Names that could also be surnames?

[namesstress2323]

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I like:

• Watson
• Jones
• Boston
• Harland
• Lawson
• Martin
• Simon
• Wilder
• Clark
• Davis

Most first names can also be surnames e.g. James, Simon, Walter, George, Oliver, Jack. I know people with each of those as their surname.

Traditional surnames that can switch to first names is the more current US trend e.g. Addison, Jackson, Emerson, Harrison, Forbes, Mackenzie etc.

Archer
Hunter
Jack
Donovan
Bennett
Butcher
Baker
Archer
Hunter

Vincent George James Henry Martin Lowell Lewis Blair Blake Charles

Barron

I really don't like the style of using surnames for first names, however if I had to I'd go with:

Fletcher
Truman
Campbell
Mason
Mackenzie

I don't either. If I had to I would go with John, James, Henry, George. Lloyd, Lewis, Morgan(?), Owen etc.

Others I have thought of are Leighton, Ryan, Dennis, Headley, Hayley, Casey, Riley, Ridley, Ripley, Harris ...

Harlow
Harper
Maddison
Blair
Lucy

Robson
Francis
Patrick
Thomas
Bryce
Lee/Leigh
Leighton
James
Harrison

I went to school with a William Williams.

I love surname names. My name is a surname, with a unique spelling ad is probably the most hated name on mumsnet. Which makes me love it even more.

Evan
Marlowe
Riley
Spencer
Terry
Piper
Ford
Maddox
Ramsay
Brent
Finn
Finlow
Finbar
Maddison
David
Owen
Leon

Blaine
Brooke

I meant Blaise not Blaine

Sinclair is a lovely name x

Lucas
Lewis
Gregory

Craig.

Fletcher
Lee
Martin
Hudson
Blake
Norman
Lesley

We have a couple of little lads called Smith in the local area, I quite like it.

Montague ( I knew a Monty Montague - lovely elderly neighbour when I was a child)
Melvin ( Melvin Melvin was a U.S. actor)

Most boys names are surnames.
William
Oliver
Christopher
Michael
John
Samuel
Andrew
Phillip
George
Timothy
David
Daniel
Peter
Paul
Simon
James
Zachariah
Jeremy
Etc

On this board, I see a recent trend for typical Irish surnames as first names, for both sexes. Recent posts I recall include Quinn, Reilly, Rafferty, Sullivan. I find it very odd.

I also hugely dislike when people give surnames ending in -son to girls. It seems to suggest they haven't thought it through.

I have a Sullivan. Given that he was born on St. Patrick's Day it seemed fitting. Not that odd given the amount of Quinns, Rileys and Raffertys that are around either.

His big brother has a surname for a first name too. Some people love them some people hate them.

I'm one that loves them.

Hamilton
Smith
Harper
Reese
Owen
Jones

Yosciencebitch i thought the most hated name on mumsnet was Nevaeh?

mrs perhaps! Mine is definitely up there though

Marshall