Noah, Jude, Toby or Brodie

we have a Tobias (toby)It is a fab name and not doggy!
Want to call our new baby Jude but the older kids do not like it (there names are Ellie Abby and zachary)
just call him what you want there are so may weird and wonderful names these days that i don't think you can go wrong(one of my daughters has a Raven , Angel and AND AN EDEN IN HER CLASS!)

LOVE Toby. I have a Toby, don't know of any others and have been teaching children for many years. Certainly not popular round here. Was a criteria of mine when choosing a name that I will never have taught a child with that name before.

Used to love Noah but is becoming quite popular.
Like Jude.
Quite like Brodie actually.

Oh bugger - Brodie is on my list but then I'm scots. Told my English friend and she said yuk to it too- too American apparently. Good Edinburgh name as someone said the other day.

Noah lovely as is Toby (only know one in NZ). I do like Jude but it makes me think of Jude the obscure and I saw the film where there was this awful scene where they hung all the kids and it still haunts me - sorry.

Toby - dog
Brodie I like, with your Scottish ancestory I think you've got a great reason to use it despite the critics.
Jude I love.
Noah I've never quite got. Just think of a man on an ark, sorry!

Noah, Jude, Tobias - all good.

Brodie - really horrible, sorry.

Love Noah and Jude.

Toby - dog's name.

Brodie - awful.

Jude is lovely
Loads of babies here called Noah. Noah's nose. No! Noah.. quite hard to say
Like Toby and only know one
Not keen on Brodie either

I like them all, kind of agree on the Toby front, to me it is a dogs name, but then Im named after the family dog so I cant comment lol my dad didnt know and my mum didnt tell him until after she's cruel like that! I love Jude Ive never met a Jude either, Noah is a solid fave name and Ive never heard of Brodie as a first name, but I like it and its a bit unusual so at least it wont be like the 900 sams you get in a school :) none of them are chavvy or way out imo, and I wouldnt bat an eyelid at hearing any of them

Hmmmm Toby/Tobias was on my final 2 list but maybe not anymore lol. Didnt realise it was so popular! I dont know any :\
I LOVE Brody/Brodie! My OH doesnt though :( Same goes for Jude!
Noah is a fave for me too but my sister has bagsied that name if she ever has a boy lol.
Looks like we have similar taste in names lol. I also like Isaac.

I like all of them!!!

I have a Toby and we havent met many others...lots of Jack's and Harry's and Noah's round about here though!

Toby (obv!) and Jude are my faves from your list. I like Noah too and Brodie but I see Brodie as a surname for some reason (?)

I have a Jude and EVERYONE adores his name. It is also quite rare and if we meet another one it is special!

I love Brodie, and it's on our short list. Really surprised at the strength of feeling here about it, but I am Scottish and live in Scotland, and suspect that (most of) the people so set against it are English. It has become a bit more popular outside Scotland in an American form, Brody, I reckon and I wonder if that's what prompted the "chav" comment.

Oh or Elijah but my dp is also less keen

Noah think that's what we will be having

I love Noah, Jude and Toby but really dislike Brodie. How about Fergus or Alastair for a nice Scots name, maybe as a middle name?

Jude or Toby. Maybe Tobias and shorten it to Toby? Noah too common now and don't like Brodie.

Jude.

There are going to be billions of Noahs in reception in 4 years, Brodie is a bit naff and Toby a bit doggy!

I love Jude. Toby is ok. I don't like the others.

Noah - really like
Jude - Ok
Toby - Used to ride a horse called Toby and knew a dog by the same name
Brodie - also a dogs name!

Forgot to say - apparently Noa is a girl's name in Welsh - I got sent some pink gifts from welsh relatives who had heard that I'd had a little Noa(h)!

I'm biased as I have a Noah and a Toby! and I still love both the names.

Those two names are obviously the best Jude's Ok but don't really like Brodie.

I didn't know anybody with a Noah when we chose it; to the point that my mother was horrified by it, she just couldn't even conceive of it being a name that people used. Within a month she had come across 7 more little Noah's (golf pro had a baby, couple of friends had grandchildren, chatting to someone in the supermarket queue etc) all born after ours! By which time she was congratulating herself on having chosen the name ahead of everybody else

It is one of the most popular names in his year - can't think of any other boys name that has 3 holders within his year.

Toby - have come across a couple of older ones but no more or less than any other names.

Bizarrely when we chose Toby when we next looked at the ONS lists of popular baby names at the end of the year Noah and Toby were next to each other at about 50th. When Noah was born his name was at about 75th in the list so it is definitely becoming more popular.

(There again I wanted Ptolomy just because it's a name I've always found interesting but dh wouldn't agree )

Love all those names, Brodie is really different without sounding wacky. Interestingly reading the other comments I think they all have a ring of gender neutrality which in my opinion is a Good Thing. Do you remember the recent 'Toby for a girl?' thread? Slightly fixated with that idea. But I think they are all cool, intelligent sounding names for boys.