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Views on these 3 girls names, please!

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cushioncover · 17/02/2008 20:40

Ok, a while to go yet but here they are;

Frances
Ruth
Martha

One mine, one is DH's and one we both like but not either of our favourites IYKWIM.

Opinions please,ta very much!

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alfiesbabe · 17/02/2008 21:49

Martha way to popular at the moment. Frances is very pretty. Ruth lovely too. Frances and Ruth are good 'grown up' names too IYSWIM

stepfordwife · 17/02/2008 21:49

martha is a lovely name
not so keen on frances, but do like fran or, even better, frankie
don't like ruth
so you like martha best then?

Mum2b2BabyRoo · 17/02/2008 21:46

Matha is a very nice name - much prefer it to the other 2! And you can use Matty/Mattie as a derivitive.

ElvinaFrizzell · 17/02/2008 21:44

I like all three. I know a Martha who has always been known as Marty if you wanted a diminuitive.

hana · 17/02/2008 21:42

is martha really as popular as everyone on this thread says?
poor dd when she goes to school

pootleflump · 17/02/2008 21:41

Don't like Frances, Ruth is ok but not very pretty.

Love Martha.

hana · 17/02/2008 21:41

you'd ave to be a pretty girl to pull off a name like ruth I think

MrsMattie · 17/02/2008 21:30

I like Ruth best. Martha too cutesy and increasingly common. Frances old fashioned and school ma'am-ish.

catkin08 · 17/02/2008 21:28

Our DS would've been a Martha if he'd been a girl. It's a fabulous name!
We'd probably have used Mattie as a derivative.

Quattrocento · 17/02/2008 21:25

The other thing I would say is that you might change your mind on the day ...

DS was going to be Marcus. All the way through. Right up until the minute he was born. When it was painfully obvious that whoever he was, he wasn't a Marcus.

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cushioncover · 17/02/2008 21:24

Seems like my fav is popular

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Aero · 17/02/2008 21:23

I like all of them. Frances I really like and not so many around nowadays. I also like Fran, but prefer the full name.

Martha is lovely, and although more commonly used than it was several years ago, is still a gorgeous name.

Ruth I also like, but not quite so much as the other two.

moljam · 17/02/2008 21:22

Frances -not keen

Ruth -unsure but ok

Martha-love very much

chelsygirl · 17/02/2008 21:22

like Ruth

Quattrocento · 17/02/2008 21:20

I like Ruth

I like Martha

I am a bit unsettled by the androgyny of Frances. I mean you have to see it spelled before you are sure whether or not it is a girl or a boy.

twospecialgirls · 17/02/2008 21:20

absolutly loving martha it was my nanas muns name and i love it would def use it for one of my own

hate ruth
dont like frances only because i know someone called it and shes horrid so it put me off

CHOCOLATEPEANUT · 17/02/2008 21:18

Not keen on Ruth
Quite like Frances
but love Martha,in fact if ds would have been a girl thats what he would have been called.

PerkinWarbeck · 17/02/2008 21:15

really like them all!

DD's middle name is Ruth - strong family name on DH's side, and IMO works really well as a middle name. Frances Ruth and Martha Ruth could work!

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cushioncover · 17/02/2008 21:14

DH just said no way to Joscelyn (or however the pretty lady spells it) so back to original list.

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cushioncover · 17/02/2008 21:13

I'm not so keen on Frankie, which is why we'd call her Fran or Franny.

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PaulaYatesBiggestFan · 17/02/2008 21:10

i know a two franceses (!)

one 17 one 14 sadly both get frankie

Janni · 17/02/2008 21:09

Sorry Franny - it just aint as pretty as Frances, you must admit.

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cushioncover · 17/02/2008 21:04

Hmm, have just seen a woman on TV called Joscelyn (Jocelyn? Josceline?) Quite like that too. DH says it sounds chavvy.

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FrannyandZooey · 17/02/2008 21:04

and what's wrong with that?

I like Frances (and Franny, but not Fran so much)

Martha very nice

Janni · 17/02/2008 21:02

I like Frances and Martha but am sure that Frances will become Fran or Franny.