Jude or Louie…

[Newbubs]

For a boy…
which do you prefer & why

Louis (pronounced Lou-ee) is lovely

Louie sounds like a diminutive of Louisa.

Louie looks like the parents can't spell and it does get used by girls as a nn for Louise and Louisa.

Surely how a name is said in day to day life is more important than the spelling, Louie is fine and a more obvious spelling than Louis. The amount of people choosing one name over the other purely based on spelling is quite frankly ridiculous bordering on immature. It's the same name just spelt differently.

Louie is fine and a more obvious spelling than Louis

There can be no doubt as to the pronunciation of Louie, certainly, but I wouldn't agree that there is any doubt with the pronunciation of Louis, it being such a well known name with a long history of use., predating Louie.

I wouldn't spell it Louie because a few ignorant people don't know how to pronounce Louis.

🎶 Louie Louie, oh no, gotta go now, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah... 🎶

(Sorry).

I think Louis can be loo-ee or loo-is in English, it's just multiple accepted pronunciations. But loo-is is less common, at least in the UK.

OP didn't ask about the spelling she asked about the name, it's said the same spelt either way so I'm not sure why people are saying they'd chose Jude purely based on how Louie is spelt and that if it was spelt differently they'd chose that name. It's the exact same name.

Both are nice but louie should be spelt Louis. I'm surprised about people thinking it will be pronounced Lewis.....that's spelled Lewis surely?

Louie is more popular than Louis for boys in the UK

since when though?

Love them both.

Louis used to be very popular

"Back in 2004 it ranked 38th in popularity and was given to 1,976 babies."

Jude because Louie just looks like you can’t spell

"Further back in history, Louis appeared in the top 100 baby names in both 1904 and 1914, in 78th and 79th place respectively."

I don't understand the narrative that no one in England is called Louis & Louie is more popular?

Spell it how you want but most people understand Louis is Louis

I wouldn't agree that there is any doubt with the pronunciation of Louis

You can choose to disagree. But that doesn't mean it's true

To me Jude is a girl name, even though I know that's not the case. And I know several Male Judes aged 6-15. But still I can't get on board with it, so for me I'd choose Louie. (Well, Louis personally but I understand your logic OP).

My brother is Louis, never an issue with his name. Any name can be misspelt or read wrong but that's not a reflection on the name.

Maybe it's area dependent?

OP didn't ask about the spelling she asked about the name

You haven't been here long I take it 😅

People offer lots of advice, or pick up on points, not asked about, or thought of, in the OP. They often find it helpful!

Only five years.. OP asked a question and instead of answering is getting a lot of pedantic replies about the way she'd chose to spell the name. Maybe I'm dense but it is the exact same name just spelt a different way

It isn’t the same name, though. One is long-standing, traditional, used for centuries, royal, classic, the name of famous people all over the world. The other…isn’t.

@SundayTeatime phonetically spell out each variation for me then? Show me the great difference

Surely not

Has anyone checked the accuracy of this? If not I will.

There is no phonetic difference. That doesn’t make it the same name - just as Julia isn’t the same as Joolya.

The only Jude I know is a woman whose given name is Judith so I associate it as a woman's name. I like Louis, like someone else I see Louie and think Donald Duck.

The latest stats (from 2021) won't be available just yet.

From 2020:
They're practically neck-and-neck, there's very little in it. There were only 18 more babies registered as Louie. These are both names high in the top 100, so there's 1000+ registrations of both. Will be interested to see the newer figures.