I had no idea Boone was a proper name for a boy, but after all I don't live in this country.

It can work as a middle name. It isn't uncommon for people to have surnames of some kind or another as a middle name. One of mine is a family surname.

My father's middle name was an old family surname.

Also, I tend to give middle names more leeway. If you give your kid an usuable first name (not like, say, Audio Science or Pilot Inspektor), you can go a little wild with the middle name.

My Mother says the middle name can be the parent's revenge.
A girl I was in ballet school with later had a baby boy and she chose a nice lovely first name and she let the Father choose the middle name.
He chose Alpine.

Why not choose Tundra or Marshland?

Or Taiga. That's practically already a name.

Marmaduke is a pretty terrible name, but it could be much worse. I saw someone recently on the game show Whammy! who was named Meatz.

That's not a name, that's a lolcat.

We had a family friend nicknamed Meats. He was a high school buddy of my parents, so I always called him Uncle Meats. I guess he lost a little pizazz in not using the Z ending.

All of my grandfather's siblings went by nicknames as well. I had an Uncle Chito (Cheeto) and I'm sure Britney's kids will be jealous of that one someday. Aunts Chata and Rita are still around. Chata means "flat nose" and she hates it. Rita is the other aunt's nickname and if you call her by her real name she will hit you. Her name is America. She was the youngest and the only one actually born in the USA.

Mmm. That'll go well when his friends find out about A Clockwork Orange.

Again, if the child's name was something like Samuel Gulliver, I'd have no problem, but as a first name... not so much.

"Can I skip school tomorrow? Got a pain in me gulliver."

HAH!
"I'm living in a cuckoo clock"

Gulliver? is he worried about lilliputian people getting him?

He can be Gully for short, that's quite sweet. But yes, he is going to get picked on at school.

If the parents got Gulliver from Jonathan Swift, it's actually the titular character's surname, not his first name (which is Lemuel, a good name in itself). The only use of Gulliver as a forename that I can bring to mind is Gully Foyle in The Stars My Destination (or Tiger! Tiger! ... it has a complicated printing history), who isn't exactly the role model I would have chosen.

Really, because that leaves me cold. It's like Alpine: a geographic designation -- in particular it's where your truck gets stuck during a flash flood, not a name.