Noah, Jude, Toby or Brodie

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These are my boys favourites at the mo. Any thoughts? Do your worst!

Noah - gorgeous name.
Jude - nice, but I always think of it as a girls nn (Judith)
Toby - nice but loads around
Brodie - awful. (sorry!)

I have a boy Jude - I think it's accepted as a boys name now - we did have a couple of comments 10 years ago when he was born but no one bats an eyelid now. It IS a boys name! Never had a day regretting giving him that name and he likes it too.

Noah is lovely.

Toby - there ARE a lot of them about

I like Brodie best. Noah sounds quite feminine (but then I know a female Noa) and Toby is very widely used already (will probably date more than the others).

I love Jude, Toby and Noah but think Brodie is awful (sorry)

Noah is the most popular of the three around here but you don't hear of many Tobys or Judes

Loads of little Noahs round our way at the moment, as well as Tobys, although I do still like both names. Jude is my fave from your list, and I too think Brodie is horrid, sorry!

Noah and Jude are both great names, I slightly prefer Jude. Toby is ok, but weaker and will.date more. Really don't like Brodie.

I have a DS called Jude, no one has ever raised an eyebrow about it being a girls name; except his older brother who for some reason thought Jude Law is female!
Jude was the brother of Jesus in the Bible but also the title of a Thomas Hardy novel (Jude the Obscure) and of course the actor..

Oh yes and the song, luckily we love it in our house cos it does get sung a LOT!

Noah - nice
Jude - Oh no - JUDAS!!
Toby - bit old fashioned?
Brodie - yuk!! Dogs name.

Jude is the nicest Toby is one of the 'popular cutesy' names that belongs to a dog, as is Noah. Brodie is okay but a tad surnamey perhaps?

All very popular except Brodie which is just awful. Sorry.

If I had to choose I would go for Toby.

Brodie is terrible, and not keen on Toby either.
I like Jude, it doesnt sound feminine to me as I immediately think of Hardys Jude the Obscure and, of course, Jude Law.
Noah is alright providing your surname isn`t Lott :)

Felt I had to write as I posted Brodie on here as a potential boys name and was surprised that people felt so strongly at not liking it. Brodie is a lovely Scottish name and I have taught a couple of lovely boys with that name. If you like it - go for it.

Noah - lovely name.
Jude - lovely name, know 1 little Jude & he is a very sweet little boy .
Toby - nice name. I only know of 1 - not sure whereabouts in the country it's widely used/overly popular, certainly not here.
Brodie - chavtastic. It's one of those names that will age your child to within 5 years (i.e. like my name - as soon as you hear it you could guess fairly accurately how old I am ).

I like Brodie - know a few but am in Scotland so not sure if it is more popular (liked) here. Or maybe not!

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.

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 )

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)!

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!

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

Jude.

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

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

Gosh lots of helpful replies, thanks! Though no big consensus... except enough people hating Brodie to put me off that (shame for my dad, who's desperate for us to honour our Scots ancestry!).

My heart says Noah but my head says "too popular, they'll be 4 in his class; too SUDDENLY popular, so it may date v quickly"... decisions, decisions!

Also love Elijah but DH less keen