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Originally posted by aephi alum
Interesting. I've never heard of that. I think my hypothetical future son would kill me if I gave him my maiden name as his first name... 
I think some of the "older" names (Emma, Sophie, etc) are very attractive and distinctive. Others (Edna, Thelma, etc) are just cruel, the kid would get teased.
Then there are the popular names, whatever the hot name is that year, which I think just leads to confusion... there were six Laurens in my 200-member high school class. Some of them went by their last names!
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It's kind of rare these days (Robertson is the only person I know who is actually named after his mom. He's 30), but it was apparently really common 100+ years ago. Shirley, for example was a last name. Then it became a boy's name and it's now a girl's name. Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen's book "Pride and Prejudice" is Fitzwilliam Darcy. It's really likely that the elder Mrs. Darcy was a Miss Fitzwilliam.