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Long name for Cuddy

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Janie8 · 25/01/2024 09:50

We're expecting our second baby and I am really keen on Cuddy as a name, which is usually a nickname for Cuthbert. We live in Northumberland so it has connection to St Cuthbert. But my husband isn't keen on Cuthbert, but only likes Cuddy if it's a nickname for something else. Any suggestions for what the birth name could be if we shorten to Cuddy?

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Pieceofpurplesky · 25/01/2024 18:38

Cudmillinton
Cuddyfuddle

ACourseInstead · 25/01/2024 18:29

I share the love of St Cuthbert but I’m afraid I also think of this chap.

Cuddy isn’t great. Cruddy, Cuddly etc.

Long name for Cuddy
Allchangename354 · 25/01/2024 18:22

Cuddy geordie meaning horse or donkey. Regular use in the song the Blaydon Races.

Tryingtohelp12 · 25/01/2024 18:15

If you have welsh connections I know of a Cybi (cubi) which is cute

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Kwam31 · 25/01/2024 17:44

Sir Cuntalot of Cuntingham

UrsulaBelle · 25/01/2024 17:41

LenaLamont · 25/01/2024 12:41

Go the whole hog and call him Cullen Skink?

Cuddlinton
Cudderific
Cuddstable
Cudnatious

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Ooh! I’d forgotten about Cullen Skink. Maybe not then.

Needmorelego · 25/01/2024 17:18

Notice the OP hasn't come back.
Hopefully went to a bookshop to buy a baby name book 😂

eggandonion · 25/01/2024 17:17

I like Caedmon.

goingrouge · 25/01/2024 17:01

I just said it out loud and it sounds like I'm saying 'cunty' with a cold.

Girlontherailreplacementbusservice · 25/01/2024 16:51

Go for (almost) any other if the Northumbrian saints (I would stay away from Willibrord and Willehad) but
Aidan
Benedict
Edwin
Egbert (Bert/Bertie)
Oswald
Wilfred are all fairly standard names

Acca
Balin (bit of a Lord of the Rings vibe)
Bede
Caedmon
Cedd
Ceolfrith
Haedde are more 'out there' but at least they don't have the donkey/ chewing/ sex meanings that Cuddy had.

eggandonion · 25/01/2024 16:48

Macgillicuddy of the Reeks is a fabulous Irish clan chief name. But a bit long to name a baby.
I quite like Cuthbert . My late mother knew amonk called Brother Hubert. Hubert known as Hube has a certain cool vibe.
Cully and Sully is a brand of soup in Ireland.

Heather37231 · 25/01/2024 16:35

DahliaMacNamara · 25/01/2024 16:29

Hey Jock ma cuddy
Ma cuddy's ower the dyke
And if ye touch ma cuddy
Ma cuddy'll gie ye a bite.

Oh my goodness that takes me back to my childhood!

Thank you!

DahliaMacNamara · 25/01/2024 16:29

Hey Jock ma cuddy
Ma cuddy's ower the dyke
And if ye touch ma cuddy
Ma cuddy'll gie ye a bite.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 25/01/2024 16:15

Inertia · 25/01/2024 13:56

We called chewing gum Chuddy when I was growing up- maybe Chuddy, nn Cuddy?

Kiss my chuddies, man!!

Long name for Cuddy
Birdsmakingnests · 25/01/2024 16:12

Agree with previous posters, a cuddy is a horse, pony or ass

i hope your surname isn’t Back!

Banrockmystation · 25/01/2024 16:01

Kid Cuddy?

Blueberrymuffin8 · 25/01/2024 16:00

The only thing I think of is a rude word that rhymes with dunty, sorry!!!

Topseyt123 · 25/01/2024 15:52

I don't like Cuddy, sorry. I think it sounds as though you are naming a teddy bear.

I don't mind Cuthbert, but would think of it more as a surname, even though I know it can occasionally be used as a first name.

MamaBearsss · 25/01/2024 15:51

Ahahaha. Def the pregnancy hormones

SuffolkUnicorn · 25/01/2024 15:44

Add an L and you’re sorted

EmmaGrundyForPM · 25/01/2024 15:42

Cuddy ducks are called that after St Cuthbert I think?

But I agree it's an odd name for a child

beigerage · 25/01/2024 15:37

Cuddy is Cumberland dialect for donkey - as in 'hasta ivver sin a cuddy lowp a five bar gyatt?'

Cuddy's not a nice name for a human being. Cuth's not quite as bad, but probably inevitably will be... adapted.

Wadermellone · 25/01/2024 15:35

steppemum · 25/01/2024 10:41

I am a bit baffled by the responses on this.
Everyone going No! horrible name!

It is not a common nn, but it doesn't seem to have an alternative unpleasant meaning and it really is not that different to a dozen similar names many of which are really popular like:
Eddy
Cody
Teddy
Andy
Dougie

and so on.

I don't think Cuthbert is a great name, it sounds a bit Little Lord Fautnleroy, but it is not an obvious long name for Cuddy.
Pretty much any C name would do.
Cameron
Caden
Camden
Caleb
Charles
Callum

and so on.
My favourite would be Cameron /Cuddy which seems for some reaosn to fit

It has several alternative meanings.

including also meaning a casual sexual encounter. Plus Donkey and other things.

mathanxiety · 25/01/2024 15:30

martha4clark · 25/01/2024 11:13

There is a Scottish surname of "McGillicuddy", but have never heard Cuddy as a first name. It does seem a bit unfair for the child.

It's an Ellis Island version of Cuddihy, an Irish surname.