What is the deal with giving your kid a last name as a first name?

[Felon]

Hunter, McKenzie, Taylor, Tyler, Tyson...I can't help but keep noticing that there is something that makes certain couples--frequently the sort of folks that get labled as "yuppies"--drawn to taking what's traditionally a last name and making it their kid's first name. I'm not a big fan of child-rearing, so anybody know anything about this trend, or is this not a well-understood phenomenon?

 

[ssampier]

I live in Utah so I see these kinds of names all the time (I wouldn't most of them "yuppies"). People like to be different so they end up copying each other.

((My first name is like my last name, like my old roommate said, I'm like one of those people named David Davidson)).

 

[Theron]

My son's first name is Clark. It had nothing to do with trends and everything to do with my love of pulps and comics.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Wow, I tried to think of the most absurd comic last name to use from various heroes, and seriously couldn't think of one that was completely nonsensical. That's scary.

 

[Ferret]

There's a football player in England called Collins John. That's right, not John Collins, Collins John.

 

[Felon]

Wow, I tried to think of the most absurd comic last name to use from various heroes, and seriously couldn't think of one that was completely nonsensical. That's scary.

Hmm, let's see....Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Peter Parker, Reed Richards, Donald Blake, Matt Murdock, Hal Jordan, Barry Allen...

Damn, you're onto something. Not really related to the original post, but still....interesting enough.

 

[Kurashu]

Last names are the new abstract concept name?

 

[Agamon]

Hunter, McKenzie, Taylor, Tyler, Tyson...I can't help but keep noticing that there is something that makes certain couples--frequently the sort of folks that get labled as "yuppies"--drawn to taking what's traditionally a last name and making it their kid's first name. I'm not a big fan of child-rearing, so anybody know anything about this trend, or is this not a well-understood phenomenon?

This is new? I knew a Tyler, a Taylor and a Tyson when I was a kid 25 years ago. And their parents weren't the yuppy type. And my sister named her kid Hunter, and she's not a yuppy either.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

There are lots of names that go back and forth as first/last names...although sometimes, what you're really seeing is people going by a middle name, like the actress, Laura Mackenzie Phillips.

 

[Jesus_marley]

I would much rather the names of Hunter, Taylor, Tyson, etc, when faced with the alternatives of: Dweezil, Moon Unit, Apple.... need I go on?