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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually like Prescott, even though it is fairly pretentious.  A cousin used it for their son's middle name recently because it was my grandfather's middle name.  He was the side of the family that dated almost to the mayflower-not southern.[/quote]

Our family goes back in VA (Lancaster Co) to 1642; there are also: Dale and Skipwith (last names).

Prescott is in use by two children in my generation...not elaborating further or (particularly given it's low incidence) someone is going to identify us as it's a pretty uncommon name.

Lanier isn't bad...I might float it with SO to see...it would work reasonably with the first name they really want to use.

I have a cousin who gave her male child her maiden name because he is the only boy (so far) in that generation of children and everyone was despairing there would be another male.  I'm not a huge fan of this last-name-as-first-name trend.

I do like the idea of recycling old family names as middle names, but I think it's pretentious to use them as everyday names, and potentially burdensome for your kid to grow up with that kind of name making them stick out.  [/quote]

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