Family surnames as first names.

[Guy Etchells]

This happened a few times in my family, in most cases the child's first name was the mothers maiden name (Eustace, Barbour, Carpenter)....

I have never heard of such a dastardly action!

Cheers
Guy

[Maiden Stone]

Surname Browne; 1st name Browne. How imaginative was that!

[Skoosh]

Could have been worse,.......Gordon! 

Skoosh.

[Maiden Stone]

I like Gordon Brown.
The Browne Browne lived in a manor house. I'd forgotten the surname was hyphenated so it was Browne ****-Browne. The family line  died out. Perhaps they stopped having children because they couldn't think what to call them.

[Andrew Tarr]

I have a Stannard Plumb born in 1807.

How very serendipitous.  Stannard must be connected with tin (Cornwall?) and Plumb with lead.   

[Treetotal]

That made me smile and think of tin bath.
Carol

[KGarrad]

My Garrad ancestors were veterinary surgeons, and closely linked to a Baker family, also vet's.
These families were also linked to the Golding and Whitmore families.

Consequently I have in my tree:
Baker Garrad
Garrad Baker
Whitmore Baker
Golding Constable
Golding Garrad

Seems to be prevalent in Suffolk?

[smudwhisk]

Seems to be prevalent in Suffolk?

Yes

I have

Branwhite Stribling (numerous)
Branwhite Spurgin
Branwhite Westrop
Branwhite Burch
Brooke Branwhite Muriel (his father was Brooke Muriel, his grandmother was Mary Branwhite and 2xGGmother on the Branwhite line was Sarah Brooke)
Westrop Turner

And others plus numerous who had Branwhite as a middle name.

Also originating in Northamptonshire:

Sands Chapman (numerous)
Sands Read (numerous)
Sands Hitchcock
Sands Day
Sands Johnson
Sands Chapman Eedle

We've never found who the Sands was, probably a maiden name, but there are two missing marriages in the 1600s - well one and one where the parish clerk left off the wife's maiden name) so was probably one of those brides.