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DS2 name help Jude vs Percy

76 replies

coopekid · 23/11/2023 09:22

Expecting DS2 any day now, DH and I have found names so much harder this time around but think we have narrowed it down to two - Jude or Percy. DS1 is Dylan and our surname is Richardson. Which do you think goes better? Any other name suggestions?

Other names we liked but couldn’t agree on - Ivan/ Caleb/ Joseph/ Arthur/ Theo

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NewbieTwentyFour · 23/11/2023 10:46

I really like Jude!

Dylan and Jude work better together than Dylan and Percy.

makeminealargeoneagain · 23/11/2023 10:47

Jude
Percy is awful

Pemba · 23/11/2023 10:48

Jude! Nice, and a similar style of name to Dylan.

Percy does not go at all, it has a fusty Victorian vibe and is a bit silly. There's Percy Pig sweets, the phrase 'point Percy at the porcelain' (although that doesn't really come up every day!), Lord Percy from Blackadder who was an idiot, etc etc.

Doublebiscuit77 · 23/11/2023 10:49

Other name suggestions:
Dylan and Stefan
Dylan and Jacob
Dylan and Felix
Dylan and Abel
Dylan and Robin
Dylan and Josiah

Ducksurprise · 23/11/2023 10:51

Percy is slang for penis, but with Richardson as a surname, Rich/Dick dicks son it is just all too genital for me.

Jude

Fourlegsandatail · 23/11/2023 10:52

Percy is not due a come back - file it with Beryl and Algernon.

WanderingWitches · 23/11/2023 10:56

Anything but Percy. Hilarious name

Appleblum · 23/11/2023 10:59

I came on to say not percy because of percy pig. Jude is alright but quite commonplace now and I think you could do better.

MaloneMeadow · 23/11/2023 11:09

Jude 100%. All I can think of when I see Percy is Percy Pig, and I am certain his peers when he gets to school would think the same way…

Nap1983 · 23/11/2023 11:13

Jude is a nice name. Percy is absolutely ludicrous!!

AutumnNamechange · 23/11/2023 11:21

I do quite like the name Percy in itself, but I don't think I would lumber a child with it. Percy Pig, Percy the steam engine etc. It would be quite cool for a girl as a shortening for Persephone, but as a standalone name, no. Jude is the same kind of vibe as Dylan, so I would go for that if I were you.

KCSIE · 23/11/2023 11:24

Jude is a bit of a wet biscuit name to me, sorry.

And definitely not Percy. Percy the park keeper, Percy Pig.

Ivan at a stretch although you say it's been discarded already.

How about Roman? Dylan and Roman sounds quite nice.

AdventuresAwait · 23/11/2023 11:25

I love the name Jude!

TooOldForThisNonsense · 23/11/2023 11:26

Percy is awful

Aglassaday · 23/11/2023 11:38

Out of the two defo Jude.
other suggestions:
Dylan and Perry
Dylan and Freddie
Dylan and Tyler
Dylan and Maddox
Dylan and Navy
Dylan and Marley
Dylan and Jake
Dylan and Jack
Dylan and Henry
Dylan and Leo
Dylan and Arthur
Dylan and Arlo
Dylan and Louis
Dylan and Casper

CurlewKate · 23/11/2023 11:43

Please not Percy. It's pig or penis.

Jude is lovely.

TeenDivided · 23/11/2023 11:47

Jude the Obscure, Percy Weasley.
Your other options are nicer imo.

Aquamarine1029 · 23/11/2023 11:49

Percy is absolutely dreadful. Don't do that to a child.

AllAroundMyCat · 23/11/2023 11:56

Santaiswashinghissleigh · 23/11/2023 09:27

Def don't call your dc Percy. Isn't it a nn for a penis?

That was the nickname for a long time.

Also Percy the Park Keeper is often studied in KS1 . He'll be teased.

RuthW · 23/11/2023 12:18

Jude is too feminine to me (I know it's a bot's name)

Percy is nice but not with the pig around.

uncomfortablydumb53 · 23/11/2023 12:44

Dylan and Jude

LiquoriceAllsorts2 · 23/11/2023 13:42

Definitely Jude. I like it

DuchessOfSausaage · 23/11/2023 13:45

I don't like Jude or Percy, but I don't like Dylan either so we probably don't have the same taste.
I like Ivan, Caleb and Joseph, Arthur and Theo are ok but overused.

Strokethefurrywall · 23/11/2023 15:05

Jude. Definitely not Percy.

SequinsandStiIettos · 23/11/2023 15:07

Jude

Even Percy Jackson cannot save that name for me

I love Caleb though

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