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It's Rahn (pronounced like Ron). I don't think so, no.

Maybe

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It's Jones. I like it and would consider it if I were more adventurous with real life naming, or ever had another son. :)

I wouldn't, and I think my mother would strangle me if I ever even considered it because she always hated it and was more than happy to give it up when she got married. (Her maiden name was Molvik - she was teased for it growing up and she wasn't close with her father in any case, so.)

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My grandmother's maiden name is Davis, though, and that's quite nice. I'd use that.

We haven't decided yet...

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Actually... we are more considering MY maiden name. My daughter has it in her name, and my husband wants to use it for a son too. But, the name is an actual female name (Gioia)... so I am not sure if I am ok with naming a son a girl's name. If anyone has an opinion on this - I would totally hear it.

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My mother's maiden name was Sweet. So... yeah, I could use it since it is a adjective name. Something like Victor Sweet etc... However, my mother and I are estranged, so I won't use it.

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My sister actually did use it as a middle name for her daughter. But, she used it as the surname of the grandfather, not the maiden name of our mother.

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My other's mother's maiden name is Kennedy - so that would also work on a boy or girl.

If I liked it and it felt significant to me, then sure.

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My own mother's maiden name, probably not, unless I were to change the spelling (slightly confusing German spelling for most in US), which would then make it look more like an Irish name, probably, so that largely invalidate using it in an honoring way (we're not big on our German or Irish ancestry). But yeah, if she had a cool maiden name that felt significant for our family and it worked for a boy's name I'd use it (case in point: I had a friend in high school whose mom gave her her maiden name - Kyle - as a middle name and it was pretty neat).

It's a common anglicised Welsh patronymic & usable if you drop the ending, but it's not a favourite, so I wouldn't use it myself.

No, it’s not done in my culture and I think it might actually be illegal.
Besides that, the vast majority of Croatian surnames doesn’t lend itself to forename usage. Here’s just a sampling of surnames in my family tree to illustrate: Mudifaj, Popović, Šantić, Šimunec, Golub, Kolarić, Kovač, Jambrečec...

Yes

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My mother's maiden name is Doyle. I quite like it, although people have told me it sounds too dorky. I doubt my fiance would go for it, but in theory, yes, I would name a son Doyle.

I wouldn't and didn't. Her maiden name was Wilkin, and if I'd had enough sons I'd have happily named one of them William (which is also a family name), but really not Wilkin! Anyway, people were always calling my grandmother Mrs Wilkins instead of Mrs Wilkin, so why perpetuate the confusion?

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That said, my own maiden name was Davies, and I gave my son David as his second name - it's a good name, and I must have had a Welsh ancestor named David, somewhere back in the dawn of time.

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In both cases it's a question of finding a name that's familiar, sounds good and isn't intrinsically confusing (I used to get called Davis a lot).

No.

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My mother's family had one surname and then when she was in high school (?) they changed it. For some reason, they thought taking off the first letter and adding a new letter to the end would help people pronounce it. (Taking a letter off would have; the first letter was silent... adding a new letter to the end did not (why would you add a silent letter?) Neither is namey and, at least in the US, the second one is only used by my family, so I can't post it.

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My soon-to-be mother-in-law's maiden name would also be a terrible name for a child. I don't like to say things like "oh, they'll be teased", but his name would literally be Whine Burger.

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Never.

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First I wouldn't want to name my child a surname of half my relatives and second Miskovsky is in no form a usable given name.

Nope. It's an uncommon Swedish name with a harsh pronunciation. My sister-in-law did this - the funny thing is that her maiden name was the same as her mother's-in-law, so it honored two families.

No way!

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My mother's surname is Zielinski. That would look terrible on a kid.

My mother's family were Cloonans, Devaneys, Delaneys and/or Dunleavys, maybe O'Hallorans and a number of other weird things.

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Cloonan, for example, and Devaney / Dunleavy / whatever were meant to be quite important families, which is kind of cool, but most of the history has been lost now.

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Anyway, no, they are horrible names for a child. I'd never name a kid Cloonan in a million years, regardless of the important history. I guess Delaney is useable but I dislike it a lot as a first name. Halloran is kind of cool, but again, it's not first name material. It'd be a cool nickname for someone with the surname, though.

