Does Jude make you think of Judy?

[Dragonhart]

I really like the name Jude for a boy but MIL said it makes her think of Judy and people would think he was a boy, and now DH does too

Are they mad or is it just me?

Oh and he's the Patron Saint of Lost Causes which kinda went with us!!!

Not at all.

It does remind me of 'Hey Jude' and the class bullies who used to sing this at a girl named Judith who had learning difficulties.

Jude is definitely a boy's name. Easy to say and spell, I would go for it.

I wanted Jude for a middle name if we'd had a boy. But we had girls. makes me think of Jude the Obscure.

I have an old school friend called Jude, a girl, short for Judith. Even so I think it is a very cool name for a boy.

It's kind of along the lines of Eli for a boy. Ellie is a popular girls's name but I think Eli (short for Elias) is such a cool boys name.

Jude is a great name. Definitelt Thomas Hardy, not Judy.

Ooh, I like I like! Not sure it was a name I would have thought of, but now I'm seeing if it would work with other names I like and our surname

Yep, Jude is a good name.

...bit obscure, though.

Ahem.

jude is lovely, and i have never thought of judy when i hear it mentioned

I think of Jude Law first, then Jude the Obscure. Both male.
Judy? WTF!

Makes me think of Hey Jude.
I knpw one males Jude and one female, so I guess it's unisex now.

I think of Jude the Obscure which is more than a little depressing

Thanks everyone! Unfortunately DH has now vitoed it so back to the drawing board!

it makes me think of the book or the song

I know 2 boy judes and 1 girl jude

Now , I do associate Jude with Judy but only because I used to work in a tiny shop with a Jude and a Judy. The shop was so small that we kept bumping into each other, so you would here "Sorry, Jude" "Sorry, Judy" all day long!
Other than that I wouldn't have associated the two names at all.

I had a thing for a guy named Jude at college. It was the first time I'd come across that name, he was Irish. But I kinda think of Judas, the traitor. Sorry.

I have a Jude (female) - I have not yet met another Jude male or female so at least it is not too common!

I know quite a few boys (all under the age of about 6). One of them is my nephew. He's very cool. But he has been called Judy occassionally.

Jude has a femininity to it imo, but I wouldn't consider it unusable for a boy.

I love the name - was on the list for ds3 (not sure why it didn't make it to the top other than he has the perfect name for him now ). Staying on my list should there ever be another.

Also know a little boy Jude so def a boys name in my head.

Well, it makes me think of Judy or Judith in the same way as Henry makes me think of Henrietta or Charles of Charlotte. They are cognate names, surely - a male and female version of the same thing. Jude is variant of Judah, of which Judith is the feminine. Jude's also the same as Yehudi in terms of derivation.

makes me think of judith. But then I knew a Jude/Judith years ago

Doesn't make me think of Judy, but does make me think of gloom and doom in a Hardy-esque way

No. Makes me think of Jude The Obscure and my days in the pub when I should have been studying it!!!