Jude - Boys name

[toometooyou]

Thoughts? It’s our top boys name! I am 23 weeks pregnant :)

And that led to a lot of ‘Jew’ jokes/comments in Germany… it’s definitely a very unusual name there!

My German friend is called Georg. It’s pronounced “Gay-org”. Different names have different contexts in cultures and everyone knows that. Why were people making Jew jokes? That to me is quite vile, just as I’d find jokes about Georg’s name vile:

Anyway all I wanted to say is it’s a wonderful name and popular for a reason OP!

popular for a reason Fashion.

I love it.
I k ow a few teenage lads and a bloke in his 30s called Jude.
All lovely people so I have positive connotations from.the name.

My gorgeous little baby boy is Jude, 3 months old.

I’m sure there are lots of lovely associations with the name Jude but the fact is that statistically it became popular because of a celeb - Jude Law (rather than any present day footballer or past Saint associations).

If you go to Darkergreener (sorry can’t do links on phone), it makes it clearer to see that there were hardly any Jude’s (between 20-30 a year) before Mr Law became more known with Gattaca and Wilde and then once The Talented Mr Ripley hit in 1999 it just snowballed. Remember how many hit films and how much he was in the tabloids in the 2000’s? He was everywhere and the name just increased and increased until it made the Top 100 boys names that decade because of him.

So I’m afraid for much of the millennial generation, it’s a celeb led name which personally I’m not keen on. Of course, the current generation of UK kids won’t care about Jude Law (or likely any classic novel or German associations either) so if you love it OP then go for it imo - it’s such a popular name now that I can’t see it causing your son any issues.

I like it but, nah, nah, na, na, na, nah, nahhh

There’s a big difference between Sara, which is a well known name in most countries and Jude, which happens to be the German word for a Jew

I’m actually surprised how one footballer can lead to Jude becoming so fashionable in the UK? I wonder how long it will last.

I loved the name jude when I went to name my son in 2010 but was put off by Jude law as he was such a twat. Plus there was a jude in the archers at the time who was awful. Plus jude the obscure etc.. but I got over all of that and went with it as I loved the name itself so much.

@beasmithwentworth ,
Maybe it's how 'Fizz' said it as "Jooood" is what puts me off. I miss the old Pip!