Surnames as first names

[Manda25]

A friend of mine is having a baby boy in 3 weeks but is a little stuck for names. She likes (and has 2 other children) with surnames/American names ... what do you think of these and do you have any others to add?

Jack
Rigsby
Dawson
Casey
Smith
Jones
Crawford
Miller
Keenan
Edward
Wilson
Clark
Carter
Cooper
Sullivan
Fletcher

The cute little boy on "Brothers and Sisters" is called Cooper, I quite like it. Established surname type first names I can think of are Cameron, Ellis, Campbell and Fraser - all with a Scottish origin as far as I know. Isn't the name Beckett quite popular in the US for a boy?

I am not keen on surnames as first names, probably due to teachers at school knowing my brother and then just calling me 'Miss xxxx* and not bothering with my first name.

Brennan
Campbell
Cooper
Ellis

I do quite like Sullivan too.

DS is Blake, so i too love that one

Allen
Anderson
Archer
Austin
Balfour
Baxter
Benedict
Bevin
Blair
Boyd
Carter
Clayton
Coe n
Cullen
Donovan
Hunter
Irvine
Keaton
Kelvin/Calvin
Lincoln
Miller
Mitchell
Munro
Oakley
Parker
Ramsey
Robson
Spencer
Trent
Walker
Wilson

My dad was born in Portadown, Northern Ireland, in 1916 and he was called Dawson. Everyone shorted it to Danny...

He had an eccentric mum or dad I think as he had a brother called Hampton too.

Weird I think! For the time and the place.

Oh yes a sister called Analeen. And another sister called Grace who married someone called Gardner.