Surname names...


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Why / When did this start to become a thing?

Clayton
Parker
Dawson
Wilson
Barratt
Archer
Barker
Cooper etc

Usually boys. At soft play this aft and its like conventional names no longer exist.
 
Why / When did this start to become a thing?

Clayton
Parker
Dawson
Wilson
Barratt
Archer
Barker
Cooper etc

Usually boys. At soft play this aft and its like conventional names no longer exist.
Hasn't it always been a thing?

Graham is a "traditional" first name, but derives, I believe, from a surname.

Mind I know a little girl (2y) called Piper, and that jars a little (though I remember Piper Lawrie)
 
Why / When did this start to become a thing?

Clayton
Parker
Dawson
Wilson
Barratt
Archer
Barker
Cooper etc

Usually boys. At soft play this aft and its like conventional names no longer exist.
It was quite common years ago to carry on ladies maiden names as first names. Some of my ancestors have the first names Stephenson, White & Lewis
 
Why / When did this start to become a thing?

Clayton
Parker
Dawson
Wilson
Barratt
Archer
Barker
Cooper etc

Usually boys. At soft play this aft and its like conventional names no longer exist.
Hundreds of years ago.
Charles
Percy
George
Henry
 

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