Mine

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Think most people know that I'm naming my first born son Wason Sean

If it would be a good name, yes, but I don't think it would be. Women on my dad's side have used forms of the last name as a kid's name for generations. But they're things where you can just drop the s at the end of the last name or translate it to another language so it won't stand out or blend in with the father's last name.

If my mother had a more usable maiden name I absolutely would. I'm not down with naming a son Horn though.

Yes but it would seem very pretentious!

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My mothers maiden name is Noble. I love it and i'd totally use it but it seems snobby and pretentious!

My mom's maiden name is Krawcheck, so no. I would if she had a nicer last name. I'd consider using my last name, though, actually.

I would love to, except my mum has a not very usable maiden name, consisting of the words year and wood. Even mine, whilst a very popular boys' name, is not my naming style at all. Sometimes I just wish my parents had better surnames, but whatever, you can't have everything.

No, but that's because it would be a terrible name for a person. I'd consider using my own maiden name as a middle name for a boy though, as it's also a boys name.

I could because it's Gunther but I wouldn't...

No, but...

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It's more a matter of practicality than disliking the practice. Her maiden name is Fratarcangeli and that would be awful. Generally, though, I think it's a neat idea to consider.

I didn't, and have 2 sons, so I guess I wouldn't.People do, though.
I have a cousin who had his mother's maiden name as his first name.(A common Scottish name). However, I never heard him called that, he was always called Bud.

I sure would as a middle name. I think that my mother's maiden name, which was Moore, lends itself quite well to middle name use, but I'd do it even if it didn't, as I love the practice of carrying on family names. But this would probably not happen until the third son, since my husband wanted the first son named after himself and I'd be likely to use my own maiden name before I'd use my mother's.

Maybe as a middle name, not a first name. It's Metcalf.

Not done in my culture, though in theory I sort of could, since my mother's surname is an Italian patronymic containing a name that's presently considered unisex.

Not done in my culture, though in theory I sort of could, since my mother's surname is an Italian patronymic containing a name that's presently considered unisex.

No, it wouldn't work, since most Swedish surnames aren't usable as first names. In fact, in most cases it's forbidden to give your child a first name that sounds too surname-ish, like Lindgren or Johansson for example.

In theory, yes...(m)

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Honoring is one of my favorite parts of naming, so I really like the idea of using family surnames as FNs. But as my mom's maiden name is a long, French moniker that starts with "Gag" - it's not in the cards for me.

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I do think anything goes in the MN slot, so I would have no problem using it there.

I've thought about using it as a middle name, but it's such a bizarre name (there are officially 36 people in the US who have it-- all in our little family) that I'd never use it as a first name.

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I have considered honoring other surnames in my family, such as Clarke (I'm loving Clark/Clarke for a boy), Daniel (from McDaniel) and so on.

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So, in short, if it was a handsome name then yes I'd use it.

Misread the question

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Probably not, but I'm not totally opposed to the idea as it does lend itself to the nn 'Gil'.

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In theory I could because it's a popular boys' name. It's outside the top 100 in England and USA but in the top 100 in Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.

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However, I don't really like it so I wouldn't for that reason. I might, might consider it as a middle name.

Hell naw.

No

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We don't use surnames/maiden names as given names here, so it would just be weird. Plus, her maiden name is also one of my surnames. And it's also a name that's hard to spell and pronounce for other people so, yeah.. No I wouldn't use it.

Absolutely not. Like seriously, no. If my mom's maiden name was something like Fisher or Ellis or Bailey, maybe. None of those names particularly appeal to me, but if they had sentimental feeling behind them, they might. But my mom's maiden name is more along the lines of "Papadopoulos" than "Baker", and would look utterly ridiculous as a first name.

doubtful ...

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Especially considering that my mother's maiden name, which was my own last name before I was married, is a two-word, adjective plus noun Indian name that I would not give to a son or a daughter. And my mother-in-law's maiden name would be ridiculous as a first name for a person.

I might, if it was a more attractive name. It's Ward.