Thoughts on Martha or Lucy?

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

I really like Martha, I also like Lucy but find it a little blah!

Martha's lovely. Not wildly keen on Lucy though.

Martha is gorgeous! One of my favorite girls names. Lucy is very run of the mill...three were three in DS1's class, one Lucy up the road, one down the road...it's a nice name, but there are far too many of them.

I love Martha, Lucy is a very dull boring name to me

May I be the first to say I love Lucy.

I don't agree that Lucy is a dull and boring name it brings to mind fun loving and cheerful.

who dares say that lucy is a dull name!!!!! I have to say, i like Martha too - if i was to be pairing it with rose i would choose martha

I love Martha. Wanted to call DD that but DH was horrified, thought it too old fashioned. Where he sees old fashioned, I see timeless.

Lucy is nice too, although I'd guess a lot more common.

I have a Lucy, and was suprised by how very common it was. I wanted to call her Elenor, but DH vetoed it. Rose is my other daughter's middle name, also a family name.

I like both. I have a Lucy, but it is short for a longer name. I found it a bit lacking in imagination on its own, nice for a little girl, bit boring for an adult, so my Lucy has a lovely longer name she can choose to use later (and I use now)

Lots of Lucys around too

I really like both. Martha is becoming pretty popular here along with Marnie. Don't know any Lucys.

Oooh, both are gorgeous! Martha is more interesting. I'd vote for Martha if pushed. I also like Alice which has similar feel to Lucy? What would you prefer to be called? good luck x

Martha is the best name out there

Unfortunately I know a really unpleasant little Martha so that has ruined the name for me.

I love Martha. I went to college with a Martha years ago and have always liked it. Old fashioned but not twee.

Lucy seems like a name of our own generation to me - wouldn't give it to a child. Martha's lovely though.

Both are very nice.

I love Lucy always have

I've always thought of Martha as pretty old fashioned but have noticed it's coming back in vogue again

I have a Martha Rose so obviously have a preference. Lucy was also in my top three and I think it's a lovely name. I have come across one other little Martha but no other little Lucy's so far of a similar age (3). Personally I think Rose goes slightly better with Martha than Lucy as a middle name.

Just going to throw in Nancy as a possibility- I think Nancy Rose is a great name.

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.

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

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

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

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.