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[hotchpot.livejournal.com]

Which of these surnames could you see using on a child? And what gender for each? And what would you use as nicknames?

Cory
Fletcher
Stinson
Fortune
Cary
Shickel
Tucker
Miller
Coffman
Coleman
Decker
Fleeman
Garber
Lawton
Driver
Taber

Comments

[zante.livejournal.com]

Shickel.

[samaside.livejournal.com]

Male:
Cory, Fletcher, Tucker, Coleman

Female:
Cary, Cory, Fortune

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Cory. I like it a lot for a girl or a boy.

Cary is okay for a girl, but maybe spelled Carrie or Kerry. I know a guy named Cary and it's weird because all the other Cary/Carrie/Kerry's I know are girls.

The rest.... no.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

The only one I can see myself (or someone else) using is Cory, Cary, Coleman and Fletcher.
Cory is a boy's name to me, and Cary a girl's name. Fletcher and Coleman are obviously boy's name. As for nn's...Cole? Fletch? ;)

[fireyirishangel.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't use any. But the less... mind-hurty-owie ones are: Cory (boy), Fletcher (boy), Tucker (boy), Miller (boy), and Lawton (boy). But really, I don't like any of them. The only nicknames I'd use would be obvious, such as "Fletch" for Fletcher, which sounds ridiculous but is what I can see it being shortened to, and "Tuck" for Tucker, with the same result.

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

I see Cory, Fltcher, and Cary as first name possibilities. They all seem masculine to me, with the exception of Cary, which works on either. I spell the male verison Carey and the female version Carrie, though.

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

Oh! And Tucker! Also for a boy.

[morphinae.livejournal.com]

Yuck, none. The only tolerable ones are Tucker and Cory for boys.

[christhiane.livejournal.com]

Cory - boy
Fletcher - boy
Stinson - boy
Fortune - Girl
Cary - Girl/boy
Shickel - boy
Tucker - boy
Miller - boy
Coffman - boy
Coleman - boy
Decker - boy
Fleeman - boy
Garber - boy
Lawton - boy
Driver - boy
Taber - boy

I don't really like any of them, though.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Fortune actually used to be a common female name. So that's the only one I would use. But I wouldn't actually use it. Well, Cary is okay, for a boy. The rest are pretty awful, except maybe Cory.

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the following, and I would use the ones with asterix*.

Cory*
Fletcher*
Cary
Tucker
Lawton

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

id use Fletcher, Miller, or Lawton myself, but Driver, Cary, Cory, and FOrtune would all be ok too.
and i know a boy named Coleman, its ok.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Well Cory, Cary and Tucker are probably more popular as first names than they are as last names.

I probably wouldn't use any of the names, because some of them are just god awful, but especially not Coleman. Seeing as it is my last name already.

[bobinwales.livejournal.com]

If I was going to use any of these I'd use Fletcher, but the only 'surname-name' I like is Beckett!

All of those you listed are definately male in my opinion. Almost all surnames are male!

[the-good-ship.livejournal.com]

Probably not the best person in the world to ask, as I tend (ie. 99% of the time) to hate surnames as first names, but I think there are actually two exceptions in your list: Cory and Cary.

Although, it probably counts as cheating as I haven't ever seen them as surnames and they don't have a surnamey feel to them.

Cory only on boys. Cary sounds more like a girl's name, but then I'd want to spell it Carrie.

Of the other surnames - the cruelest would be to name your child Shickel, I think. Please, don't ever do this.
The least damage, I think, would be Fletcher.
A child called Decker would make a good bully. Or a power tool.
Stinson - throw in a "k" and you've got "Stinkson".
Fortune has connotations of money, and therefore would be tacky.
Would Fleeman have the nn, "Flee"?

Hope I haven't offended, just some things to consider.