Our little man has arrived but he is destined to be nameless!

Just read the rest of the thread and am pmsl about the warnings.

I live in dah hood.

Rude boy IS indeed a long used term but it didnt necessarily refer to ganstas and drug runners.

Rude boy was also used as term to describe cheeky/cocky youths, a bit flash maybe but not murderous. It was also used as a term of familiarity ...

Yous a proper rudeboy now?
Whappen Rude boy?

Etc etc

I am sure me lickle Rude bwoy be irie

but thanks for the concern.

waves at thefirstmrsdeveerie i thought i might see you on here!

Jeremiah by a long shot. It is a name that would take him into all walks of life and sound good even as an old man. Apart from everything else already mentioned, Rudi is a more juvenile and casual-sounding name.

Congratulations on your lovely baby boy and hope all is going well.

Jeremiah.

Rudy sounds like a child taunting someone....who has been rude!

i like rudy :)

I have a Rudy Hendrix!!!!!!

Well he is Rudy Asa Billy Cassius Hendrix.

Congratulations.

Jeramiah - nn Jerry = Very Very Cool.

scarevola - I don't think you've had any trouble expressing yourself. If I were the OP, I would be grateful to have this alternative use of the name pointed out to me. I might choose to use it anyway, but it would be dreadful to ask opinions, and find it had a negative connotation you didn't know of, and which might spoil it for you. As I read your posts, you weren't making any broader point or implication.

anyway i am off to watch special victims unit, i have noticed that on there an uncanny number of the criminals, rapists/murderers, are called rudi, they are also often black, not sure what the relevance of that is, but we best not go to america or ds4 would be arrested on landing purely for his name

anyway, congratulations op on the birth of your little boy :) i hope we havent scared you off with our discussion of your name choices, and i still say go for Rudi, its a great name, but i am biased!

ooh we have a trampoline, rudi is quite good on it actually, perhaps i should get him training so he can do the 'rudi' move

The only knowledge I have about the name Rudi is that it's a trampolining move!! (front somersault with 540 twist, for those who are desperate to know, and quite tricky ) It's short for Rudolph... and as for connotations, it's better than the name for another trampolining move - the Adi - short for ADOLF!!
Dear OP, Rudi Hendrix sounds fab Congratulations!

i just think it odd that you care so much what a stranger would call their child that you would 'warn' them off using a name because it has tenuous links to drug/gang culture, very tenuous imo.

i am laughing at the idea of dressing ds4 as a little gangsta, perhaps that would help him feel at home with his name and help him to fit in with his peers to be...

Final post:

Topknob: the inner city child rearing comment was in response to your helpful advice on putting a stop to some of my DCs friendships. It is a common term in their whole inner city environment - I had thought that that's how they had picked it up, as they have picked up huge amounts of other teenspeak. Clearly I need to think again, though as this must be a worse indicator than I has appreciated.

manicBM: I don't mean to suggest that the name will influence their behaviour. But some names are harder to live with than others, depending on the connotation of the name and the location. That this name is tricky is all I meant all along, but I realise I've not been expressing myself well tonight.

and Urban dictionary...thats for real after all and not just made up crap [hhmm]

oh well we all know 'wiki' is the bible of the truth.... 3)

i am tempted to throw 'Jebediah' into the mix...(or Jed)

It's the term from which the diminutive arises. Urban Dictionary and Wiki both contain it.

I won't link, as I think the dissection of my comment has diverted this thread enough. And if two apologies don't suffice, I'm not sure what else I can do.

Except say sorry to OP as well.

Rude boy? Nuts! I thought Rudi was a contraction of Rudiger?

It's a fine name.

I reckon a child's upbringing is much more likely to have a baring on his/her behaviour, than their name is.

Inner city child rearing ?? Whats where you live got to do with it?

well he isnt called rude boy

Try googling "rude boy" instead.

Sorry topknob - crossed with your last posts.

Thank you for the advice on inner city childrearing. It flings up all sorts of issues.

the ONLY place i have seen people mention that connotation of the name is here on mn, which says a lot about mn tbh

if you google 'meaning of rudi' nothing comes up in the first couple of pages about 'gang culture' at all, so it really isnt that common, but then it isnt a common name which is another of the reasons that we chose it.

he is Rudi Arlo, after Arlo guthrie, woody guthries son. music is hugely important to my dp and that is how we heard of both names, we liked them and importantly agreed on them! but the gang reference is laughable tbh.

4madboys: I really am sorry about making assumptions on how people would see the connotations of the name.

Topknob - you misunderstand: I didn't mean it was a name favoured by a particular demographic, that should be avoided because of some weird snobbery. I meant simply that it is a widely used slang term for a criminal, usually a drug runner, and the slang term is particularly associated with inner city gangs.

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