Surname Unisex Names

Family names used as first names. Most began as one of four things: a father's name, a trade, a place, or a nickname — and the trade ones are the easiest to read centuries later.

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61 names, most popular first in the United States

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Courtney Courtney is a name from a Norman family whose surname is usually read as short nose, though a place-name derivation competes.
Norman #2,329 in US
Leyton Leyton is a boy's name of English origin meaning "settlement on the River Lea."
English #2,425 in US
Reeves Reeves is a boy's name from an English surname meaning "bailiff" or "steward."
English #2,447 in US
Murray Murray is a boy's name of Scottish origin from Moray, the northern province, whose name means "sea settlement."
Scottish #2,610 in US
Rowe Rowe is an English surname used as a unisex first name.
English, Norman #2,620 in US
Caelan Caelan is a boy's name of Irish origin, usually derived from caol, slender, or read as a form of Caolán.
Irish #2,921 in US
Prescott Prescott is a boy's name of English origin meaning "priest's cottage," from the Old English preost and cot.
English #2,985 in US
Callaghan Callaghan is an Irish surname used as a first name, mainly for boys.
Irish #3,008 in US
Myers Myers is a surname used as a first name, mainly for American boys.
English, German #3,737 in US
Malone Malone is an Irish surname meaning descendant of a follower of Saint John, now used as a given name.
Irish #5,207 in US
Kelley Kelley is the same Irish name as Kellie, spelled differently, and the two split its births between them — this one peaked in 1968 and that one in 1969, a year apart at nearly the same size.
Irish #7,207 in US
Covington Covington is an English surname used occasionally as a first name for boys and girls.
English #13,825 in US
Carroll Carroll is one of the more evenly divided names on this site — 14 percent of recorded births are female, and it belonged to the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Irish 41,350 births

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