Judas?

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DH is thinking 'Judas Piest' - cool.
I'm thinking biblical based insult "You Judas..."
He would probaly be a 'Jude', but I'm a fan of traditional names on birth cerificates.

Opinions..??

I like Nero

I was never really serious... (posted during a bored bout of insomnia)
I suggested Jude to DH, DH thought Judas was the 'Proper Name' (e.g Harrys really dervied from Henrys), so I thought I'd throw if out there...
Keeping away form both now!!

Absolutely not. I love Judas Priest but noooo to the name. It has only negative connotations for the majority of people.

I know someone who named their dog Judas which they got from a shelter since it looked so unprepossessing.

Naming a child Judas could well be akin to using Methuselah, Adolph, Lolita - just names you don't EVER use.

Otoh, Delilah and Cain have come in to usage with parents being completely ignorant of the associations.

I would wait until Emmerdale use it

Shane Richie's daughter is called Lolita Belle.

Will she thank him when she can't register on Facebook?

Sorry, Heated - did you say that some people call their DC Otoh?

No no no no no no no no no no no
What a thoroughly negative name - please don't.

Jude is lovely though

lol

no

simon etc were not angels ...

Judas - just drips negativity

I know a "Kane", awful.

Otoh - on the other hand - but admit my sentence does read like that

I thought I'd missed the reference there.

We are seriously looking at Jude as a boy's name...its Biblical AND Hardy-esque which I love..

Jude in the Bible was one of Jesus' brothers but his full name was Judas - the epistle that he wrote though is known as Jude.

You can;t really get much more traditional than a Biblical Book name, so there is no need to elongate it to make it more formal or more traditional. If you want Jude, then call him Jude

Children called Kane = parents who are a bit dim.

No to Judas, no way.

I know girls called Lolita and Jezabel.

This is not a good start in life.

Oh dear, that's really bad. Hope they don't get Jezebel a dog!

Quite.

And they spelt it wrong (like I typed it).

Both are French though, is that an excuse...?

France is a Catholic country so really no excuse at all. We must uphold standards on this one!

Gather poor old Jezebel was actually a priestess of a rival religion so Bible story is propaganda - but that still doesn't make it a good name to give a poor innocent baby.

(Maybe an excuse for the spelling though, my O-level French didn't really get as far as Biblical characters.)

Despite catholicism, the French can be surprisingly ignorant of the bible. And the connotations of both names don't seem to be widely known - I have never heard them used as common nouns to describe a particular kind of girl, like they are in English.

That must be their excuse!

I think we are still entitled to go though!

This thread has been so educational.

surely someone called Pyrocanthus already has quite high educational attainment, though?

Actually, if I were properly educated, it'd be Pyracantha, but it's too late now.

Seriously, all this biblical revisionism is fascinating.