I’m not married, but my last name (C0ke) is definitely not usable. [name_f]My[/name_f] mom’s maiden name (T@te) is totally usable.
[name_f]My[/name_f] maiden name is very french, unusual in the country I reside, long and almost always confused for another word, misspelled and people avoid to say my full name. I have multiple job interviews where they have gotten to the first syllable of my surname and decided to stop there. [name_m]Even[/name_m] trying to spell it out to people gets confusing so I decide to go by firstname [name_m]Le[/name_m] where possible. I have however seen my maiden name used as a firstname in [name_f]France[/name_f] where it doesn’t have the difficulty of being confused with many other words.
[name_m]Both[/name_m] my mum’s and Grandmother’s maiden names are Trodd and [name_m]Newton[/name_m], I don’t think I could use either, my mother-in-laws surname is unusable too.
[name_f]My[/name_f] maiden name isn’t really usable. It’s an 8 letter, English occupational surname that has repeating consonants and I find it a little awkward. I’d maybe consider it as a middle name, and would be interested in finding a forest-y name to use instead to honour it.
[name_f]My[/name_f] mom’s maiden name is an awesome, uncommon, royal, Hungarian surname and I would [name_u]LOVE[/name_u] to use that.
I have my mums maiden name and I would love to use it for my kids It’s usable and a very well known irish name it’s prone to misspelling sometimes even though it’s spelt exactly how it sounds but that’s what happens when a name has variations
Apparently, as many boys in the States carry it. But it always strikes me as strange that someone would choose it as a given name.
Mine is Cowan. Not super usable… [name_m]Cohen[/name_m] is, which is how everyone wants to pronounce my name, but it’s COW-an.
I have 2, 1 is and 1 isn’t, the one that isn’t really our taste and someone we know has the name and I had a GPA that went by it rather than is first… So unless we luck out and adopt a child who comes with the name I don’t think we can get away with it…I think we will stick with various other family names and surnames here and there 
I’m not married, and for the moment being, I wouldn’t want to change my last name, so my future kids will have a hyphen name, or maybe if hubby wouldn’t mind, he would change his and the kids get my last name too, I don’t know, I haven’t meet the “one” so I can’t say much other than the fact that I will not chage my last name. But my last name is very usuable. I’m a Kirkland [name_m]Smith[/name_m] Gonzalez, each one of them can be used as a first name. I think, a little Kirkland would be awesome or maybe a [name_m]Gonzalo[/name_m]. [name_f]My[/name_f] grandmother’s maiden name, I’m not sure about, she is [name_m]French[/name_m] and her last name is Pion, and I had a friend said it was like “peeon me” so I wouldn’t use it.
[name_f]My[/name_f] maiden name (Im not married yet, but whatever) is usable. And alot of people like it.
[name_f]My[/name_f] moms maiden name is not so usable because of the bad connections.
[name_f]My[/name_f] grandmas maiden name is usable and I plan on using it
[name_f]My[/name_f] current surname [I’m not married] would be a bit of a laugh as a fn. I could use my mother’s maiden name which is quite a popular name although I am more concerned with preserving the line of Johns in our family.
I am no where near getting married, but I am considering using my last name ([name_m]Miller[/name_m]) as a middle for my son. I don’t like it as a first name, but as a middle, it’s a good way to honor myself and my parents. 
[name_f]My[/name_f] maiden name is not usable at all unfortunately. If it was, I would have used it on my son.
I do have some family names I like but we didn’t use - [name_m]Carver[/name_m], [name_u]Sullivan[/name_u] and [name_u]Love[/name_u] are all in my family.
[name_f]My[/name_f] Maiden name is a trendy girl’s name. However, on my mother’s side there are a million usable surnames. [name_f]My[/name_f] brother goes by one. [name_f]My[/name_f] sisters and I each have one as a middle. (for example my middle is [name_u]Whitney[/name_u] which is my maternal grandfather’s, mother’s maiden name). It is an interesting question though, because my husband’s family has only had their current surname for two generations. It was changed when they came to the States. So while I have a deep connection to many family surnames, my husband feels very little connection to the one that we both now share. His grandparents had a different last name.
I guess it is a cultural thing. [name_m]Both[/name_m] sides of my family have been in the States for over 100 years so our surnames have significance to us.
The way my husband and I will approach the difference in naming cultures is yet to be seen…
Absolutely not. [name_f]My[/name_f] maiden named is pronounced like “whore” but with a different spelling. Mama’s maiden name is [name_u]Parker[/name_u], which would be usable for other people, but my first love was named [name_u]Parker[/name_u] so I’d never use it because of the association
[name_f]MIL[/name_f]'s maiden name is [name_m]Scott[/name_m], so that’s obviously usable.
People use my surname as a first name all the time, it’s pretty common on boys, so I’d say it’s certainly usable. It drives me up the wall, though, I hate hate hate seeing it as a first name. So I wouldn’t do it myself.
[name_f]My[/name_f] son has both parents’ names as his surname but we didn’t hyphonate in case we married and then my son and I could change my surname to our middle names (I have a hyphonated first name and no middle) Our relationship went the other way though! [name_f]My[/name_f] mother’s mn is [name_m]Morris[/name_m], which is pretty cool, maternal grandmother was [name_m]Miller[/name_m]… again pretty cool. Paternal grandmother was O’[name_m]Brian[/name_m]… a no on that one!
[name_f]My[/name_f] maiden name is [name_u]Avery[/name_u]! Simple!
Although I live in the UK where it is less commonly used as a first name - when I became more interested in names it really confused me that there were children with my (then) last name as their first name!
Now I think I’d use it as a middle name, because I like it, but it would be quite out of place in my family and with my other name choices.
[name_f]My[/name_f] maiden name is Blackman which is not really compatible name wise. [name_f]My[/name_f] mother’s maiden name is O’[name_u]Regan[/name_u] and if you drop the O is highly plausible as a first. [name_f]My[/name_f] grand mother’s maiden names were Hislop and Ackers which I don’t think are useable. [name_f]My[/name_f] great grandparent’s maiden names were attoe, malton, [name_m]Moore[/name_m] and [name_f]Scotland[/name_f]. I would contemplate using [name_m]Scott[/name_m]/[name_m]Scot[/name_m] as a middle as well but otherwise not really.
Mine is useable ([name_m]Williams[/name_m]) except my grandfather was [name_m]William[/name_m] [name_m]Williams[/name_m], so I’d prefer to use just [name_m]William[/name_m] instead.
[name_f]My[/name_f] mother’s is useable ([name_m]Smith[/name_m]) and I could see possibly using it as a first but more likely a middle.
Neither of my maternal grandmother’s maiden names (she was adopted in her preteens) work.
Totally blanking on my paternal grandmother’s!
Mine is Rich. I don’t like Rich or Richard so mine is out of the question.
My mom’s is Patton. I like it as a middle name but not as a first. I don’t think I would use it though.
My grandmas’ last names are way too out there. They are Jaquith and Trocki.