Jude

[FlumpyMummy]

What do you think?

Popular name circa 2010. We quite like it now, it goes well with our surname and thinking of using it if we have a boy. Just wanted to ask your thoughts about whether it is a classic name or dated.

It's a good name for a girl too.

My DS (4) is Jude and I still love it! He was actually named after the Courteeners album despite us living 15 miles north of Liverpool so most associate it to the Beatles. So older ladies, including MIL, love it too.
NN include Judy, Judilicious but that’s just me, not anyone else, it’s too short to shorten.
Don’t know any other Jude’s but have met a couple of people who do know others.
Go for if you like it. Or how about Rudy, that was a close runner up and my DH wanted to call another son it when I was pregnant but I vetoed that one, Jude and Rudy?! No thanks!

I know three, all different ages, all gorgeous boys. None of them are known by nicknames.

Jude doesn't travel well internationally.

Pronounced Yoo-de in German and means Jew.

I don’t understand this whole ‘it means Jew’ thing. Why is that an issue? Plenty of boys are called Christian.

Because Christian is a name in most languages.

Jude is not a name but a noun in other languages

It's one of my favourites.

So many currently popular names are Jewish ones from the OT/Torah.

Love it.

It is ok, a fashionable biblical name at the moment, same as Elijah, Ezra, Caleb etc. I actually prefer John.

I really like it. I only know two in their mid-20s, none younger than that, and there's Jude Law, of course.

I have a Jude, he's 13. My ex partner loved the name, she'd had a neighbour called Jude as a child.

I was well aware it means 'jew' in german. Im half jewish. My jewish grandmother loved his name, she felt it was a positive reclaiming (she was a holocaust survivor).

He is the only Jude in his school. We've only come across 1 other Jude locally (aged 8). No nicknames ever used by his peers tho we sometimes call him Joodles

My Jude is a fully grown man. No one calls his Judas or Judy.

He is bloody gorgeous. It’s a good name.

There is a lovely little Jude at my kids school.
I love it but Jude the Obscure is so terribly tragic and sad, I couldn't use it fir my child's name.

I used to love it and was going to use it but I have slightly gone off it now. It sounds a little dated to me as I know quite a few 5/6 year olds called it.

I really like it

So many bad/ odd connotations. Jude the Obscure, Hey Jude, Judas, the Nazi Star of David association , Jude the patron St of lost causes - and to cap it all horribly uneuphonious .

How about John, or Joel?

Jude the patron saint of lost causes is the best...he’s the saint you turn to when all hope is lost, when everyone else gives up...he helps them in their biggest time of need. What could be better than that? (I will defend the name until the bitter end😂)

Totally agree cbeebiesrehab.
Lovely name.

I know a Jude.

Lovely name. People are more likely to think Jude Law than Nazi Germany

It's a horrible name with a really ugly, unattractive sound. One of my pet hates namewise.

A lovely name for a boy. I dislike it for a girl though.

I have a Jude he's 14, he's got long blonde hair and looks like a surfer. It really suits him & I absolutely love the name and more importantly so does he. He's never had a negative reaction to his name (to my knowledge)

Like Jude, love Judah.