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I like it, as far as the way it sounds, but....it's just too uncommon surnamey to be used if it's not a family name. (And of course you're aware that Branwell Bronte was so named because Branwell was his mother's maiden name.) It's not like Jackson or Harper or Carson or Taylor, which are all common surnames. They're so common that they can cross over into general first name use. Branwell is just too uncommon for that. Like it would be weird for me to see somebody use my maiden name, was which was an uncommon name of Eastern European origin, as a first name, just because they liked the sound of it. I'd be like, WTF? I feel the same way about Branwell.