Jude

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Our ds is due to be born on Saturday and we thought that we have finally agreed a name that we both like. Jude Theodore. Just wondered what the mn opinion is of this name? Do you think Jude is a bit feminine? Do the names go well together. Thanks for your opinions.

It has been a long road to get any name we both like

Looooove it. Vetoed by DH for current bump. Go for it.

I have one. I nearly had a Theo first time round too! Quite religious together though.

I don't think it's too feminine at all. It is getting more popular too, so in a few years it will be very recognised as a boy's name.

Great choice :)

I love Theodore,but hate Jude. It's extremely popular on MN,and I really can't understand why.

I know a couple of little Jude's (boys) and also dont get the attraction. Theodore is lovely though

I really like it.

Is Jude not the patron saint of lost causes?

Also the other immediate associate for me is Jude the Obscure which is not exactly a laugh a minute.

Hey Jude - don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better....

Sorry - it's a girl & ^ that song.

I'm going to go against the grain here because I love it. It's on my list for any future sons I may have. Only thing is, will you get annoyed with people singing Hey Jude at him? People are like that!

i actually like Jude as well and did consider it but it didnt go with the middle name we have or our surname.

I really like it, but DH thinks it's not good with our surname.

I like it because it can't easily be shortened or nicknamed.

I love it. Great name. And much more likely to be reminiscent of Hey Jude or Jude Law than Jude The Osbcure to the majority of people nowadays. And even though I have read the book, it never put me off the name anyway!

I really like that, but I only ever known girl Judes.

I like the patron saint of lost causes! Defending the underdog. As a name it means 'Praise' (apparently). What I found out after I'd named ds2 was that in some other European languages, 'Jude' is just 'Judas' - they don't have a differentiation, which IS slightly off putting.

themildmanneredjanitor - I wanted the name to be Theodore Jude, but DH prefers it the other way around, with Theodore as a middle name.

Thanks for your opinions.

I have a feeling that dh will change his mind and veto these names anyway. I don't want dc3 to end up as 'baby' for ever :(

I'm surprised dh is bothered with dc3. I found that my dh's 'vetoing' was restricted to ds1 and he pretty much gave me free rein with the other 2 . Good Luck anyway.

St Jude was often confused with Judas Iscariot, so he didn't get many customers :o That's how he became the patron saint of lost causes, because the punters would only pray to him after they'd tried all the other saints. The last resort.

I have never encountered a female Jude, only as a casual shortening of Judith.

We have a one year old Jude and obviously think Jude is the best name in the world, easy to spell, pronounce, not too popular, classic, definitely a (cool) boy's name too... and sounds great with Theodore

I love Jude as a name not sure about Theodore but this is your baby. If DD was going to be a DS this time I would have gone into bat for Jude Isaac. Good luck with the birth.

It's a gorgeous name. We call him the patron saint of hopeless cases. When all else fails, he's the man to turn to.

It's a lovely name. I know a man-Jude and a child-Jude and it suits both of them beautifully.

I love it and so does DH. I'm due in April and we're having a little boy (if the sonographer was correct :) ), and it's our front runner. In fact, that's what we call him now. Like others have said, I've never encountered a female Jude and to me it's very much a boys name.

Love Jude!! DH loves it too but that's a very close female family member's name so just not possible for us

Love it, always have. I was cross when Jude Law became well known as I'm not especially keen on him. Jude the Obscure may be very gloomy but it's a good book, 'Hey Jude' was really Julian (Lennon) but Jude was thought to sound better, I like the idea of the saint of lost causes but really just think it stands as a good name regardless of any of these associations.

Female Judes are always Judiths IME (like Jules for Julie) and abbreviations do sound different to my ears than real names.

The name Jude does not travel well into other languages.

In German for example it would be pronounced Yoo-deh and actually means Jew. I also don't think it sounds that nice in French.

Additionally, I have to agree that it sounds quite feminine (to my ears anyway) - perhaps because I know a (female) Judy.