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I don't mind, and sometimes like, them when they sound at least as much like first-names to me as they sound like surnames.
Almost every one of the names New Chloe picked are what I would call "first-namey."
Some trendy surnames that I think are first-namey enough that I don't complain about them being surnames (although they're not names I like): Aubrey, Avery, Mason, Madison, Logan, Wyatt, Hayley.
I mind them sounding surname-y less, if they are relatively unique and don't have a common-surname vibe, and seem like they must have been a family name rather than picked for their trendy surnamey sound.

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I dislike them when they sound like they're surnames and are best known as surnames (most -er, -son, ton names), because calling someone by them makes it sound like you're addressing them by a surname ... like in a men's locker room. And I dislike them when they are distinctive recognizable corporate, brand, or celebrity names like Chase, Bentley, Harlow, Monroe, Aniston, Beckham, Presley etc ... Kennedy and Cassidy are borderline).

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A lot of these ones that I like, are really much more first-names than surnames to me, but technically they are surname names:

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Hollis
Merrick
Marshall
Camden
Vaughn
Brandon
Clark
Kirk
Drake
Elliot
Darwin
Alden
Hallam
Forest
Hollis
Kendrick
Leslie
Hunter

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- mirfak

This message was edited 2/26/2015, 9:46 AM