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First name is ultimately derived from Hebrew, it's one of the most common names in the English-speaking world, and variations of it are similarly popular in basically every place where Abrahamic religious have a foothold.
It's fine. I've met plenty of people with my name, I don't particularly like or dislike it, it is just my name.
My last name is kind of interesting. It's ultimately of Italian origin, but sometime after arriving in America someone basically decided that it sounded too Italian, dropped the vowel at the end, swapped out about half of the remaining letters, and created a new name that kind of sounds similar to the original.
Looking at it, you'd probably never peg it as an Italian name. Sometimes people look at it and try to pronounce it as if it were French, but that's not how we pronounce it.
I rather like my last name. I probably use it more than my first. It's got a nice ring to it, it's unique, there's rarely going to be anyone else around with the same name to avoid confusion, it's got some fun family history to it, and as far as I can tell, it doesn't exist anywhere in the world outside of my family.
Unfortunately, my family is pretty uncreative with male names, if you look at the top 100 names in the US from the last 100 years, my entire family tree can basically be found in the top 10 or 20. I'm aware of at least one other person with the same first and last name as me and there's probably a good handful more, and there's a solid chance they have the same middle name as me too.
I rarely see the extended family so not a huge deal.