Diarmid, Jude, Christy or Keir?

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Just found out today that we are having a boy. The first one in our family for 36 years! We only ever produced girls. The cycle has finally been broken. In shock, but nice shock, and v excited. :)

Now for the serious business of names. We have narrowed it down to the four mentioned in title. Opinions, thoughts? :)

Congratulations. I think Diarmuid should have a u in it.

Congratulations!
I absolutely love the name Keir, unusual without being unpronounceable.

I can trump you. No girls on my mums side for 90 years and no boys on my dads side since him - 65 years

And I'm having another girl
for lots of free clothes
I'm not the 'special' one who has the first boy... Yet

I like keir

Congratulations, I think Keir is a great name, also like Christy.

I like Jude best, then Diarmuid.

Keir, is lovely then Jude! Not so keen on the others.

I love Keir. I also like Christy & Jude, but not keen on Diarmuid.

Diarmuid does have a U in it unless you are using a rare island dialect

DH and I always pronounce Diarmuid as Der-moid for our own amusement. No idea why, as I actually really like the name. Jude is nice, and although I don't relaly like the name Christy, I know a lovely one. Not keen on Keir.

Jude and Diarmuid are fabulous. Congratulations.

Thanks. Lots of different opinions. Although, I think I'll probably be undecided up until the last minute. I guess I could wait and see it he looks like either a Diarmid, Jude, Keir, or Christy. :)

On a side note, I actually preferred the Scottish Gaelic form of the name which is spelled Diarmad, and then found out there were also anglicised forms including Diarmid and Dermid. Out of all of them I liked Diarmid. Dunno why, because they are all pronounced the same. :)

Diarmuid is very nice.
Jude to me is a girls name?
Christy - not sure.
Keir, is also very nice.

Congratulations on breaking the cycle :)

Christy needs to be said in a strong Dublin accent.

Jude and Christy both sound too much like girls names.
Diarmid I don't like, sorry.
I'd go for Keir from your choices.

Christy is my favourite and a lovely name imho.

Would it help to look at what the names mean?

I think that accent is also relevant here. They would all sound fantastic with an Irish or Scottish accent and possibly Welsh as well.

I just looked on your profile and saw you come from Paisley. Definitely Christy imo.

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Love your nn ! Congratulations on your soon-to-be baby boy !

Names :

I love Christy.

Diarmid is meh.

Jude is a no for me.

Keir is Ok...ish. Political ?

Keir then Jude. Quite like that Keir Simmons on ITV and think i have another it would be on my list

Keir and Jude

Christy is DP's name,i love it,so does he,and he is the loveliest man on the planet HTH

I like Keir best

Jude, Jude, Jude!

Love Jude. Keir nice too.

Christy is nice too but I've only known it to be used for girls. Depends on where you are though. I'm north Scotland where it's used as a twist on Kirsty. Might not be an issue elsewhere.

I know a boy called Christy and one called Christie in the NE Scotland and it works brilliantly on both of them. I know of female Kristy, Christy and Christies as well. Some names are like that and work either way without losing masculinity or femininity.

I like them all, but think that Christy would need to be a rugged chap to really pull it off.

Jude is my favourite