Is this opening him up to teasing...?

[Constantlurker]

Baby is due mid December. Not sure if it's a boy or girl yet but we love the name Rudy for a boy. I can't help worrying though that as it's so close to xmas he's inevitably get teased about the Rudolph connection. I wouldn't even think about it if baby wasn't due at xmas, but I worry! Is it mean? Do you think he would get teased badly?

It is a diminutive of Rudolph though, isn't it?

But I do like it, and I doubt there'd be much serious teasing, TBH

Love it! Our NN is a Rudy

I was due Christmas day and had a Rudy! He was born a few days before in the end. Honestly if he'd have been born in summer I probably would have actually gone with Rudolph on the birth cert.

It works in Germany , maybe, but not over here I think. Like pp said, it's not so much the reindeer associations, but that it sounds like 'rude'. Also sounds very similar to the girls' name Ruby.

It just sounds a bit, well, silly really.

Where I live 'rudies' and 'rudy' are naff euphemisms for sexual activities.

Children don't get teased for their names, so I don't think you need to worry about that.

Sorry I think it's daft

Ruben instead?

I've heard rudies used as a euphemism for sex. I wouldn't.

Love Rudi!

Sorry, but it's plain daft.

Children don't get teased for their names They certainly do.

Children don't get teased for their names, so I don't think you need to worry about that.

Yes they do. Saw it so many times when I was teaching.

There is a Rudy at my DC after school club, he is proper cute. I'd never have thought of the rudolf connection and my DC didn't bat an eyelid at the name. I vote yes, and I'm usually v picky and play it safe.

I really prefer full names to their shortened forms but Rudy to me is a name in it's own right and I didn't realise it was a diminutive of Rudolph. As Rudolph is a pretty unusual name in the UK I suspect I'm not alone in not making that association.

Google gives lots of links to an American football player called Rudy Mancuso but I think of this Specials song:

"Children don't get teased for their names"

Maybe not for unusual names.

But certainly names like Willy or Rudy - childish schoolchildren will find it hard to resist the teasing imo.

It won't be because of rudolph he gets teased. He'll be teased all yer not just at xmas!

I don't like the name but that might be because we referred to a fart as a rudy when we were growing up...

I think that he won’t be teased because of Rudolph but he’ll be teased because rudy = slang for sex.

We had a Christmas day baby. I wouldn't have done it. Sorry. We gave him Caspar as a third name and joked about Ebeneezer DH might not have been joking

Oh flippin eck, I had no idea Rudy was slang for sex. Thank god for Mumsnet! The poor kid...! Ok. Back to the list

I love Rudy it was one of my top my wee one is due December too. I’m not going to bother now though as it seems on the upward trend.

I think it's a really cool name, wouldn't make me think of Christmas at all.