jude or jolyon

[bess23]

Which do you prefer or do you dislike both. Dh has strong preference but I'm not sure.

Jude

Unless you are going to send him to prep-school, and possibly Oxford.

Love, love, love Jude. Not so keen on Jolyon.

Jude - jolyon will lead to a lifetime of mispellings, mispronounciation and pisstaking.

Jude is ok although I do prefer it as a girls name.

Jude is OK, Jolyon sound like a drip dry fabric..

Definitely Jude, fantastic name.

I don't even know how to pronounce the other one.

What's wrong with good old fashioned Julian? Why the strange spelling? I assume Jolyon (which is wrong on many levels) is pronounced more or less the same way?

neither for me.

loads of judes where i live and i just here 'jolly-on' when i see Jolyon.

if i had to choose it would be Jude....

I don't like either. Jude makes me think of that twat Jude Law (aka Celebrity Dave), and Jolyon just screams boarding school .

Ah yes, MamaL, Jude Law. Instantly puts me off the name after thinking I love it so much!

jude

I really like Jude,i have a niece called Jude but have to really resist singing Hey Jude,every time i see her. ...i bet some of you are singing it now.

jude

Jolyon sounds like a euphemism for an erection, sorry. Quite like Jude, but they will get sick of that song.

jude for sure, It was on of my list of names for ds.

jolyon sounds like a brand of suppository - new jolyon twice a day. reduce faecal impaction

Lol bitoffun, was exactly what I was thinking (in the sense of 'oh look he's got a huge jolly-on!), thought it was just my dirty mind!!

Love Jude though, would be what our soon to be born second DS would be called if only I could get OH to agree..

One of our best male friends is a Jolyon (or is it Joylon??) anyway, he calls himself Joe .

And I love Jude, it's the only boy's name I've liked enough to choose for what turned out to be dd1 and dd2, so I haven't got to use it yet!

I like Jude. Jolyon is dreadful, imho - sorry.

i love Jude (I have a DS called Jude so am completely biased)

Jude is lovely.

Jolyon is not lovely.

so how should Jolyon be pronounced?

Jude