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Dudley sounds too much like a cartoon name to me. I kind of like Ridley for a boy.

Both male and I really don't like either.

I don’t like either of them. I don’t like the Rid part in Ridley and I can’t help but think of the terrible Dudley Dursley from Harry Potter. They are both masculine to me.

Dudley is my middle name, and for the longest time I resented it. However, I've recently became accustomed to it, as it has special reasonings for being my middle name. I could never see it on a girl; it's much too masculine. The same goes for Ridley, not that I care much for it anyways. To either name, I prefer Rodney on a boy (though unrelated, these names remind me of Rodney, for some reason).

I can't warm up to either of them. Both are surnames, which I don't enjoy as fns unless it is to keep a good family tradition going. Dudley is perhaps worse, because it would shorten, naturally and unfortunately, to Dud.

Both sound rough and serious, thus very masculine. I would never call a girl Ridley, and I might grow to like it on a boy. However, I dislike Dudley.

Masculine, no question, vomitous otherwise. Dudley is preferable.

These are both horrendous. In one, you’re calling someone a dud. In the other, you’re saying you should get rid of them.

Both are male to me and I'm not a fan of either one.

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Dudley Do-Right, actor Dudley Moore and filmmaker Ridley Scott are my most powerful associations for these names.

Dudley is atrocious and too reminiscent of Dudley Dursley. Ridley is marginally better but still bad.

kinda funny, too cartoony.

Both male, don't like either