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Thoughts on Martha or Lucy?

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Knakard · 14/03/2013 22:13

What are people's thoughts on these two? Middle name rose (family name) as a little sister for Reid?

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purples · 20/03/2013 20:48

Love the name Martha, its my oldest daughters middle name,
At her primary school she is the only Martha that I know of with it (as a first or middle name), but there are several Lucys.

Saying that I do like the name Lucy ( I nearly called my cat Lucy!)....

pinkandyellowbutterfly · 20/03/2013 20:30

Lucy is classic, has always been well known but has never been number 1 in the charts as its never been overly 'fashionable' which is why I like it. Also its no-nonsense, its easy to spell and pronounce and has a lovely meaning. Martha is lovely and I love biblical names, but my issue with Martha is that there will always be someone who will pronounce it mar-fa and that would spoil it for me.

delilah88 · 20/03/2013 20:12

both LOVELY! Think Lucy slightly has the edge for me.

sunnyday123 · 18/03/2013 12:53

I have a Martha and love it! Everyone comments on how nice it is :)

Popularity depends on area I suppose, I'm really only interested in kids around the same age as mine and I don't know any and not one in her school (500+ kids).

kelou75 · 17/03/2013 17:06

I love both names, Martha just pipped Lucy if im pushed. My only gripe would be that with Martha appears to be increasing in popularity but maybe thats because its a beautiful name I guess and I prefer Lucille to Lucia if I was thinking of an alternative.

MoonHare · 17/03/2013 15:38

I think they're very different styles of name. I like both but like Martha best.

If popularity concerns you then I would add that I know 4 little Martha's and not a single Lucy, in fact there's not even one in DC1s school.

sweetiepie1979 · 17/03/2013 14:42

Martha is lovely Lucy is bland

MrsMoppetMama · 17/03/2013 14:33

Martha is a great name, I fully intend to use it myself next time around (assuming I have a girl)!

Christelle2207 · 17/03/2013 14:25

Love both but martha gets a slightly more original tick, yet ATM is probably a bit more popular than Lucy?

baskingseals · 17/03/2013 11:34

i much much prefer Lucy.

lovely meaning too - light

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fanoftheinvisibleman · 17/03/2013 08:43

I only know one Lucy under 10 but there are growing numbers of Martha.

lollystix · 17/03/2013 08:39

Lucy is boring to me. Martha is great - name with depth I think.

Sheilathegreat · 17/03/2013 07:28

Both beautiful names. I think Lucy is the more timeless. Martha is quite on trend at the moment .

raisah · 17/03/2013 03:55

Martha & Lucia instead of Lucy, both quite popular in my area.

sparkle12mar08 · 16/03/2013 20:36

Martha ia incredibly popular and overdone around our way, Lucy is better but again there's usually at least one in every class in our school.

MissTweed · 16/03/2013 19:00

I love the name Martha but would it bother you if it suddenly became very popular?? I've seen two baby Martha's in the last week (I work in a hospital so great place to see trends arising, although it could just be a regional thing. If popularity doesn't bother you..... Go for it, it's beautiful.

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Minty82 · 16/03/2013 18:01

Martha's one of my favourite names - it was our runner-up name for DD. I think Lucy's lovely too but Martha definitely beats it for me. I know two baby Lucys (including a Lucy Rose; very pretty combination) and one baby Martha.

thegreylady · 16/03/2013 17:16

Martha is one of my favourite names :)
I know several girls called Lucy aged between 6 months and 22 years!

toobreathless · 16/03/2013 17:09

Both lovely, I think Lucy has the edge to go with Reid.

Aware that it about zero help!

I don't actually know any children with either name.

Yama · 16/03/2013 17:05

I (much) prefer Lucy to Martha but I think Rose is nicer with Martha.

ReluctantBeing · 16/03/2013 17:02

Martha is my middle name and I hate it. It's frumpy and old.
Lucy is nice. I've never met a nasty Lucy.

FrazzleRock · 16/03/2013 16:56

There are two Martha's in DS2's nursery class.

I've got no problem with popular names but you might so I thought I'd mention it Smile

caughtinagiggleloop · 16/03/2013 16:53

There was a Lucy in my class at primary school in the 1980s. She was the only Lucy I knew right the way through primary and high school. She was born in the 70s and I think it was considered an old lady's name then so not very common. Even now, I imagine the number of people called Lucy that I've met over the age of 25 is in single figures. Nowadays, though there are loads of children with this name. I think it was in the top ten of baby names for about 10 years from the late 1990s onwards. I think it's a lovely name though.

Martha is a much more unusual name and I always thought of it as quite old fashioned. I met one baby at a baby group last year with this name and quite a few people commented on how unusual it is.

Rose is a lovely name too. That's the middle name we chose for DD. It's really common nowadays but if you love it, it doesn't matter.

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