Martha or Tabitha?

[Minty82]

Love both - not too frilly, both biblical which I like, both work with our surname and DD1's name, and miraculously DH is equally keen on both. I just don't have one leaping out at me over the other - DH slightly prefers Martha, but good friends have already used it and while I don't think that rules it out completely, Tabitha would feel more 'ours'.

Any thoughts?

Tabitha

Love Tabitha!

i used to look after a little Tabitha whose best friend was Martha.

love them both

both! HTH

Martha. I spent time in S/Central America and met several exotically beautiful women of that name there, so I always associate it with glamour.

Prefer Tabitha, I didn't know you were preg Mintyy, congratulations!

LOVE both!

But am biased towards Tabitha - I have one.

Martha is gorgeous too but a lot more popular, depends if that bothers you. Tabitha is still outside the top 200 while Martha is within the top 100 (no.90 last year).

Aw, thank you reeling - yes, 17 weeks so plenty of time yet to play with names...

Thanks MoonHare, yes, I'd thought about the popularity factor and in theory I've like to go for something not too overused but we totally ignored that with DD who has an incredibly popular name so I guess I'm not really that fussed. They're both a lot more unusual than hers, anyway!

I do like them both, but thanks to Puddle Lane Tabitha makes me think of cats whilst Martha makes me think of that really cool Tom Waits song. So Martha pips it for me!

Ha, yes there is the cat thing but fortunately I like them!
Ooh, don't think I know the Tom Waits song... Off to YouTube...

i have a tabitha. she's the only one at her high school.

martha is lovely though.

Tabitha.

Oh I'm a huge cat fan too, probably wouldn't put me off but I know it would with some people!

Oh yes, I do know it but had forgotten it was called Martha. Beautiful.

It's a lovely song isn't it?

Tabitha

Tabitha

Martha makes me think of Martha Stewart

It is! Am just a bit torn because of these friends who have a little Martha already - I don't think they'd mind, and she'd be a few years older than ours, and it's not as if we see a huge amount of them anyway BUT all my family and lots of my friends know them so it would feel a little copy-cattish. And I know an adult Martha too, but don't know any Tabithas.

By the way reeling just realised I think you've got me muddled up with Mintyy - who as far as I'm aware isn't pregnant...

Both lovely

Tabitha has a lot of nickname potential, Martha not so many.

What would you prefer to be called yourself...? perhaps that's a useful way to think about it, perhaps not.

good luck!

I love Tabitha.

Martha! I love that name!

Love both

Both are nice, but I absolutely love Tabitha.

Tabitha. That was my second choice but I secretly wished I had used it.

Tabitha