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Would your surname make a cool first name? Mine does, and it's very rare as a first name.

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Posted - April 25, 2017

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  • 3191
    My maiden name, yes, I had a cousin named that.  My married name, no.  
      April 25, 2017 12:13 PM MDT
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  • Part of it would. lol
      April 25, 2017 12:30 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    Yes, albeit a male name... my sons had problems at school/college/uni etc as people would often mistake their last name for their first.... That said my first name can be a male or female name.. albeit it's less common for it to be a male name outside of asia
      April 25, 2017 1:01 PM MDT
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  • Yes. Once people learn how to pronounce, that's what a lot of them call me. 
      April 25, 2017 1:02 PM MDT
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  • 44620
    No, but my middle name would be.
      April 25, 2017 1:39 PM MDT
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  • 16794
    It's bad enough as a surname. As a first name, I'd have died of shame before I was old enough to change it legally.
      April 25, 2017 3:43 PM MDT
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  • 5451
    My married name is also a first name.  My husband hates his first name so he uses his last name a lot like if a fast food restaurant asks for his name he'll tell them his last name.

    My maiden could be probably be a masculine first name but I really haven't seen it used that way. This post was edited by Livvie at June 19, 2017 2:48 PM MDT
      April 25, 2017 5:30 PM MDT
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  • Hmmm, Calvert. Yeah, I suppose it could, though I imagine it as a mans name instead of a womans. :)
      April 25, 2017 7:06 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    maybe
      April 27, 2017 4:39 PM MDT
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  • "No" ... although my family uses a mispronounced version as a nickname.
      May 14, 2017 8:50 AM MDT
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  • It would be quite unusual. Soviet surnames are rather long. What of Shaykhilslamova as a given name?
      June 19, 2017 12:42 PM MDT
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  • 16794
    Slavonic. That phenomenon isn't specific to the former USSR, it's found throughout Eastern Europe.
      June 19, 2017 5:12 PM MDT
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