname instead. It's more commonly a girls name but he is definitely not the only person in the world called that as a bloke!

Not keen, but bearable on a boy although current trend is American, some of my grandparents on one side up at least as far as the great greats had surname names (the men), and they were very British.

I think it's awful on girls. Ungainly. Plus what if they want to get married and prefer to take their husband's surname and end up called Cooper Cooper?!

I love surnamey names! But I love unisex names for girls too (not boys) so Im not sure the majority have similar tastes to me.

Varies. I like Howard, Lloyd, Harris. Loathe Cooper, Mason, Hunter, Riley.

Dislike them on girls.