Last names that are now girls first names?

[jessie000]

not naming a baby any time soon, just weirdly curious, i was reading online and it appears naming girls (and boys) surnames is quite trendy now. I can think of Riley, Quinn, what else?

Mackenzie

Maddison.

Harper. Addison. Blair. Classidy
Kavanagh. Torrance. Merryn.

Piper. Marlow. Wallis. Sloane.

Taylor, Cooper, Parker...

It seems like a very American trend to me, and not just for girls. I was watching a US documentary a few days ago and it seemed like the majority of names in the school class featured were surnames. There were more surname names than forename names.

Meredith
Hillary
Harley
Hadley
Presley
Sawyer

Avery
Ellery
Blake
Blair
Cameron
Cassidy
Ellis
Elliot
Kennedy
Kendall
Hadley
Harlow
Addison
Sawyer
Bellamy
Delaney
Everly
Madigan
McKenna
Peyton
Parker
Casey
Drew
Dylan
Emerson
Marley
Ashton
Greer
Harper
Piper
Rowan
Taylor

Kavanagh?!

Bailey

Many uk first names were originally surnames.

Percy
Russell
Howard

there's quite a lot! James too?

Carter
Courtney

using first names as surnames is defintely more a thing used for boys than girls but with some exceptions mostly listed above, like Meredith, Maddison, Avery, Ainslie, courtney, Greer Haarper and more. The increases in girls having surname type names is due to people using traditionally boys names for girls such as Baily, Finley, Blair, Elliot etc.

Surnames as noys names is particularly prevalent in Scotland traditionally (it was common for a boy to be given his Mum's maiden name) and now also in the US. But having said that most names would have one point have been a "surname".

MY DH has his mums maiden name as a first name, my brother has my mums as a midle name, I have many friends with similar including uncommon ones such as Walker, Magregor, Whitson, Moir, Lyall and loads of Campbells, Grahams, Duncans etc

Darcey

My daughters name is Finley, it was my granny's middle name and her mums (my great grandmas) maiden name.
We named our son Shay with a link from my partners side, his Grandfathers surname is O'Shea :)

My niece is Finley too, love it for a girl Kelly :)

Curtis, Mason, Page

Meredith and Hilary have always been first names.

Meredith and Hilary have always been first names.

Except when they were surnames...

Sir Edmund Hilary ring a bell at all? Loads of Merediths but none that I would say are household names.

Brooke is the only one I can think of right now.

Don't mind it as they have the potential to sound more grown-up than all the cutesy doggy/little girly names that you hear around a lot. But I do find it quite weird when they end in 'son' as it means son of. For example, Emerson, Maddison etc. Agree that it's a very American thing to do.

Is it necessary to point out some names are both?

Those names are not surnames that became first names as per the thread title, they were always used as first names.

My niece is a McKenna and I keep fucking it up calling her McKenzie or mckayla , McKinley ..variations on the "Mc's" are quite trendy trendy here in the us.

Meredith and Hilary have always been first names.

Nope. They haven't been.

I'm sure 100 years from now, someone will say the same about Madison. Doesn't make it true, though.

Kelly