Jude or Joseph - votes please!

[Biccy]

Our surname begins with a hard G.

DS is 3 weeks old and we just cannot make up our minds!

Help!

I love them both. Bear in mind that Joseph is likely to be called Joe by everyone, so it's which you prefer really. Also, people will associate Jude with the Beatles (Jude was Julian Lennon IIRC).

I wanted my DS to be Joel, Joe for short. Another gorgeous name!

I really love both, but Jude wins by a whisker. However, I think Joseph may sound better with your surname...

Joseph.

Thanks both of you. You are putting your fingers on why we can't decide! I would like to go for Jude (don't mind either Beatles of Thomas Hardy associations), but like the fact that Joseph can be shortened, giving him choices, and also think Joseph sounds better with the surname as the 'D' sound is quite hard to articulate next to a hard G sound. Aargh, what to do?!

Jude is cool, classic and masculine.

I prefer it by far to Joe.

Joseph by a mile. Jude reminds me of Judy and also of Jude Law.

Joseph is much better. Jude sounds like a girl's name and I hate it! Sorry I know it's an old name, but it's going through a revival at the moment and I don't think it will sound as 'cool' in 20 years time. Whereas, Joseph, Joe is classic and has a good 'feel' about it. Good luck.

Prefer Joseph.

Would prefer Judah though. Don't like Jude at all.

I love them both. Joseph Jude would be very cool.

Joseph

Oh I heart Jude, wanted it for my son but was vetoed!

Joseph!

Jude. Can always be J or JayJay as a nickname!

Jude is one of my favourite names

And it's much less popular that Joseph

My eight year old is called Jude. So thats the best name, obv.

I vote Joseph Jude nn JJ

Both very nice names.

I especially like Joseph. Apparently it is becoming very popular at the moment (even more than its "classic" status would normally mean), if that is important to you.

Jude reminds me a bit of the odious Jude Law, but we'll all have forgotten him by the time your DS is 2 [hopefelly]

When my kid was born and named Jude a lot of people thought he was named after Jude Law.. My best mate just told them all I was an Eng Lit grad so if he was called after anyone it was Jude the Obscure. I'm not sure if that was an improvement really.

jude

Joseph

i also prefer Judah

Thanks everyone... not sure I'm any further forward! But at least there wasn't a resounding 'yuck' to both of them!

Jude the Obscure is a great character. Massive, massive improvement over robot-features, metrosexual, shitehawk Jude Law.

Sorry, Biccy, doesn't help you any.

I don't like Judah at all.

I love the name Joseph.

I don't like Jude at all, sorry.

Thanks everyone. Overall I think Joseph is winning by a very small margin (12 votes for Joseph, 10 for Jude, counting a vote for each for people who like both equally).

Thing is my heart wants to go for Jude, while my head says Joseph.

Maybe we should do Joseph Jude, just not sure I'll be able to persuade DP to scrap Frederick as his middle name, and don't want 2 middle names.

Hmm.