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I like the sound of it and find it quite handsome, but to me it's really a surname. I could see it for a mn, but I don't think it's fn material.

As a fn? Yes. It is a tad pretentious and it has no obvious nns to soften it up. If I used it at all, it would be as a mn.

I little to formal snobby-ish (cliche rich kid). Plus he'll probably get called Ham or Hammie, eww.

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I do know a Hamilton though, who goes by Hamilton. He's not snobby or formal either. A very large, white gangsta kid about my age.

I like it, but the only possible nn that comes to mind is Ham, and that's not all that attractive.

I watch too much tv for kids... Hamilton is the pig on "Maggie & the Ferocious Beast". So the thought of Hamilton on a human makes me giggle uncontrollably. But I should be the last to talk since Cosmo is my #1 boy name.

I like it.

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Hamilton is a bit formal but I think that lends it a touch of dignity rather than making it stuffy or unusuable. :-) I think it has a very nice sound to it. Plus it's quite familiar; I don't know a person who hasn't heard it in some capacity, so it doesn't have that "completely random" feel to me that other surnamey names might. It reminds me very much of historical figure Alexander Hamilton.

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As a matter of interest I know a sibset of Heather, Harrison, and Hamilton (the boys are twins, and to add to the theme they all have their mother's maiden name as a middle name--yikes). Hamilton goes by his entire name and seems to be getting along fine with it.

It's too surnamey and it's the name of a town that has a bad reputation where I live. So I have really bad associations with it.

It's surname IMO

I think it is a better surname than a first name. I would use it for a British character since it is more formal sounding. I suppose if you could use it for a first name, though.