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What do you think of the name Jude for a boy?

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cds5163 · 03/03/2021 01:43

Also any middle name suggestions. I literally have no clue what to name this baby since husband doesn't like my initial choice.

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partyatthepalace · 03/03/2021 12:36

It’s lovely, underused.

Don’t worry about sad Hardy novel, Hey Jude would be a more widely known reference anyway.

You want something classic and for the middle. Got any good family names?

Pipppin · 03/03/2021 12:32

Love Jude, DH doesn’t Angry

Livpool · 03/03/2021 12:31

It is my DS' name so I love it 😀

SionnachRua · 03/03/2021 12:18

Horrible name tbh. Jude is for me what moist is to others, proper nails down a chalkboard stuff.

Phoebesgift · 03/03/2021 12:16

Was my absolute favourite boys name but DH hated it and I had only daughters. Still love it though.

RuthW · 03/03/2021 12:15

I know it's a boys name, but it's too girly for me.

RosieGirl27 · 03/03/2021 12:11

It’s my favourite boys name and has been for years, my 1 year old is called Jude James.

kottbullar · 03/03/2021 11:53

Jude Francis

gonnabeok · 03/03/2021 11:48

I like it personally although I did know a boy at school who was called Jude the Rude!

Skyla2005 · 03/03/2021 11:35

It's a strange one for me. I feel like I should like it but I actually don't ! Very odd

justletmeadoreyou · 03/03/2021 08:57

If I ever have a DS he will be called Jude. After my favourite book character (Jude St Francis of A Little Life)

picknmix1984 · 03/03/2021 08:55

Kids won't sing Hey Jude to each other ffs! A song from the 1960s!

Association with Jude the Obscure! What on earth?

It's a lovely name.

Champy87 · 03/03/2021 08:53

My two nephews are Noah and Jude. He is Jude Thomas after his Granddad.

We are British and unashamedly taught him Hey Jude when he was about 3 and it was the cutest thing when he sung it. It doesn't tend to come up in day to day life though.

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cds5163 · 03/03/2021 08:35

Thanks for the replies! I love judah but my 2nd is named noah and i feel like that would be a bit much. I will most definitely choose a multi syllable, thanks for those suggestions. As for the Beatles song I'm in the US and I don't think this generation knows much about them but I don't mind anyway... Its a good song. Oh and do I really want to know about all these references (the obscure, etc.)? Are they that awful?

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Tibtab · 03/03/2021 06:30

It’s nice, I know 2 little boys called this.

Frazzlefrazle · 03/03/2021 06:29

My daughter has a little boy in her class with this name it's really lovely however she loves the song hey jude so she sings it to him quite a bit but he doesn't seem to mind. They are 7 though so that may change...

IWantMyHoney · 03/03/2021 06:20

I love Jude. Would have used it too but it sounds ridiculous with our surname.
I know one age 11, he's a lovely young man.

MuddleMoo · 03/03/2021 05:58

Its nice but they might get Hey Jude sung at them a bit.

normalnormas · 03/03/2021 04:08

I love it

IamnotwhouthinkIam · 03/03/2021 02:37

It's loved on Mumsnet, but I'm not keen at all, sorry. Reminds me of Judas Iscariot, as well as the depressing Hardy novel and I dislike the sound (possibly because it rhymes with rude?).

But it's a popular name and other people probably think of the Beatles song or Jude Law so I think it's perfectly useable (just not my taste).

I'd chose a multi-syllable, fairly classic middle name with Jude - Joseph or Jacob (would give you the nn cute JJ), Adam, Daniel, William, Thomas, Alexander, Henry, Samuel, Benjamin, Gabriel, Frederick, Isaac etc

Cowgran · 03/03/2021 02:37

Love it.

user1471453601 · 03/03/2021 02:35

I love it. My MIL ca!led her sixth child this. Jude, patron saint of lost causes

Laila747 · 03/03/2021 02:33

I LOVE it. It has always been my favourite boys name (unfortunately not OH though) so I never got a Jude of my own Sad

I am now eagerly awaiting the day OH agrees to having a Golden Retriever so I can call him Jude.

Smileandtheworldsmileswithyou · 03/03/2021 02:33

Love it

GooGoo52 · 03/03/2021 02:25

I love it. Also like Jude Alexander.

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