Lawson or Lawton?

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Which do you prefer?

Lawson but I don't really like either sorry.

None sorry.

I really dislike this trend for surnames-as-forenames, especially when there's no precedent for using a particular surname as a forename. So... neither.

Neither sorry, they're surnames not first names.

Both dreadful, sorry!

Lawson. It trips off the tongue easier than Lawton.

Neither, sorry.

I'm in Scotland where surnames as first names is an old tradition.

Neither. Choose a name.

Sorry but I feel the same about surnames as first names. Not for me but each to their own and all that.

Lawson but I like neither. Can't imagine a chubsy infant or a sparkly little boy called either of those. Maybe, maybe a sixty-eight year old man with large ears and dramatically wiry grey eyebrows. An irascible "Git orf my laaaawn!" sort of fellow.

Of the two, Lawson sounds better.

As in chancellor Nigel Lawson?

Neither, sorry!

Lawson? Lawton?...first names?...explain!

neither.......sorry

Reeling from the backlash!
I thought Lawson had a grown up, confident ring to it....Doctor Lawson Jones etc
I don't like cute little boys names on grown men.
Boys names hurt my brain, too hard!

I see where you were going but 'round 'ere they don't approve of surnames as first names.

Out there they don't mind so much.

I don’t like cutesy names either but those stray too far in the other direction for me. They seem impersonal.

Funny squoosh, pictured yokel in the Slaughtered Lamb pointing (Werewolf in London)

There are plenty of boys names that aren't cutesy. You don't have to resort to surnames.

We've got Lawtons 175 years back as first names in our family...

Ok..I was shocked...I consulted the family and Lawson won ...hands down...but you could just call him harry

maybe a sixty-eight year old man with large ears and dramatically wiry grey eyebrows.

You do know he was once a chubsy little infant, dont you!

Lawson has a history of being used as a first name, in Scotland at least, and doesn't sound bad at all. I think you should go for it.